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Irish Examiner
7 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Kerry SHC: St Brendan's edge Crotta in gripping contest
Kerry SHC Group 1: St Brendan's 1-23 Crotta O'Neill's 3-15 St Brendan's withstood a late Crotta O'Neill's rally to grab a vital win after a keenly contested and gripping Kerry SHC contest played at the Austin Stack Park. Shane Nolan could have snatched a late equaliser as he appeared to be fouled but the referee was not impressed. On the counter attack, Liam Óg O'Connor scored the insurance point as Pat O'Driscoll's troops celebrated a win that has them in pole position in the group. St Brendan's had the strong wind in the opening half and raced into 0-6 to 0-1 lead inside ten minutes thanks to three points from Fionan Egan, two from frees, and a brace from the excellent Seanie Brosnan, along with a Seamus O'Halloran special. But Crotta O'Neills struck for their first goal in the 10th minute when Jordan Conway caught a high centre, and turned his marker before drilling the sliotar low past Darren Delaney. Egan, playing with his dad John on Father's Day, converted another free but Barry Mahony was winning good ball at midfield along with Nolan who was playing around the middle third. Crotta struck for a second goal in the 14th minute after Darren Delaney saved Seanie McElligott's initial attempt only for an unmarked Conway to finish to to the net. Crotta now led 2-2 to 0-7 but Liam Óg O'Connor leveled with a superb point. St Brendan's, with Brosnan and Garry O'Riordan hurling well at midfield, were still in charge as Nathan O'Driscoll and Egan from frees moved 0-12 to 2-2 in front with just seven minutes to half-time. Points from Nolan and Mahony closed the gap but it was Brosnan with a rasper of a goal in the 25th minute which saw St Brendan's lead 1-13 to 2-6 at the interval. Crotta, thanks to a Nolan penalty and a free from the same player, were level within three minutes but St Brendan's were always able to respond. O'Driscoll with three second half points and O'Riordan with two always had St Brendan's in front but Nolan was keeping Crotta in the game as they led 1-19 to 3-11 with ten mintues to go. Barry Mahony then reduced the deficit to a point in the 52nd minute but three unanswered points from Egan (two frees) and O'Driscoll saw St Brendan's lead by four but Nolan (two frees) and a sublime Evan O'Sullivan scores was not enough as St Brendan's held on to win and now face Ballyduff in their final game to top group. Scorers for St Brendan's: F Egan (0-8, 6fs, 1x65'), S Brosnan (1-2), N O'Driscoll (0-4), L Og O'Connor (0-3), G O'Riordan and S O'Halloran (0-2 each), E O'Flaherty and J Egan (0-1 each). Scorers for Crotta O'Neills: S Nolan (1-10, 1-0 pen, 8fs, 1x'65), J Conway (2-0), B Mahony and E O'Sullivan (0-2 each), S McElligott (0-1). CROTTA O'NEILL'S: D Sayers; D Nolan, B Keane, O Heaton; D Nolan, S Weir, Darragh O'Donoghue; B Mahony, T McKenna; S McElligott, R Mahony, E O'Sullivan; S Nolan, Declan O'Donoghue. Subs: P Quille for Declan O'Donoghue (40), J McKenna for T McKenna ( 46). ST BRENDAN'S: D Delaney; M Davis, E Leen, B Daly; G Raggett, D Griffin, D Dineen; G O'Riordan, S Brosnan; S O'Halloran, N O'Driscoll, E O'Flaherty; J Egan, L Óg O'Connor, F Egan Subs: H Lenihan for M Davis ( h/t) Referee: J O'Halloran (Limerick)
New Indian Express
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Ryan Coogler praises Christopher Nolan, calls him 'mentor'
LOS ANGELES: Ryan Coogler, best known for helming "Sinners" and "Black Panther" film series, says acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan is like his "mentor", and credits him for making the world richer with his movies. Coogler said both Nolan and his wife and producer Emma Thomas are "amazing people", but before that they are "lovers of cinema". "This is my guy (Nolan). I've come to know him. I've come to know his people," he said, according to the entertainment news outlet 'IndieWire'. "First and foremost, they're just lovers of cinema, and lovers of family. The world is richer because they're making movies. He is a mentor of mine." Coogler's latest work is "Sinners", which he directed and wrote. It released in April. He is also working on the third installment of the "Black Panther" franchise. The film will star Denzel Washington.
