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Today.

Brian Flanagan writes:

Eviction underway at Grangegorman [Dublin] where a formerly derelict space is a home for 27 people

Workers Solidarity Movement adds:

The people living here mostly have low paid insecure jobs. They don’t have friends in high places. Contrast what you see in the video (above) and hear with the very different treatment of the ‘bog standard house’ at Gorse Hill. And what you will see was recorded with the Garda and security knowing they were being recorded, imagine their behaviour if the cameras were not there.

Workers Solidarity Movement (Facebook)

Update:

void-1

https://vimeo.com/122428734

An Embroidery Of Voids by artist Daniel Crooks: which stitches together a series of alleys, laneways and passages into a seemingly endless (but actually nine and a half minute long) corridor.

Fullscreen and sound up for the full Zen effect.

And if you liked that, you’ll be similarly moved by the sidescrolling urban pageant of A Garden Of Parallel Paths.

colossal/booooooom

MI

What you may need to know:

1. When CIA chief (Alec Baldwin) disbands the (other) IMF (what, again?), Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) assembles a team (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Rebecca Ferguson) to battle the shadowy force known as ‘The Syndicate’ and its elusive leader (Sean Harris).

2. Paramount have moved the release date forward by five months to put some air between it and Star Wars VII.

3. This is Christopher McQuarrie’s fourth collaboration with Cruise. He has directed Jack Reacher (2012) and co-wrote Valkyrie (2008) and last year’s worst-marketed best movie, Edge of Tomorrow (2014). If you were put off by that poster, do yourself a favour and check it out. Seriously.

4. After dangling from the 2,700ft Burj Khalifa building in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), that really is Cruise hanging off a plane 5,000 feet up in the air. His insurance premium must have accounted for a significant portion of the budget.

5. With John Woo’s M:I-2 (2000) arguably the only duff entry, the Mission: Impossible franchise is in rude health. Incidentally, reshoots for M:I 2 cost Dougray Scott the part of Wolverine in Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000).

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Needs more Lalo Schfrin.

Release Date: July 31.

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

marioMario: missing since Saturday

‘sup?

Oonagh writes:

I know you don’t usually do this, but could you please please please help find my missing cat.
Mario (above) is a four-year-old . He is micro chipped & neutered and a bit nervous of strangers.
He was last seen  rambling down Rochfort Park, Lucan, Co Dublin on Saturday afternoon…With the good weather over the weekend, he may have wandered into a garden shed while people were tending their gardens. Thank you.

Anyone?

pint

The St Patrick’s Day exploding pint.

Barney Mac’s, Chord Road, Drogheda, Co Louth.

Sacha writes:

Is it a case of a pint exploding by itself or is the pub haunted [by the ghost of late regular Joe Murphy]? Either way the lad standing up reckons it was one of the other two boys….

There may even be a simple scientific explanation.

We may never know.

Barney Macs (Facebook)

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