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[The pop-up playground Granby Park, Lower Dominick Street, Dublin last Summer]

The Banter/Living For The The City FIGHT discussion series is back next week.

Banter’s Jim Carroll writes:

In recent times, we’ve seen a huge growth in new venues and creative spaces in and around the city (Mabos and The Crypt, Granby Park, etc.). We’ve gathered together a number of people who are involved in these new initiatives to talk about how these spaces have come about, what they offer to creative projects, what’s the long-run prognosis for these venues, the role of NAMA and Dublin City Council and what advice they’d offer to those seeking to do their own alternatives.

The panel: Dave Smith (Mabos), Orlaith Ross (The Crypt), Laura G Dovn (Block T) and Peter O’Brien (Upstart)

Living for the City: alternative spaces Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1,  Wednesday February 26, 6pm. Invite list here. FREE.

 Banter Living In The City: Alternative Spaces (Banter)

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[Front pages of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers in Australia last year. News Corporation launched a ‘Kick this mob out’ campaign, calling on the Australian electorate to vote out then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and vote in Tony Abbott during its federal election. Mr Abbott won and is now Australia’s Prime Minister]

The Guardian reports:

Rupert Murdoch’s media group received a $882m tax rebate from Australia last year in a revelation that is likely to reignite the debate over how much tax is paid by international corporations.

The payment by a “foreign tax authority” was revealed in accounts published by News Corporation in the US earlier this month and related to a $2bn claim by News Corp for historic losses on currency transactions by its Australian subsidiaries.

The payment was estimated to be worth $600m to News Corp but the final figure grew to $882m after interest charges.

It was one of the the biggest single factors in the multi-billion dollar federal budget blowout announced by Australian treasurer Joe Hockey in December.

Rupert Murdoch’s empire receives $882m tax rebate from Australia (The Guardian)

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“It’s not a generalisation… in every sphere of life that you meet a gay man or gay people in a social environment, the way I look at it after talking to them; they have very little interest in sport.”

Former Ireland rugby international Neil Francis.

Gay people “have very little interest in sport” – Former rugby player (Newstalk)

 

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A three piece Japanese band featuring robots called Z-machines has teamed up with composer Squarepusher to create a five track album of songs only playable by the bands 78 fingered guitarist MACH, keyboard player COSMO and 22 armed drummer ASHURA.

Music for Robots, distributed by UK based Warp Records launches on April 8th.

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(H/T: Andy Sheridan)

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