Pa Dineen writes:
I thought you might like this. I was sitting out in my back garden having a beer when I realised the glass held up to the sun makes the bubbles look quiet cool.
If only the sun came back and we could sit ouglugluglugluglug…
Hic.
More bubbles here
Thanks Patrick
An architectural installation being built in Collins Barracks this afternoon
Beyond Pebbledash in Clarke Square [Collins Barracks] is an architectural installation aiming to engage, challenge, provoke and inspire new ways of thinking about our city and urban architecture. The exhibition is on display from 27th August until 30th November 2014 at the National Museum of Ireland.
The project involves the erection of a ‘typical’ Dublin pebbledash house, at a scale of 1:1. It is composed of a reconstructed pebbledash facade on a steel skeletal frame detailing its walls, stairs, doors, rear fenestration, ceilings and roof.
Anyone?
A mere preliminary sketch of the productivity-gobbling art treasurhouse on offer at Great Art In Ugly Rooms – a Tumblr wherein great art is observed situated in ugly rooms.
Above: Self Portrait (1910) by William Orpen, American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood, Portrait of The Artist’s Mother (1871) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one of Maurizio Cattelan’s taxidermied horses.
Mark Baldwin writes:
Here’s a spooktacular new cartoon. Watch it with the lights out.
Previously: Talking Sheet
On last night’s Tonight with Alison O’Connor, Alison was joined by Colette Browne (Irish Independent) and Hugh O’Connell (TheJournal.ie).
On the subject of the suspected Ebola fatality in Donegal, Hugh said:
“Obviously with headlines like these, it does create a sense of like ‘Oh my God Ebola is in Ireland’ but you know it is important to say that it is only suspected at this point so you know we have to wait and see the outcome of these tests. So we should know tomorrow what we’re dealing with.”
From last Friday:
Eek.
Previously: Going Viral
Protesters and supporters of a demonstration organised by Doras Luimní and the Foynes Asylum Seekers for Change in Limerick this afternoon.
It follows the recent removal and transfer of several asylum seekers from the Mount Trenchard Direct Provision centre in Limerick – to another direct provision centre in Cork – after they held a protest there to highlight the conditions at the centre, and the length of time they have been in the direct provision system.
The removed asylum seekers were escorted by armed Gardaí.
Pics: Nasc, Irish Refugee Council and Doras Luimní
Video: USI Ireland via Paula Geraghty
Previously: Free Friday?
Alternatively…
According to the 2013 UCC Émigré Report, 70 per cent or so of the 250,000 Irish citizens to have left our shores since 2008 were in their 20s at the time of their departure.
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Polls conducted by students’ unions across a swathe of Irish university campuses have consistently demonstrated that young people are above the national average when it comes to supporting equal access to civil marriage.
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Despite Ireland belonging to a tiny minority of countries that completely disenfranchise their citizens overseas, one of only three within the EU, an external vote by the time the marriage equality is brought before the polls is simply out of the question.
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Given Ireland’s long history of emigration, and the long-standing connection between Irish emigration and failed economic policies, there should be some provision for emigrant representation.
Conor O’Neill and David Burns, founding members of We’re Coming Back, in today’s Irish Times ahead of Sunday’s March for Marriage in Dublin.
Emigrants want to vote in marriage equality referendum (Irish Times)
Previously: This Could Be The Last Time
Derek writes:
Being dropped in letter boxes around Clondalkin today.
Right so.
Letterkenny General Hospital
The Irish Mirror reports:
The family of Dessie Quinn has been told by the HSE that he did not die of ebola.
Independent TD Thomas Pringle said he was told this afternoon by the family that they had just received the news.
Pic: Greg Clarke
