Jaykers.
Tallaght Meter Fairies (Facebook)
Previously: Hide And Seek
Jeremy Cox of Imaginative Forces’ very effective opening animation for last month’s 2015 SXSW Gaming Awards using macro footage of pixelated shapes and a soundtrack derived from iconic video games.
Closing Time
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A poster calling for a Yes vote in the upcoming presidential candidate age referendum which will be asking people if Ireland should reduce the minimum age for presidential candidates from 35 to 21
Michael McLoughlin, of Youth Work Ireland, writes:
“Youth Work Ireland will today launch an online poster campaign calling for a Yes Vote in the referendum on reducing the age for presidential candidates. The organisation believes the second referendum on the age to be a candidate for President has received no real attention from amongst the political establishment. The group whose members work with over 100,000 young people believes very few people are even aware that the vote is happening or what the issues are. The group will publish a number of online posters highlighting the caliber and ability of several under 35s who could not be candidates currently using the hashtag “#not2young”. The organisation emphasises it has no money to spend on campaigning.”
“If a person is deemed eligible to be a Minister in the Government at 21, making some very onerous decisions, then there is no reason why they cannot be considered for President where in reality the duties are actually less demanding. Arguments and debate about experience and suitability of younger candidates for the office are just that, arguments. The proper place for these is in a presidential election campaign where of course the electorate are free to reject a candidate on this basis, however it should not be hard wired in to our basic law that a person who is old enough to be Taoiseach cannot be our first citizen. Looking at political and social affairs today we can see many people under 35 who should not be ruled out of at least standing for the office. At the end of the day if we want to promote young people and involve them more in political life having such a discriminatory provision at the heart of our constitution is not helping.”
FIGHT!
LÉ Eithne
Sorcha Pollak, in the Irish Times, reports:
“The Irish naval vessel LÉ Eithne is to be dispatched to the Mediterranean sea to participate in an EU search and rescue mission for migrants fleeing north Africa, the Minister for Defence has said. Simon Coveney told RTE radio [this] morning the navy was preparing the LÉ Eithne so it would be ready to leave for the Mediterranean by Friday, May 8th.”
“He said the vessel was being prepared in Haulbowline naval base in Cork harbour so that it could “successfully save people and drop them to local ports in the vicinity of the Mediterranean”.”
“Asked whether there was any plan in place to bring migrants back to the Republic of Ireland, Mr Coveney said it wouldn’t be practical to be picking people up from the sea and bringing them back to the State.”
LÉ Eithne to participate in migrant search and rescue (Sorcha Pollak, Irish Times)
LÉ Eithne will be ready to travel to Mediterranean on Friday (Morning Ireland, RTÉ)
Photocall Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfaoCqGi6Oc
Spéirview Ireland writes:
“Continuing our series of Ireland From Above, highlighting all the hidden gems in everyone’s back garden, this week we visited the heart of Leinster, Carlow – with scenic countryside, river valleys and the remains of the past. Let us take you on a journey through the best of Carlow’s past and present. Examples include haunting ruins of Duckett’s Grove, Strongholds like Ballymoon castle and the ancient Brownshill Dolmen burial tomb.”
Previously: Quad Kingdom
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Yesterday.
Expensive phone selfie-ness outside the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
Mark writes:
The launch of the Labour Party’s #MakeItHappen campaign aimed at encouraging supporters of the referendum to take practical steps to get more people to vote Yes. The #MakeItHappen campaign will be rolled out over the course of the next three weeks. The first activity of the #MakeItHappen campaign is to talk to older people and to persuade them of the need to vote Yes.
Top from left: Brenna Clarke, Jimmy Somers, Jack Eustace, Grace Williams, Alice Somers, Alex White [Director of the Labour’s Marriage referendum campaign] and Joan Burton.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Gulp.
Brendan Courtney tweetz:
“Just got hate mail – a NO campaigner thinks it’s ok to post anonymous HATE! I am a VERY PROUD FAGGOT! U coward!”
RTE reports:
“A man [a ‘senior Republican who was sought by the PSNI for the murder of Robert McCartney‘, according to sources of RTÉ Northern Ireland correspondent Tommy O’Gorman] has been shot dead in an attack in south Belfast. Police have sealed off a number of streets and what appears to be a body is lying covered by a sheet on a street.”
“The Police Service of Northern Ireland said officers were responding to an incident in the Markets area of the city.”
Man shot dead in Belfast was former IRA figure – reports (RTÉ)
Former IRA commander shot dead in Belfast (The Guardian)
Pic: Jordan Moates