Posted in music on Sep 30th, 2009 6 Comments »
Dave Lovering, the drummer with the Pixies, performing magic at the International Comedy Club in Dublin the other night.
Let’s hope the rest of the band can perform a little bit of magic to….oh never mind.
I got the video from Nialler9, who got it from Handjob films, and as always many thanks.
Posted in Irish Society, politics/Ireland on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
[Just a reminder about tomorrow’s march in Dublin. This is a re-post from last week.]
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON SEPTEMBER 30TH?
Where Will You Be On September 30th? from DCTV on Vimeo.
This government is already slashing a range of services and programmes. Now, after McCarthy Report, the Community Sector is going to become the focus for […]
Posted in Irish Economy on Sep 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
In November 2007, Standard and Poor issued a research update on Ireland and its ‘triple A’ rating. While the rest of us were screaming about the dangers within the Irish economy, these so-called experts were saying:
The ratings on the Republic of Ireland are supported by the diversified, resilient, and flexible nature of its economy, and […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, Ireland on Sep 28th, 2009 7 Comments »
[This came in as a comment, but it’s more suited as a post in itself. This shouldn’t be taken as a No endorsement from Dublin Opinion which is, after all a group blog. I’m voting No, but that’s just me.]
Appeal of polish bloggers
date: 27.09.2009
We vote NO!
Posted in Ireland on Sep 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
Friday night was Culture Night here in Dublin, and elsewhere too I suppose, but you’ll forgive the Dublin-centric focus here at Dublin Opinion. Culture Night essentially seems to be a night when all the cultural places you’ve meant to visit recently are open late in the evening one night in the year, and all for […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
As the date for their CDP protest on 30th September nears Gerry Flanagan and Daragh O’Connor from SIPTU come into the DCTV studio to talk to Monica Harkin about organising the community sector and fighting the cutbacks.
SIPTU Community Branch in the studio from DCTV on Vimeo.
Posted in music on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
In the great Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death, Marius Goring descends to earth from monochrome heaven to sort out whether David Niven should be dead or alive, that is, on earth or in heaven. In what has been hailed as one of the first post-modern/meta-narrative moments in cinema Goring (as […]
Posted in music on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Mark Fisher of K-Punk, who also writes for The Wire magazine and a number of other publications has a new book coming out in November. Actually, he has two, the second is a book of essays by various authors writing about Michael Jackson, The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson, which he has edited.
“The essays […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks on Sep 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
While clearing out the papers at home over the weekend I found myself looking at the Irish Times’ letters page from the previous Saturday and noticed a couple of familiar enough names under the topic heading Controversy over nama that I hadn’t noticed before. One was by Graham Stull, who comments regularly on Irish Economy, […]
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Irish Economy, Greens on Sep 20th, 2009 6 Comments »
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