This Week on NewsFour: 25th-29th August

posterTuesday
Pearse Street Library announced a discussion with Mick Brown about his book “The Past has a Great Future: Mick Brown’s Dublin”, which features photos of Dublin that he took from 1966 to the late 1970s.
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Wednesday
Global Ireland Football Tournament 2014
The Global Ireland Football Tournament 2014 kicked off yesterday, as the Cedar Cliff Colts take on Penn Manor Comets in the UCD Bowl. Although they are only 41 miles apart back home they have travelled 3,200 miles to go head-to-head as part of 2014’s Global Ireland Football Tournament.
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Thursday
A Letter from Oxfam Ireland’s Chief Executive Jim Clarken
On Thursday we published a letter of thanks from Oxfam Ireland’s Chief Executive to the people of Dublin for their generous donations, which have helped their work worldwide.
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Friday
Cinema Roundup August 29th
This week sees thrillers Mystery Road and Night Moves hitting the big screen, along with horror As Above, So Below, true story Million Dollar Arm, romantic comedy Obvious Child, and Brendan Gleeson’s latest film The Grand Seduction. There’s also a chance to catch some 80s action cheese with The Lighthouse showing a double bill of Cobra and The Running Man, while the IFI celebrate Sheridan LeFanu’s 200th birthday with The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.
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Hot Off the Press
Meet your new Local Councillors
It’s time to meet your new Councillors, all clean and shiny ahead of another five years. Can these guys work together for the better of Dublin? And more importantly, what are they going to do over the next five years?
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Back to School Budgeting Tips from MABS
It is that time of year again and as soon as the children have their summer holidays, the shelves of the department stores are packed with school uniforms and new school bags, reminding us of the pending expense lurking at the other end of the summer months. Not to mention the booklist that comes home with the children on the very day that the holidays begin.
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Post Election Innovation
Like it or not, election posters are part of our lives. Whether it’s Local, General, European, Referendum or Presidential Elections, the one constant is the thousands upon thousands of posters that appear quickly but linger for weeks, and sometimes months, after the vote has been decided. Individuals and groups all over the country have found new and interesting uses for them, and many are now receiving posters directly from the candidates or simply going out and gathering up what they can find.
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Local Boys Remembered in Song
The tragic deaths of Dylan Lacey and Daniel Lynch in August of last year sent shockwaves through the Ringsend-Irishtown community. The two local lads lost their lives in a car crash on North Wall Quay, leaving family and friends devastated. In the wake of their passing, a group of friends decided to commemorate the memory of the two gentlemen by coming together to write a song to convey their emotions about the tragic event.
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Sandymount Gospel Choir
Looking for something to do on those cold winter nights? Why not join a choir? Sandymount Gospel Choir is singing out loud for new members. They are a non-professional group, comprised of tenors, basses, altos and sopranos. An ability to read music is not necessary, just your voice and enthusiasm.
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St. Andrew’s Student Exchange
St. Andrew’s Resource Centre has kick-started their annual student exchange programme. This year, the programme will see students from Malta and Finland travel to Dublin for a week at the end of this month, to partake in the festivities of the South Docks Festival and get accustomed to the local community within Pearse Street.
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Valentine’s Days
In a World Cup year, conversation will often turn to the question of who were the greatest footballers ever to have played for Ireland. Debate can be fierce, and everyone will have their own choice of those who should or should not be regarded as Ireland’s finest. John Giles, Liam Brady, and Ronnie Whelan will certainly be among those regularly chosen, and few of us would argue with their selection, but ask the wise football men of Ringsend and you will always hear another name mentioned, a name from the far and distant past: Val Harris.
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The King of Cambridge
It is often said that when God closes a door, He opens a window. Rarely do instances of supposed failure evolve into stories of heroic success, but that is certainly true of the case of Irishtown resident Alan ‘King of Cambridge’ Kinsella.
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Heritage Week 2014
The week dating from August 23rd to August 31st is this year’s designated Heritage Week, and there is a healthy course of Dublin 4 based events, all free of course, and many kid-friendly, for when the little ones run out of phone credit or have to be prised away from the couch and the games controller for their own good.
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Artist in Profile: Charles Hulgraine
Situated on the Shelbourne Road is Charles Hulgraine’s Ballsbridge Gallery, a contemporary arts space that opened in 2013. Hulgraine is a very easy and open interview subject, happy to share the fruits of a lifetime love affair with the arts. He is a painter, print maker, draughtsman and collagist.
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Yeats’s Big Day on Sandymount Green
Sandymount Green came alive on 15th June with birthday celebrations for William Butler Yeats, who would have been 149 on the day. Anthony Jordan, who was Principal of the Enable Ireland School for many years, was the driving force behind the celebrations. For 15 years, he used to bring his pupils down to Sandymount Green on Yeats’s birthday to read poetry, and brought Yeats’s work into the classroom whenever he could.
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Begin a Charity at Home
It’s well known that charities everywhere are feeling the squeeze, with many people who would have given regularly having to cut back on what they can afford to give. This leaves a lot of people wishing they could do more. Well, it’s probably a lot easier than you might think to do something that will make a real difference.
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Tall Ships Return To Dublin
Three tall ships with over a hundred young trainees berthed in Dublin Port on the morning of Friday 30th May to help kickstart the weekend’s river festival. The flotilla was escorted up the River Liffey by the Irish Naval Services yacht LE Creidne and featured trainees from both north and south of the border, aged between 16 and 30 years old.
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The Capitol Tower, Nature Boy and the Hollywood Sign
In the mid 1950s, after Nat King Cole opened our shop – Tara Records in Tara Street – we went to see Nat at the Theatre Royal, now long demolished. Michael Tyrell invited Nat and his trio to drinks in our apartment over the shop. It was a great party. I recall Drogheda-born Louis Mullen, who was resident vocalist in the Crystal Ballroom, asking Nat about his first big hit, Nature Boy.
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Party Hard, Live Clean
The global roll-out of a new kind of start to your day has come to Dublin. Morning Gloryville is coming to the capital, a little over a year after its birth in London last May. The premise is simple, but eyebrow-raising for some. Perhaps it’s best framed as a series of questions: are you a morning person? Do you always aim to go to the gym before work but never quite summon up the motivation? Do you get to the gym only to realise you don’t want to be there? And do you enjoy dancing?
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The Story of John Cecil Driver
The next time you are in Ringsend, stop and have a look at the barber’s shop that faces the front doors of St Patrick’s Church. It used to be Cecil’s barber shop and I am sure it will bring back some very happy memories, as it did for me, to all those who had their hair cut by either Cecil or Jimmy Driver.
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