G’wan the army.
Roomicube writes:
Spotted this [L-plated] Snow Plough this morning. Pesky snow…
No Signal
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Cake!
Annette Hughes, as Marie Antoinette (top) and Gerard Tier and his two-year-old daughter Kyria (above) joined members and supporters of the Anti-Austerity Alliance to protest outside Leinster House, Kildare Street this morning calling for rent control and new social housing construction.
Laura writes:
“Gerard and his family have been living in emergency accommodation in hotels for the past six months as he can’t find anywhere that will accept rent allowance. Local election candidate in the Mulhuddart ward, for the protest.”
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
A restaurant for TWO?
At a secret location?
Are you completely insane?
Ahmad Fakhry writes:
“I am from designgoat, a design studio in Dublin 8, and we are taking part in OFFSET’s Transform Your City project. For this we have made a very small pop up restaurant in a secret location and have hired five amazing chefs from Ireland to put up a unique dining experience. There is only two seats in our restaurant and we are giving the dinners away for free.
Across five nights we will seat two people a night in a small box, right next to the chef, breaking down the barrier to the kitchen and allowing a flow of conversation, education and banter between the chef and diners.
We are asking people to go to College Green, Dublin, take a picture of the miniature restaurant we have placed at the feet of the Henry Grattan statue in front of Trinity College, and tweet the picture with the hashtag #TYCDINNERS, to enter the draw. We will select a winner the day before each dinner.”
But won’t the chef ruin the romanNOMNOMNOMNOM
What you may need to know:
1. Mike Judge made a new TV show for HBO.
2. Mike Judge gave us Beavis And Butthead, King Of The Hill, Office Space (1999) and Idiocracy, so this is a kind of a big deal.
3. HBO are only rocking it these days. They’ve got new seasons of Game Of Thrones and Veep next month, too. And we’re presuming you saw True Detective.
4. The advance word is only massive.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Social Network (2010) meets Office Space
Broadcast Date: April (US)
The surreal sight of an abandoned open air cinema in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
According to photographer Kaupo Kikkas (helluva name), the story goes that, 13 years ago, a Parisian film buff in Egypt had a glorious dream.
Raising the necessary capital back in France, he travelled to Cairo where he bought projection equipment, a generator and a tractor to erect the sail-like screen.
On opening night however, the generator was allegedly sabotaged by miffed local authorities. The premiere was cancelled and, to this day, the cinema hasn’t shown a single film.
It must happen. And when it does, let it be Dune.
Oh, Mother
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Jill McKeagney writes:
Got this e-mail this morning from DoneDeal, giving one mother the lucky chance to get away from the sink this Mother’s Day
Sheesh.
[Former member of GSOC and former Irish Times editor Conor Brady]
Further to reports that the Garda Inspectorate has recommended that the power to cancel penalty points be removed from divisional garda officers and instead be transferred to the Fixed Charge Processing Office in Thurles, Co Tipperary, former Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission member Conor Brady spoke to Keelin Shanley on the RTÉ Radio One Today with Seán O’Rourke show this morning.
Mr Brady said GSOC investigated the processing office in 2007, found it to be ‘utterly dysfunctional’ and yet the results of that investigation were completely ignored.
Conor Brady: “In 2007/2008, the Garda Ombudsman Commission actually conducted a full investigation of the Fixed Penalty Points system, in other words the office in Thurles [Co. Tipperay] to which all problems are now going to be referred. The GSOC report on the fixed penalty point system found it to be utterly dysfunctional, utterly ineffective, only a small proportion of cases were actually brought through to conclusion and in some category of offences, fewer than 17% were actually brought through to conclusion.”
Keelin Shanley: “That’s what GSOC found and this is the body we are now charging with…
Brady: “We found that in 2007. What I would say now is that the minister laid that report as he is obliged to do before the House of the Oireachtas, not a single politician of any persuasion or party referred to it once. Now it may well be that some reforming spirit has spread through the central processing office in Thurles since then, I genuinely don’t know but if it hasn’t then they have a major job ahead of them because this is a system which is not fit for purpose..”
Shanley: “Well, was not fit for purpose, as you say, we don’t know what has been done.”
Brady: “Well, was not fit for purpose.”
Garda chiefs’ powers to terminate penalty points to go (Irish Times)