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Vincent, Come Back!

Posted in Miscellaneous on August 28, 2010| 1 Comment »

Excellent one this, doing the rounds on Facebook. They rarely make such mistakes out in Ballymount in fairness.

I’m really missing Vincent Browne. Nothing wrong with Sarah Carey, I’d always read her pieces in The Irish Times and she’s more than decent on d’telly, I would say to the point where I can see her landing a role somewhere else down the line. Yet Tonight With Vincent Browne is the late night fireworks that you stay up for, no matter what time your alarm is set for the next day. I miss seeing Vincent, the left-leaning rising voice of reason, lash into people. He’s come a long way from his days with Young Fine Gael anyway. Sam from this here blog uploaded a gem over on his UCD Hidden History site with a piece dealing with student politics in UCD in 1967. Look at young Vincent! Talk about rubbishing that great Father Ted line about all getting more right wing as we get older….

Vincent Browne will return to the programme on Monday September 6th. I look forward to it.

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One of my five a day.

Posted in Miscellaneous on August 24, 2010| 2 Comments »

A recent post from Sam on Dublin Meal Deals has saved me more than a few quid so far. Still, I was happy with this find today.

Nude on Suffolk Street offer a cup of coffee (like an actual sit-in-the-place cup) for €1 between 3 and 5pm midweek. I’m a bit of a coffee addict and reckon this beats most chain-shops even on value, and is of much higher quality.

As someone who hates the Starbucksisation of the coffee trade, this is a goodie. A nice break with a copy of Totally Dublin there for free and all. I don’t know anything about the food, that’s for you to try out if your pockets permit it, but if you’re as fond of a simple cup of coffee as me you should be happy.

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A Rough Guide To Dalymount Park (1993)

Posted in Football Articles, Miscellaneous on August 21, 2010| 1 Comment »

I’m just back in the door from the land of Irn Bru and battered Mars Bars (lots of dog walking ahead….) and have heaps of LOI fanzines to upload here on Come Here To Me soon, as I’d like to get them back to people. Still, I thought this was worth getting up in its own right.

From ‘The Dalymount Roar’ (Issue 7, Jan/Feb 1993) comes this excellent guide to the home of Bohemian F.C, Dalymount Park. Examples of areas of note include the area “where the four St. Pats fans stand”, the “Segregation area which has remained since Rangers game in 1984” and the “Crown Paints sign which fell down two years ago”.

If you’re interested in football fanzines, we’ve got Only Fools and Horses, Hoops Upside Your Head and Osam Is Doubtful up already. As with last time, thanks here go to Kevin Brannigan for getting this to me, and the owner Neil Mulvey.

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Vandals wreckin’ the gaff.

Posted in Miscellaneous on August 21, 2010| 3 Comments »

Oh when the Saints…. That ‘No Future’ image has been there for yonks now, by The Clarence.

This is up by Dublin Castle, excellent.

One of my favourite progressive figures in Irish history, Liam Mellows, is appearing all over the city at the minute in a propaganda poster. “It would be folloy to destroy English tyranny in order to erect a domestic tyranny that would need another revolution to free the people”

In Temple Bar, this is excellent stuff from Karma. How long was it there before I noticed?

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Run To The Hills….

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , on August 17, 2010| 1 Comment »

Jack Wills, just off Grafton Street. They dress the gentry, apparently.

Not exactly breaking news, but there’s not a whole lot of original thought going on in Irish telly-making land apparently, and it was only a matter of time until this happened.

This gem of a piece in De Hedild had me in stitches.

Ireland’s take on the hit MTV show The Hills, entitled Fade Street, has been one of the best-kept secrets in the television world for the past year — but the Herald can exclusively reveal the stars of the upcoming programme.

RTE are describing the show as ‘constructed reality’, which I presume means real people in very unreal situations, involving scripts and large doses of nonsense.

The “Cross-Platform Sponsorship Opportunity” PDF can be read over here, and is a great way to kill three minutes.

The Look
The drama takes place in the heart of Fade Street. The name is taken from the Dublin 2 Street… its bars and
shops represent the essence of the show. Dublin and Ireland will be shown at its gritty cinematic best using
locations that are cosmopolitan as well as traditional, portraying a vibrant location with a great sense of history and aspirational future.

A southside Paths To Freedom, anyone?

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Monsters in the Golden Pages.

Posted in Miscellaneous on August 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Two great videos showing Dublin in a most unusual context, the first being the excellent new one for the Golden Pages iPhone App, which comes from KrookedType. Between the toys in the attic and the books under the stairs, there’s nothing in the house anymore without a mind of its own.

Then, I spotted this one over on the Dublin Community Blog, and my mind was blown. How amazing is this?

Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ’4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with their virtual identities.

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Found the camera.

Posted in Miscellaneous on August 13, 2010| 5 Comments »

I’m by no means a photographer. Far from it. The camera? A simple Fujifilm ‘tourist on holiday’ effort. Still, when it vanished for a few days I felt lost. I like to just walk around Dublin and snap things. Here’s a few from a beautiful Thursday.

Do you believe in ghosts? These ones anyway. The classic Pacman ghost appears by two, up by the NCAD.

No Al Calcio Moderno: The Green Brigade are a Celtic Ultras supporters group. I like this sticker lots. Bob Marley having a kickabout.

