I really don’t like this idea,
Of bullying poor North Korea,
Just let Kim Jong-un,
Play with tanks and have fun,
There’s no need to take the urea.
John Moynes
(NYT)
No Foam Hats
at
And only one lady fan.
The be-hatted and be-capped watching Ireland play Hungary in the Mardyke Arena, Cork, 1939.
Good times.
Ireland’s reputation for producing sought-after authors of fantasy fiction has been further bolstered by the announcement that Irish Times Arts Editor Shane Hegarty (above) has secured a “substantial six-figure” sum for a four-book series of comic adventure novels.
Hegarty (38) from Skerries, north Dublin, was the subject of a bidding war at last week’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, with HarperCollins winning out for his signature for the English-language rights.
[He] began working on the “comic adventure” concept a year ago….The story, geared towards eight- to 12-year-olds, centres on a child called Finn who is “the last in a line of legend hunters” living in an Irish town.
Six figures.
Substantial.
*lights cigarette, stares out window*
Fantasy book deal for ‘Irish Times’ journalist Shane Hegarty (Joe Humphreys, Irish Times)
Taken yesterday by Jason Walsh.
Anyone?
“D’ writes:
Looking for a coffee table on Adverts.ie and found this mirror. Pearse McAuley was in jail as a ‘POW’ for the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.
He brings him everywhere.
Last night outside the Savoy, O’Connell Street, Dublin.
Earlier: What Do You Mean You ‘Weren’t Invited’?
Thanks KC (Today FM)
Maria Daly writes::
“[RTE’s] Ingrid [Miley] is in Galway but the backdrop is Athlone. If it doesn’t happen in The Pale they haven’t a clue.”
Second (and final) offering from Totally Dublin art director, Lauren Kavanagh
Who sez:
Dublin is the only place I know of where you thank the driver when alighting from a bus. It probably stems from the lack of middle doors, causing us to barge out past people trying to get on. Such haphazard behaviour would never happen in Germany or the UK, but it’s nice to say ‘ta’.
Dublin 2 minutes ago.
Iona Pair
at
Further to legal threats by David Quiinn of the Iona Institute against two Trinity College newspapers.
Rónán Burtenshaw, editor of Trinity News, responds:
On February 6th, 2013 we reported that David Quinn, head of Christian conservative think-tank the Iona Institute, had issued legal threats against The University Times over articles they had published the previous month. The news story can be read here.
On February 8th a lecturer in the Law School of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr. Eoin O’Dell, who is acting on our behalf in this case, informed us that Mr. Quinn’s solicitors had made contact in complaint at the article. This was followed by three solicitors’ letters in which Mr. Quinn’s representative made five demands in relation to the story: that it be retracted, that we issue an apology for its publication, that we offer Mr. Quinn a right-of-reply inside the next print edition, that we offer his representatives editorial oversight over a subsequent article on The University Times‘ settlement of their case, and that we make a contribution to Mr. Quinn’s legal costs in pursuing this case. We were unwilling to meet these demands.
In settlement we offered to correct a factual error contained in the article by means of clarification. Despite this offer being rejected we added this clarification in the interests of accuracy on the 11th of March: “This article initially stated that Mr. Quinn “contested” Google’s claim that the Iona Institute’s YouTube account was not closed for reasons of censorship. In fact, while he initially contested this, he later accepted that this was an “automatic procedure on their part“.”
On March 13th we also ran a news story on the University Times’ settlement with Mr. Quinn. This article can be read here. We did not give Mr. Quinn’s representatives editorial oversight over this article, but we did include reference to the clarification we added to the original news story.
We have encouraged Mr. Quinn and his representatives to pursue this matter through the Press Council but, at the time of writing, the threat of legal action remained outstanding.
Some details of this case were published by UCD student newspaper The College Tribune on April 1st.
Trinity News’ position is that we stand by our reporting and are prepared to defend it.