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Tardigrade at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin.

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Eleanor Creighton writes:

“I’m working with choreographer Philip Connaughton on his show TARDIGRADE, which runs at Tiger Dublin Fringe from 9-13 September.
TARDIGRADE is a kaleidoscopic feast of raucous dance, luscious live music for choir, string quartet and piano, video projection, outlandish costumes… and a virtual dog.
It’s inspired by the microscopic world of tardigrades (which are extremely hardy little creatures that live in almost every habitat on earth — they’ve even been sent into the vaccum of space – and survived), along with the wild colour of [Hieronymus] Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and Star Wars. It creates sensory overload — so you have to decide whether to focus on some tiny details or whether to let the madness whisk you away.”

Crikey.

Tardigrade (Tiger Dublin Theatre Festival)

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Same as the old balls.

Looking “distraught and tearful” at her press conference after the match, the Danish former world number one seemed to be playing the part of the weak, spurned woman – nursing a broken heart while her ex-fiancée was hitting the form of his life.
McIlory’s subsequent golfing achievements have been well recorded, but at this year’s US Open at Flushing Meadows, Wozniacki has been showing that hell hath no fury like a top tennis player scorned.

Wozniacki shows hell hath no fury like a tennis player scorned (Brian Boyd, Irish Times)

Chris Coffey writes:

“Good to see the Irish Independent and Niamh Horan haven’t completely cornered the ludicrous reporting of womens’ sport market. I might be wrong, but I haven’t seen too many reports of Rory McIlroy’s achievements mentioning who his new ‘best friend forever’ is. There’s also this delightful typo: ‘After a double-bagel in the first round…’ Mmmm bagels…”

FIGHT!

Thanks Sinabhfuil

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Bishop Martin Drennan (top) and The Connact Sentinel of August 19.

From The Irish Catholic:

Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan is demanding answers from the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) in Galway after it dished out thousands of euro to fund a permanent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender resource centre there.
The grant to LGBT Galway, €45,000 over three years, was approved by the society’s Maureen O’Connell Fund [The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Galway received the €7.8 million bequest in 2007 from the sale of an Eyre Square pub belonging to the late Maureen O’Connell] as a contribution to a full-time resource centre which Galway City Council has pledged to provide.
Galway diocesan spokesman Fr Sean McHugh confirmed that Bishop Drennan had made contact with the SVP to seek further clarity on the issue.
“We want to keep in mind the good work that the St Vincent de Paul does throughout the country. We don’t know the full facts of the story yet,” he said.

Bishop Demands Answers from SVP on gay donation (Cathal Barry, Irish Catholic)

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Sido writes:

“I grow potatoes in buckets, using the old, leftover ones, from the supermarket. Now I don’t know if you remember that old fact about potatoes being related to tomatoes, but I was recovering some of my potatoes from the bucket when I noticed that the withered plant had produced fruit. I enclose the pictures. Is this usual? “

Anyone?

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Due to  a genetic trait known as ‘fibromelanosis‘, everything about the rare Indonesian Ayam Cemani chicken is black: plumage, beak, legs, feet, tongue, organs, bones and meat.

Everything except its blood, which is red. Very dark red.

They retail for €1,900 each.

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