Last year we told you about Storymap by Tom Rowley and Andrew Flaherty, a site which ties stories to locations around Dublin. The natural progression is to provide it all wrapped up in an app so you can find out about where you’re standing.
Enter Jamie Osler and Eoin Rogers, two final year DIT students who developed the Storymap iPhone and Android apps under the supervision of Bryan Duggan.
The app has all the current stories (with more promised) from the site grouped into various categories (but you have to guess at what the colours mean as there doesn’t seem to be an explanation for them).
It also strings them into a variety of themed walking tours across the city, but the killer feature of the app is to create a custom tour for you between where you are and where you’re going.
An annoyance though is that watching a video takes you out of the app and into Safari (obviously this is on the iPhone).
Available on the Apple App Store (€2.69) and Google Play (€2.69).
Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
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France Football magazine has raised questions about world body Fifa’s awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar,alleging it was tainted by corruption and collusion involving top figures in the game.
To back up its claims, the magazine quoted what it alleged was an internal e-mail in which Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke confirmed that the tiny Gulf state had “bought the 2022 World Cup”.
Valcke subsequently claimed a misunderstanding and insisted that the tone of the e-mail was “light-hearted”.
He then kicked a ball boy in the head and went for a spit roast.
French Magazine Questions Fifa’s Awarding Of 2022 World Cup To Qatar (Straits Times)
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Miniature bonsai tree sculptures made from wire by Ken To.
Demolish the Arts block
UCD’s contribution to a chalk-based global art project with a plan to make a wall in the college’s Newman building where students ‘can write what they aspire to do before their time is done’.
This cannot end well.
(Thanks Kevin Herrera)
What might have been over the Liffey.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Today is the 105th anniversary of opening of Sir Hugh Lane’s Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (in temporary premises in Clonmell House, 17 Harcourt St)
I thought some Broadsheet readers might like this pic of what was intended to be the original location for the gallery, designed by Lutyens (who also designed the War Memorial at Islandbridge) and spanning the River Liffey just down from the Ha’Penny Bridge. More about what happened to the plan here
Minutes ago.
Leah Carroll writes:
The new car wash in Clontarf [Dublin]. Mmm, salty.
How about Le Cooler?
We have one – yes, ONE – box of Le Cool Dublin’s Box of Cool (Valentine’s Edition) worth a heart-throbbing €25 to give away.
If you only get one box of cool this Valentine’s make sure it’s this one.
Packed to the gills with more damn hipster love-centred accoutrement than is perhaps necessary it tells your loved one, in no uncertain terms: I dig you. You’re cool .
To enter just finish this sentence:
I would like to give my partner a Le Cool box of cool owing to the fact that…
Lines close at 4pm (winner announced at 5pm)