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A meeting between the Grangegorman squatters and their neighbours.
Seán Fitzpatrick writes:
A conference with the residents of Grangegorman squat and their neighbors. It shows solidarity between the members of community, and the squatters. The space is foundation of culture, charity, and science and should not be dismissed by the authorities.
Previously: More Than Meets The Eye
A nifty breakdown of the VFX on Amazon Prime/BBC Victorian-era drama Ripper Street, including a eye-popping train depot ‘before and after’ (top and centre).
Made at Dublin’s post-production house Screen Scene.
Keith writes:
We’re delighted to report that Screen Scene has just received a BAFTA TV Craft Award for our work on Season Three of Ripper Street. VFX Supervisor Ed Bruce, 3D Supervisor John O’Connell and VFX Co-ordinator Nicholas Murphy have been nominated in the Special, Visual and Graphics category at this year’s craft awards, which will take place on April 26.
Our VFX work can next be seen on Season five of Game of Thrones, which will premiere this April on HBO and Sky Atlantic, while our upcoming projects include ITV’s ‘The Frankenstein Chronicles‘, Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Room’ and the screen adaptation of Ken Follett’s best selling novel ‘A Dangerous Fortune’.
Yesterday.
The Sheraton Hotel, Gleeson Street, Athlone, Co Westmeath.
A Union of Students in Ireland annual congress group shot and heart-shaped hand gesturing in support of the May marriage referendum and the launch of a campaign to “clear the decks” for students to vote.
USI President Laura Harmon sez:
“Students are overwhelmingly in favour of Marriage Equality, and complacency is simply not an option for us. We’re calling for all colleges, where necessary, to change exam times on the 22nd of May to allow students to vote….”
FIGHT!
Pics: Conor McCabe
Kevin Bluett of TCD Orchestra writes:
On behalf of Trinity Orchestra, we would like to share our latest music video of our live recording of Demon Days [and other choons] by Gorillaz played by full orchestra. In addition to this we are announcing our entry to the 2015 Irish Music festival scene at one of Ireland’s largest festivals: Forbidden Fruit.
Previously: Trinity Orchestra Does Floyd
Lord Mayor Christy Burke and Roz Purcell in Fire at the Mansion House, Dawson Street
Need somewhere to go on Good Friday?
That doesn’t involve the stations of the cross?
Read on
Sinead writes:
FIRE Restaurant and Lounge on Dublin’s Dawson Street will open and welcome guests this Good Friday, 3rd April. While operating in full compliance with the licensing laws, the award winning FIRE’s decision to open dramatically improves the options for tourists and locals this Good Friday as one of the very few restaurants open in the city.
Open in the lounge from midday, and in the restaurant from 1pm ‘til late, FIRE has created a special menu of non-alcoholic cocktails…as required by law, all beer taps and alcohol must be covered…more details here
Alternative Good Friday suggestions (where even hooch may be available) welcome below.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Behold the full, tiled glory of it here.
Barrington Scarcliff.
English blood.
Irish art.
Trevor at Dublin-based Igloo Animations writes:
This is a new show that we are developing (co-production) with another company in England, RED-moodle. The show is titled ‘The Continuing Adventures of Barrington Scarcliff’ and is aimed at anyone over 15 with a twisted sense of humor. It’s written by Jonathon and Richard Morss from Red-Moodle and we are doing the Animation. It is being made into 13x24 minute episodes. Above is is the first animated clip from the show used to introduce the main character and setting….
This Sunday.
Hunt your own little fella.
Kevin Whitty writes:
You may or may not have heard of the annual Leprechaun Hunt that takes place up in beautiful Carlingford [Co Louth] every year… Anyways, it’s this Sunday and is amazingly a pretty big deal. Sky News coverage from previous event here
Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair in Belfast, 1999
Further to concerns at the legality of ‘letters of comfort’ sent to IRA suspects on the run.
Selective outrage?
Eamon Delaney writes:
[Former British Prime Minister Tony] Blair is rightly adamant that without the letters of comfort the IRA ceasefire would never have endured. “The issue of OTRs ( On the Runs) was absolutely critical to the peace process and at certain points became fundamental to it…,” Blair told the MPs who have been investigating the scheme. “And I think it is likely that the process would have collapsed.”
Now, however, the UK police no longer believe the Blair letters afford these suspects any protection and are apparently keen to seek prosecutions, most especially for high-profile IRA actions in London in the 1980s. However, if such suspects were arrested and tried it would quite likely cause a major crisis in the peace process as the letters from Blair were clearly and understandably taken as immunity documents by wanted IRA members known as the OTR’s, or ‘On the Runs.’ This is what they would have expected as part of signing up for a lasting settlement.
The move is particularly ironic given that this week we have also seen some devastating revelations about collusion during the height of the Troubles between Loyalist killers and the British security forces. According to Leslie Thomas QC, a lawyer presiding at a double inquest in Belfast, loyalist paramilitaries were responsible for up to 80 deaths between July 1972 and June 1978 in Northern Ireland’s ‘murder triangle’ in counties Armagh and Tyrone, and the UK security forces may have colluded in many of those murders.
Most of the atrocities were carried out by the so called ‘Glenanne Gang’ of UVF gunmen with the alleged active involvement of soldiers and police officers. The gang operated out of farms in Armagh and Tyrone in the mid-1970s when the Troubles were at their worst. Now the families of the victims, supported by Leslie Thomas QC, are calling for a full inquest.
These allegations, although sensational, only confirm the now widespread belief that there was often extensive collusion between loyalist gangs and the British security forces during the conflict. Only this week, Anne Cadwallader, the author of “Lethal Allies,” a devastating 2013 book about the subject, testified in front of a Congressional Committee in Washington about the deep extent of this British collusion.
“If what we say is right, this is the biggest involvement of state agents in mass murder on what is technically British soil,” said Leslie Thomas in Belfast about the latest allegations. “Then we say that what the families of the bereaved want, quite simply is the truth to come out: they want justice.”
However, the British media and establishment has virtually ignored these allegations, and focused predictably on the On the Runs, especially since the Blair government’s Letters of Comfort involved an undoubted deal of official secrecy and subterfuge. There is also the fact that the ‘guarantees’ were issued by a Labour Government and not a Conservative one. In UK politics, especially at the moment, party partisanship can often come before what’s actually good for Northern Ireland, or even the UK.
However, the broader picture here is a selectivity of outrage and seeking of justice about certain parts of the Northern Ireland conflict, but also the dilemma of how much of the past should be left in the past, including the non-pursuit of suspects for past crimes
RUN!
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
