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The Minutes – Supernatural

Niall McGuckian writes:

[Dublin band] The Minutes [Mark Austin, Tom Cosgrave, Shane Kinsella] are closing out 2014, what may well be their best year as a band, thanks to extensive touring in Europe, a rising profile and a solid second record Live Well, Change Often.
To mark the occasion, the band have released a new single, ‘Supernatural’, which comes with the news that the album is getting a European-wide release on February 7th on Model Citizen [record label]. Back home, the guys play New Year’s Eve in the Workman’s Club, Wellington Quay, Dublin  (€18) to celebrate all the above. The video by Mark Bailey features Mark Austin play the role of the evangelical TV preacher.

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From top: Hennessy; Murphy and the Kelly coat of arms getting wrapped

The old family crest.

Painted and framed for your self-esteem wall.

Brendan McCarey writes:

I’m an Irish Designer & Artist based in Monaghan. I recently started a project called Painted Clans. Painted Clans are hand painted contemporary Irish crests. The idea came about as a wedding present for friends living in Australia; I wanted to gift them with something traditional, modern and sentimental and so Painted Clans was born.

Each crest is researched and redesigned with a modern minimalist style keeping all the original elements that make up the crests. Each crest is then hand painted using acrylic paint making it one of a kind. I think a Painted Clan crest would make the perfect Irish made stocking filler.

Painted Clans

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’ . No fee just a knowing glance.

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Dr Rory Hearne, a lecturer in political and economic geography at National University of Ireland, Maynooth

You may recall a post concerning dreamboat egghead Dr Rory Hearne who spoke to Keelin Shanley on Today with Sean O’Rourke last month about the Irish Water protests.

He said he believed the protests emerged because of a ‘cumulative impact of austerity’ and that ‘[the protesters] were holding back on the basis of shock, of collective guilt and a fear, and a sense of powerlessness and now that’s all changed’.

Well.

Frank writes:

“I see heart-throb geographer Dr Rory Hearne (NIUM) is doing a Water Protest survey but it’s been very badly advertised. Could you see if BS readers would fill it out as it would be no use without a representative sample.”

The 20-multiple choice question survey can be done here.

Previously: Sinister Fringe? They Wish

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She’s ‘on’ the ‘wagon’.

The launch this morning of On The Dry a fundraising initiative by the Irish Heart Foundation and supported by AIG and 98FM that asks people to give up the hooch for January.

Hic.

From left: Caroline Morahan, Karena Graha , Dublin GAA footballer Bernard Brogan and Telly’s Eoghan McDermott.

On The Dry

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Barry B writes:

Alice…quietly resigned….

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Meahdb writes:

Frank the mischievous elf./Basset hound  rescued from the pound in Wexford two years ago. I love him dearly.

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Deirdre writes:

This is Chaya (a ten year old tripod) was saved from starving to death on the streets of Thailand after being hit by a car which badly damaged her front leg. She was taken in to the shelter severely underweight and they had to amputate one of her front legs. She was nursed back to health over several months. I adopted her earlier this year and she came to Ireland in August. The Soi Dog Foundation who need money for a new animal hospital in Phuket Thailand. They do amazing work with stray dogs and dogs saved from the Dog Meat Trade in Thailand. To take part in the campaign, people need to do is post a festive photo of their pet on Facebook or Twitter using #soidogselfie. or donate here.

Your pet at Xmas marked ‘My Pet At Xmas’ to broadsheet@@broadsheet.ie

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The HSE has issued a tender for security surveillance technology.

Meanwhile HSE director general, Tony O’Brien, will answer questions in light of the Áras Attracta scandal in the Oireachtas Health Committee today in Committee Room 3 at 7pm.

Previously: ‘You Could See Her Cowering In Her Chair’

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The panel of judges of last night’s Tonight With Vincent Browne Media Awards, top, and Sunday Independent columnist Gene Kerrigan, who won Columnist of the Year

Last night, Tonight With Vincent Browne Media Awards saw the judges – Senator Marie-Louise O’Donnell, MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, and UCD School of Social Justice lecturer Marie Moran – discuss the stories of the year.

The judges decided the story of the year was the series of Garda controversies as reported by Mick Clifford, of the Irish Examiner.

Mr Flanagan said:

“[The Garda stories over the last year are] definitely would be the story of the year if it wasn’t a case that we’re now, as a nation or our Government is trying to put a lid on it and make it kind of seem all right and I would worry will we ever get to the root of it. Whereas the other story of the year would be water charges and the fact that it isn’t really about water charges, it’s about something else. It’s about layers of taxes that have come and I think that is now more the story of the year because I think something is actually going to happen out of it. Whereas with the Garda story, I’d still know people within the Garda Síochána who are absolutely terrified because of what they’ve told me and information that I’ve passed on. And bit by bit by bit by bit, [they’re] losing hope, that anything good will come out of it.”

 

Mr Clifford also won the Journalist of the Year Award while the Irish Times won Newspaper of the Year Award. TheJournal.ie won Website of the Year. As mentioned above, Gene Kerrigan won Columnist of the Year.

After accepting his award, Mr Kerrigan gave his opinion about the changing landscape of the media in Ireland.

Gene Kerrigan: “It’s a matter of economics, the internet has come along and has destroyed a lot of what newspapers used to do without producing a way for that kind of journalism to be replaced. An awful of the internet is just opinion. The kind of thing that newspapers are very good at doing…It has its place but quite often, I would read something, every day, I try and wean myself off it…the stuff on the internet by people who are very, very passionate, and they get the basics wrong and they go off for 3,000 words of passion. You don’t get that so much, you do of course get it in newspapers, but you don’t get it so much because there’s an editorial structure which says, ‘this will bore the readers’. What we’ve got is one platform being undermined by another which isn’t in a position to take it over and do its job or isn’t in a position to do earn enough money, to monetise as they say.”

Hmmm.

 

Previously: The Wrong Side Of The Thin Blue Line

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