The book version of the that Scientology tribute to Ireland.
Michael writes:
Spotted on the counter of Dublin Nails. Apparently they are being dropped into businesses all over the city. Most are unsuspecting as there doesn’t seem to be any mention of Scientology in the booklet…
Previously: Defiantologists
High speed ballistics by Finnish photographer Herra Kuulapaa, each taken microseconds after discharge.
‘Independent Newspapers had decided to move to a workflow involving journalists “writing to fit to shapes on a page”.’
— Andy McGeady (@andymcgeady) January 23, 2014
All the subs from the Indo are being let go? http://t.co/jyn0Ybhce1
— Susan Daly (@BiddyEarly) January 23, 2014
[Steve Coogan as ‘Sinn Féin deputy leader Rory O’Connor’ in BBC’s The Day Today]
It’s 20 years since the Broadcasting Ban was lifted in the North allowing Sinn Féin members to be heard on the airwaves.
The ban was enacted in the North in 1988 and the Republic in 1971.
Any excuse. (3:32m)
Twenty years on: The lifting of the ban on broadcasting Sinn Féin (Kevin Sharkey, BBC News NI)
A nifty ‘homemade’ CG short by French director Simon Mesnard: a ‘spiritual sequel’ to his 2011 feature A Space Adventure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5CS6nu2VQ
If it’s not Charlie (Dan Li) from ‘Amber’ shilling Whoppers.
John Joe writes:
Did you see where Charlie was deported to?… Burger King!
Deported to the UK, in our common travel area…
Every cloud has a silver limousin…
Previously: Amber Alert
200k? 300k 400K?
Only a few days (possibly hours) before the salary of Rehab CEO Angela Kerins is revealed.
And YOUR last chance to win a small cash prize and copy of the Broadsheet Book of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (New Island) for guessing the amount..
Scratch YOUR suggestion below.
Closest number wins.
Numbers already taken here.
Angela’s Stashes Lottery cards by James M Chimney
Demolition of the Charlemont Street flats, Dublin 2, earlier this afternoon.
The soon-to-be-level site may be derelict for some time yet.
Dust “everywhere”.
(Pix: Oisín Kane (1,2))
(Additional pix: Sheila Larkin (3), Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland (4-8))
[The Peacock Theatre at the Abbey Theatre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin]
“And then there is the issue of the Peacock. How could it be part of any well-thought-out strategy or understanding of the responsibilities of the National Theatre to commit significant funding to it over a three-year period while tolerating the effective closure of what is, to all intents and purposes, the engine room of the Irish theatre?
The future of the Abbey comes through the Peacock. And if a National Theatre is not about the future, then it is increasingly forced to fall back on institutional rhetoric rather than excellence of performance, to justify its existence.
It also has to be asked: where does the chair and board of the Abbey stand on this? The Peacock going dark for such long periods of time is something that surely, as a strategic issue, had to have board approval?Garry Hynes, of the Druid Theatre Company.
Fixing the Abbey: where next for the National Theatre? (Garry Hynes, Irish Times)
Previously: Abbey On His Bonnet
Pic: DublinRocks
…is a melon-twisting minus one twelfth.
University of Nottingham physicists Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland explain why.
And you’ll almost but not quite understand.