Art, media, opinion and ideas
Hand in your coats, turn right and you'll come to the Yeats Rooms. The two paintings hang side by side on your left. One, The Liffey Swim, is probably one of the most famous modern Irish works.
This request for investigation, with accompanying documentation, will arrive with the Standards in Public Office Commission tomorrow or the next day. RequestAn Smaoineamh Mór Limited is a company having its registered office at Arthur Cox Building, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 (Company Record Number 478844). It was registered on the 16th December 2009 with the CRO.
Whenever I encounter Flying Ant Day, I stick it on the blog to check the date's movement from year to year. Today was flying ant day in Artane and the Docklands. The rest of the country presumably keeps to its own time.
At the end of My Liveblogged Year, I promised a follow up on my evolving opinion of Liveblogging's form and promise. This post is not that article. Instead I'm reacting to the announcement of the GoogleTV service.
Last month I wrote an article for the Irish Times asking some questions regarding the Your Country Your Call competition. As a result, members of the competition 'Steering Group', including Professor Von Prondzynski, the President of DCU, have elaborated on their previous positions both on those pages and in radio interviews. Some questions have been answered.
In the unlikely event that I wanted to run a national competition offering a cash prize of mysterious origin in exchange for total ownership of an idea of such staggering- almost mystical- potency that it could restore a nation of modern-day serfs to spectacular success, I think I'd have to go into it without a preconception of what that idea would look like.
From Tuesdayoi 23rd March's Dáil record, a Parliamentary Question about Your Country, Your Call.
Everything is lost. Newspapers are doomed. You've read it on the Internet.
I have recently spent more time than is healthy flicking through the suggestions proposed to Your Country, Your Call, Ireland’s latest doomed exercise in Magical Thinking. They are hilarious, of course, but there’s a desperate edge to much of my laughter. Because the ideas are not just stupid.
This is more a question for the media, who have once again embraced the chance to print a 'good news' story.
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