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‘Small Lives’ a lovingly-detailed ‘screen-printed anthology’ 

Maybe TOMORROW.

Ruth Hallinan writes;

I am holding a launch TOMORROW that I thought some of your readers might be interested in. I run a small publishing project called Poddle Publications that screen-prints handmade books. I have spent the last year producing a limited run of a screen-printed anthology called ‘Small Lives’ at Damn Fine Print Studio and I will be launching it at The Winding Stair bookshop ( 40 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin) from 6-8pm. The book contains contains prose, poetry and illustration from some great artists and writers and I would love to spread the word! Something your readers might be interested in is that each page from the book may removed easily and framed as a limited edition print!

Small Lives launch (Facebook)

Pics: Tom Rowley

Danny Collins Movie

What you may need to know:

1. It has nothing to do with the workmanlike Nottingham Forest left back of the same name.

2. An ageing Neil Diamond-type singer (Al Pacino) reassesses his career after discovering a 40-year-old letter written by John Lennon.

3. Directorial debut of Dan Fogelman, writer of the brilliant Crazy Stupid Love (2011) and the not-so-brilliant Last Vegas (2013).

4. This has been in development since 2010, when it was titled ‘Imagine’. Steve Carell was originally signed on to play the son, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Carell was replaced by Jeremy Renner who also walked, and Bobby Cannavale finally stepped in.

5. It doesn’t end there – Annette Bening (love interest) replaced Julianne Moore and Christopher Plummer (manager) was originally Michael Caine. Holy Hokey Cokey.

6. At 56, it’s only natural that Bening should find the 74 year-old Pacino irresistible. Just saying.

7. Pacino should lay off the hair dye and tanning sessions. He’s beginning to resemble a Peperami.

8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Mutton dressed as Humperdinck.

Release Date:  2015

(DelBoy is scalping toy show tickets. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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Deputy Noel Coonan (Fine Gael) has jihad it up to here with the water protests.

“I come from the town of Templemore where we train every Garda in the country and the people down there and right across the country that I’ve met are horrified by what’s going on. And I think that it has been an awakening call for them because they are now concerned about elements of socialists, the so-called wealthy Socialist Party led by ‘The Murph’ and company and aided and abetted by extremists within our colleagues here from Sinn Féin. And I think that that needs to be nipped in the bud. The people have given that signal to us now: nip that in the bud, if not we are facing what is potentially an ISIS situation in the Middle East if those people are allowed get on to do what they’re doing. God help this country and people realise that.

We talk about Dublin and the people who are protesting here in Dublin the socialist led group, they don’t care about the country people. Country people all over down through the years had to pay for their water. Be it in group schemes, private wells, whatever and they want to act like parasites and live off of the country people. They’ve never acknowledged the role that the people down the country, small business people who operate from their own home who have to pay for their water. Businesses in the country who’ve had to pay for their water, the role that they have given in this country in bad times. They provided the money.”

They’ll be heading here soon.

Mark his words.

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Ronan Casey (above) and de invite to his buke launch TONIGHT

Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Storya is a collection of the best stories and headlines from Ireland’s local newspapers by smudge-fingered writer and broadcaster Ronan Casey.

Where?

The Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar obviously.

Ronan writes;

The book is out now (no, 24 in the charts!). Hector Ó’hEochagáin is launching the book. I was part of his 2Fm team until we were all sacke… until we left RTE to pursue other interests last year. Hector describes the book as a ‘window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we always will be’. The launch is open to the public and books will be on sale from Stella Lynch of Just Books on the night. Free wine and water.

Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Stories (Gill & Macmillan)

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