Orange Order Parades in Belfast

 

Chair of Culture Company 2013, Martin Bradley, said: “It’s fantastic that as Derry-Londonderry glories in its status as UK City of Culture the city is playing host to an extensive programme of Orange Order events.

“Given that 2013 is such landmark year for the city, marking as it does the 400th anniversary of the granting of the city charter and the building of the city walls, it’s particularly fitting that Derry-Londonderry will be the location for key elements of the Orange Order’s flagship celebrations.”

 

UK City of Culture to host Flagship Twelfth (Grand Orange Lodge)

(Albert Gonzalez / Photocall Ireland)

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Aisling Healy, from Clonmel, Co Tipperary, volunteering in Ethopia.

Donnacha Maguire writes:

I‘m just back from Ethiopia where VSO made a number of cool videos about Irish people volunteering to fight poverty.
Above is Aisling’s video. She is from Clonmel, works as a secondary school Irish teacher and is involved in local politics.

 

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renditionEnda Kenny in the Dail  this morning replying to questioning from Clare Daly.

He added: “It even behooves you to make comments that are not true.”

Behooves, eh?

A report from The Open Society Justice Initiative, released in February:

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Pic via EuObserver

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Artist Elizabeth Patterson‘s hyperreal pencil drawings of rainy windshields.

Pencil drawings.

Each one is inspired by of several of her own photographs but the finished pieces are considerably more detailed, immediate and dramatic than the source material.

More of her work can be seen at her website, and also here.

(Video: La galerie Louis Carré)

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