The highest grossing movie of 1986, Top Gun starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis, as presented in an honest trailer.
Alternatively, there’s the love story trailer.
Love and nom: together at last.
MiX@ is a new concept for unattached people who have had enough scary encounters on Tinder and POF “cringe at the thought of cheesy single set ups, online dating and faceless matchmaking”.
Mix@ was created by cupid’s apostles Nikki Dwyer and Alan Kennedy.
Nikki writes:
“This is not about speed dating, or gimmicky matchmaking services, this is about broadening your circles of people with whom you ‘mix’ with, the fact that they are all single – well it’s just an added bonus. MiX@ is different, present at big social events you’d otherwise want to attend…”
Mix@ have given us four, yes FOUR individual passes to the Mix@ Taste of Dublin 2014 event in the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, on Sunday, 15 June.
The current ratio for the gathering is 2:1 women
The pass includes entry to Taste of Dublin, the Mix@ marquee, a drink on arrival and an optional boogie to a performance by Smash Hits 90s.
To enter, please complete the following:
‘My worst dining and dating experience Involved________________________’
Lines must close at 1.45pm 3.15pm
Update: The winners are Clampers Outside, Bertie Blenkinsop, BB and Spanolia.
Thanks all.
Finally
at
This morning.
Damian Connell writes:
“Finally got a pic of my favourite Irish hauliers…
A Suburban Issue special.
Yay.
A joint venture with 2ha magazine, designed by Rory Bradley.
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue
A motion graphics experiment by Panop Koonwat merging 2D cel animation with 3D wherein Cupid attempts to set the world straight having contributed to overpopulation, overconsumption and global warming with his pesky woo-arrows.
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Mary Raftery on Tonight With Vincent Browne on March 10, 2010
In March 10, 2010, a press conference was held in Maynooth during which three bishops – Bishop John McAreavey, of Dromore, Bishop Denis Brennan, of Ferns, and Bishop Christopher Jones, of Elfin – addressed the media.
The press conference was the first since the then Pope Benedict XVI had held a meeting with Irish bishops some four weeks previous, during which the matter of clerical child abuse was discussed.
That evening, Vincent Browne dedicated his show Tonight With Vincent Browne to the conference. On his panel were the late RTÉ investigative journalist and filmmaker Mary Raftery and Irish Times religious correspondent Patsy McGarry.
During their discussion, Ms Raftery talked about how incredible it was to hear a bishop complain about people singling out the church for covering up clerical child abuse.
Mary Raftery: “It’s extraordinary to hear a bishop ask people why people are singling out the church, in the context of asking questions about the cover-up of child abuse. When you look at who the moral arbiters are in society, who are, what is the organisation that we have allowed in Irish society and that have been to the fore in telling us what is right, what is wrong, what is morality, what is sin, what is virtue. And then, we discover, through a series of of reports that they have behaved with the greatest hypocrisy, according to their own rules and then bishops complain, and wonder why they’re being singled out and why it is we are asking these questions about them. It displays, what it displays I think, is an amazing detachment from real life. I mean these people are obviously so disconnected, they’re so, they live in such a rarefied atmosphere, they haven’t the slightest comprehension as to why it is people get exercised over this issue. And I mean I was very struck by the statement when the row broke in Ferns over Bishop Brennan, who indeed was there but who didn’t really say very much, looking for contributions to compensate people, looking for contributions from parishioners. There had been a redefinition almost of what it was that they were involved in, in terms of a cover-up, no mention of a cover-up, no mention of negligence, it was ‘mismanagement and/or lack of resolve’ and the ‘and/or’ really got me and ‘a lack of understanding’. So this is now being minimised, the actual culpability. I was interested to hear Bishop McAreavey, he expressed it as ‘massively misguided’ and ‘massively wrong’ which is a bit of an advance on ‘and/or lack of resolve’.”
Vincent Browne: “In the statement, after the Vatican meeting, they called it errors of judgement…”
Raftery: “It’s absolutely extraordinary. I mean what they, what they respond to is how, the extent to which they’re pushed by what they perceive as public opinion. And they will only acknowledge a little inch, if they think that they can’t get away with it.”
A petition calling on Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to hold a full public inquiry into the mass grave in Tuam, Co. Galway can be signed here
Previously: Dig Up
A photo tweeted yesterday by JJ Abrams in response to a spate of photos leaked from the Star Wars Episode VII set.
The picture, as any geek worth their salt already knows, features a Dejarik hologram table and part of the onboard furniture of the Millennium Falcon.
