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Jaysus.

Pillage-loving cosplayers re-enactors Gary Nolan (left) and Iain Barber at Temple Bar this morning lending their awesome pre-hipster beardage to promote Dublin City Council’s Battle of Clontarf Festival this Easter Weekend (April 19-20) in St Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin.

There may be Harp.

Battle of Clontarf Festival

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It goes on.

“It said inmates are given a confidential phone line for conversations with a named solicitor, but because some inmates had more than one solicitor representing them but only one named with the prison service, the other conversations were inadvertently recorded.”

Calls between prisoners and solicitors recorded (RTE)

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The launch of Plan B: How Leaving The Euro Can Save Ireland by Cormac Lucey tomorrow night at Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin.

Plan whatnow?

“Plan B – a eurozone exit and managed debt restructuring (something successfully managed by Independent News and Media plc in the last 12 months) – is Ireland’s alternative. It has substantial costs but offers considerably better prospects than 20 more years of Plan A.”

Oh.

FIGHT!

Plan B: how leaving euro can save Ireland (Cormac Lucey, Irish Independent)

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Sculptor and photographer Thomas Doyle’s subversive suburban dioramas, created using model railway figurines and accessories.

Natural disasters? Alien encounters? Environmental metaphor? Supply your own narrative.

Doyle’s work (which features in an upcoming Thames and Hudson book Big Art/Small Art) is currently on show at the Torrence Art Museum in California.

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