Shiv – Letting You Know

We’ll always have Paris.

Zimbabwe-born, Kildare-raised singer Shiv (top) excites with this lush neo-soul ballad from her debut EP Me 2 Me, out on December 4.

The video was shot in the French capital by Santiago Sanchez and directed by Shiv.

Shiv says:

“It’s about the moment I finally realised that holding onto whatever was inside me wasn’t helping, that in releasing my deepest self and being comfortable with what that meant, I could finally let go of the fear that had embedded itself in my relationship with myself and my creative process.”

Nick says: A torch singer in The City of Light.

Shiv

Don’t know they’re born.

In our day, we were lucky to be masked and locked up if it meant being spared a beating.

Foróige

A powerful message to members of the marginalised, oddly-shaped cranium community.

Aidan ‘Weird head’ Fitzmaurice tweetz:

Plz like and share to show how connected we all are…

Stunning and brave.

Previously: Aidan Fitzmaurice on Broadsheet

A nicely baked short by Matthew Salton – and all true for all you know. To wit:

In 1968 Patty was a flight attendant, who realised she could smuggle prime pot in from Jamaica with relative ease, given her line of work. She is 77 years old now, and this is her version of what happened.

curiousbrain

Réabhlóid GAA.

A new one-hour documentary from Loosehorse for TG4 that tells the story of how hurling ‘redefined itself as a sport in the 1990s to truly become our national game’.

Linda Ni Ghriofa writes:

For over a century, the hurling spoils were shared among the traditional three superpowers of Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary. As the decade began there was no sign of the aristocracy being unseated. Then, in five minutes in 1994, the hurlers of Offaly sparked a revolution.

Along came a collection of upstarts to destroy the old order, and go down in history as Ireland’s most charismatic, colourful and enduring personalities….

…Diarmuid Lyng, for whom the ‘90s provided the inspiration for his own stellar inter-county career with Wexford, is an authentic and affectionate Narrator.

Réabhlóid GAA is the story of how, in one decade a sport, and a country, changed forever.

Réabhlóid GAA on TG4 December 6 at 9.30pm.

Finally.

Neck and face coverings we can all get behind.

Heather Finn writes:

Colourful neck warmers hand loomed in Galway. Knit from soft merino wool spun in Donegal. Perfect stocking filler from Heather Finn knitwear.

Heather Finn

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheeet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’.

This morning.

Aviva Stadium, Dublin 4.

Wellness advocate Sile Seoige and Former Irish Rugby Player James Downey at the  launch of a 20ft Christmas tree in honour of St. Francis Hospice and its Charity Christmas appeal.

The Hospice, is calling on the public to sponsor a light for €6 on its ‘Tree of Life’, in memory of a loved one or for somebody experiencing difficulty in their lives.

Visit here.

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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