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A PORTRAIT OF Frames’ frontman Glen Hansard is creating a lot of interest on ebay.
The painting went on sale this week to raise funds for the US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organisation based in Los Angeles and Dublin that upholds Irish-American relations.
Its painter, Colin Davidson, is set to be honoured at the Oscar Wildes in Los Angeles next month.
This is the first time an artist will be recognised at the awards, which has previously honoured actors and filmmakers such as Colin Farrell, Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan.
Bidding on the painting, which stood at $20,000 at the time of publication (about €17,500), will close on the day of the ceremony: 19 February.
The awards, which are celebrating their 10th year, will take place in JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot offices in Santa Monica.
Davdison, who lives and works in Bangor in County Down, has painted a number of famous faces including Sir Kenneth Branagh, Mark Knopfler and Brian Friel.
This is immensely sad. It is such a travesty that we live in a country run by money grabbing gangsters who care more about their own pockets,looking after their buddies and how they look to the EU etc than they care about their own people. This country needs an absolute renovation and needs to see the gangsters and crooks removed but instead our media decides to essentially worship these sc um bags
My heart goes out to these two brave parents of two sweet innocent brave children.. 5yr olds. The age of 50 questions per minute. The age their personality’s are starting to form.
Yet we have a Goverment of side stepping cowboys.. Answer questions with questions. Spend more time looking up dirt to aim at their counterparts.
Ireland being a leading pharmaceutical producer who pay more for these medicines made here than countrys half way round the world..
Ashamed and shocked. Just another day in good ole Ireland..
Don’t look to Lourdes hospital in Drogheda where the top section for such is. Varadkar is avoiding it like the plague! Why? Because the Casualty unite there is an utter top national disaster. See: http://theupreport.org/2015/02/16/drogheda-lourdes-casualty-smacks-of-a-mash-unit/
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