Frank Gordon writes:
I saw this in the car park of Lang’s in Grange [Co Sligo] on Saturday night…across two disabled spaces with no permit. I’m not sure what it is about Sligo/Donegal but I have never seen as many able-bodied people without permits parking in disabled parking spots. This one took first prize in ignorance though.
FIGHT!
Hundreds of seals take shelter on the Great Blasket Island’s Tráigh Bhán. (Pic via @DDeibhinn) pic.twitter.com/irHJnmS8m5
— Seán Mac an tSíthigh (@Buailtin) January 7, 2014
On the Blaskets, Co Kerry today.
[Mike Fitzpatrick, right, and former Arts Minister John O Donoghue in the irish Pavilion at the Vienna Biennale in 2007]
Jeremy Beadle Mike Fitzpatrick, from the Limerick School of Art and Design, will take over as CEO and Artistic Director for the Limerick City of Culture.
What’s he ever done?
Director/Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art from 2000-2009 curating over eighty exhibitions including Simon Starling, Lindsay Seers, John Shinnors, Clare Langan, Connolly Cleary, Sean Lynch, Amanda Coogan, Tom Molloy, retrospectives by Walter Verling and Jack Donovan and a survey exhibition of 21st century Irish art. Ireland’s commissioner for the Venice Biennale 2007 curating the artist Gerard Byrne also for his exhibition at Lismore Castle in 2010. Curator of the Visual Art strand at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2005 & 2006.
Oooh.
Mike Fitzpatrick To Take Over Limerick City Of Culture Role (Irish Times)
Chair #limerickcityofculture Pat Cox says Mike Fitzpatrick will serve as an interim chief for festival but not take up permanent position
— RTÉ News at One (@RTENewsAtOne) January 7, 2014
(Deirdre Power/Photocall Ireland)
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Before he made his name as a comedian, Richard Pryor was part of the early 60s New York folk scene, opening for the likes of Bob Dylan and Nina Simone as a clean-shaven blues singer.
And a pretty decent one too, as evidenced by this archive clip recently uploaded by Eric Cowan.
Garreth MacNamee (above) writes
In June 2011, I walked out of hospital after a suicide attempt and I haven’t looked back. I still remember how that day looked. It was a beautiful June afternoon, the sun belted down on my mam’s car and I took one final look at St John of God’s in Stillorgan, Co Dublin – a place which had become my home for over a month. That was a week before my 22nd birthday.
I walked back into college with my head held high, spent two more years working on my journalism degree and strutted out with one of the highest marks handed out that year. Less than a week after finishing my studies and I was working for a national newspaper. For the first time in my life I felt proud of myself, I was successful.
Fast forward nearly 19 months and here I am contemplating taking my own life again. I don’t know how I got here but here I am. I have everything anyone could ask for – great friends, a wonderfully supportive family, the respect of this industry I’m in, a penthouse apartment in Dun Laoghaire [Co Dublin], iPad, iPhone, new car and and what should look like a bright future.
But I can’t see that – all I can feel is how sweet and peaceful death would be right now. The balcony 10 feet behind me seems more tempting than taking a shower in the morning, than walking into work with an exclusive under my arm or texting the girl I’m currently seeing. My role in life has always been to make others feel happy. I’m the joker, the friend, the pal who’d never see you stuck. I’m that sad clown, a cliche wrapped in another fucking cliche, sitting in a living room typing in the dark.
“Now I don’t think it’s right for any government to say that they can deny the next generation of young people in our country the right to have a job and to live and work in their own area if that be so,” he said.
Mr [Enda] Kenny [having said young people will have to emigrate unless pylon plans go ahead] went on to say that it was ironic that people were telling him “Well my children have to go away, have to emigrate”.
“In many cases they emigrate to countries where these things [Pylons] are matter of course as providing infrastructure for development,” he said.
Thud.
Sounds fair.
Eirgrid pylon plans: last day for public submissions (Independent.ie)
Previously: Piling It On
Cathal O’Rourke writes:
“Fresh in the door. It’s a photocopy – he had about 50 in his hand.”
Previously: The Minsky Cycle And You