Rathmines, Dublin, this evening.
Previously: No Parking Cone
Thanks Peter Ryan
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Eamon Dillon
Kieran writes:
I got a letter yesterday from my local TD Lucinda Creighton responding to emails I have sent to her about the local property tax.
Lucinda has been busy writing to Michael Noonan about some of her constituents’ disapproval and she forwarded me one of the letters she received back from Noonan (above). I find all the bullet points laughable but especially:
“The tax structure was known to the purchasers at the time”
and
“The revenues have already been spent on the provision of public services.”
The tax structure did not state that x number of years from now you will be made pay a property tax on top of the stamp duty. I’d also like to see evidence of how revenues spent stamp duty on the “provisions of public services” Is there a money trail that can hightlight exactly where the stamp duty payments went? German unsecured bondholders perhaps? Ex-ministers’ massive pensions maybe?
Oh, make up your mind for pity’s sake.
Within the last hour.
Pic: Emily
The Suicide charity Pieta House’s annual Darkness into Light fundraising event with Electric Ireland got underway at 4am with double last year’s turnout.
An estimated 30,000 people turned out for dawn walks at 20 locations around the country to show support for suicide prevention, including the flagship walk at Phoenix Park, Dublin, above.
From top: Gillian O’Brien, Dania Romiddi and Julie Little; The runners’ registration centre in the Phoenix Park; Aoife Kavanagh; runners completing the course; Rita O’Byrne and Liz Conroy; on the 5km course; as before; Louise O’Beirne; Tara Monaghan and Lucy; Lauren Tuite and Chantelle O’Neille, partcipating in memory of James Tuite who was 20 years old when he took his own life.
Thanks Tara Walsh
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Cool Hunting recently cornered Bally Technology’s Director of Game Development, Brett Jackson during a visit to Las Vegas for an insight to the:
…surprisingly complex innovation, psychology and design behind the slot machines that illuminate so many casino floors.
Highlights from illustrator Jeffrey Brown’s new book Vader’s Little Princess (the sequel to Darth Vader And Son)
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Flavorwire‘s compilation of some of the most egregious mummies in film, just in time for Mother’s Day (as opposed to Mothering Sunday) tomorrow.
A phantasmagorical, effects-laden, multi award-winning 2010 short by writer, director and VFX whizz Brent Bonacorso who sez of it:
Loosely based on several hundred interviews with children about their dreams, ‘West of the Moon’ is the story of one man’s lost love and his strange path to redemption, aided along the way by a gambling robot, a wayward monkey, and a healthy dose of determination.