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TWELVE months of Wexford GAA greats.

From Tom at Yellowbelly.ie

He writes:

I’m selling A3 Calendars for the Wexican in your life. A year of Wexford Hurling, Football, Camogie and Ladies football legends that I have illustrated in the last few years. Featuring illustrations of the likes of Tony Doran, Nickey Rackard, Matty Forde, Kate Kelly and more….Might make a good stocking filler! Only €15 inc postage

Purchase here 

Irish-made stocking fillers to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish Made Stocking Fillers. No fee just nuzzles.

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What you may need to know:

1. It’s a Martin Luther King Jr biopic focusing on the 1965 Selma (Alabama) to Montgomery (50 miles away) voting rights marches.

2. Please welcome Oprah Winfreeeeey!

3. Reluctant to join the film as either producer or actor, Oprah was finally convinced when she learned that sheriff-socking activist Annie Lee Cooper was a big fan.

4. Director and co-writer Ana DuVernay only landed the gig after Lee Daniels jumped ship to direct The Butler (2013).

5. The first Selma to Montgomery march was met with opposition by the state troopers. That morning the county Sheriff issued an order for all white males in Dallas County over the age of 21 to report to the courthouse that morning to be deputised. The marchers were attacked with nightsticks and tear gas. 17 were hospitalized and the day was named ‘Bloody Sunday’.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: They have a nightmare.

Release Date: February 6

(Delboy is in the ‘K-hole’. Dylan is Tom Dillon, cineaste/farm dweller)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0L0WIK2Ync

One giant leap for womankind.

Shankill, Co Dublin striker Stephanie Roche’s screamer for Peamount United.

Among the top 10 most beautiful goals (nine by geezers) of the past year.

G’wan the Women’s National League.

Thanks JoJo

The Fifa Puskas Award (Facebook)

Previously: Can She Kick It?

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Investigations by Dutch book historian Erik Kwakkel into the art of creative parchment repair in the Dark and Middle Ages by scribes who – in order to deal with blemishes in the costly cow and sheepskin membranes they worked on – used cheeky doodles and imaginative embroidery to incorporate them into the texts in a style similar to the Japanese restoration art of kintsugi.

MORE: The Skinny On Bad Parchment (Erik Kwakel, Medieval Books)

Previously: Colours Of 1692

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Guts.

A bimonthly magazine of confessional writing, personal essays and internal organ spilling published in tactile PRINT form.

Nialler9 writes:

Guts is a new magazine filled with confessional essays and fiction from Irish writers like Maeve Higgins, Eithne Shortall, Neil Watkins, Laurence Mackin, Megan Nolan, Daniel Gray, Padraic E Moore and me put together by Roisin Agnew. Issue 1 with the theme The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter features artwork from Mick Minogue and design by Shane McKenna. There’s a Kickstarter to raise all the funds for printing with decent rewards that’s got off to a good start…

Guts (Kickstarter)

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Ah here.

President Michael D Higgins at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi, where he delivered a keynote address titled ‘Ireland and Malawi: Working Together to Achieve Food Security’ on the eleventh day of the President’s 22 day official visit to Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa.

(Aras/Photocall Ireland)

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