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(Thanks John Gavin)
What you may need to know:
1. An eager podcaster gets kidnapped in rural Canada and mutilated to look like a walrus. His girlfriend and best friend lead the search.
2. The idea for the movie came during the recording of a podcast by the film’s writer and director Kevin Smith. He and producer Scott Mosier were discussing a Gumtree ad where a homeowner was offering a room free of charge, if the lodger agreed to dress like a walrus. Sound familiar?
3. The post on Gumtree turned out to be a prank by poet and messer Chris Parkinson. Smith eventually hired Parkinson as an associate producer.
4. Johnny Depp and Lily-Rose, Kevin Smith and Harley Quinn. Bring your daughter to work day.
5. The entire cast of Tusk has returned for the spin-off Yoga-Hosers, an action adventure about two yoga enthusiasts.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: You be the Eggman
Release Date: TBC
(DElboy is away)
Hard-hitting
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xq2xStb0R-c
Hard-hitting footage of a fatal collision in Norfolk has been released by police in a bid to get motorcyclists and drivers to think seriously about road safety.
The dramatic film, captured on a headcam fitted to the rider’s helmet, shows the moment a car crosses into the path of Norwich motorcyclist David Holmes who was killed on the A47 at Honingham in June last year.
David’s story, a video featuring clips including the collision as well as an interview with his mother Brenda, has been produced by police with the full support of all his family, who hope the campaign will prevent further deaths.
The 38-year-old had been travelling at about 97mph at the time of the collision.
WARNING: Video contains footage some viewers may find distressing.
Mother allows release of hard-hitting footage of her son’s motorcyle death on A47 (Dereham Times)
The Beach
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Excerpts from a project by photographer Christian Chaize spanning eight locked-off, large format years on a beach in Southern Portugal. To wit:
What the still-life was for Morandi, the haystack for Monet…this beach is that for me. From a distance, I observe the variables: light, weather, time of day, the ebb and flow of the ocean and most importantly, the sunbathers, unaware, below my large-format camera. The images are shot vertically, a departure from the traditional, horizontal format in landscape photography. It puts my subject matter in the form of a portrait—an ongoing record of this corner of nature (and human nature), over the minutes, the days, the years.
Genescience
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Shocking details of the heroin-related death of a north Belfast grandmother have emerged. Fra Stone from the Community Drugs Programme of Falls Community Council said he believed Ms Fitzpatrick’s death was the first heroin-related fatality in the city in about a decade.
Granny (49) found dead with heroin syringe by her side (Marie Louise McConville, Irish News) [behind paywall]
We’re Hiring
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Grand Rising
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PS I Mean It
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Cian McG writes:
“Lovely parking note I spotted right outside the Church of the Sacred Heart in Arbour Hill [Dublin] yesterday evening.”
Lissywollen Athlone Direct Provision Accommodation Centre in Athlone, Co. Westmeath
RTÉ reports:
More than 200 asylum seeking residents at a centre in Athlone are refusing to accept daily food supplies in a dispute over how the centre is operated. The residents of the Lissywollen Athlone Direct Provision Accommodation Centre, along the Athlone bypass, have been refusing to accept new food supplies since yesterday. However, they are not involved in a hunger strike and are using food from alternative sources and supplies that they had built up instead.
Meanwhile, Sinéad O’Shea, of the Irish Times, has seen video footage showing the conditions within the Mount Trenchard Direct Provision Centre in Foynes, Co. Limerick, where 50 male asylum seekers live. She also spoke to some of the centre’s residents.
Readers will recall how some of the residents recently held a protest at the centre, while others went on hunger strike for a time. Three men were removed from the centre to other direct provision centres, with one man telling RTÉ’s Brian O’Connell that he was escorted by armed gardaí.
Ms O’Shea writes:
“The Irish Times has been given video footage of conditions in the centre which shows cramped sleeping conditions and beds separated by curtains.”
“There are six to eight beds in some rooms. One piece of footage shows several windows smashed after one resident lashed out at conditions there.”
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“They spoke at length about mental health issues within Mount Trenchard. They say there are a number of men suffering from mental health problems there. Some of these men talk to themselves, they don’t change their clothes “for months”.
“One spends his nights sitting on the ground of the laundry room “pretending to eat and talk” with a woman in French. According to witnesses, these men had been relatively normal when they first arrived.”
Readers may wish to know that there is no independent complaints mechanism in place for asylum seekers. This means that if a resident wants to raise an issue about their security, health or welfare, they have to tell the centre’s management and/or tell the Reception and Integration Agency, which oversees the direct provision system.
Human rights group, Nasc Ireland, has previously stated that many asylees are reluctant to complain because they fear to do so would have a negative affect on their relationship with the Department of Justice.
Asylum seekers in Athlone refuse food supplies (RTÉ)
Limerick asylum seekers centre ‘a jungle and a jail’ (Sinéad O’Shea, Irish Times)
Previously: ‘We Want To Be Heard By The Irish People’