http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1YkuWrMvBp0#at=96
What you may need to know:
1. Ads for plays are usually rubbish.
2. Fundraising ads for plays are even worse.
3. That said, we do like this one for Dublin-based combo Collapsing Horse.
4. What’s more, they raised the money already.
5. It’s almost enough to give theatre a good name. Almost.
Release Date: Winter
Found this photo. Blueshirts giving a fascist salute at my grand-uncle’s wedding. Was not expecting that pic.twitter.com/tVY0ds0b4l
— Helen O’Sullivan (@osullivan_helen) July 24, 2013
Kiltealy on the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains, Co Wexford, c 1930s.
Good times.
Thanks Declan
Highlights from Ireland’s crushing defeat of the Austrians at the World Flying Disc Federation Championships currently taking place in Canada.
Jane Ruffino of GetBulb has done a bit more digging on the abortion stats released recently from the UK.
She says:
Abortion rates have been dropping everywhere over the past three decades, including among women resident Ireland. The numbers traveling to the UK have dropped to about 4000, from a 2001 peak of more than 6,600 (which was also the year emergency contraception became available in Ireland).
More here Home and away: mapping Irish abortion statistics.
Previously: Thousands are travelling
Hmm.
Tommy writes:
I was showing people around Glendalough [Co Wicklow] last night. They asked me why such a peculiar figure for a fine. I tried my best to come up with a creative lie and failed. Anyone have an idea how Wicklow coco [County Council] decided on this?
Oh.
Just some Mick writes:
Heavy rain brings in the ceiling at the National Aquatic Centre, Snugborough Road, Blanchardstown, Co Dublin.
It is 10 years old after all.
Ten.
Last July we asked: Is This progress?
We have our answer.
Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin, this lunchtime.
Previously: We Are Proud of Our Old Style Post Boxes
Thanks Peter Farrell
Luke Abbott writes:
You might like this, it’s a project we’ve been working on in Discovery here at eightytwenty. It’s an infographic looking at the digital audience for Oxegen and Electric Picnic festivals. It breaks them down by who they are, where they’re from and what bands and brands they like.
Officials from the Revenue Commissioners are conducting a search of the home of TD Michael Lowry.
— BreakingNews.ie (@breakingnewsie) July 25, 2013
https://vimeo.com/65303694
In this ‘small tribute to Photoshop filters’, Barcelona based design studio Device apply every Photoshop filter to the Photoshop logo in a bid to ‘seek the essence of the software.’
There’s also a Tumblr where each of the melon-twisting effects is shown as an animating gif.
