Stop that.
Norm writes:
“An add on to your inappropriate hallowe’en stuff on Talbot street [Dublin] this afternoon…”
Friday October 31st – Halloween Night: Discotekken Halloween Bash @ The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin (€16, 9pm)
Nialler9 writes:
If you’re going to get dressed up for Halloween you may as well do it in a place which the performers will be too. Discotekken’s Samhain soirée features a band called Shift covering 80s hits and wearing tight trousers and big wigs, a screening of Spinal Tap, a scary amount of DJs from Kaboogie to Handsome Paddy to The Record Spot, Damn Fine screenprints, a hip-hop bake sale (A$AP rocky road /Danny Brownies) and Gruel Guerilla’s Eurotacos….
The biosensor device, called Pip, is gripped between the thumb and forefinger, looks a bit like a small iPod, and measures sweat and electrodermal activity associated with stress levels.
People working to manage their anxiety can then play a number of games like Relax & Race, where relaxing confers a competitive advantage. “After a couple of days,” says Miss Philips, “I had stopped taking relaxing medication, which I had been relying on due to anxiety.
PiP.
The stress app designed by students at Trinity College and a former ‘Karl’s Irish funding Kickstarter of the Day ‘(July 2013) goes global.
*grips between thumb and forefinger*
Tech To Take The Stress Out Of Stress (BBC)
Previously: Karl’s Irish Kickstarter Of The Day: PiP
Sham Rocks
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Martin O’Malley playing ‘celtic rock’ in 1999
In a lengthy profile the Times reporter Jason Horowitz says the 51-year old with Mayo and Galway roots “positions himself as the party’s fresh alternative to the 67-year-old Mrs. Clinton.”
The article follows O’Malley as he plays a gig with his Celtic rock band O’Malley’s March, sips Guinness, campaigns in South Carolina and gives every indication that he will challenge the frontrunner.
Twang.
O’Malley to jump into presidential race against Hillary Clinton (irish Central)
Pic: Baltimore Sun
Sir Ian McKellen meets president Higgins and Sabina Higgins at the Dylan Thomas tribute at the Grand Theatre, Swansea last night during Squee’s state visit to Wales.
It’s not a caption competition unless you insist.
(Aras/Photocall Ireland)
Harlots!
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Like their mothers before them
The contraceptive train arrives at Connolly Station, Dublin within the past 15 minutes.
Earlier: Free Today?
Via Emma Jane Hade
Update
The Contraceptive train arrival at Connolly Station four decades apart.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)
Update:
From top: Emma Quinna and Justine McNeil; Silvia Martin and Joanna Orr; Laura Fitzgerald and Diana O Dwyer: group shot: Clr Malissa Halpin (People Before profit), Fiona Dunkin and Ruth Coopinger TD and Aoibheann McShane taken an abortion pill at Connolly Station.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Green Party’s Dan Boyle (left), Eamon Ryan (centre) and Trevor Sargent during the 2011 General Election
Further to the Green Party proposal of a referendum on the public ownership of our water.
Dan Boyle writes:
Public anger and frustration in Ireland at how water is being made available and is expected to be paid for, has come about because no one at a Government level has managed to provided a satisfactory answer as to who is benefitting from this?
As a basic essential of life water should be considered the ultimate public utility. The fear exists that by creating an Irish Water company the government is setting the scene to sell the country’s water infrastructure to the private sector and with that the ability to practically print money by being able to charge the public for the right to use water.
This is why the Green Party is calling on the Government to advance the legislation for a referendum on public ownership of water as a priority, and to ensure that it is included with the Bills already scheduled to be passed in order to hold other referenda in 2015.
Green Party councillors across the country have already submitted motions to their respective councils in Louth, Fingal, Dublin City, Dublin South, Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown, Wicklow and Kilkenny, calling for these councils to support a referendum on the public ownership of water.
The Green Party is proposing the inclusion of the following new Article 10.5 into Bunreacht na hÉireann, which would state:
“The State shall treat drinking water as an essential resource and in the interests of the common good the State shall not provide for the privatisation or commercialisation of water services for the people”.
If Irish Water has been established to rationalise services and provide economies of scale why has it increased the numbers working within it, increasing costs whilst introducing a bonus culture for not its work particularly well?
If introducing water charges in this way through this body is about encouraging water conservation, why are flat rate charges being made, that allow water users use as much water in whatever way they like?
If this method of seeking payment for water is to get consumers to think differently on how water is used, then how come the money isn’t being recycled in grants for householders to develop rainwater collection systems?
By any measure the steps taken by the Irish government on the future use and development of the country’s water infrastructure, with the establishment of the shambolic Irish Water company, is failing on every level. A constitutional provision is necessary to prevent this and any future governments from making any further mistakes.
Dan Boyle is a former TD and Senator.
Sign the petition here
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glC43XJ9oU0
Noam Chomsky (the p is silent) lends his support to Ireland-based Gaza Toy Drive.
Let them know it’s Christmas time.
Gaza Toy Drive is sending boxes of clothes, books, bikes, toys, school materials, medical aid and baby items to Gaza and are seeking support at the links below.
Did you go to The Samhain Festival in Loughcrew, Co Meath on Sunday?
Get home OK?
Sean writes:
You might want to check out the responses [link below] from those who went to Sunday’s Samhain festival (click the ‘Posts to Page’ on the left hand side and down a bit):
I was there myself and it’s no lie that at 3am, when the festival ended, thousands of people were crammed into a badly organised queue to pass through ONE gate not 5 feet wide in order to get on the buses home. When we got to the gate ourselves we met some seriously pissed off and nervous looking Gardai who told us they had not been informed or consulted about how to deal with this situation. For three hours people queued, drunk, tired and whatever else in the rain and cold of late October. Thank Christ things didn’t get out of hand.
Other aspects of the festival were seriously shambolic. There was no water on tap, you had to pay. They ran out of mixers at 8pm and beer at 11pm. They ran out of water at some stage too. Myself and my girlfriend found a girl passing out on the dance floor and we brought her to some security, who promptly grabbed her and literally dragged her through the stones and mud, disappearing into some tent. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Anyone?