Joe O’Neill writes:
“Photographed on Ringsend Bridge [Dublin] yesterday morning.”
Bewildered student writes:
From The Irish Clip Board. Short (20 seconds) and sweet.
“Research for a major new campaign being launched next week to tackle childhood obesity had highlighted the poor choices being made, said Orlaith Blaney, chief executive of McCann Blue advertising agency.”
“Together with healthy eating body Safefood she had interviewed parents around the country to discuss what children were eating and why, in order to come up with an ad campaign that would help people make healthier choices.”
“We questioned mothers in inner city Dublin going to get McDonalds, and blending it and giving it to her young child,” she told the FSAI conference.”
Mum blended McDonald’s meal for her baby – conference told (Irish Independent)
O’Connell Street, Dublin this morning.
Thanks Anne.
What you may need to know:
1. If you don’t like Wes Anderson movies, then skip this post.
2. How many filmmakers can you recognise two point five seconds into a clip?
3. Grand Budapest Hotel welcomes some new members to the Anderson family, notably Saoirse Ronan and Ralph Fiennes, plus a Greatest Hits of Wes regulars. He’s done seven movies with Bill Murray. Cast member title cards here.
4. Ever see his American Express commercial?
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Book us a double, en suite.
Release Date: March 2014
Right NOW.
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin
Michael Brett writes:
I know you don’t normally do this…but one of the boats at Grand Canal Dock has drifted from its berth. Maybe someone with a boat on the canal might like to try rescue it. Pesky runaway boats…
Anyone?
‘Sup?
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Donal Comeford writes:
A ultra ultilitarian Toyota Hi-ace On the George W. Bush Highway, Accra, Ghana…
Why do we put up with this?
The Banter housing ding dong [part of the Living In The City series] at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) on Wednesday October 23.
Featuring: Ronan Lyons (economist, Daft.ie and Trinity College Dublin),Colette Browne (Irish Independent columnist), Karl Deeter (adviser and analyst at Irish Mortgage Brokers and Advisors.ie) and Dr Lorcan Sirr (lecturer in housing studies and urban economics at DIT).
From Banter:
After the ridiculous boom years came the inevitable bust and now come signs of a boom again, as anyone seeking to rent or buy a home in the last few years can tell you. It all sounds very familiar – and very worrying. Here we go again. Will we ever learn? And what exactly is there to learn?
FIGHT!
(Admission is free, but you will need to sign-up here)
Polish architect Adam Wiercinski’s design proposal for the historic water tower at Wronki in central Poland (once part of the country’s largest prison complex) which would retain the core structure, surrounding it with a ring of moveable ‘pods’ to create a multipurpose venue.