Our man in the White House: In the excellent Kenny’s, Lucan village. Farewell pints were had for Simon, off to Taiwan. So long, young Simon.

(more…)

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Watts was a different kettle of fish altogether.

Posted in Dublin History, Miscellaneous, tagged on August 6, 2010| 7 Comments »

adifferentkettleoffishaltogether art space on Ormond Quay.

The adifferentkettleoffishaltogether space at Ormond Quay was previously Watts Gun Shop. There for years, I was always fascinated by it. A bit like Rory’s Tackle Shop in Temple Bar (still there and with a snap of a happy Amy Winehouse in the window…), it was a bit of a throw-back to a much older Ireland.

Today, it is an art-space used by Mannix Flynn and Farcry productions. Most ironically, in 2006, they staged an exhibition there where……well, I’ll let them explain it

In 2006 Farcry constructed an arms dump and, along with members of the public, actively engaged with a process of placing firearms beyond use. It was a cultural mirroring of the John De Chastelain process that had begun with the provisional IRA. Over a period of 4 days 200 people entered the building on Ormond Quay and saw for themselves upfront, close and personal what it was that we were letting go of. The gun has been phased out of Irish politics and a new process of achieving aspirations has begun.

Anyway, in the last few days this showed up in the family and I thought it worth posting. If anyone has a photo of Watts back in the day please post it!

'With Compliments' card from Watts, 18 Ormond Quay Upr.

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“You’ll never play for Rovers….”

Posted in Football Articles, Miscellaneous, tagged , , , on July 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »

This city is carved up nicely in terms of the domestic game.

There’s no love-in between us all either, we might share a passion for a sport but our teams are unique and history dictates these things, doesn’t it? A Bohs/Rovers derby can match the best of them for passion, a bit of the old tribal division and atmosphere. Still, one couldn’t help but think the humour and passion of supporters of the domestic game shined through tonight on television, with Shamrock Rovers supporters greeting one of the largest teams in Italian soccer with a rendition of ‘WHO ARE YIS’, before applauding Allesandro Del Piero onto the pitch towards the end. Some players you just have to clap on the pitch, really.

He hadn’t kicked a ball before ‘You’ll never play for Rovers” was echoing around the stadium. Excellent. Pity the crowd were so loud we couldn’t hear Allesandro go “Thank Christ!”

What a shame we won’t see the League of Ireland Dublin Derby tomorrow night on telly, we’ll have to wait for Manchester United.

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A very untraditional truck.

Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, tagged , on July 29, 2010| 3 Comments »

Walking up by the newly refurbished Workmens Club, next to that lovely hotel Bono owns, a friend notices an unusual truck pass by.

“Have a look at that!? Is that…..”

It is. It’s Ronnie Drew.

For once, Come Here To Me had a camera at the right time. Wouldn’t get that on Pimp My Ride.

*My thanks to Pól for tweeking the snap a bit, as it was quite dark. His photo-blog can be seen over here, and features more than a few gems.*

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Even the Grauniad have a go…

Posted in Football Articles, Miscellaneous, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 29, 2010| 4 Comments »

As a Bohs fan, the “Quote of the day” in the Guardian gave me a laugh last Friday, the day after Rovers ahem… “historic” victory over in Tel Aviv in the Europa League Qualifiers. While I won’t begrudge them their glamour tie / day in the sun / whatever you call it tonight, I’ll watch it, and  the return leg with interest and my heart being pulled two ways- hoping to see an Irish side do well against a time of Juve’s stature, and at the same time, hoping Rovers fail miserably in everything they do.

But anyways, the quote. It wasn’t the comment from Juventus forward David Lanzafame that got me giggling but the remark after it:

“We do not know Shamrock Rovers and therefore we have to study them through videos” – Juventus forward David Lanzafame looks forward to next week’s Big Vase third round qualifier against Irish side Shamrock Rovers in Robbie Keane’s hometown of Tallaght. If Juventus lose, they won’t be the first Old Lady to have been mugged in the notoriously rough Dublin village.

A bit harsh you might say? Never… But considering what the majority of LOI fans call our Wicklow brethern, the accompanying picture spoke a thousand words…

The Guardian get it so right...

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A Hidden Gem; The Tivoli Carpark.

Posted in Miscellaneous, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 27, 2010| 4 Comments »

Last week, I got a mysterious text from a good friend who said they had something to show me. The instructions were to meet on Grattan Bridge at 16:45, and that it should only take an hour or so. Intrigued, I showed up at the alotted time, and after a ten minute walk, we ended up in the carpark of the Tivoli Theatre, off Thomas Street. Adorning the walls are hundreds of pieces of the finest in Dublin Graffiti, some of which can be seen below. Full set can be found here.

Huge piece, this must have been over 20ft tall.

Sek II - Maser 2010

From the great Maser.

Anywhere is Paradise with you...

When I do good, no one remembers. When I do bad, no one forgets.

As I said, follow the link above for the full set, theres 34 pictures in total, all available for re-use under the Creative Commons License. But best if you go visit it for yourselves; The Tivoli Theatre is on Francis Street, just off Thomas Street. Just ask the nice man on the gate, you’ll be sorted.

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