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What you may need to know:

1. It’s a new documentary from filmmakers Treasa O’Brien (left) and Mary Jane O’Leary, fusing (and we quote) ‘observational footage, street voxpop, archive material and metaphorical visual essay language mixed with on-the-road verite’. We do love a bit of verite.

2. O’Brien and O’Leary emigrated, then returned, and set about trying to make sense as to why we (and again we quote) ‘have an apathy, or even an antipathy, towards protest’. Have they been to Tallaght recently?

3. The title comes from Swift’s A Modest Proposal.

4. It’s screening at this year’s Jameson Dublin Film Festival. Russell Crowe’s going to be there, too. Not at this screening, although you never know. He’s a live wire, that Rusty Crowe.

5. We say: Not exactly the type of horror film we were hoping for, but possibly essential all the same.

Screening: March 22nd, Screen Cinema Dublin

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25 Verde – a five story apartment building in Turin, Italy designed by architect Luciano Pia.

An undulating design incorporating 150 potted deciduous trees and terraces serves to break up the line of the building, insulating apartments from the noise of traffic while absorbing C02 and looking lovely, as trees are wont to do.

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No Monster Club – The Loneliest Master.

Bobby writes:

 A video for ‘The Loneliest Master’ – made by Giles Brody, Conor O’Toole & Seamus Hanly – featuring Owen Colgan (‘Hardy Bucks’) alongside a supporting cast of local comedians & members of the Popical Island musical collective.
This Saturday evening in The BelloBar, Portobello Harbour, Dublin it’s the launch of the new No Monster Club album ‘People Are Weird’ (The Irish Times sez “the kind of tunefulness that makes a joke of so much contemporary pop music… if there’s a more charming album released this year, we’ll listen to Emerson, Lake & Palmer for a full week… ✮✮✮✮”). Details below…

No Monster Club album launch party (Facebook)

Previously: No Monster Club on broadsheet

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A bouquet from award-winning Flowers by Moira and a box of LIndt Lindor chocolates all delivered to YOUR ma before Sunday were on offer.

We asked first for an apology to your Mother for any outstanding misdemeanors, uncouth behaviour or simple petty purse larceny.

You answered in your dozens.

Runners up:

Menace: “I had a gaff party about ten years ago ago and one of my friends leaned against our wall and it fell over. She blamed a delivery van as well as the craftsmanship of those who built it after I had pieced it back together without cement and left it until she noticed it 6 months later. Sorry ma!”

Cool_Hand_Lucan: “I would like to apologise to my mother because I robbed £10 from her handbag when she was asleep to pay for a taxi for my drunken teenage girlfriend to get home after said girlfriend raided my mother’s drinks cabinet. Sorry mum!”

ahjayzis: “Christmas I shamed her after finding three empty boxes of this exact chocolate stowed under her bed from where she spent all of Stephen’s Day recuperating from the dinner making day before…

schweddy: I would like to apologise to my mother because about once every 2 months I visit my parents and spend a weekend eating them out of house and home! And the mother makes her lasagne (my favourite meal of hers) when she knows I’m coming home which is just a really thoughtful mammy thing to do!”

Pray For Mojo: “I would like to apologise to my mother for hiding her hairbrush when I was eight- I could not handle another tortuous round of “detangling”. Jaysus I was a right little b. Sorry mammy.”

LeDubFrog: “I would like to apologise to my mother because no parent needs to find their son asleep on the kitchen table, clad only in his boxers, in the early hours of a Tuesday morning.”

Winner:

Garthicus:“I would like to apologise to my mother because the money I would have spent on her flowers and chocs went on a Cheltenham accumulator that was set to win until Annie Power fell at the last fence, now she’ll have to settle for a handshake unless I win this super prize :-)”

Thanks all.

Yesterday: Would Your Mother Like These?

Thanks Joanne

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