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Supporters of the striking workers at Greyhound Recycling centre [Clondalkin, Co Dublin] celebrate after blocking trucks from entering the facility on Crag Avenue this morning.

Workers have been on strike since June 17 after refusing to accept a 35 per cent pay cut.

It’s escalating.

Yesterday: A Tipping Point

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile…

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Going to the Electric Picnic this weekend?

Music writer and DJ Nialler9 provides some ‘away from the main stage’ attractions.

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Friday
“There’s lots of Irish talent on Friday. One of the best new rock bands in Ireland Girl Band play Body & Soul main stage on Friday night. The A/V electronic duo Clu have just released their best work yet (see video ) and they play RBMA on Friday night. Drop into the Oxjam tent all weekend, where you’ll see the likes of electronic-folk duo Carriages in lineups put together by Homebeat, State.ie and Abner Brown’s. Also, a tUnE-yArDs set is one of the most uplifting things you’ll see all weekend so don’t miss it.”

Saturday
“Montreal’s Kaytranada is one of the promising electronic producers around, his head-nodding R&B and hip-hop influence remixes for AlunaGeorge, Janet Jackson and his solo material are top notch dancefloor workouts. John Wizards fuse sound of Africa’s traditional past to its present to make a beguiling and glorious dub-infused, Auto-Tuned, tropical, funky, R&B electro music. Greg Wilson was the first DJ to scratch live on TV, his set at Casa Bacardi is a guaranteed good time. If you’re looking for somewhere late to finish things, Jerry Fish’s Electric Sideshow is hosting newly popular Dublin club Together Disco from 1am to 4am.”

Sunday
“One of my favourite new bands of the year Glass Animals, are playing their atmospheric R&B-influenced guitar music, Jungle are going to bring the one of the songs of the year ‘Busy Earnin’ and a set of nostalgically-charged sunshine soul while if it’s something local you’d like, try Galway’s Somerville’s spectral music or Cork’s Stevie G & The Deep South Soul Soundsystem for a boogie.”

Electric Picnic 2014: 15 new bands you should see (Nialler9)

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The first rule of food hacking: stop being so narrow-minded and heteronormative by confining your cooking to a kitchen. At work, start your hacking as soon as you enter the building’s lobby. An elevator can easily become an ascending workspace to create an E-Z morning snack. With the help of a piping hot cuppa joe, a stupid, boring raw egg becomes a hard-boiled delicacy.

This changes everything.

MORE: Food Hacking At The Office (Vice)

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A celluloid nerd alert.

Nisan Greenwich writes:

“Testing vintage 70mm print of “Quest For Fire” (1981) screening at the IFI [Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin] September 3rd 18:30. Featuring 6 track magnetic sound! Proper ‘Ole school!”

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What you may need to know:

1. Widowed Amelia’s (Essie Davis) son is convinced that there’s a monster lurking in their home. When a pop-up book called ‘The Babadook’ shows up on the doorstep, she start’s sensing a sinister presence all around her. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!

2. The Babadook is the debut feature of writer/director Jennifer Kent.

3. The positive press and word-of-mouth for this has been insane since it premiered at Sundance back in January.

4. Rather than take the easy CGI route, Kent’s decision to stick with analogue effects has earned her comparisons with Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam.

5. If the monster is half as creepy as the kid, then we’ll be sleeping with the lights on.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: A creative shot in the arm for a genre languishing in “found footage” mire.


Release Date: October 24.

(DelBoy is away.  Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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