‘This Charming Man’ by the Smiths rendered in the chuptune style of Super Mario Brothers should be an abomination unto the Lord.
And it is.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTH0pXZQ5I4
Beautifully handled by the ‘voice of Crufts’ Peter Purves, there.
He’s seen this kind of sh*t before.
Ouch
at
Seriously jarring stuff from NAMA Wine Lake:
Is it time to demand the Minister come to the Dail and make a statement justifying what now seems a bewilderingly stupid action, which has the potential to strand this country without feasible funding sources in 2014 unless this forthcoming referendum is passed? The July 2011 ESM Treaty made access dependent on fiscal discipline, but the Fiscal Compact now being put to the country goes far further in handing over sovereignty and control of our national finances to a Europe which, in recent times, has not shown itself to be particularly sympathetic to the domestic economic problems of this country. Maybe on 2nd February, 2012 Minister Noonan thought a referendum on the Fiscal Compact would not be necessary and that ratification of the Compact was a done deal. That would have shown serious contempt for the deliberations of the Attorney General, and would also have been incompetent. The Minister now has very serious questions to answer.
The Mahon Tribunal has declared that years of video of witnesses giving evidence will never be released.
Officials with the planning corruption probe have said it will release its long-awaited final report soon. However, the judges with the inquiry have now announced that evidence at hearings, which were electronically recorded, will never enter the public domain. Several taoisigh, dozens of former ministers, TDs, developers and lawyers appeared in the witness box between 1997 and 2008. The stored video footage includes several appearances by Bertie Ahern, whose finances were thoroughly probed by tribunal lawyers. The inquiry was originally set up in 1997 to deal with allegations of planning corruption in north Dublin and its remit later included payments to politicians and officials.
Thousands of hours of footage from 900 days of recording.
*shudder*
Still.
Mahon Tribunal will never release video evidence (Irish Examiner)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0kSzCpycg&feature=youtu.be
The Dead Flags – You Got It Wrong.
The very excellent The Dead Flags play Stag’s Head Raw (“new Irish music acts in an intimate setting” above the Stag’s Head pub), Dame Court, Dublin, on Sunday night.
We shall be there.
€8. 8pm
Because hip-hop is animated.
A cool 3D mashup for Chicago retro-rap duo Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks by New York animator Aaron Kemnitzer.
Temporary Displacement by Australian sculptor Louisa Dawson. Gritty and rough on the outside, immaculately tiled on the inside.
It’s absurd, and yet we want one.
Like Obama, they’re coming home to find the apostrophe they lost somewhere along the way.
The Saturday’s to Play Una Healy’s Home Town (Tipperary Star)