http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRqxtp0yCo8&feature=youtu.be
A free One Direction doll is lobbed into the Late Late Show audience this evening.
A young female fan reaches for the plastic figurine as it hurtles in her direction.
Enter Mr Grabby.
Barry writes:
The dark side of the Late Late Toy Show….
Shameful.
Thanks Barry Prendeville
Previously: Awesome Audience People on broadsheet
Susan Manning, mother of Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea (born Bradley) Manning with Gerard Conlon of the Guildford Four this evening in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
An Evening for Bradley Manning, hosted by Afri, followed a meeting between Chelsea’s family and TDs earlier today to lobby their support for her early release.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Paul Murphy, Mick Crowley, Dermot Ahern
Picking up the Roll of Honour Aisling Award for her commitment to Irish language was Linda Ervine, Irish language development officer for East Belfast where she runs SEVEN Irish classes a week in the Turas project at East Belfast Mission.
Linda, is a sister-in-law of the late PUP leader David Ervine, who himself learned Irish while in prison.
Mrs Ervine has previously said,
“What the language does is, it allows people to explore the idea of Irishness in a non-threatening way. We are Irish. I feel I’m Irish.”
She learned from the 1911 census that her husband’s relatives had lived in East Belfast and spoke both Irish and English. Yet their signatures were listed on the Ulster Covenant. Linda deduced that their knowledge of Irish wasn’t linked to their politics.
Fair plé dhuit, in fairness.
With TWO free Xmas t-shirts on offer.
We asked (earlier)
What was your most depressing Xmas gift-receiving experience?
You answered in your tens.
Runners up
Dan: “Without doubt the most disappointing Xmas gift I have ever received was a tome about famine, from my mother, right before we sat down to eat our unconscionably large Christmas dinner.”
Stephen:“A book on sport I bought for my brother…he gave it back to me a few days after Christmas saying “here this is too heavy to put in my bag” before he flew back to New York.”
Stapler: “A set of corn on the cob skewers and a childrens toy sowing machine. I was 12.”
RexS: “When I was 8 my uncle once gave me a slow cooker that he had clearly gotten for a wedding present and the next year was a cutlery set. Which he had obviously had left over from the wedding also.”
Zoolander: ” toilet seat. No, not some novelty Christmas themed toilet seat. Just a regular, white, plastic seat…..worst Secret Santa ever.”
GC: “An electric radiator when I was 14. My brother then stole it when he moved out.”
Tee: “Driving lessons …at the age of 16….my parents thought I was 17!
Shoota: “A card from Old Saint Nicholas himself, explaining that he and my parents had gone ‘halfsies’ on my birthday/ Christmas present (my birthday being Christmas day…) a brand new Nintendo Entertainment System. The year being 1990, I had just turned 6, and never in my wildest dreams would I have believed that Santa would write me an actual note, forget the damn Nintendo! Safe to say , when I unearthed their cruel deception the next year, the note, took on a whole new meaning.Damn thrifty parents.”
Erol: “A goat for a family in Africa. Part of a Kris Kindle present, the most disappointing part was watching the stupid git who got it for me delight over the The Sopranos boxset he’d been given. :(“
And the winner:
Mr T “Without doubt the most disappointing Xmas gift I have ever received was the gift of time and space from my ex, she said it was just a break, but it is continuum.”
Thanks all.
Previously: Oh Christmas Tee
The European Banking Authority has today published a report on how many bankers in EU states earned more than €1million in 2012.
In Ireland, there were 17.
The other countries surveyed and their number of millionaire bankers were:
Austria: 19
Belgium: 15
Bulgaria: 0
Cyprus: 3
Czech Republic: 0
Denmark: 48
Estonia: 0
Finland: 6
France: 177
Germany: 212
Greece: 1
Hungary: 9
Iceland: 0
Italy: 109
Latvia: 0
Liechtenstein: 0
Lithuania: 0
Luxembourg: 15
Malta: 0
Netherlands: 27
Norway: 23
Poland: 7
Portugal: 6
Romania: 1
Slovakia: 1
Slovenia: 0
Spain: 100
Sweden: 20
UK: 2,714
Full report here.
EU’s Highest-Paid Bankers in U.K. as Bonus Awards Exceed Cap (Bloomberg)
Trouble Pilgrims {ex-members of Radiators From Space] and Dublin’s The Ground Will Shake (cough).perform a benefit for the Philipines this Sunday AFTERNOON upstairs in the Stag’s Head, Dame Court Dublin. Arguably the finest intimate music venue in Dublin. Fight. etc.
4pm . €10.00
Thanks Barry
A lot done. More to do.
Now lose the robe, sweet-cheeks.
A decent music JobBridge??.
YOU decide.
Cathal, from FanFootage, writes:
“I think this a good example of a non-bullshit Jobbridge and might be a dream opportunity for a talented video and live music nut out there.
“We’re the video technology start-up based across from Clement & Pekoe on South William St who are trying to build the world’s biggest video crew. Our service turns all those shite-sounding fan videos from a concert into watchable content by syncing them up with artist-approved live audio and presenting all the different angles in a switchable video player.
“And just for the record, we DON’T approve of fans filming at gigs, UNLESS the band actually ask them to. With FanFootage that’s usually just one song from the band’s set, so the fans can put their cameras and phones away for the rest of the show and just enjoy the music.”
