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PEOPLE HAVE BEEN building homes from shipping containers for a little while now but it seems that this project has taken it up a gear.
The structure has been designed by architect Atelier Riri who is based in Jakarta in Indonesia.
Curbed is describing the structure as Riri’s entry into “the unofficial worldwide competition for best shipping container home”.
In total the structure has 1,660 sq. ft. of floor space and is made up of four shipping containers, made up of a series of connecting features.
The house has a mesh roofing overhanging its exposed area, a feature that is meant to increase insulation in the property.
The home also has one eye on being environmentally friendly, with wood and metal coming from reused supplies in some parts of the house and techniques used, such as polishing concrete, to reduce the need for further decoration.
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so they’re criticising the sponsors for sponsoring a prize for one competition, but not the other. How about getting the finger out and organizing a second sponsor.
Very unfair on Topflight, a second sponsor should be found for the ladies…
The camogie association haven’t covered themselves in glory this week.
the camogie association is a joke , they should sort out their own organization before moaning about a long puck competition
The ladies association and men’s association are 2 different bodies. Ladies get talking to your own association and leave the men out of it.
No doubt the same people praising the female only entrepreneur fund set up during the week will be lambasting this!!!
Eh…. How is this inequality, and more importantly an issue for Topflight to be worried about???
Where were the Uplift statements this week on the coin toss debacle???
Pavee point mentality.
Just have one competition and let men and women compete in same one… Then only one prize needed and you can say it’s equality as best person will win
ridiculous suggestion
Why is it ridiculous ??
Because it was made by a man using logic… Which is not allowed as it undermines the feminist agenda.
Since when did life become unfair, only since always.
The prizes for best dressed lady and man at race days differ massively. Why no faux rage at that?
Because these days it’s really only seen as inequality if it affects women. In this case a company chose to sponsor the hurling side of on event probably because it made business sense and they didn’t see value in sponsoring the camogie side of it. The a Camogie association could have easily went and gotten a separate sponsor but chose not too.
Because there’s no such thing as “mens day” at the races, Eric. If there were I can promise you there would be some idiot out there trying to stop it. And Van Gok, or whatever his name is, would be out of a job.
The question is should there even be a best dressed lady or man……
But there are prizes for best dressed lady and best dressed man Niall, the prizes for best dressed lady far outweigh the mans prize.
The point I’m trying the make is that all things can not always be equal. From a sponsors point of view a men’s poc fada brings more coverage just like the best dressed lady at the races does.
What you don’t have thou is men’s groups ringing up the sponsors complaining and then drawing negative publicity on the event and company by going to the media.
For me this stinks of someone getting outraged for the sake of it and dare I say it certain groups trying to justify existence and funding by making statements.
True equality would have the men and women in the same competition.. And if that happened then the ladies wouldn’t even get a medal.
The camogie association can either call it sexism or admit that they failed to organise a prize.
Pretty much sums it up really, but they are not going to get involved after the coin toss shambles they created.
Uplift are a joke. Clearly have there own agenda. This is not an equality issue.
Going after the sponsor of another event is embarrassing. Spamming the MD of Topflight is touching illegal/very unethical too!
If you want to sort this then go to the root of the problem. – getting more people interested in Camogie.
Plus… How can everything be equal, if they are 2 different events ran by 2 separate organisations?
Madness
I think you’ve mis read or mis understood Anne Marie.
This actually has nothing to do with the GAA or Topflight.
Basically, Uplift are moaning because GAA got a sponsor for their event and Camigie didn’t and they’re dressing it up as inequality.
Really not sure how targeting the GAA and their sponsor is going to solve anything. What can they do?
The problem is with Camogie, they need to go and tackle the issues there.
@keepfit. But that’s the thing. As far as I know the gaa is the umbrella organisation who, according to you went out of their way to find sponsorship for hurlers, but not for camogie players. They did not leave it up to the hurling association to find their own sponsors. If that’s true, it’s an indication that the governing body had discriminated against one of their associations.
Incorrect Anne. The Camogie association is totally independent to the GAA. The GAA governs football, hurling, handball & rounders (yes, rounders!).
@Anne Marie Devlin there is no “hurling association” it’s all part of the GAA. The camogie association is independent. But sure don’t let the facts get in the way of an idiotic misinformed rant about the GAA.
If they want equality, why not make it a gender-neutral competition? After all, if we’re all equal, they have as much chance as any man. Let them prove that they are equally as good as the men in a fair competition
Doesn’t surprise me at all.
Anne Marie is proving she doesn’t know a damn thing about the GAA or Camogie, and is only feigning an interest so she can complain.
Hahaha.
To be fair to her though we Irish do like a good moan about something.
There are fair amount of GAA bashers out there that actually do not have a clue about the topic they are trying to be disgusted about. Camogie and Ladies football decided to stay separate by their own choice.
