At a Young Fine Gael photocall to “highlight the importance of making the right choice in next week’s European elections”.
From left: Fine Gael European Election Candidate Brian Hayes (left), Minister for European Affairs,Paschal Donohoe (far right), and members of Young Fine Gael Lucy O’Shea (left), and Maeve Glavey.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Update
Ah here
Aston Quay, Dublin this lunchtime.
Another urinal bites the dust.
Damn you Corpo/Eircom/DJ O’Neill.
Thanks Brian O’Reilly
An atmospheric stop motion short by Tobias Stretch composed of ten thousand individual photographs, created for a choral work by avant garde composer Chistopher Bono (no relation).
Music performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers
MORE: New Stop-Motion Film “Unity” Is The Work Of A Potential Animation Legend (Creators Project)
BuzzFeed reports:
A 96-page internal New York Times report, sent to top executives last month by a committee led by the publisher’s son and obtained by BuzzFeed, paints a dark picture of a newsroom struggling more dramatically than is immediately visible to adjust to the digital world, a newsroom that is hampered primarily by its own storied culture.
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The report largely ignores legacy competitors and focuses on the new wave of digital companies, including First Look Media, Vox, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and BuzzFeed.
“They are ahead of us in building impressive support systems for digital journalists, and that gap will grow unless we quickly improve our capabilities,” the report warns. “Meanwhile, our journalism advantage is shrinking as more of these upstarts expand their newsrooms.”
“We are not moving with enough urgency,” it says.
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The deep problems, the report says, are cultural, including a sense that the Times will simply serve as a destination — leading to a neglect of social promotion. One factor is an obsessive focus on the front page of the print paper, with reporters evaluated in their annual reviews on how many times they’ve made A1. “The newsroom is unanimous: we are focusing too much time and energy on Page One,” the report says.
Yikes.
Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire Digital Picture
(BuzzFeed)
Shane Malone writes:
I work for the Galway Film Fleadh, which is on from July 8 to 13, and today is the last day for members of the public to submit their short films to us. All details can be found here.
Why can’t Enda Kenny, Alan Shatter, Martin Callinan, Brian Purcell and any other person appointed to or holding public office appear before a Dáil committee to answer in public reasonable questions put by the people’s elected representatives on matters of public interest in connection with how they discharged their duties?
It is ludicrous for Enda Kenny to refuse to answer a question where he has a specific and definite involvement because he has appointed a judge to ask him that question at some time in the future. – Yours, etc,
Hugh Pierce
Newtown Road,
Celbridge ,
Co Kildare.
Photocall Ireland
Cork’s Fitzgerald Park will today be open for business after its facelift! | Irish Examiner http://t.co/bUEQ2GudaY pic.twitter.com/uW3416TPHR
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) May 16, 2014
Yay.
Diarmuid Gavin on Today FM now disassociating himself with the new ‘sky garden’ at Fitzgerald Park #Cork
— Eoin Lettice (@blogscience) May 16, 2014
Oh.
Pod finally lands as Fitzgerald Park reopens (Eoin English, Irish Examiner)
Sky Garden to be unveiled (Cork News)
Previously: Gardening: The New Banking and The Hanging Garden Of Babble On
A selection, chosen for Nameberry, from the 1400 new baby names (given to five or more babies in 2013) recently released by the US Department of Social Security.
They are going national.. again!
8 Radio returns to the wireless in three cities from May 24th.
Simon Maher says:
“There should be nothing revolutionary about playing Talking Heads followed by Sylvan Esso followed by The Blades at Breakfast. We play the music we like and it’s just the natural thing to do. Trust your audience and they will trust you!”
FIGHT!
Previously: Your New Internet Music Station Has Arrived