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As An Talamh: Notes On Rave In Dublin directed by James Redmond. Coming soon.

On any given weekend thousands of people, regardless of age or social class, party to underground dance music in Dublin city.

Over the next six months Dublin Community TV will be working on a two part documentary to capture the raw energy and labours of love that keep us buzzing each weekend. Part one will go right back to the old-skool.

The emergence of our original rave nation, the people, clubs, labels and pirates that broke ground for repetitive beats in the city.

(Thanks Charlie Doran)

From The New York Times:

From trading floors to polling stations to the streets of cities across Europe, the message appears increasingly to be that countries cannot cut their way to fiscal health. They need growth, too.

Taking advantage of growing voter outrage, fringe parties like the Greek ultranationalist group Golden Dawn and France’s far-right National Front, which won nearly one in five votes Sunday, are gaining strength, evoking comparisons to the Weimar era, which ushered the Nazi Party into power.

“The formula is not working, and everyone is now talking about whether austerity is the only solution,” said Jordi Vaquer i Fanés, a political scientist and director of the Barcelona Center for International Affairs in Spain. “Does this mean that  [Angela] Merkel has lost completely? No. But it does mean that the very nature of the debate about the euro-zone crisis is changing.”

Call for Growth Rises to Counter German Push for Austerity (New York Times)

Europe’s Elites Feel The Backlash (Ian Traynor, Guardian)

Thirteen.

Last week it emerged they had purchased up to 21 properties in Dublin, most of them in south city areas, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and are still the owners of the bulk of these apartments.

It has now emerged that the couple, who are aged 71 and 63 respectively, are also the owners of 13 apartments in the Isle of Dogs area of London.

It is believed the couple bought these apartments in the late 2000s. Efforts to contact them yesterday were not successful.

You tried twanging on the guy-ropes, did you?

Evicted Pair Own 13 Flats In London (Colm Keena and Eoin Burke Kennedy, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Bruce Arnold.

Columnist with the Irish Independent (under new management).

“The tribunal findings make defence of the past impossible. The attempted rubbishing of the Mahon Tribunal by former Fianna Fail ministers is embarrassing.”

Bruce Arnold, (Irish independent, March 26)

“As Mr [Denis] O’Brien has said, not only is the Moriarty Tribunal not a judicial tribunal, it forms no part of the administration of justice and is not part of any legal process. It is a political apology for the law’s inadequacies in wrestling with supposed malfeasances.”

Bruce Arnold (Irish Independent, April 23)

“One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.”

Kent Brockman, The Simpsons

Thanks Mr Worf

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tjbpA5T7F0

A brilliantly-edited BBC video of highlights from this year’s Six Nations.

Includes scary tackle (4.36), that Tommy Bowe try (4.45) and Hotty McHot, Richie Grey (9.20).

He’s no Bressie but he is ridiculously hot.

Thanks Jamie O’Neill

 

Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks.

Sadly, all is not as it seems. See this article from a few months back.

Still pretty damned awesome though.

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