Cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening lost his mother last month.
You’ll already be familiar with many of the names mentioned in her obituary.
Propmaster and ‘Hollywood blacksmith’ Tony Swatton forges a Damascus steel replica of Gimli the dwarf’s Bearded Axe from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
Previously: Forging The Adventure Time Sword
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChvEsOI8I8
A Russian pitbull demonstrates the tenacity, physical strength and terrifying batshittery of the breed.
Dublin was rubbish.
But the movies were great.
The capital’s most disreputable midnight movie club Hollywood Babylon have a new season of movies at the Light House Cinema this summer and autumn – all from 1984, illustrated in a trailer here, by Alan Dunne.
Screenings include:
Beverly Hills Cop – Saturday September, May 18
Purple Rain – Saturday, June 15
Revenge of the Nerds – Saturday, July 13
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Saturday, August 17 September 14
Dune – Saturday, September 14 August 17
Terminator + Streets of Fire (Double Bill) – Saturday, October 19
More here
No favours, movies, or pints were given for this post.
Former Taoiseach John Bruton will speak at a ‘curtain-raiser’ Iona event in Christ Church Cathedral tomorrow night.
Eek.
Previously: To What Do We Owe This Pleasure
Laura Hutton/Photocall
H/T: Election Literature
“To have a man who spectacularly failed to protect children, who didn’t deign to pick up a phone and warn parents about the monster in their children’s midst, preaching about their protection is an affront to abuse victims, who were abandoned to the depravity of Smyth and clerics like him.
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“…Cardinal Brady is more prominent than ever and still oblivious to his own breathtaking hypocrisy. Has the Church learned anything? Does it know anything about humility, or repentance, or sensitivity? Clearly not, when the threat of excommunication is being hurled at those politicians who support legislation designed to save lives — women imperilled by pregnancy.”
“Was Brendan Smyth, who began abusing children in 1952, ever threatened with excommunication? When his decades of disgusting abuse were revealed, did excommunication occur to any senior cleric? Evidently not, because, after he died, just one month into a 12-year jail sentence, in 1997, he was buried in Kilnacrott Abbey and a headstone describing him as ‘reverend’ was erected.”
Colette Browne in today’s Irish Examiner.
Cardinal Brady was silent about child abuse. Now, he should be silenced (Irish Examiner)
Previously: Cardinal Daly: More Than Just A Note-Taker
Dublin Yikes
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In Kenny’s backyard.
Mayo News reports:
“A hearing date has been set for the first ever prosecutions in the country for the non-declaration of the household charge. A judge at Westport District Court last week put the charges in for hearing on July 4 next, for the non-declaration of the household charge against Pether Anthony (Tony) Keegan of Belcare, Westport.
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“Summonses were issued against Mr Keegan in relation to six units located at The Quay, Westport. Mayo County Council became the first local authority in the country to issue summonses against householders for the non-declaration and payment of the controversial household charge.“Tony Keegan’s High Court challenge has questioned the validity of the household charge. He has named ministers Phil Hogan, Alan Shatter and Michael Noonan as among those he says are in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
“Mr Keegan’s challenge states that the defendants wilfully neglected and disregarded a demand for information and answers about what he claims is an unlawfully concocted local government household charge.”
*Popcorn
First household charge case to be heard this July (Mayo News)
