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THE IRISH MUSEUM of Modern Art will reopen tomorrow with four new exhibitions and a host of family events.
The building, located at the Royal Hospital on Military Road in Kilmainham, has just undergone a major upgrade.
The highlight of the weekend activities is a 1920s-style Tea Dance on Sunday afternoon with Brian McCarthy’s Big Sound Band and dancers from the Macushla Dance Club in the 17th-century Great Hall.
There will also be dance and drawing workshops, pop-up exhibitions, talks by artists and curators and kids’ classes.
Artist Rhona Byrne will help children construct their own shelters and dens with supplied materials in the courtyard, while the whole family can make their own pieces in a workshop that explores an exhibition of iconic works from the IMMA collection.
The works of Eileen Gray, one of the most celebrated and influential designers and architects of the 20th century, have come straight from the Pompidou Centre in Paris will be displayed for the weekend.
Events take place on Saturday from 10.30am to 5.30pm, and on Sunday from noon to 5.30pm. Full details are on the website www.imma.ie
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Probably get suspended sentences or let out early if their guilty, so not as big an impact as would be if we had a properly functioning judicial and prison service anyway. Money for old rope.
@Eddie Garvey: could you do the job? Would you just prefer to see an end to trails, rambert judges in the criminal courts are drawn from the barristers.
@Éamonn OKane: well having seen some excellent barristers in action and some absolutely atrocious ones as well, I probably could do as a good a job as the atrocious ones, aside from that my comment was mainly aimed at the pointless nature and expense of dragging people through the courts to suspend their sentence for no good reason or to sentence them into a system that can’t accommodate them for the duration of their sentence.
Snouts in the trough!
@Brian Hunt: would you work for that rate of pay?
@Éamonn OKane: He probably doesn’t work at all.
@Sal Paradise: For once in your one year of posting here, you’re right, I’m retired. I’ve spent a lifetime working so that scr#&ts like you can spend all day on The Journal!
Why are comments about the priest in Cork closed. Is this more censorship on behalf of the Journal?
Their list of top earners is staggering & worthy of viewing when you consider their sob story. This rather elitist section of society just want more & more, totally removed from everyday life of ordinary working people. They are a section of society that didn’t experience austerity during the Troika era like everyone else. Part of our failed Judicial system that is failing victims of crime on a daily basis. I see ROG out batting for them as well, so no doubt they will be given what they want. Having witnessed some of these people in action & how they treated victims from various Inquiries & Tribunals, it’s sickening to watch them looking for more, greed.
@SV3tN8M4: That’s a bit like moaning about Clerical Officer pay because you saw the Asec pay scale.
@SV3tN8M4: every word of this is incorrect.
I could never be a defence barrister because I would only defend people who were innocent
@stella Ormes: That’s exactly what defence barristers do, only at the end of the process is guilt decided. If the defendant pleads guilty then you’re advocating, not defending.
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