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STUCK FOR SOMETHING to do this Valentine’s Day?
Whether you’re single or romantically attached, we’ve got you covered.
From 12pm – 6pm, Generator Hostel will play home to more than 40 stalls selling romantic knick-knacks, vinyl, vintage clothing and everything in between. The Facebook event also promises live music, yoga and a screening of Love Actually.
What more could you want?
The Big Blue Bus in The George Bernard Shaw is one of the city’s finest purveyors of pizza. This Valentine’s Day, they’re serving up a three-course dinner for just €40 per couple.
Breadsticks, pizza, shisha pipe — sounds positively rosemantic to us.
This Saturday, The RnB Club is hosting an all-day party across three Dublin venues — Wigwam, The Button Factory and Bar Tengu.
Dubliners are invited to start the evening off with dinner and Prosecco in Wigwam followed by MC Melodee in The Button Factory and a proper R&B disco in Bar Tengu.
We don’t know about you, but nothing says love and romance to us like getting down to the jams of Ginuwine, Snoop Dogg and TLC.
Valentine’s Day isn’t just for loved up couples, you know. The Bernard Shaw has singletons covered with Love Me Tinder, which they describe as “a night of hookups, slow jams and lots of Keith Sweat”.
Most crucially, however, customers who show their Tinder app behind the bar can get €3 glasses of prosecco all night long.
*downloads Tinder immediately*
The premise of Sing Along Social is simple — gather a group of strangers in a dimly lit pub and let them scream their hearts out to the pop songs of their youth. After all, what could be more cathartic and therapeutic?
This Sunday, you are invited to pop along to the Valentine’s Day edition and sing along to the likes of Total Eclipse of the Heart and Nothing Compares 2 U.
Just make sure you don’t hurt anyone when you punch the air with your first.
For those of you with an aversion to all things lovey-dovey, this might just be the party for you.
Described as a “deliciously tacky and outrageously opulent affair,” it will take place in a top secret location in Dublin this weekend and attendees are invited to show up in “your most divine antique ghetto freak chic attire”.
Sounds like our kind of party.
Fancy snuggling up in the cinema? Light House Cinema is screening Amelie, The Birdcage and The War of the Roses as part of their specially curated Valentine’s Day programme.
Love comes in all forms and this Valentine’s Day Light House Cinema has something for everyone. From oddball outsiders, dysfunctional duos and manic married couples, it is clear that even the bitterest artichokes have hearts.
Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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Why not just have 12 sessions in a row there if the French refuse to change it?
Why not just mass boycott the plenary sessions in Strasbourg? If there’s > 75% of MEPs in favour, surely no votes could be held in Strasbourg without a quorum of some significant number of MEPs?
Typical of the French attitude of wastefulness and trying to maintain the rouse of French power in Europe. It’s sad really.
Paul, I would imagine that’s exactly what will happen in the near future. It sends a message and it’d play well with the media and electorate (to the extent that either pay attention to the European Parliament).
Much like Washington D.C’s site at the border between the northern and southern states, Strasbourg’s status as a symbol of French and German irredentism has long since passed into irrelevance. This is a case of France’s famous pride and pigheadedness. Nothing more.
@Fergal – Indeed. It’s such typical bureaucracy out of France.
Perhaps the MEPs could de-fund the movements? I’m not 100% familiar with the EU setup but I believe the parliament has the power of the purse and would require a simple or double majority (either of which it could attain with 75% support).
I believe the tendency after removing the funding behind something tends to remove the support and entertaining of it.
@Brian MEP – Any private member’s motions over there. Couldn’t you stir the pot and introduce some bills to de-fund this nonsense? Aren’t you a member of the leading party?
Brian Hayes amongst clowns? Must feel right at home there..
So that’s where our 67 billion went
WTF!! If it keeps the French happy then give Strasbourg 20m every year as compensation and stop this ludicrous political shenanigans that’s wasting 9.5m a month.
How many doctors, nurses, hospitals, research, could that employ?! How many lives could be saved, lives improved by 9.5m a month!
That’s a fu(king disgrace!! No other words are strong enough.
Been going on for the last 30 years
The original gravy train, I presume we’re paying for the tickets.
Kings playing croquet and sipping champagne in their lofty palaces while the peasants starve at the door. Thats the sort of arrogant wastefulness that breeds revolution!
If so many MEP’s are against this then why not boycott the Strasberg meeting? If 3/4 of MEP’s don’t turn up then they don’t have a quorum, and no decisions can be taken. Stop talking Brian and try doing!
Never realised this – total joke of an arrangement – provides a lot of ammunition for anti EU parties
They even contract the entire Thalys fast train for €10mln per year. Accountants refused to sign off their books for 20 years. Lots of waste, corruption not reported here. The Dutch accountant who spilled the beans got fired-he wrote a book. Europe no accountability at all, what do we ever hear about what goes on there-used to live in NL lot more news coverage. Good article this one though.
And €1.5bln for the new ecb office frankfurt
That’s the great thing about spending other people’s money . You still have all your own left after you spend it & it’s even better when you don’t have to explain or justify it .
If the french ask to touch our corporate tax again we nlknow what to harass them with
Offft! I love seeing this stuff here. When you become disenchanted with how Irish politics “works” you tend to look at the source.
This has been going on for so long it is hard to fathom and it is just the tip of the iceberg that refuses to melt.
IIf Hayes continues to be vocal about this with the rest (mainly Brits) he will have done some of the best work done by any Irish MEP.
Ah Brian Hayes this only happens because you are totally irrelevant to 99.99% percent of Europe. Can you not just go away on your gravy train and not disturbed us?
I HAVE heard about it, and have always strongly objected to it. A sop to the French to assure them that they are equal partners with the Germans – and the citizens of Europe pay billions for it. Enough with this WW2 crap and let’s start being practical. The fact that numbnuts Hayes has suddenly become aware of a fact which existed from the foundation of the EU is neither here nor there. Big whoop.
I wonder do the MEPs said to be opposed to this still claim their travel and subsistence allowances ? Surely not !
Brian’s description of this is technically incorrect, they decamp from Strasbourg once a month to spend three weeks in Brussels.
Strasbourg is the official primary seat of the Parliament.
It would be better if the Parliament stayed permanently in Strasbourg rather than Brussels to physically separate the EU institutions so that there’s no single euro bubble where all decisions are made. Similarly the council shouldn’t meet in Brussels. At that moment we’ve got an elitist centre of power developing, a concentration of decision makers and lobbyists.
The majority of MEPs and staff are against the travelling circus and voted against it on many occassions . Brussels can facilitate everything but France and Germany have a veto on changing the current costly circus.
Strangley enough, today in Strasbourg Luke Ming Flannagan MEP voted in favour of keeping the status quo… he certainly is enjoyingthe gravy train since arriving in the Parliament.
Some of his other strange decisions was refusing to support a resolution against online sex abuse against children and sanctions against Russia … he certainly has become a lap dog for Putin.
As usual it’s the voters fault. They elect politicians who will give them stuff for “free” by raising taxes. They blow most of it. This is just a blatant example.
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