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Finding the perfect coffee.

Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2011| 5 Comments »

I finally tried a coffee from The Bald Barista, and can confirm that yes…it lives up to the hype. Buzz, take a bow. I truly recommend making the walk up to Aungier Street and trying one for yourself.

The Sweetest Thing, RIGHT at the bus stop on Bachelors Walk is also worth of note for an incredible Hot Chocolate.

While one of these two can expect to see me dip into the shrinking wallet once or twice a week (my ma bought me a Subbuteo flask two weeks back in an attempt to stop me spending so much money on coffee out), I was recently delighted to spot a €1 coffee on offer again. You might remember we posted about Nude, which was offering a take away or sit in coffee for a quid. Nude is dead and gone. The ever-changing convenience shop next to Molly Malone is offering a €1 take away coffee or hot chocolate. The coffee is obviously nothing to write home about, but hey- it’s a quid.

Anyone got anywhere to recommend for a good coffee in Dublin? Anywhere cheap(ish) or with decent offers?

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Are General Election jokes still funny?

Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »

On a more serious note, if you’re looking for Justin Bebo, he’s staying in The Morrison Hotel. God help the staff.

The clean-cut teen star is living up to his whiter-than-white reputation by warning staff at his top secret five-star hotel to lock up the mini bar and lay on the milk shakes.

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Get the fashion police.

Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2011| 3 Comments »

I don’t know how I’ve never stumbled across oldfootballshirts.com before. I only recently saw a picture of myself in a horrific oversized Saint Patrick’s Athletic Autoglass effort from the 90s and realised that back then, kits in the league were pretty ugly at best. A quick flick through a few old programmes confirmed this.

Over on Old Football Shirts, they’ve got a pretty sizeable selection of kits from Dublin League of Ireland squads.

A few howlers of choice would be:

Shamrock Rovers Away 93/94

Pats away 1990.

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Never change a crappy system!

Posted in Miscellaneous, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on March 2, 2011| 2 Comments »

We have a few posts on here about Dublin’s Nitelink, including one of my favourite DFallon posts ever,  about his travails in Leixlip at silly o’clock in the morning having fallen asleep on one (if you haven’t read it yet, do so.) In the last couple of months, we’ve shared scary news of an impending cancellation of the service, set up a Facebook page to save it, and broken news of its current status.

Dublin Bus- Never change a crappy system.

So, when I saw the above stickers on Henry Grattan Bridge, I couldn’t help but grin and get the camera out. I don’t know how long the stickers have been about but what I do know is I WANT ONE.

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Football is back.

Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Cliftonville versus Saint Patrick’s Athletic, played out under a beautiful yellow smoke last night in Inchicore. Glad to have it back.

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Grangegorman Military Cemetery

Posted in Dublin History, Social History, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on March 1, 2011| 18 Comments »

As mentioned before, last weekend was a busy one for CHTM! with involvement in the Punky Reggae Party gig on Friday night, the Sounds of Resistance gig on the Saturday night and the latest pub crawl scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Before the pub crawl though, JayCarax had lined up a walking tour of Grangegorman Military Cemetery for us, led by Ray Bateson, author of “They Died by Pearse’s Side,” historian and specialist on those killed in the Easter Rebellion, 1916. We were joined on the tour by comrades from Story Map, the Chasing the Light photography blog, and Irish History Podcast.

Grangegorman Military Cemetery

Grangegorman Military Cemetary lies 2.5 miles from the GPO, but ask any Dubliner about it’s existence and who’s buried there, and you can be guaranteed you’ll get a blank face from the majority of them. Located on Blackhorse Avenue, not far from The Hole in the Wall pub, it is the resting place of British soldiers who died or were killed in action on this island. Whilst, for obvious reasons, a large portion of our interest was given to those who died on Easter Week, there are graves scattered around of those who came/ were sent here to recover from wounds received in the trenches of World War 1 and a long line of graves for those who died in the sinking of the RMS Leinster in 1918.

5th Lancers, 25th April, 1916

Military casualties (not counting police) in the Easter Rebellion were around the 120 mark, with those killed serving a variety of different battalions though most notably, large numbers from the South Staffs and the Sherwood Foresters battalion, killed in the Battle for Mount Street Bridge. Battalion badges are marked on the headstones along with the name of the person buried, their rank and the date of their death whilst a very few have personal inscriptions. Matching the battalions and dates from the gravestones with the known events in Easter week can give us an idea of where these British soldiers met their deaths. The grave above bearing the date 25th April and the soldier’s battalion, the 5th Lancers, suggests for example, he was wounded the ambush of the ammunitions convoy by Ned Daly’s garrison at the Four Courts and died the following day.

