Incroyable.
Ou – vous savez – peut-être pas.
Via: Brian Colhoun
After the release of the updated Broadsheet iPhone app, Dublin based indie developer Neil Turner (of Bus Nearby fame) asked if we’d be interested in servicing that vital 1% of our mobile users – Windows Phone – for the killer price of the fame and glory it’d bring him.
The app went live over the weekend and Neil has done a brilliant job. if you have a Windows phone, do us a favour and download it from the store.
Android users: We’re still working on an app for you and hope to have it pass final muster sooner rather than later. Sorry.
Broadsheet.ie on Windows Phone
‘The Vincent Browne Song’ by Derek Flynn.
I know it’s much too late in the day,
I really should just go and hit the hay
But people are tweeting bout Vincent, Vincent Browne
How will I sleep without knowing what poor soul
Vincent has chosen to carve a new assh*le?
Are you watching Vincent, Vincent Browne?
I know it’s crazy to stay up so late,
Especially when I’ve got to go to work at eight,
But Fionnan Sheehan’s throwing a hissy fit
And they’re always great
There’s Constantin G making all the ladies swoon
He makes an IMF report sound like he’s reading Mills & Boon
Are you watching Vincent, Vincent Browne?
What if Vincent and Willie O’Dea get in a fight?
I could watch their eyebrows duelling all night
Are you watching Vincent, Vincent Browne?
And then there’s the unbridled joy of the time
Spent watching Vincent mangle every newspaper headline
And how many times can he screw up saying, “Tweet Machine”?
Now I know the show’s not always pure gold
In fact, sometimes it’s like watching your granddad in a home
But I’m still watching Vincent, Vincent Browne
I’m still watching Vincent, Vincent Browne
More of this here.
We feel it has a pleasing bang of the Deschanel/Gordon-Levitts.
Via: Philip Nolan
Bishop Peter Connors (above) of the diocese of Ballarat appeared, at the government-lead inquiry into the handling of child sex abuse cases by the Catholic Church in Victoria, Australia, today
He was asked by Committee member David O’Brien about Fr Paul Ryan a paedophile who was moved from parish to parish.
O’Brien: “Was there awareness of Ryan’s sexual problems from early on?”
Bishop Connors: ”Yes.”
O’Brien: “Was there persistent conduct in not warning parishioners?”
Bishop Connors: ”I can’t comment.”
O’Brien: “Was there a persistent determination to retain him despite the high risk?
Bishop Connors: ”Yes.”
O’Brien: “Was there a persistent disregard for victims?”
Bishop Connors: ”Yes.”
O’Brien: “There hasn’t been any investigation or explanation of how a priest like Ryan could be shifted around?”
Bishop Connors: ”No.”
O’Brien: “The church has effectively facilitated child sex offences by leaving known offenders in place?”
Bishop Connors:”I agree with that.”
O’Brien: “Very unChrist-like, isn’t it?”
Bishop Connors: ”Absolutely.”
Catholic Church ‘facilitated’ abuse (The Age)
Thanks Mark Geary
The Crock
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Liberty Hall, Dublin, engulfed in rainbow yesterday
Thanks Shane Griffin
Senator Ronan Mullen is an anagram of A Meaner Nun, Stroll On.
— Bernie Linnane (@Berlinnaeus) April 29, 2013
Bernie’s on a roll.
Unless YOU can do better?
Pic: (ronanmullen.net)
Earlier: That Which We Call A Rose
Shared Space
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The village of Poynton in the UK has instituted a style of urban design originally pioneered by the late Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman – getting rid of traffic lights, pavements and other traditional road architecture to calm traffic and reduce accidents.
Share play though, in shareness.
Lots of Cars and Trucks, No Traffic Signs or Lights: Chaos or Calm? (Atlantic Cities)
Artist David Barton portrays characters from the Simpsons in the style of Old Masters: Rembrandt’s Homer, Groundskeeper Willie Van Gogh, Marge with the Pearl Earring and Apu Dali.
What you may need to know.
1. PONYDANCE! is a new Irish documentary, from Broadsheet faves Doris/Magee. Watch Doris/Magee’s Greatest Hits HERE.
2. It was produced for TG4’s Splanc! strand. TG4 rocks: it shows Breaking Bad and westerns on a Friday, and it makes Ros Na Run, possibly the most mental soap in history.
3. Ponydance are probably the coolest dance troupe in Ireland right now. Fact.
4. The second coolest dance troupe in Ireland are probably the Lords Of Strut – they’re in PONYDANCE! too.
5. It premieres at the Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival next month.
6. Declaration of interest: ‘Preposterous’, of this parish, once had a cameo in a Doris/Magee production. His finest hour.
Release Date: May 17th
Kiwi motocross freestyler and reigning Red Bull X-Fighters World Champion Levi Sherwood narrates slow motion footage of his favourite aerial trick.