This afternoon.
Karen Buckley’s parents John and Marion (top) make a plea for the safe return of their daughter who has been missing since Saturday night in Glasgow, Scotland.
Missing Student Left House In Early Hours (SkyNews)
Earlier: In Glasgow
Funky Pony
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Stop That
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Above from left: Sinn Féin Cllr Emma Murphy, Padraig Mac Lochlainn TD, Deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald TD, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD and Mayor South Dublin County Fintan Warfield.
It’s not the blummin’ Maze.
Incendiary giggling and frivolity at the launch of Sinn Féin’s Campaign for a Yes Vote in the Marriage Equality Referendum at Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin.
Harrumph.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
Oscar’s Cafe, Smithfield Dublin today.
Maybe there should be ‘Nope’ cupcakes for the sake of bNOMNOMNOM.
Thanks Stephen O’Hare
Poitin.
Another Führer ‘tache-smudged Cat.
Lost in Wicklow.
Nicole writes:
I know you you don’t normnally do this but can you help find my little lost cat. I hand reared him from a tiny newborn kitten and he is very dear to me and his ‘Daddy’ (!). I last saw him on Easter Monday morning and I thought he was off doing catty things in the good weather but he hasn’t returned.
A neighbour saw him on Wednesday [April 8]. He is missing from Kilmolin near Enniskerry [Co Wicklow] but he may have roamed a long way. He is a black and white domestic short hair male cat, two and a half years old. He has a distinctive super hero/Zorro/Batman mask, a black body, white legs and zig zag stripes on his hind quarters.His name is ‘Poitín‘. May answer to “Poo-chie” or “Pu-cheen”. He also loves Whiska’s pouches and may possible be tempted with food. Thanks so much, Nicole.
Anyone?
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Mesmerising aerial cuts and pastes by London-based motion artist Theo ‘mustardcuffins’ Tagholm.
Best in fullscreen.
Previously: Eye Candy: Plain Sight
Wednesday April 15 – Saturday April 18: 12 Points Festival @ Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin
Nialler9 writes:
Over four nights at the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar 12 artists with jazz tendencies mixed with post-rock, electronic and contemporary from around Europe will be showcasing their music. Afterparty improv jams take place over three nights at Sweeney’s on Dame Street for free too. Tickets are €15 per night or €50 for all four. Background to the festival here.
Buffalo Sunn – Told You So
A soaring new single containing spine tingling ‘reverb-laden’ harmonies off US-adoring Dublin band’s debut album By The Ocean By The Sea.
Produced by REM/U2/Madonna knob twiddler Pat McCarthy
As performed on RTÉ One’s The Saturday Night Show sessions, a warm live home for Irish musicians (fair play, in fairness) that many hope will remain a staple of the show. Going forward.
Fight!
Listen to recorded version here
Purchase on iTunes here
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Former Dunnes Stores workers Corinna and Tony Malone on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live last night
Corinna had worked in Dunnes Stores for seven months before she was recently sacked after taking industrial action. She said she had been working approximately 28 to 33 hours a week while, at Christmas, she worked 15 to 20 hours – because there are more workers hired during the Christmas period.
Corinna told Claire Byrne on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live last night:
“After I took [industrial] action, on Friday, the 3rd of April, I was doing my shift and I was brought up to the office by personnel and the management. Basically, they just said they wanted to let me go. I asked, ‘why?’. And they said they couldn’t give a reason…I was very upset. I was told I had to work a week’s notice, which I did.
I just didn’t know what to do that day as I had to go back on to the check-outs, after I was being told, by management, that I was being let go…
No [I don’t regret the action I took]. I’m happy that I did go out on strike on that day because low-hour contracts – you’ve no life, you can’t plan your life. You can’t get mortgages, you can’t get loans. So, something has to be changed…I have to go on Social Welfare now and I have to apply for more work.”
Tony Malone, who worked in Dunnes Stores in Dundalk before he was sacked, told Claire:
“We went on strike on the Thursday and I went in on the Friday morning, as normal, and as the morning went along, I just spoke to one of my colleagues and said I had a weird feeling. And he said, ‘what do you mean?’. I said, ‘I’ve just an empty feeling’, I just feel something bad is going to happen.
So I went on my lunch, around 11am and I came back and I got the phone call to come up the stairs to the HR office and my manager was there and the HR manager was there and they asked me would I like any representation. I declined. So they sat me down and they says, ‘right, we’re going to have to let you go, due to the downturn in business.’ I goes, ‘sure this is victimisation over what happened yesterday’ and they said, ‘no it’s not’ and I goes, ‘well you look from the outside in and you tell me this isn’t victimisation, less than 24 hours after what happened yesterday’.
And I just left then…[Life on a low-hour contract] is bad. You can’t get bank loans for a house. You can’t get Credit Union loans. People don’t want to know you. All people are interested in is, what’s on your contract at the end of the week.
They don’t care if you’re getting 40 hours a week, all they’re interested in seeing is what you’re guaranteed every week…Everybody needs a bit of stability in their life. That’s all everyone was looking for, before anything happened. A bit of stability, a bit of a guarantee, so they can have a life.”
Dunnes Stores declined to have a respresentative on the panel.
Watch in full here