The pumphouse at Vartry reservoir, Roundwood, Co Wicklow, this evening.
Thanks Graham Cashell
Steve writes:
“Full moon over Donabate, Dublin 10pm this evening..”
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No wings.
No horns.
Just pure, historically-sound Viking.
More than 500 Vikings invade St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin this weekend as Dublin City Council hold a re-enactment of the Battle of Clontarf.
Over 40,000 visitors are expected to witness the Viking hordes and Irish armies slug it out twice daily in DRAMATIC reenactments
To mark this once-in-a-millennium event We have an ‘authentic’ Viking helmet (above) – as worn by REAL re-enactors and worth nearly €200 – to giveaway.
The helmet, in a durable metal, has the distinctive ‘pillage-friendly’ nose shield and sturdy chin straps to support the unruliest of beard.
To enter, Dublin City Council want YOU to literally create a Viking ‘splash’ by completing this sentence.
My front page headline the morning after the Battle of Clontarf would read_______________________________’
Lines MUST close at midnight 7.30am 10am.
Thanks Grainne Glenney
[Fine Gael Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, Labour Minister of State, Department of Environment, Community and Local Government, Jan O’Sullivan and Fine Gael Arts Minister, Jimmy Deenihan at the launch of the programme for Limerick City of Culture 2014]
You may recall how Limerick city was chosen as the City of Culture without any open competition.
Well.
The Mail on Sunday reported yesterday [not online] how Finance Minister Michael Noonan – a Limerick TD – lobbied for €6million for the festival… before he signed off on the money for the festival.
John Lee and Ben Haugh reported:
“Michael Noonan made representations to a Cabinet colleague over funding for Limerick City of Culture months before he signed off on €6m for the project. On July 2, 2013, the Finance Minister passed on a letter from Limerick City and County Manager Conn Murray to Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan asking for €6m funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
On October 15, Mr Noonan allocated the exact money requested in Mr Murray’s letter to the City of Culture in Budget 2014 – more than half the project’s total budget of €11.4m…As part of a normal budgetary process, Mr Deenihan would have to seek money from Mr Noonan to grant Limerick City of Culture any money as he controls the Government’s purse strings. Mr Noonan also wrote back to Mr Murray to inform him of his intervention, saying he should be assured of my attention to the matter.”
Hmm.
Previously: Only The Crony
Pic: Sean Curtin via I Love Limerick
Kapow!
Patrick Lehane writes:
“I think the Joker is selling his apartment in Ringsend [a laughable €269,000]….”
What you may need to know:
1. It’s one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s final movies.
2. It’s based on a John le Carré novel.
3. It’s directed by old U2 mucker Anton Corbijn, who did Control (2007) and The
American (2010)
4. Broadsheet Prognosis: Honestly? We’re still completely bummed out
that PSH is dead.
Release Date: Summer
Cheers Baz
Wall Dogs
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An altophobia-inducing documentary short about the sign painters of New York. Vocativ sez:
…there are those who still get out messages the old-fashioned way, with a paintbrush and some attitude. They call themselves “wall dogs,” says one veteran of the trade, “because we are chained to a wall all day by our safety harness, and we work like dogs.” Vocativ spent a day with these blue-collar artists as they paint advertisements high above the streets of New York City.
Aunty Ben is Ireland’s first LGBT play for children about a nine-year old girl and her favourite uncle, who is a drag queen”.
Super Paua theatre company write:
“We are a theatre company set up in 2013 to make brave work for young audiences Our first show – Aunty Ben – is about to premiere at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, before transferring to the Brighton Fringe Festival, and we need your help to launch it!
Aunty Ben is a very pioneering show – it is a play for children (and adults!) aged 7+, about a drag queen. The story revolves around nine-year-old Tracey’s relationship with her favourite aunty, Ben. It doesn’t matter to Tracey at all that Aunty Ben is actually her uncle, or that he is a drag queen, because in Tracey’s family dressing up is for everyone! But when Ben meets her school friends, Tracey is shocked to discover that other people’s families can be very different to her own…”
A short, sweet, slow motion animation (created with 3D Studio Max, Vray and After Effects) by Vladimir Loginov.
Music by Boards Of Canada.
The Independent’s Robert Fisk on that state visit.
The Irish papers, normally so acerbic in their coverage of all things royal, positively purred with self-satisfaction that “the Queen” – not Queen Elizabeth, mark you, as she would have been called by any other self-respecting republic – had greeted the Irish President with all the Queen’s horses and all the Queen’s men.
I have always suspected that deep in the soul of every middle-aged Irish lady – far more than Irish men, perhaps – there lies a sneaking affection for the tiaras, and brocade, and the palace, and the castle, and the pomp and circumstance that their grandparents rejected in 1920 (though not so wholeheartedly as we may believe – Ireland remained within the Commonwealth until after the Second World War).
….But last week was revealing in other ways. While the British media dwelt upon the sins of Martin McGuinness and his IRA past and his handshake with the Queen of England, the Irish papers fulfilled the role of the British press in sanctifying the rule of Good Queen Bess.
The London correspondent of The Irish Times wrote of the “kaleidoscope of memories” which the royal week had left behind. Miriam Lord, normally stabbing (accurately) the hypocrites of Dail Eireann – was at her softest when it came to our beloved Queen and the Irish President’s success – “then it was back to Windsor Castle for a special reception with a Northern Ireland theme…”
FIGHT!
(Aras/Photocall Ireland)