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THE NINTH ANNUAL First Fortnight – Ireland’s mental health festival – kicked off this week, but there is still a host of events coming.
Now in its ninth year, First Fortnight 2018 sees live music, film, theatre, discussion, sport and arts events staged to “create open discussion and understanding of mental health problems, and challenge prejudice and discrimination”.
Among the events now taking place across Dublin and selected venues nationwide include Lunatic, There I Go, a powerful new play based on the memoir Bird’s Nest Soup by Hanna Greally which is currently being staged at the Civic Theatre until tonight. The play recounts Greally’s 20-year incarceration in an asylum.
For the first time First Fortnight will examine aspects of technology and mental health in Don’t Worry be APPY, a discussion event in Dublin’s Trinity College on 10 January.
Mental health advocate, author and DJ Nikki Hayes will chair #InOurHourOfNeed, a panel debate on current mental health policy held in association with Mental Health Reform and A Lust For Life in Dublin’s Wood Quay venue on 10 January.
This year’s music events will include four Therapy Session events in Cork and Dublin, two of which will be curated by Delorentos and All Tvvins. Delorentos will perform an intimate and special three-piece acoustic set as part of the First Fortnight Therapy Sessions at The Workman’s Club, Dublin on Friday, 12 January that will also feature Limerick trio, Bleeding Heart Pigeons.
The annual Big Gig also returns on 13 January in Dublin’s Tramline and will feature Rusangano Family, Ailbhe Reddy, Le Boom and A. Smyth, while this year’s Banter event will feature An evening with Barry Hyde of The Futureheads.
Other events taking place as part of First Fortnight 2018 include: heArts and Minds, a series of events within the National Gallery of Ireland discussing art and mental health, a special screening of the movie Loving Vincent and a post show discussion in the stunning NGI courtyard; The Public Diary, an interactive multimedia installation of personal diary entries collected at last year’s First Fortnight; Corinthian: Sports & Mental Health debate featuring former Kildare footballer Dermot Earley; screenings of acclaimed films Loving Vincent, 32 Pills and The Departure from Emmy award-winning Lana Wilson; and OutStraight – a concept-based show combining spoken word/ hip-hop theatre with visual art graffiti.
First Fortnight co-founder and project manager JP Swaine said:
“First Fortnight has become synonymous with fresh, creative and innovative ways to spark the national conversation on mental health. Each festival that passes seems to encourage a new crop of artists to work creatively in response to mental health as an issue in Irish society and it has been hugely encouraging to meet with artists who have been developing their work with the expressed purpose of contributing to the First Fortnight.”
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No wonder he moved to Ireland, if it ever happened him again, sure he’d be grand!!
Must have been an inspirational figure for David Drumm and Sean Fitzpatrick.
He only lost 1 billion, they lost 35 and counting
Subsequent actions have shown that neither David Drumm or Seanie Fitz are half the man Nick Leeson is.
1 billion was probably more 20 years ago
£1 billion in 95. Today would be about £4 billion give or take a couple of hundred million ish.
But as someone earlier quoted its only numbers on a screen. Face it the likes of most of us here will never see anything like that type like type of cash.
How could you go into work, day after day with the figures spiralling up like that?! Imagine the stress!
It puts today’s PowerPoint into perspective! :D
Sounds like father Ted when Ted and Dougal started to hammer the car to get the dent out of it
Nick proved what David Icke said in 1990 – there’s no such thing as money anymore, only numbers on a screen. Those numbers only matter to those of us beneath the pile because, without them, we can’t live. For the powers that be they are just likes chips in a casino.
So Icke once said something that wasn’t totally batshit insane. Duly noted. Wonder was this before or after his turquoise phase?
Ah will ye stop. Youll be telling me next ray d’arcy went back to rte.
He did wrong and did the time for it and has turned his life around. Fair play to him.
Too much greed and not enough fear.
those bankers are all sociopaths who are unable to feel remorse .. that’s why they’re able to do what they do
It’s only money
He’s gonna be the next minister for finance .
What an amazing story. They should make a movie about it!
Forget Barings.
He brought down Galway Utd….
-He was a young guy who happened to be a financial wizard.
-there is no ethics or morality in banking.
- put a young financial wizard in charge of front and back office banking activities in a culture of no morality or ethics and with probability…this will happen regularly.
- he deserved his jail sentence but so does the whole banking system.
Ah come on, he looks like a tool, this should have been picked up on during the interview…..
I lived in Singapore for a number of years and he’s still a legend of sorts there. Everyone has a “story” about him….how they once played football with him,how he once donated $1000 to some charity they were collecting for etc. There’s even a cocktail named in his honour at the bar he used to drink in (Harrys bar on Boat quay) called “The Bank Breaker”.
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