Nice statement by McIlroy on Wozniaki;”I wish Caroline happiness & thank her for the hard work, honesty & integrity she brought to the role”
— Ciarán Ó Raghallaigh (@Ciaran_O) May 21, 2014
The role?
Rory McIlroy calls off engagement to Caroline Wozniacki (Guardian)
Pic: Sporting Life
A checklist of local councillors’ powers (and lack thereof) by Bock The Robber
Not much apparently.
A law-and-order councillor is a useless councillor since they have no role in that area. A pro-farmer councillor is a waste of space, since agriculture is not one of the prescribed areas for which local authorities have responsibility. A councillor who has a position on Irish policy abroad is a bullshitter who needs to be shown the door. A councillor who claims to be pro-sport is a chancer. A councillor who promises to work for better healthcare is a liar. A councillor who wants to shorten the dole queues needs to be sacked. A councillor who tells you he’s working for education or the local economy is just looking for a free junket to China.
Councillors have no role in any of these things, or for that matter in food safety, immigration, mortgage resolution, curbing prostitution, teenage drunkenness or tv licences. This is a classic example, from a character running for Galway County Council.
Let me repeat: they’re responsible for policy-making on a very narrow range of issues and individually they have no power at all.
READ ON: Local elections 2014: What powers do local councillors have? (Bock The Robber)
Previously: What Can An Irish MEP Do?
H/T: Mark Dennehy
It’d make you sic so it wood.
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A new animation from Jake Fried, who uses ink, gouache, white-out and coffee to build up the ‘frames’ of his animations as layers, invariably resulting in a completed canvas several inches thick.
Previously: Down Into Nothing
Rabble reports:
As many as 20 staff of the Paris Bakery restaurant on 18 Moore St. are picketing the premises this morning over unpaid wages. Reports from staff who arrived to work this morning at the historic address are that they found themselves locked out without notice. Some haven’t been paid since March, one worker claims to be owed €3,000.
Pic via Janice Boylan
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Atlas – excerpts from an eyeball-pleasing series of paintings by Marco Petrus depicting idealised aspects of urban architecture – currently exhibiting at the Triennale di Milano
Journalist Colette Browne
Further to the news that the Rape Crisis Midwest’s services in Clare and Tipperary have to close for at least a month because of financial problems, due to funding cutbacks, Colette Browne, in the Irish Independent, writes:
As part of the most recent round of efficiencies in the health service, rapists have agreed to rape for just 11 months of the year. The surprise arrangement came to light on Monday when it was revealed that rapists in the midwest would be taking one month off later this year.
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By decree of some bureaucratic pen pusher, there will be no sexual violence, of any description, in the region for approximately 31 days.
Blimey.
Fair play in fairness.
Previously: 80 Clients A Week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2Nd53ye-Y
What you may need to know.
1. Un film de Ryan Gosling. Seriously.
2. It stars Matt Smith, Joan from Mad Men and Saoirse Ronan.
3. It just premiered at Cannes. To a rather mixed reaction.
4. The Gos is on a hiatus from acting. Possibly a good idea after Only God Forgives (2013).
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Beasts Of The Southern Wha?
Release Date: TBC
