Brendan Downey

🎉Huge congratulations to Leo and Robin Downey who were part of the winning team that won the u18 Leinster Darts Title 🎯🏆

Nick Cave's new tribute to Shane MacGowan, which doubles as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor (from his newsletter, doesn't seem to be linkable yet) "A beautiful and damaged man, who embodied a kind of purity and innocence and generosity and spiritual intelligence unlike any other."

@nuxnix 15 and a bit...

Read this, then read it again, then make sure everyone you know reads it, too.

when the words match the deeds

Sadly, we lost #johnpeel today, 19 years ago. He introduced us to much great music. Thanks to him, #JohnWalters and @prodnose (20 p, well-deserved) for giving us #TheFall @COTFShow @ChurchOfTheFall youtu.be/-KIEueB1g9g?si…

Fonsie Mealy gives chapter and verse on starting that book collection businesspost.ie/property/fonsi… via @businessposthq

I’m constantly in awe of more and more Palestinians refusing misleading framings from mainstream media. This @Yaraeid_ interview on Sky News is an absolute must-see.

By far the most powerful Israeli response I have seen. This 19 year old girl survived the horrific massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri. This is her message to her fellow Israelis and to the world. Watch the whole thing.

Politics Joe have excelled themselves with this.

@soundstoryuk 'Ether' shone a light on the "dirt behind the daydream" as did 'Armagh' by Au Pairs. Powerful influences on a 14yr old me. "Please send me evenings and weekends" became a stock phrase of mine.

On this date in 1979 #GangofFour released their debut studio album. What are your favourite tracks from 'Entertainment'?

@soundstoryuk Amongst all the favourites on this album, 5.45 is a masterpiece. I assume this song is the source of the album title. The simplicity of melodica,drumming, strong bass and sharp guitar, informative lyrics, powerful crescendo. Monument to GOF's musical skill and integrity.

It’s raining… 8. Cats and dogs (English) 7. Old ladies and sticks (Welsh) 6. Like a pissing cow (French) 5. As from Esteri’s ass (Finnish) 4. Penguins headfirst (Uruguayan Spanish) 3. Pilot whales (Faroese) 2. Wheelbarrows (Czech) 1. Men (hallelujah)

The late, great West Limerick poet Michael Hartnett on his grandmother, a native Irish speaker from north Kerry. The last few lines of this poem remind me for some reason of the work of Shane McGowan. #Poetry

More about Salgado Salgado was the only son of a cattle rancher who wanted him to become a lawyer. Instead, he studied economics at São Paulo University, earning a master’s degree in 1968. While working as an economist for the Ministry of Finance (1968–69), he joined the popular movement against Brazil’s military government. Seen as a political radical, Salgado was exiled in August 1969. He and his wife fled to France, where he continued his studies at the University of Paris. In 1971, while on an assignment in Rwanda as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, he took his first photographs and soon decided to teach himself the craft. He became a freelance photojournalist in 1973. Over the next decade Salgado photographed a wide variety of subjects, including the famine in Niger and the civil war in Mozambique. In 1979 he joined the prestigious Magnum Photos cooperative for photojournalists, and two years later he gained prominence in the United States with a riveting photograph that captured John Hinckley’s attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. By the mid-1980s Salgado had begun to devote himself almost entirely to long-term projects that told a story through a series of images. By this time he also established his style: impassioned photographs grounded in great formal beauty and strong compositions, which lend a sense of nobility to his often downtrodden subjects. He won the City of Paris/Kodak Award for his first photographic book, Other Americas (1986), which recorded the everyday lives of Latin American peasants. This was followed by Sahel: Man in Distress (1986), a book on the 1984–85 famine in the Sahel region of Africa, and An Uncertain Grace (1990), which included a remarkable group of photographs of mud-covered workers at the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil. In 1998 Salgado and his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, helped to found the Instituto Terra, a project that endeavoured to restore a degraded portion of rainforest in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was the subject of Wim Wenders’s documentary The Salt of the Earth (2015). In 2021 Salgado was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale by the Japan Art Association.

@Jenny_Mansch @ShaneMacGowan @moyaclannad It's nearly forty years ago, and that's years of pride in knowing that at the time we realised it was all very special. Wendy May on Saturday nights!!

@badnyurseff @ShaneMacGowan @moyaclannad Ah The Mean Fiddler and Town &Country Club! Fond memories 🎶

Thank you @moyaclannad

@JohnStack57 @Smiths_Official @TheSmithsMuseum @MozMarrLyrics @DickieFelton @Denisc1962Denis @bernieslaven @JMarrvellous @Johnny_Marr @mikejoycedrums @MikethePies John, it's now a book shop, Dubray or similar. The Smiths were on fire that night.

@badnyurseff @Smiths_Official @TheSmithsMuseum @MozMarrLyrics @DickieFelton @Denisc1962Denis @bernieslaven @JMarrvellous @Johnny_Marr @mikejoycedrums @MikethePies Ha Ha Brendan , different times . Is that building still there if it is what is it now ? The old Savoy in Limerick was a magestic building, real old music hall . What a shame it was torn down , saw a lot of great bands there .

Today 2pm RTE Radio 1 @Smiths_Official @TheSmithsMuseum @MozMarrLyrics @DickieFelton @Denisc1962Denis @bernieslaven @JMarrvellous @Johnny_Marr @mikejoycedrums @MikethePies