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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5811gcau_Y

[2013 Lord Mayor of Dublin Naoise O’Muiri and a delegation, including former Dublin City Manager and current managing director of Irish Water John Tierney, speak with Sean O’Kane, marketing manager with ChipEstimate TV during a trip to Silicon Valley last year]

“This video has emerged of the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Fine Gael’s Naoise O’Muiri, behaving rather strangely whilst visiting the marketing director of a Silicon Valley technology company during the annual Lord Mayor visit to San Jose in March 2013.”

“… ‘That trip cost €9,953 for the travel and accommodation of the Lord Mayor himself and two other councillors we see in the video, Fine Gael’s Ruairi McGinley and the Labour Party’s Lucy McRoberts. Did this money come out of the Lord Mayor’s €15,318.36 quarterly allowance or was this money on top of that?

“… Really, what value did we the people receive from that junket to San Jose in March 2013?”

A statement from John Lyons of People Before Profit

Anyone?

Also: FIGHT!

Thanks Damien Mulley

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What you may need to know

1. Nice to be back. We’ve been busy, watching True Detective.

2. The first Sin City (2005) was a lot of fun – they’ve been talking up the sequel for ages. Nine years later, it’s here.

3. New arrivals include Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Josh Brolin, Stacy Keach, Ray Liotta and Lady Gaga.

4. But wait – SPOILER ALERT – weren’t Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis killed in the first one? It’s a prequel, and a sequel, see, like Godfather Part 2 (1974).

5. But why bother? Sin City creator Frank Miller just had another belated prequel/sequel thing, 300: Rise Of An Empire (2004), open, and open big. And director Robert Rodriguez could do with a hit after those brutal Spy Kids and Machete re-threads.

6. All hail Eva Green, BEST BOND GIRL EVER. She’s also in the 300 sequel, and makes the whole thing worth the price of admission alone. Anyone meet her when she was in Dublin shooting Penny Dreadful? .

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Powers Boothe. Always a good idea.

Release Date: August (US)

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Behold the Reflective Bicycle, by a damn hipster Irish/German collective in Berlin called Happarel.

They write:

Reflective material in any form sends light back to its source. Our Reflective bicycles are coated in a special reflective material that does just that. The effect seen depends on the light conditions, so to pedestrians or cyclists, your frame will not be distracting, it simply ensures visibility from car drivers and safety for everybody. One of the best benefits; no batteries required. Your bicycle will stay reflective for seven years guaranteed, but with proper care, can stay reflective indefinitely. The bike will reflect the quality and intensity of light projected which is perfect for car headlights.

The team behind the bikes include Ireland’s Michael McInerney and Brian Smith and their friends Antoine-John Capeyron, Ebi Schilling and Fay Smith.

You may support Happarel with their Indiegogo funding campaign here.

Music: Eutechnik / Brian Smith

Photography: Michael McInerney

Thanks Brian

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Dublin People reports:

Irish Rail has confirmed that electronic cigarettes are now banned from all its DART and train services. The company says it made the decision following complaints from passengers, even though there’s no evidence the devices cause any harm to anybody standing close to those using them.

FIGHT!

E-cigs banned from DART and trains (Dublin People)

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

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[Cars clamped in Stepaside, Dublin last December]

Breakingnews.ie reports:

SIPTU workers at Dublin Street Parking Services have been waiting since 2011 for a 2.5% wage rise and will vote today to decide if they should take industrial action to force management to pay. It is now likely that a strike will go ahead and SIPTU Organiser, John King, says the pay rise may seem small but it’s the principal that counts.

Dublin clampers may strike over unpaid pay rise (Breakingnews.ie)

Previously: Clamptrap

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