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Old school downloading.

The second Le Cool Dublin cover by Dublin native, Waterford-based illustrator and designer Colm O’Connor.

He sez:

“I moved out of Dublin when I was 18 so I have quite a nostalgic view of the city whenever I go visit. This is a throwback to the weekends myself and Pat, with a couple of weeks’ pocket money on us, would get the 78A in to town, go see a film in the Savoy, drop in to Peats, HMV, Champion Sports, Marathon Sports and anywhere else we couldn’t afford at the time. We were only 11/12 and it was well before iTunes, Spotify, even Napster, but after graduating from taping songs off the radio this was the guy to get your bootleg tapes off. Standing outside McDonalds on O’Connell Street with a box full of dodgy tapes you could get all the latest hits. The days would end with missing our bus on the Quays, spending an hour in Virgin waiting for the ‘next one’, and chatting about the film, video games, and what we were going to spend all our millions on when we made it. Good times.”

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

A chat with Colm

More of Colm’s work here.

Thanks Kate Le Cool

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Page_BC_College-General-8_W-319x195From top: Bob Geldof (top) Crostwhaite Park, Dun Laoghaire, where Geldof was raised and Blackrock College, his alma mater.

“He [former Tory Minister Andrew Mitchell] struck me as being a man eager to learn, to listen, to absorb and process information rapidly and as someone without side or guile in any respect. I am used to being patronised by ‘my betters’ there was no such nonsense from Mr Mitchell. I came from a poor Irish, not particularly well educated background and he does not. I am in fact ‘a pleb’ and he is not.”

Ah.

Here.

Bob Geldof Issues Strong Defence Of Andrew Mitchell (Telegraph)

Thanks Eddie

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Scenes from outside Coolock Garda Station in Dublin, on Tuesday night.

John Ayres writes:

“Up to 200 women stood in silence, their presence spoke volumes. Occasionally cars used their horns in support but the silence stood and was not broken. Many women are up from 5am to get ready to go to protests – on Tuesday night they stood for over an hour.

Photos by John Ayres

Meanwhile…

“You have made a very serious mistake here today. I think it is an historic day, as the minister said. Ye had an opportunity to listen, ye had an opportunity to step back and abolish the charges and Irish Water. You haven’t taken that opportunity. And the reality is, is that no one can govern against the will of the people. And you’ve lost the will and the mandate of people and, honestly, your days are now numbered. And if you had any respect for yourself, you really should go to the people and call a general election because we’ve had to listen to a lot of waffle about democracy, from the Taoiseach over the weekend, aided and abetted by some of his friends in the media, trying to discredit a people’s movement, trying to insult people? That they would allow themselves to be led by a sinister fringe? Where was the coverage to the 200 women in Coolock who peacefully protested outside the [Garda] station last night?”

“Those who are undermining democracy are not in the communities, they’re sitting across the way there because ye went to the people. You said, ‘vote for Labour and we’ll save you from Fine Gael’s water charges’. Fine Gael said, ‘vote for us and we’ll never bring in a charge unless meters are in’. That’s not democracy, that is fraud. And you have betrayed the people of this country, you’ve succeeded in awakening a sleeping giant of the Irish people. And, do you know what, now that they’re awake, they actually like it and they’re not going back into their box. December the 10th will be absolutely enormous, in my opinion. I don’t think you’ll survive it, unless you cop on before that. But if you try and limp along, after that date, you will find that this charge will be absolutely uncollectable by the time you try and bring it in and collect that in April. But I strongly suspect that it’s not going to be your problem because you’ll probably be gone before then.”

United Left Alliance TD, Clare Daly, addressing Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dáil yesterday

RTÉ News (Facebook)

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‘sup?

Thatsmyname writes:

I came across a story about a Russian surveillance website, that broadcasts unsecured webcams online. After checking it out, I found there are almost 60 feeds for Ireland, including one sitting just above a baby’s cot, from somewhere near Kells [Co Meath]. It may not be exactly precise, but it pinpoints on a map where this camera is located. I find this really creepy and disturbing. As a mother, I know I certainly wouldn’t want my kids and privacy violated like this. This is wrong. You may not want to publish the link [below], but you can see for yourself. The website link is a screen grab of what was broadcast when I checked it out. Someone in Kells needs to know that their child is being broadcast online!

Anyone?

Kells, Co Meath (Insecam)

Previously: Everything To See Here

UPDATE:

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The front page, and two-page spread of an investigation into the matter by Ben Haugh in the Irish Mail on Sunday on Sunday, September 21, 2014.

Thanks IMOS

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Hypotopia – a model city installed  in the centre of Vienna by team of students from the Technical University designed to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion the government is currently paying to bail out the Hypo Alpe Adria bank.

Having done the requisite calculations, they imagined it as a home for 102,574 residents- Austria’s sixth largest city , complete with shops, power plants, and garbage disposal facilities.

But no banks.

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(H/T: David Smith)

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