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An excerpt from ‘Conticuere Omnes’ (August 1858)

Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

But my like you shall ne’er see again,
I found for the most of you places,
You are the most ungrateful of men
And I’m bound to say so to your faces
For the rol, lol the rol, lol the ree…

I was struck by this excerpt from a great song my brother produced from ‘The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads’, written to sum up the feelings of a ‘Crafty Codger’ upon the overthrow of his political party. It was hard not to be reminded of the sentiments over the course of the last 48 hours, with some excellent ‘I FIXED THE ROADS’ speeches delivered on the way out the door. The little people just don’t know what’s good for them….

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Spotted around the city.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2011| 1 Comment »

Love it, more of this kind of thing please.

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The Tweet Machine never lies.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Twitter was full of talk of Morrissey enjoying a gig last night in The Workman’s Club on the quays. DJing there on occasion, we obviously feel 10% cooler this evening than we did yesterday. Hot Press have a great little bit on it over here.

The famed crooner was one of about 100 music-lovers in attendance and appeared to be loving Squarehead’s lo-fi sound. “It was very strange, really bizarre,” singer Roy Duffy says, “(bassist) Ian nudged me and said ‘Morrissey’s at the back of the room!’ but I wear glasses so I actually couldn’t see anyone. Then he kept fucking up, and Ian never fucks up, he’s the one of us who never makes mistakes, so I knew he must be serious!”

Recently, we had the bizarre An Phoblacht review of The Smiths Hatful Of Hollow from 1984.

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It was the night before polling…

Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2011| 3 Comments »

Averil Power: Not big on street art. Still, she'll fix the road.

Averil Power, a politician who isn’t even a local councillor for Fianna Fail yet is everywhere all of a sudden (Don’t mention the husband, Fionnan Sheahan of the Indo…), is apparently distributing a leaflet tonight which reads:

“To keep Sinn Féin out, Averil needs your No.1 vote or next highest preference. Only Averil can beat O’Toole. Vote strategically and KEEP SINN FÉIN OUT!”

There is an interesting thread on the subject over here, on Politics.ie. Politics.ie is crack for many of us tonight, who find it hard to live with the media blackout the night before the madness.

Anyone get anything funny in the door tonight? In 2007, Palmerstown and Clondalkin residents received an anonymous leaflet regarding Mary Harney, who was a Progressive Democrat candidate in that election, warning a vote for her was a vote for health cuts. Lets see what we all wake up to tomorrow….

Update: Copy of leaflet can be read here.

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They always bring crap bands to my college, like 3 members of S Club 7.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Great to see the Rubberbandits drop in to DIT earlier on today, launching their new single, the stupidly catchy ‘I Wanna Fight Your Father’. 3,000 students, two plastic bags, one great song.

The video for the song was shot in the capital too. 45,000+ hits in a day?

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Dublin Book Festival 2011

Posted in Events, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 24, 2011| 1 Comment »

Without trying to sound like that bloke from that T2 ad, we really are lucky in this city to have been gifted some of the most talented authors, poets and playwrights the world has seen. Only fair then that we should have a festival to celebrate this talent; the Dublin Book Festival takes place in Dublin next week, 2nd – 6th March.

Dublin Book Festival 2011

There are a few highlights, the full programme is available here, but below are a couple of things I’m going to try make it along to:

WEDNESDAY 2 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
National Library of Ireland
in Association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature & National Library of Ireland:
DUBLIN, ITS PLACE IN LITERATURE
Eileen Battersby in conversation with Anthony Cronin and Dermot Bolger
Tickets: €5
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THURSDAY 3 MARCH 6.30pm: Up for Discussion
The Cube, Project Arts Centre
CURRENT AFFAIRS: STEPPING INTO A BRIGHTER FUTURE
Vincent Browne, Shane Coleman, Justine McCarthy, Stephen Kinsella, Ken Foxe
Tickets: €5
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SATURDAY 5 MARCH 1.00pm: Come Celebrate!
Launch Area, City Hall
LAUNCH OF THE LAST IRISH PLAGUE – THE GREAT FLU EPIDEMIC IN IRELAND 1918-19 BY CAITRIONA FOLEY
Admission Free – no booking necessary.
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SATURDAY 5 MARCH 4.00pm: Enjoy!
DUBLIN LITERARY PUB CRAWL
Join Dublin actors on a tour of Dublin’s literary pubs, a 2 hour tour departing from Dublin’s City Hall
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this tour, but you do need to reserve a seat. Check the official site for details. Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
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SUNDAY 6 MARCH 3.00pm: Up for Discussion
Council Chamber, City Hall
TOMORROW’S WOMEN: WHAT’S NEXT FOR MNÁ NA hÉIREANN
Victoria White, Dr Ann Matthews, chaired by Susan McKay
Tickets: FREE – admission is FREE to this event, but you do need to reserve a seat. Check the official site for details.  Tickets can be collected from Dublin’s City Hall on the day of the performance only. Tickets must be collected a minimum of 30 minutes before the scheduled performance.
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As I said, check the official site here for full details of how to book tickets, there might be something that catches your eye. Unfortunately the Ross O’Carroll Kelly talk is sold out, the only one of the festival to have done so!

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