Here’s a tip if you find google far too difficult to use then don’t bother the rest of us with your uneducated outrage. I’m sure you will find something else that you can get all PC about.
@Dave Meagher. They are separate from the men’s, but still governed by the gaa. The gaa should treat all it’s associates equally regardless of the sport or the sex of the players.
No they are not, Jesus wept.
GAA always reminds me of the Mafia,
Clown
This is not the GAA’s fault, for once.
The GAA found a sponsor for their hurlers.
The Camogie Association should have done the same, but given their “coin” toss debacle this week, which resulted in a huge climb down on their part, the phrase about a piss up and brewery comes to mind.
@Liam. The gaa is the governing body of hurling, camogie, football and handball. If it is organising an event that involves 2 of the above associations, then they are blatantly discriminating by looking for a sponsorship for just one association. If you change the situation slightly and imagine the men’s inter provincial puc fada and cic fada on the same day and the gaa arranged for the winners of the puc fada to get a skiing holiday and the winners of the cic fada a medal. It’s the very same situation.
What I don’t know is who arranged the sponsorship. If it was the gaa, then it is blatant discrimination, just as it would be against the footballers. If, on the other hand, it was the hurling and camogie associations individually who found the sponsorship, then the camogie association has messed up big time.
It’s not the GAAs job to organise other association’s competitions. They have as much responsibility to the camogie association as they do to the FAI.
Anne Marie, the GAA is not the governing body of camogie. It’s also not the governing body of the LGFA. It’s the governing body of Gaelic football, hurling, handball and rounders. You should really do your research properly before posting so many ill informed comments.
Just admit you were wrong. You’re really starting to make yourself look silly.
Not asking for much are they, to pay for flights for four full squads of players instead of just the winner of the Poc Fada.
My bad, the four regional Poc Fada champions. Still, surely the camogie authorities can find a sponsor themselves, although after the debacle during the week I doubt they would manage such a task.
Between this Situation and the Coin toss with Dublin & Clare its fair to say Equality does not exist between Womens Gaa & Mens
It would be hard for the GAA to treat the players equally seeing as the women are not part of their organisation.
the ladies need to stop comparing themselves to the men and realise its their own organisation consistently letting them down
Uplift and The Camogie Association should just Poc off!
Uplift should sponsor the camogie winner.
They are a bra company after all.
WTF is camogie?
Hey,
And what have Liberty Insurance got to do with it?
The GAA is a great example of crooked politics, everyone knows it and anyone who ever played will know it.
What has the GAA got to do with this? It’s up to the Camogie Association to find sponsors for themselves, nothing to do with the GAA.
People say the GAA is an amateur organisation. The games are amateur, the organisation is not – it is a rich profit making business.
Yet it leaves young wheelchair bound patrons of the game to brave the cold and wet weather at games up and down the country.
I’ve witnessed fathers kneeled down beside their son holding an umbrella over him as the rain came at him sideways.
For god’s sake have we learnt nothing from the past 30 years? GAA can surely afford to treat low mobility persons – who make a colossal effort to come to our game – with better respect.
The problem is that would be Uplift ing.
It is an issue if topflight sponsor a holiday for the hurlers, but only medals for the camogie players. If I were a camogie player, I would not be happy. However, the question is, who brokered this deal? If topflight were approached to sponsor the entire event and said they weren’t willing to provide holidays for the women taking part, then shame on topflight and an even bigger shame on the gaa for accepting the deal. If, on the other hand, as I suspect, topflight were only asked to sponsor the hurling champions, well then shame on the gaa for ignoring the camogie players and an even greater shame on the camogie association for allowing this to happen.
The GAA have nothing to do woth camogie…. they are completely separate associations.. so it can’t be the GAAs fault… How hard is it for people to understand.. Women’s Gaa is completely separate to mens and is run by women… so any incompetence or poor organisation for the women is down to themselves
No mark Ryan. Camogie is not separate from the gaa. It is an association of the gaa. Check the gaa website if you’re not convinced.
Anne-Maire
The Camogie association is a separate governing body by their choice. So they a completely different entity.
There is no reference on the GAA website as you claim that they are under the GAA umbrella. In fact, the website confirms that they are indeed separate.
Quote: The GAA “works with sister organisations to promote Ladies Football and Camogie.”
So their you have it – Camogie is a sister organisation, they partner up sometimes to promote ladies sport, but clearly a separate “sister organisation’
By its defininition, The Camogie Association is its own governing body, but relies on the help of the GAA to exist.
Definition of sister company:
A sister organisation is an agency or body which is nearly or completely dependent upon another organization to exist
So in summary:
You need to find another battle to fight
They are only by association so they can use the grounds. The GAA has no say on the rules, the rulers or anything else to do with camogie.
Different crest, different chairperson, different everything bar grounds.
No grounds for complaint then!
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