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Bangkok. Thailand, yesterday.

Gulp.

D writes:

Aidan Murphy and his best friend Paul Quinn are almost finished on their 15,000km cycle from Dublin to Sydney to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society and the Alzheimers Society (€24k raised to date). They have been cycling for almost 7 months now and they are due to reach Sydney on the 20th of April 2013.
On reaching Bangkok, the boys got a bit emotional about the whole thing. At some ungodly hour, it was decided to mark the occasion with a tattoo on Paul’s left a*s cheek. The next (seriously hungover) morning both faces and bum cheeks were red when reasilation hit home as to what they had done… We are trying to help raise as much money for their two charities before the trip ends. The trip is entirely funded by Paul and Aidan’s own funds so every single cent is going to the charities.

 

Donate here.

Paul and Aidan’s Facebook Page

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Corona has pulled its sponsorship.

CEO of the festival for almost 30 years Mick Hannigan has been made redundant while festival programmer Una Feely has also lost her job.

Reason?

The festival’s financial situation.

But, according to a press release from Mr Hannigan to Donald Clarke, of the Irish Times, the festival has made a surplus every year for the last four years and that Corona’s sponsorship amounted to just 16% of thei festival’s budget.

Anyone?

Programmer and CEO of Cork Film Festival Made Redundant, Irish Times) 

Film Festival Chief and Programmer Made Redundant, Dan Buckley, Irish Examiner) 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz33ICD7pqE

What you may need to know:

1. It’s the other Die Hard in The White House movie – the one that doesn’t have Gerard Butler in it.

2. It’s directed by German auteur Roland Emmerich, who has  blown up the White House over the course of a film-making career, which includes such masterpieces as Independence Day (1996), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 2012 (2009).

3. It stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx as President Django, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Girl, and JAMES WOODS.

4. Roland Emmerich gives great trailer.

5. Broadsheet Movie Pitch: Kick Aras, a topical thriller where a militant bankrupt builder holds the Irish parliament to ransom, and only disgraced Garda Jonathan Rhys Meyers can bring him down. Featuring Brendan Gleeson as The President Of Ireland, Domhnall Gleeson as a weaselly Junior Minister and Brian Gleeson as Squeebag.

Release Date: June.

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