J-1 Reunion!
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Duuude.
More than 150,000 Irish people have participated in the J1 program since it was introduced in 1961.
And 149,000 overstayed their visa.
The makings of a bit of a party, in fairness.
The CIA US Embassy writes:
“The US Embassy is inviting anyone who ever went on a J1 Summer Work and Travel Program, or any other US exchange program, to take the experience one step further and join the J1 Connect event on September 25, 2014 at the RDS in Dublin.
The day will include prominent J1 speakers from the world of politics, business, academics and the arts. Workshops will cover a variety of topics including understanding US visas, strategies for setting up business in the US, and coaching on professional networking. The day will end with a live band and networking reception. Whether your J1 summer just ended, or is a more distant memory, J1 connect is an opportunity to celebrate this ‘rite of passage’ exchange…”
Register here
This Stinks
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The controversial Poolbeg waste incinerator in Dublin looks set to go ahead this year after the State’s public private partnership financial watchdog approved the project.
Councillors in Dublin City Council were told yesterday evening that the National Development Finance Agency had issued a value for money certificate yesterday for the 600,000-tonne waste-to-energy plant, tghe agency’s approval was the final hurdle before the council, which has had planning permission for the plant since 2007, could give the go-ahead to Covanta, the US firm contracted to build and run it..”
Controversial Poolbeg incinerator plan set to proceed (Irish Times)
Previously: Incinerating Poolbeg
by Bob Staake and Marianne Spellman
The Filmography Of Guns – a new illustration by Belfast born, Brooklyn based designer Cathryn Lavery – 115 intricately detailed representations of movie-related shooters, blasters and launchers from Harry Callahan’s ’44 Magnum’ to the esoteric cannons of Forbidden Planet and The Terminator.
The edition, currently funding on Kickstarter, is limited to 1,500 signed and numbered 60cm x 90cm prints (on ‘100lb archival recycled cover stock with fade-resistant organic archival quality inks’, if you don’t mind) and we have two of these lethal compendiums (with an accompanying collector’s book) to give away.
If you do in fact, feel lucky, punk, just complete the following tiebreaker:
‘If I had my sweaty mitts on an EM-1 Rail Gun right now, why I’d…….’
Entries accepted until midnight Sunday. Winners announced Monday.
Previously by Cathryn: In Flight Movies & Cars In Film
Cáit O’Riordan
“When I was a 17 year old London-Irish kid living in a Kilburn hostel I became a founding member of The Pogues. I was dubbed ‘Rocky O’Riordan’ and spent the next 4 years gigging and recording. The Pogues became successful very fast but my favourite memories are of those small pub and club gigs in the early days, when the chaotic energy of both the band and our audience still owed as much to the Sex Pistols as to The Dubliners.
“I quit the band aged just 21 and over the next 17 years I battled addiction and depression, finally picking up my bass again in 2003. Since then I have played with many legends of the Irish music industry, including the Radiators from Space, The Hothouse Flowers, Mundy, Jerry Fish and Gavin Friday. As well as returning to the music business I went back to school, earning a Master’s degree in Psychological Science in 2013. I am currently enrolled in the PhD programme at UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business.”
Cáit O’Riordan
Cáit ‘Rocky’ O’Riordan returns to the Dublin live scene with a new band for a series of intimate gigs at The Stag’s Head (starting October 12).
They promise to blast out the classics from Red Roses for Me & Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, and “recreating the sweaty, manic fun of a Pogues gig circa 1984…”
Yikes.
The Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin
4pm €10
The Old Beach Front Tearooms and (above) in the 1960s
Killiney beach, Killiney, Co Dublin this morning.
Sam writes:
“The former tea rooms on the beach of Killiney Hill known as the Gold Coast (with Bono, The Edge, Enya, etc. up above) is now occasional refuge for homeless addicts and a canvas for street artists. A poem entitled Grief, about drugs and death, has been stencilled on the front of the building. The poem includes the lines ‘Kill the pain, numb the brain’ and ‘A death in darkness and death in light…’.
The buildings were sold at auction in 2001 to businessman Declan O’Regan, who sold on 75 per cent of the property to fellow businessman Kieran Tarbett and Dun Laoghaire architect Ross Cahill O’Brien, according to planning applications in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council. he main building was gutted by fire in 2004 and has been derelict since.”The last of the applications, lodged in 2009, was for a €5m euro, 30-guest room hotel, two dwellings, roof terrace and a boat-hire facility. Anyone have an update?”
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Further to reports that some female asylum seekers, who have children, are engaging in prostitution to supplement the €19.10 a week they receive from the State, and the €9.60 each asylum-seeking child gets a week, the Irish Refugee Council has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness about the €9.60 asylee children receive from the State.
Some contributions so far…
Samantha Arnold tweetz:
“Contact lenses for a month= 1/4 of adult #DPAllowance 1/2 child’s allowance.”
Irish Refugee Council tweetz:
“A father of two sent us in this. They cost €12. How quickly does your child grow out of their shoes?”
Irish Refugee Council tweetz:
“€5.24 for some apples and bananas. That leaves me with €4.36 from my weekly #DPallowance.”
Previously: “He Took Me Around Some Bushes”
Saoirsely?
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Blimey
Sharon Corr and Saoirse Ronan at the launch of the ISPCC Brown Thomas Fashion Show at the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin today.
Sharon wears a Peter Pilotto Dress while Saoirse is wearing whatever the hell she damn well likes.
Also: Late Late guest tonight so?
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)