Meanwhile, G’wan the regionals

Ronan Bagnall, Cork Evening Echo; Chris Dunne, Cork Evening Echo; Maresa Fagan, Roscommon Herald; Anthony Hennigan, Western People; Fintan Lambe, The Gorey Guardian; Maria Pepper, Wexford People

Regional ‘Journalist of the Year’  2013 nominations.

FIGHT!

Shortlist – NNI Journalism Awards 2013

Previously: Gemma O’Doherty on Broadsheet

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In 1994, a McDonalds customer called Stella Liebeck was awarded nearly $3 million in damages by a New Mexico civil jury after she spilled coffee on herself.

The affair has long since gone down in history as the most extreme case of frivolous litigation – ‘the poster child of excessive lawsuits’.

As the New York Times revealed this week (or, more accurately ‘recapped’, as the details had been investigated before) the story wasn’t quite so cut and dried.

Not Just A Hot Cup Anymore (New York Times)

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gdYesterday to celebrate the re-opening of Golden Discs in Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre we asked:

What song lifts your heart?

You replied in your dozens.

Behold: The uplifting countdown.

The Singing Detective: “When I feel down I always put on Man in a Shed by Nick Drake as it helps make me feel better about my not-room-enough-to-swing-a-cat studio apartment.”

Helen: “When I feel down I always put on Elbow – One Day Like This as it helps make me feel really happy as it reminds me of my son, I used to play it to him in my tummy before he was born :-) Love love love the song.”

Buggalugga: “When I feel down I always put on Earth Song by Michael Jackson as it makes me feel horny.”

Bubba: “When I feel down I always put on my high heels and suspenders and listen to Liebe ist fur alle da by Rammsten, because love really is there for us all.”

Ste: “When I feel down I always put on Why Did You Come by Jacques Villneuve (yes THAT Jacques Villeneuve) as it helps me feel like a F1 playboy.”

Kerrie: “When I feel down I always play this Yo Gabba Gabba Erika Badau song I because it kicks feeling down’s ass and makes me smile :).”

Shiela Larkin: “When I feel down I always put on The Muppets Mnah Mnah song (do do be do bee) as it helps make me feel happy again, shuffling around the room like a gobshite.”

Holy Houses: “When I feel down I always put on Black Dog because a little bit of Zep gives you Pep.”

Gearoid: “When I feel down I always put on Shania Twain’s ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’ as it helps makes me feel like I, too, could someday write a number one hit single.”

Mark; “When I feel down I always put on ‘Not on your own tonight’ by Damien Dempsey as it helps make me feel like I’m not on my own, which is one of the most important feelings a human needs.”

Sinabhfuil: “La Mer by Charles Trenet because it makes me feel like I’m waltzing across the waves in Juan-les-Pins.”

Mark O’Donoghue: “When I feel down I put on All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem as it helps me feel like I am not alone and that I have friends that I care about and that they care about me.”

Pooter: “When I’m on the third bottle I feel down I always put on Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur) as it helps make me feel like Cactus is our friend, my friend.”

MacGafraidh: When I feel Down I always put on the kettle for some tay and Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds.

Mani: “When I feel down I know I’m tickling a duck.”

Winner:

TK ickle: “When I feel down I always put on Davy Spillane – Caoineadh Cu Chulainn Uilleann Pipes or Home Sweet Home by Motley Cru as it helps make me feel even more sh*ttier. I probably shouldn’t do that, in fairness. Good funeral songs though.”

TK ickle wins 10 CDs and 10 DVDs of his/her choice [But he/she MUST share the names of of his/her selection with ‘the group’].

Thanks all.

Previously: In One Hour

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http://vimeo.com/77521756

The Sudanese diaspora demonstrating in Dublin last Saturday, to support the protests that have been taking place in Sudan since September 27, when security forces open fire on protesters in Khartoum.

The protesters were marching against fuel price hikes and the 24-year-rule of President Omar al-Bashir.

Thanks Fran Cassidy

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In the latest installment of the PBS Blank on Blank animated interview series, Kurt Cobain talks to Jon Savage in 1993 about, among other things, identity.

Previously: Janis Joplin

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Update: Transcript on his Cork connection.

Kurt Cobain: “My mother has always tried to keep a little bit of English culture in our family. We drink tea all the time. Tea, yeah. Although I’ve never really known my ancestry. I didn’t even know until this year that the name Cobain is Irish. I found out, through different phone books, throughout America,  couldn’t find any Cobains at all, so I started calling Coburns. And I found this one lady in San Francisco and she had been researching our family history and we came from County Cork, which is a weird coincidence because, when we toured, we played in Cork. And the entire day I walked around in a daze. I’ve never felt more spiritual in my life. I was almost in tears the whole day. It’s the weirdest thing.”

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