The award-winning* Doris/Magee are doing some short films for the 2014 ESB Feis Ceoil, which ends TOMORROW..
That’s the feiseanna without the dancing.
Here’s a gander at the Choir Of The Year competition.
Fair Play though, In Fairness.
*Doris/Magee’s TG4 documentary Ponydance won in the Young People category at the 2014 Celtic Media Awards last week.
Wheely’s – a ‘bicycle café’ by the Volvo boffins at The Nordic Society For Invention And Discovery’, currently funding on indiegogo.
Maria De La Croix writes:
Today we are extremely proud of launching the world’s smallest AND most ECO-friendly café AND the world’s first open source brand. All in one! The concept is a café is totally enclosed in a bicycle. A fully equipped Wheely’s Café bike, including cups and branded materials, costs $ 3000. Less than 1% of what it costs to open a Starbucks.
We would sell jelly snakes and Lucozade from ours.
A montage of monstrous mookery compiled by Youtuber.2869rjh. Image by retronaut.
RTÉ reports:
“Pavee Point said the controversial removal of the two blonde Roma children, and their subsequent return to their families, has exacerbated Roma distrust of officialdom.
The organisation said it is leading many mothers of newborn babies to hide from public health nurses, thus depriving their babies of vaccinations.”
Increase in Roma children not being vaccinated, report finds (RTÉ)
Previously: “Bizarre, Orwellian, And Strange”
Tiarnan McCaughan writes:
“Further to the news that Trinity College Dublin Provost Patrick Prendergast plans to ‘rebrand’ Trinity College Dublin, students outraged at the €100,000 spent on a new logo have come up with a submissions system of their own.”
See more here
TCD says it will ‘act’ on rebranding suggestions (Irish Times)
Anne-Louise Foley writes:
“In tonight’s The Zoo (first episode in new series, RTÉ One, 7pm) we get to see the very cute baby white-faced saki monkey, Chico, when he was just a week old. His parents – Zorbas and Liana – were introduced two years ago and got on great. Everyone in the zoo was delighted when this little fella came along. The camera crew who make The Zoo got great footage so it’ll be a real treat for viewers this evening to see Chico up close when he was a tiny baby.”
Previously: ‘Sup?
Former CEO of the Rehab Group Angela Kerins at the Public Accounts Committee on February 27, 2014.
BREAKING: The #PAC is told Angela Kerins will threaten legal action if further details of her former pay & conditions are released #ntfm
— Newstalk 106-108fm (@NewstalkFM) April 10, 2014
Frank Flannery received €409,744 in consulting fees from Rehab since 2006. #PAC
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) April 10, 2014
Rehab's dir of finance admits/confirms that taxpayers' money goes into Rehab Group Ltd, which is responsible for paying senior salaries
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) April 10, 2014
Oh.
Thanks Dermot Bohan
Spotted in the Motor Tax office in Ballymun today.
But doesn’t that mean it’s going to take hourNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM…
Thanks Saul
Above: examples of unused spaces within direct provision accommodation for asylum seekers in Ireland.
Eamon Sheehy of Migrate To The Fringe writes:
The asylum system functions as a closed and confined space far from the rest of society. It is the other, the outside, and a ghetto. The direct provision hostels and their residents don’t seem to have physicality. The rest of society is not to be concerned about their existence. Asylum Archive is taking visual samples of this reality…
UPDATE:
Over on the Human Rights In Ireland blog, Dr Liam Thornton writes:
“Direct provision is 14 years old today. Today, from 7am to 9pm, there will be 14 hours of blog posts on the issue of direct provision. The voices of asylum seekers themselves are central to this blog carnival, and we will hear their voices throughout the day. The Department of Justice and Department of Social Protection were invited to contribute to this carnival, however they have not replied to my email. Therefore, posts from several organisations working with and on behalf of asylum seekers, social workers, others challenging this system and artists, are all present.”