9032450690324504Members of The Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), including Dublin City Fingal Councillor Ruth Coppinger (above), on Saturday afternoon marking the exit of the Troika in Dublin’s city centre.

The Anti-Austerity Alliance is a new group “arising from campaigns against household and property taxes” and plans to stand candidates in the local elections next May…

…Uniting around a programme which includes opposition to all austerity measures and cutbacks, refusal to engage in council junkets and for alternative economic strategies to austerity, which is causing hardship & damage to the economy.

FIGHT!

Anti Austerity Alliance (Facebook)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

StrumpetCity-PeterOToole

Peter O’Toole, who has died aged 81, as Jim Larkin in a scene in episode 3 of RTÉ’s Strumpet City (1980), also featuring Bryan Murray and Donal McCann.

Meanwhile…

telegraph

[Peter O’Toole obituary, Daily Telegraph]

Schlock?

It was a bit though, in fairness.

Fight!

Raise a glass to Peter O’Toole, last of the 60s hellraisers (Dominic Rushe, Guardian)

(RTÉ)

signpainter

Earlier this month, Faythe Levine and Sam Macon’s Sign Painters documentary premiered at The Sugar Club. This Dublin-specific documentary was shown as a supporting feature.

Colin Brady writes:

[Yesterday] we released a documentary film about Dublin’s relationship,history and influence connected with hand painted signs called ‘Gentlemen of Letters’. Although it’s not as common now, the city was once rich with beautiful hand lettered signs crafted by old school sign writers like Kevin Freeney. The film features interviews with Dublin based artists Maser, JamesEarley, sign writer Colm O’ Connor and the sons of Kevin Freeney, Pauland Kevin Jr.

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