A debut feature from Messengers Dublin (office workers and weekend filmmakers Mikkel Lunding and Finn McDuffie) about Dublin based graffiti artist Danny Wynne.
There may be spray.
(Thanks Messengers)
In two venues, over two days.
At The Workman’s Club and The Garage Bar, Dublin.
FOR FREE.
Interesting Patrick’s Day Events to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No fee
Thanks Niall
Newstalk has appointed Aidan Coughlan, formerly of Simply Zesty and INM, as its digital media manager.
— Laura Slattery (@IrishTimesLaura) March 14, 2014
[Top: Aidan with his mum at the buke’s celebrity-strewn launch in Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin year ago this month]
YIKES!
He’s joining the tycoon shaped like who owns Ireland.
‘Our’ Aidan Coughlan, editor of 2013’s acclaimed The Broadsheet Book of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (New Island) is heading to the Dark Side Newstalk.
A courageous contributor, some may recall Aidan had a bike wheel stolen while covering the US Election and suffered a dramatic hand injury on the eve of the buke’s publication.
We will remember him as an uncanny arbiter of pareidolia and a friend.
Be strong.
Mmf.
With our reputation?
Stately six string craftsman Niall Toner [playing Burren Backstep above] and friends perform at the Alternative Social Club, upstairs in The Stag’s head, Dame Court, Dublin this Sunday. The afternoon includes ‘discs’ from DJ Karl Tsigdinos’ sublime record collection.
“A cure for the Sunday fear,” Bodger assures us.
Thanks Barry
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Artist Maser tweetz:
Buy your fruit and veg off the local street vendors on Moore Street today and receive a free Maser tote bag.
Pic: Aine Beamish and Maser
From 1988, an ad for the EBS.
They took pocket money from short sighted kids.
Good times.
Stop that.
Tomorrow night, the Cork Food Policy Council will serve free vegetarian curry to an expected 5,000 people in an initiative called Feed The City, as part of the city’s St Patrick’s Festival.
The curry will be made from so-called grade 2 and 3 vegetables, like the carrots above, that don’t wind up in supermarkets. The aim of the project is to highlight waste and sustainability issues.
But how could you cut what looks like a coupNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
Pic via University College Cork
Cork city gets ready to feed the city (University College Cork)
A surreal papercraft short where the 19th century French sculptor and engraver Guatav Doré enters a dreamworld inhabited by his own radiant illustrations. Made by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace of Le Petit Echo Malade.
A promo for an exhibition of Doré’s work at Musée d’Orsay in Paris that continues until May 11th.
Music: The Golden Mountain by Ödland
You may recall a post from last October in which we posted the letter, above, Garda John Wilson wrote to his senior management in October 2011.
Mr Wilson alleged that many Traveller babies – one as young as 16 days old – had their names put on the PULSE system, with each child getting a criminal intelligence PULSE number.
Mr Wilson claimed it could happen if a Garda stopped a car driven by a Traveller, and if there were children present in the car, those children’s names would be placed on PULSE.
Mr Wilson said gardaí were encouraged to do this by senior gardaí.
At the time of posting last October, Mr Wilson had yet to receive a reply from Garda management.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter replied to written questions put to him on the matter by United Left Alliance TD, Clare Daly and Sinn Féin TD, Padraig MacLochlainn, on Tuesday.
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a PULSE file was created on a Traveller child when that child was 16 days old; and was this child ascribed a criminal intelligence number separate from a parent or guardian.
Padraig MacLochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to confirm whether Traveller children or adults are being assigned separate criminal intelligence PULSE numbers without having committed any criminal conduct; and the action he will take regarding same.
Padraig MacLochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has established with the Garda Commissioner the veracity of the allegations that 40 Traveller families were entered on the Garda PULSE system, including a baby of 16 days old; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter took the three questions together.
Alan Shatter: “The management of the PULSE system is an operational matter for the Garda Commissioner. While An Garda Síochána does not comment on individual cases, I am informed by the Commissioner that PULSE does not solely capture information on offenders, but is also used to store information on Garda interactions with individuals, whether adults or children, such as victims of crime, persons injured in road traffic accidents and child welfare incidents.
All persons are subject to the same PULSE recording policy and procedures.
I have also been assured by the Garda Commissioner that the Garda Síochána does not engage in ethnic profiling, and specifically that it does not engage in data gathering or data mining based upon discriminatory profiling in respect of race, colour, language, religion, nationality, national or ethnic origin, ethnicity or membership of the Traveller community.”
Hmm.
Transcript from Kildarestreet.com
Previously: Early Profiling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49XeZo6XpYA#t=205
YOU decide.
Playwright and actor Seamus O’Rourke extols a certain rugby player who is the spit of his cousin. Made by Balls.ie for the #thirteen project raising cash for Temple Street Children’s Hospital and the ISPCC.
“And The Pride Burstin’ Out Of Him” – Seamus O’Rourke’s Ode To Brian O’Driscoll (Balls.ie)