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Professor Ahern’s Food Emporium.

February 28, 2011 by Donal

Some of you may remember the absolute shitstorm that followed the National University of Ireland Maynooth making Bertie Ahern (yes, that Bertie Ahern, of the Drumcondra Mafia) an Honorary Professor in the School of Business and Law. Now, the University are looking for a new name for our canteen.

I have proposed we name it after our most infamous member of staff. If you’re a member of staff or student at the university, please follow our lead. The Bertie Bowl may be a pipe dream, but we can make Bertie’s Breakfast Bowl a reality. He deserves it.

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Spotted around the city.

February 28, 2011 by Donal

Love it, more of this kind of thing please.

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The Tweet Machine never lies.

February 25, 2011 by Donal

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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Final push for the Punky Reggae Party tonight

February 25, 2011 by Sam

After months of planning and publicising, the Punky Reggae Party Vol. 9 is finally upon us! We hope to see as many of you as possible tonight down in Murray’s on O’Connell Street. Support your local DIY club scene, get down early!

It was great to get a little mention in Le Cool yesterday and in today’s Ticket section of the The Irish Times. Thanks to M.H. and J.C.

The cheaplist closes at 6pm this evening so sign up now!

Doors open at 9:30pm and the set times are as follows:

10.00-10.40: DFallon
10.40-11.20: NinjaBill
11.20-12.00: Carax
12.00-1.00: Stealin’ Gately
1.00-2.30 : The Dirty Dubsters

So, who’s going to be there? Well as Mr. Marley said…

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“Keep the wages low enough, to pay the interest….”

February 25, 2011 by Donal

Captain Moonlight, you’ve done it again. Mick’s Manifesto is song of the day.

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Smallest book ever printed in Dublin

February 25, 2011 by Sam

From the National Library of Ireland Facebook:

Think this is the tiniest book ever printed in Dublin, unless of course, you know different… Printed in 1764 by W. Sleater, it’s “Biblia, or, a practical summary of ye Old & New Testaments”.

(c) NLI

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TradeUnionTV – Staff collect final payment from Sunday Tribune offices.

February 24, 2011 by Donal

Great video as ever from Paula at TradeUnionTV. I’ll miss the Sunday Tribune. The telly reviews were side-splitting, the northern coverage cutting edge and they were the first to expose Johnny Cash O’Donoghue and the other Soldiers of Destiny who got a bit carried away.

Mad to hear some of these people talk, they’ve been ‘a face on a page’ for years in this house.

Best wishes to them all in future.

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One for your diary

February 24, 2011 by Sam

An interesting seminar coming up next month in reaction to last year’s fantastic Redrawing Dublin book.

UCD Humanities Institute, Gradcam and Dublin City Public Libraries present

‘Redrawing Dublin: interdisciplinarity and interrogation’: a public seminar in response to Paul Kearns and Motti Ruimy, Redrawing Dublin (Gandon Editions, 2010)

Monday, 14 March 2011 | 14 March 2-4pm 2011
Dublin City Library and Archive Seminar Room, Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, Dublin 2

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It was the night before polling…

February 24, 2011 by Donal

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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Too cool for school.

February 24, 2011 by Donal

Local school is closed tomorrow anyway, with the elections.

Still, we’re delighted with this mention in Le Cool. Come down, say hello.

We’re over here.

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

February 24, 2011 by Donal

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

February 24, 2011 by Ciarán

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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