Thanks Garrett Rowe, Enda Cunningham, Dermot Ahern, Colin McGann, Kieran McDaid, Colm Heaney and Nick Sutton.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
In the Djouce Woods, Kilmacanogue, Co Wicklow yesterday.
Neiler writes:
“Faith in humanity restored….”
Donal Moloney writes:
“A car graveyard down in Kilkenny. I spotted it from the main road on my way to a shoot in Waterford last week. It’s tricky to get at and it’s just about visible from the main road. I took the exit into Mullinavat and the locals gave me directions to the yard.”
[Dermot Ryan (top), Archbishop of Dublin (1972-1984) and the playground sign in Merrion Square Park]
The park in Merrion Square was called ‘Archbishop Ryan Park’ after Dermot Ryan who had transferred ownership of the park to the city in the 1970s. [renamed Merrion Square Park following The Murphy Report in2009]
However, an eagle-eyed dad tweeted: ‘Remember they changed name of Archbishop Ryan park after abuse cover up allegations…Well they forgot the playground’.
Archbishop’s name to be removed from playground (Neil Fetherstone, Dublin People)
[From top: Kim Wilde and Brother Ricky; Enda Kenny and Kim ; Claire Byrne, centre, with Catherine Burns and Sarah Austen Jenness from The Moth American storytelling radio show]; from left: Loujein Haj Youssef from Radio Rozana in Syria, Broadsheet pal Liam Geraghty from RTE, Jupe Tuomola from Radio Nova in Finland and Jani Rajalin also from Radio Nova]
Scenes from today’s RadioDays Europe 2014 Conference [a meeting of public and private sector radio staff from Europe and beyond]]in the National Convention Centre, Dublin featuring a performance by Kim Wilde. As you do..
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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LEGO Dalí
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An impressive (if slightly truncated of leg) blocky rendering inspired by Salvador Dalí’s The Elephants (1948) by LEGO builder Jin Kei.
“If you had 30,000 three-bedroom detached houses, you’d sell them all in a week. That’s the pent-up demand that’s there.”
Enda Kenny in New York last week
“If there is to be another orgy of house building in Dublin, it will have to be funded by foreigners. And this explains why the Taoiseach went to such extraordinary lengths to talk up the Dublin housing market while he was in New York.
He hopes, we presume, that some of the international millions flooding into the commercial property market from various hedge and property funds will spill over into speculative house building.
If the hedge funds take the bait, we may well be on the cusp of another house building boom, or at least a significant upswing which would be more welcome. It would be nice to think that we will avoid the corruption, bad planning and poor development which characterised the last one; the consequences of which we will live with for decades. That may be a bit optimistic….”
Planning still a shambles as house building promoted (John McManus, Irish Times)
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Heavy Load by Padraig Power, age 11, from Tipperary.
Meadhb Smith writes:
“Padraig was the winner of the primary senior category of the Trocaire and Poetry Ireland Poetry competition 2013. His poem compares a school child’s struggle to carry a school bag with the struggle of a girl in Africa to carry a heavy load of water. We posted the poem [link below] as part of our Lenten campaign/Trocaire box, which this year is about the global water crisis.”
Eleven.