The Irish women’s rugby 7s team are into the #Dubai7s Invitational final after beating Almaty RFC. They face Tribe 7s at 1.16pm Irish time
— Mary White (@mary_white33) December 5, 2014
Tribe 7s?
FIGHT!
UPDATE:
The Irish have beaten us 19-0 in the Cup final @Dubai7s — Tribe Sevens Rugby (@tribe7s) December 5, 2014
Boola bus!
Of these frankly superb Communist era Czech posters for Hollywood films (the top one, believe it or not, is for Ghostbusters [1984]), Jason Pirodsky of Expats.cz explains:
Some writers attribute the bizarre nature of Czech (and Polish) movie posters from the 1960s through the 1980s to “an artistic alternative to banned U.S. publicity material” (what, the posters were banned, but the movies weren’t?), but the actual story is much more interesting. While artists behind promotional material elsewhere needed to be able to sell their product in the most effective (read: least imaginative) way possible, the communist regime inadvertently created a unique environment for this particular form. Free from most commercial interests, the artists behind these posters were given an incredible amount of free reign over their design – an artistic freedom even the filmmakers behind the movies didn’t enjoy.
MORE: Top 25 Czechoslovak Movie Posters (*for US Films) (Expat.cz)
(All images: Terry Ponozky)
(H/T: Qzak)
Jackie Healy-Rae
Jackie Healy-Rae (83) former TD for Kerry South has died. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. How about this for passion – https://t.co/SHAUkxW8o7
— Elaine Byrne (@ElaineByrne) December 5, 2014
Former Independent TD Jackie Healy-Rae dies (RTE)
Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
A snowy scene from the Grand Canal in Dublin in December 2010
Well, maaaybe.
Met Éireann says the weather on Sunday will be:
“Bitterly cold and rather blustery. Good spells of sunshine but scattered showers too – mainly affecting the western half of the country. Some of the showers will be wintry in nature, with snow on western and northern hills and possibly some sleet on lower levels here. A flurry or two is possibly on higher ground further east. Highest temperatures just 3 to 6 degrees Celsius, in a fairly fresh westerly breeze. Similar conditions persisting overnight. Cold with some frost as winds moderate, with some snow accumulation possible in the north overnight.”
Via Met Éireann
Pic: Mark Griffin
Anne Marie O’Connor tweetz:
Took this pic of a bin on the Main St in Gorey last night. Flying elephants in North Wexford. That’s not snow!
Jaykers.
RUUUUNN!
Le Château de Rentilly – a 1960s country house 30 km east of Paris reclad with polished mirrored surfaces. Inside, most of the internal volume has been cleared to house a regional showcase of contemporary artwork.
By Stand Still, Stay Silent, who sez:
Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered pretty much all the data for this from ethnologue.com, which is an awesome well of information about language families. And if anyone finds some important language missing let me know! (Naturally most tiny languages didn’t make it on the graph, aww. There’s literally hundreds of them in the Indo-European family alone and I could only fit so many on this page, so most sub-1 mil. speaker languages that don’t have official status somewhere got the cut.)
Huge version here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DueSeIWn2E
What you may need to know:
1. A teenage English mathematics prodigy is chosen to represent Great Britain at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is faced with many challenges including falling in love.
2. Bit of an all star cast for this BBC production. You will not recognise Asa Butterfield from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008).
3. You might recognise Sally Hawkins from Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine (2013). She got an Oscar nomination for that one. Although she was better in the excellent Layer Cake (2004) in our opinion.
4. The director Morgan Matthews is better known for his documentaries. His Beautiful Young Minds is the inspiration for this drama.
5. Not to be mistaken for the New York based flick X/Y(2014) which is dire. X + Y (2014) is meant to be much more compelling.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Let’s get physical, physical.
Release Date: March 13, 2015
(Delboy remains at large. Tom Dillon (aka Dylan) is Broadsheet’s social media manager and man of the soil)
The National Museum of Ireland
“The National Museum of Ireland would like to clarify that reports in today’s media that the Museum’s four sites face imminent closure or that entry charges are to be introduced are incorrect. No decision on the closure of sites or on the introduction of charges has been taken by the Board and no recommendations have been made to the Minister of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht in this regard. The Museum’s four sites are and will remain open to visitors and entry to all Museum sites is free. The Board remains committed to the principle of free entry. So far this year, the Museum has welcomed over 1 million visitors.”
Further to reports on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that four of Ireland’s major museums may close on January 1, unless they receive more financial support from the State, the National Museum of Ireland has released a statement
National museum board discussed closing sites (RTE)
Press release issued on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland
