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Banter.

The FREE Dublin talking shop where ideas get TRASHED and pummelled about is back.

Banter founder Jim Carroll writes:

“We have a very interesting Banter panel coming up next week about privacy, which I think might be of interest to the Broadsheet massive…
Who Cares About Privacy in 2014? (Banter number 88, by the way). Panel: Rick O’Shea (2fm), Fiona Hyde (The Journal), Dearbhail McDonald (Irish Independent) and Mark Smyth (clinical psychologist).
“It happens on Wednesday October 8 at the Twisted Pepper, Dublin 1. Doors open at 6pm and the Bantering gets underway at 6.30pm sharp. Limited invite list. Add YOUR name here.“

FIGHT!

Who Cares About Privacy? (Banter)

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Bobby Sands

In the BBC documentary [Peter] Taylor is filmed sitting on a bed inside a preserved part of the Maze complex.
He says: “I’m now sitting on the actual bed where the hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in May 1981, which I|remember covering.”
Shaking his head, he adds: “I never thought that Bobby Sands would go through with it.It was no ordinary death and Sands was no ordinary prisoner, no ordinary man because he was an elected Member of Parliament.”

This evening on BBC 1 at 9pm, Peter Taylor on the 20th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefire, makes a personal assessment of who really ‘won the war’.

Anger Over Bobby Sands Deathbed Memorial (Belfast Telegraph)

BBC: Who Won The War?

Previously: ‘RA Fought The Law And The Law Won’

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Well fame costs.

And here’s where you start gurning.

The first 33 students and Stanley Tucci  on the first day of the third year of The Programme For Screen acting at The Factory, Bow Street, Dublin this morning.

Sez they:

“Like the Actors Studio in New York, the Programme entry is audition based with a view to creating the strongest group of actors possible…”

Perishing elastic faced tyke thesps.

*kicks off leg warmers*

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“I had been a member of Fine Gael for six years, and was elected to the party’s youth executive alongside Leo Varadkar and Lucinda Creighton. My role was organiser with the youth wing meant I had canvassed in 25 constituencies with three different Fine Gael leaders. I was on the Youth of the European People’s Party conference circuit with Leo and Lucinda. My involvement was obsessive. The initial motivation to join was probably influenced by my grand-uncle, a member of the Michael Collins’ 12 apostles. There was a trajectory: I was 25 and needed to make a decision between politics or a professional career.

“Enda Kenny was the guest of honour at the youth wing’s national conference dinner held in Ennis in 2003. A leading member of the organisation rose to give the after-dinner speech. He got carried away with the moment, and revealed to his audience the membership of a secret committee he had established subsequent to the hammering Fine Gael received at the 2002 election.”

“The committee consisted of his drinking mates who followed the same football club, but had only a peripheral involvement in Young Fine Gael. Lucinda was sitting opposite me, and it was the first she had heard of it as well. That incident crystallised a pattern of exclusion, inequity and misogyny we had both felt.”

“‘If the ethos of YFG is built on a secret ‘rejuvenation committee’ based on exclusivity by a group of young men, I am asking you as leader of Fine Gael, if I decide to commit my life to the vocation of politics, will it be tone where the young boys’ club simply matures into an old boys’ club?’ I wrote in my letter to Enda.”

“He rang me about it a couple of times. He was sincere and listened. We met in a pub in Tipperary and it became intense as the night wore on. I admired him. I still do. But I don’t think he ever understood what it felt like to be told you were not good enough because your anatomy was different. He patted me on the back. I chose academia and journalism.”

Elaine Byrne’s article reflecting on her dark past in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post (behind paywall here).

Previously: The John Deasy Transcript

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The RDS. [Dublin] last Friday evening at the Leinster V Cardiff stout sponsored Pro12 match.

Hugh Curran writes:

“Photo taken using the panorama feature on my HTC One M8…”

Needs more ghost.

Previously: The Hill Has Eyes

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Bloop Animation’s tribute to Joe Negroni’s popular theory whereby every Pixar movie is connected and exists within the same universe on a timeline from the fourteenth century to around 5000AD.

Your animated tinfoil hat will not prevent your animated mind from being blown.

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The headquarters  of creative agency Chemistry, whose clients include the Irish Cancer Society, Leeson Street, Dublin before (top) and after (above) a pink makeover over the weekend to promote Breast Cancer awareness.

Thanks Lisa O’Brien

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Muinin and Huguin.

The launch of the two volunteer built naomhógs (Kerry style currachs) by the Cumann Curach Atha Cliath at the East Wall Water Sports Centre, Dublin on Saturday.

Cumann Curach Atha Cliath (Facebook)

Previously: Namhógs Called Dignity

Thanks Anita

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What you may need to know:

1. A talented young jazz drummer secures a place in one of the country’s top music schools where he is placed under the tutelage of a fearsome jazz music teacher.

2. The title is a nod to Hank Levy’s jazz classic ‘Whiplash‘.

3. It’s unnerving to see J.K. Simmons play such a role. He’s usually so nice!

4. The film has been doing the festival rounds garnering high praise along the way. It picked up the top audience and grand jury awards at Sundance.

5. Writer and director Damien Chazelle took 15  pages from his original screenplay and adapted it into a short film starring Johnny Simmons in the role of the drummer and J. K. Simmons in the role of the teacher. The 18-minute short of the same name ultimately attracted investors to sign on and produce the complete version of the script.

6. To prepare for the role Miles Teller had to stop working out or even going outside so that he would be “pale and doughy”. Teller described it as being “by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever done”. Mmmf.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: We’re snared.

Release Date: January 16, 2015

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