Mamma Mia!
Achille Martone writes:
Embracing the stereotype…
The Onion’s Today NOW! morning show returns. UTV Ireland take note:
Defensive driving instructor Danny Preston says the best way to avoid conflict on the road is to execute long-term psychological torment on aggressive drivers.
@broadsheet_ie Election much? Laurel Lodge, Castleknock, Dublin 15 this evening. Poster wars! It’s on? pic.twitter.com/ljjeMQp2pa
— James F. Hartnett (@jamesiehartnett) February 4, 2015
Where @paulmasonnews and the @ecb head of comms have a row about Greece pic.twitter.com/OSd3fCYDCP
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) February 4, 2015
Donnchadh Mac Cobb writes:
Cracking day on the Liffey today with the Jeanie [Johnston] looking well.
Luke Brennan writes:
Near Glencree Co.Wicklow, late this afternoon…
Blackrock, Co Dublin this afternoon.
Thanks Piajade
Kenmare Bay, Kenmare Co Kerry last night.
Thanks Jerry O’Sullivan
MORE to folly.
Thanks Neil Henderson (UK covers); Patrick Conboy (The Longford leader); Kevin Cramer (The irish Examiner); Enda Cunningham (The Connacht Tribune); Mick Crowley (The irish Times)
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ngDiG9V8w]
What you may need to know:
1. When Ryan Gosling is not acting, breaking up fights or being the face of the feminmeme he is making movies. This one is about a mother trying her best for her two kids in a Detroit ruined by a dammed river and gangsters.
2. Gosling has taken a more then a little inspiration from the work of Nicolas Winding Refn who he teamed up with for Drive (2011) and Only God Forgives (2013). He must also watch a lot of David Lynch and Terrence Malick movies.
3. By ‘a little inspiration’ we do mean Oasis levels of inspiration.
4. The trailer looks like a cool art film that we would like to see. The critics make us want to burn it with fire.
5. He put his ladyfriend in it which is cool. Saoirse Ronan in the house too!
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Ryan Turkeyling
Release Date: April 10
Angry Gulls
at
Seagulls.
They got game.
Emma from Troll Inc writes:
We’re an indie game development team in Derry, NI. We released a game at the start of the week and based on the high rate of seagull posts on your Twitter feed I thought you might want a look at it. Grand Theft Seagull sees a rogue seagull take to the skies and poo on the townsfolk as he steals their food! Available FREE on Android, iOS and Windows Phone [links below], it’s an endless flyer that’s full of shit! Feedback welcome….
Download: iOS/Android/Windows Phone
This afternoon.
Members of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) launch a briefing paper at Buswells Hotel, Dublin to highlight the need for a “human rights based approach” to supporting people who sell sexual services in Ireland.
The report (available at link below) urges laws that promote safety and stresses that “not all sex workers are victims”
Second pic from left: Wendy Lyon, Solicitor and Blogger (Feministire.com), Kate McGrew, Sex Worker, and Activist, Derbhla Ryan, member of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and Billie from, Community Support Project Worker GOSHH (Gender Orientation Sexual Health HIV).
Sex Workers Alliance (Facebook)
Previously: Eyes Wide Shut
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
A conference on women’s rights held at the University of Qassim in Saudi Arabia last year.
Not one female delegate, what with the strict Sharia Law in force.
The picture above, which appeared originally in the Arab speaking newspaper Okaz, has been doing the rounds of the French-speaking press this week.
(H/T: Matt Finucane)