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TODAY October 2 – Saturday October 4: Hard Working Class Heroes @ various venues around Dublin city (€20 per day, €45 for 3 nights)

Nialler9 writes:

“If you’ve even a passing interest in Irish music or new music in general, you should be rubbing your hands at the prospect of this weekend’s gigs in venues like The Workman’s, Meeting House Square, The Grand Social, Button Factory, Twisted Pepper, The Mercantile and Bad Bobs. 104 Irish bands are playing the night showcases with some of them playing free gigs In The City during the day. There’s also a conference, talks, panels and speed sessions for musicians in NDRC. Three to see? Somerville, Dear Desert and Planet Parade.”

Nialler9’s Gig Guide October 2-6 (Nialler9)

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Frank AC writes:

“A cyclist dropped this notepad as he was cycling across the Samuel Beckett Bridge [Dublin] this morning. I didn’t have time to catch his attention and only know he was wearing a yellow high-vis jacket….”

Anyone?

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https://soundcloud.com/gavanreillytodayfm/matt-carthy-phil-hogan-european-parliament

Hearing commences here

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Finnish excavator operator and part time rally driver Juha-Pekka Perämäki (top) weilds his Hitachi to stack and play with LEGO blocks in a precision masterclass.

His colleague Petri Perämäki also has some digger chops, building a tower of nuts with the same machine.

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Behold the John The Baptists of the smart watch world.

Above: The Sinclair calculator watch kit (1976); Seiko Wrist Computer (1984); the Casio CMd-10B remote control watch (1993); the wrist PDA (2004) and Pulsar 18K calculator watch (1976), Nelsonic Star Trek II watch (1982) and Seiko TV watch (1983) and the Wrist Radio (1976).

MORE: The Wrist Of The Story: A brief history of forgotten proto-smart watches (1975 – 2004) (Fast Company)

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Cormac Ó hEadhra presented The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio One tonight with guests Independent TD, Shane Ross; Fianna Fail TD, Sean Fleming; Dearbhail McDonald, legal editor of the Irish Independent; and Ken Murphy, of the Law Society of Ireland.

Fiach Kelly, of The Irish Times, joined them to report on tonight’s Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting dominated by cronyism..

From the discussion:

Dearbhail McDonald: “What’s catching up with Enda Kenny and his party at the moment is what caught out other bodies, such as the Catholic church, it’s not the…for example, in the Catholic church, it wasn’t the fact of clerical sex abuse, it was the cover-up and I think what the public are very very disenchanted and angry at is the manner in which it is being held, being insulted, you know. ‘And I’m sorry if you thought this was something that you imagined it to be’ or whatever that mangled phrase by the Taoiseach was.”

Shane Ross: “In the Dáil today, there wasn’t a single Labour minister there, or yesterday when Enda Kenny was taking questions on this cronyism. They deserted the Dáil, they were deliberately absent, they didn’t want to be associated with it and they did nothing about it. They are as guilty as Fine Gael, not just by innuendo, but because they’re at it themselves, they’re at it themselves. Because they’ve got…look at the board of An Post and see how many Labour people who are on there who are ex-apparatchiks, they’re at exactly the same game themselves and they’ve been caught. I think, I think, and I may be wrong, the proportion is it’s 2:1, Fine Gael get two, Labour get one and that’s the end of the story.”

Fiach Kelly: “The [Arts] minister herself [Heather Humphreys] made a contribution to the meeting. Again, she didn’t really go further on what she said in the past few days. She told TDs that when it came to Mr McNulty’s appointment to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, she did it entirely on his merits and she was described as having made an address, that she could have read from a script, and didn’t really say much that we didn’t know already.”

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