The Herald Scotland
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Filth and fury: Memories of the '76 Sex Pistols gig that never was
In April 1976 a writer on Sounds magazine, reviewing a concert at London's El Paradise Club, wrote: 'If you hate Patti Smith for all that noise and rock and roll energy at the expense of technique and sounding pretty, then you'll really hate the Sex Pistols. "Their aesthetic is Shepherd's Bush-Who and speed-era Small Faces — they play it fast and they play it loud. The guitarist doesn't bother too much with solos, just powering his way through whatever passes as a middle eight. But this isn't to say they're sloppy, far from it. The rhythm section is quite tight, and the drummer very listenable'. Two months later came an incendiary gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall – an event subsequently billed by the NME as the most important concert of all time, even though just 28 tickets were sold, according to a book, I Swear I Was There, by David Nolan. In the audience was Peter Hook, who would go on to play bass guitar in Joy Division and New Order. 'It was absolutely bizarre', he told Nolan. 'It was the most shocking thing I've ever seen in my life, it was just unbelievable... It was so ... alien to everything'. As Nolan writes, that Pistols gig on June 4, and another at the same venue on July 20, 'changed the world'. The audience reaction at the first one, he suggests, 'would spark a series of musical and pop-culture detonations that are still delighting and annoying people in equal measure today'. As newspapers began alerting their readers to the punk phenomenon, the Pistols – Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Steve Cook – continued to travel up and down the country and even played Dundee's College of Technology on October 12. An incendiary single, Anarchy in the UK, was released on the EMI label on November 19. Then came the Grundy moment. On December 1 the band and various friends appeared at short notice on LWT's Today programme, presented by Bill Grundy. Goaded by Grundy to say something outrageous, Steve Jones duly obliged. The tea-time audience was astounded. "The FILTH and the FURY!", shrieked a Daily Mirror splash headline. The same paper explained that punk rock groups and their fans "despite 'establishment' pop stars and specialise in songs that preach destruction'." And EMI, outraged, would soon fire the band. The Anarchy in the UK tour was announced: the Pistols headlining, and supported by The Damned, The Clash, and Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. But tabloid stories about 'foul-mouthed yobs' and Moral Majority protests forced local authorities and university bosses to pull the plug: most of the gigs were cancelled. Glasgow was a case in point. The tour would have graced the Apollo stage on December 15 but for the District Council's licensing committee suspending the venue's license for that one night. 'This group has been attracting an undesirable element among young people', said the committee's chairman. 'We have enough problems in Glasgow without creating trouble by yobbos'. The Apollo Centre manager, Jan Tomasik, observed that the City Fathers seemed to have judged the Pistols without actually seeing them. 'It would appear that the Lord Provost has no faith in the moral values of our city's fine youngsters, he added. One fan who was disappointed by the councillors' decision was Bill Hamilton. Bill, who was 22 at the time and is now 71, had first encountered the Pistols on a TV music show, So It Goes, which was presented by Tony Wilson and often featured punk groups. 'I remember trying to see The Jam in 1976, when they came to a tiny little disco in St Enoch Square', said Bill. 'It only had a capacity of about one hundred but I couldn't get in. But a friend of mine who worked in a record shop in Battlefield got tickets. I got a ticket and a poster, and a great big Jam badge. 'I worked for Glasgow's planning department at the time – it was my first job after university – and I put the Jam badge and the poster up on the wall. 'When the Sex Pistols tickets went on sale I was lucky enough to get one. But when they appeared on the Bill Grundy show, councils up and down the country decided that these punk boys weren't good for our young people. '[After the Apollo gig was cancelled] I stuck my ticket up on the wall in my office. I don't have it now, unfortunately: it's maybe worth some money'. On the Glasgow Apollo's Facebook page, other would-be attendees recall the fate of their £1.75 tickets. 'I had a ticket but took it back for the refund', says Gavin Paterson. Phil Kean adds: 'I had a ticket but my mum ripped it up along with others into little pieces because I left home to stay with my bird at the time'. Bill moved to London in 1978 and never managed to see the Pistols at their peak. Is that a source of regret for him? 'Huge regret', he acknowledges. 'They were such cultural icons, and I loved that whole punk-rock scene. I thought it was brilliant if that you had three chords, a cheap guitar and an amplifier, you could get up there and make music.'. He shares the view that when the Glasgow date, and others on the Anarchy tour were cancelled, this was a cased of the establishment cracking down on working-class youth. Read more: Like many others of a similar age, Bill was struck at the time by the sharp difference between punk music in 1976 and the music, particularly prog rock, heavy metal and US west-coast bands, that was in vogue at the time. The Old Grey Whistle Test, which was aimed at the discriminating fan, found no favour with the adherents of punk and its DIY aesthetic. Glen Matlock, who co-wrote much of the Pistols' 1977 album, Never Mind the Bollocks – Here's the Sex Pistols, told Mojo magazine in 2017: 'I think we were fighting against apathy. Old fuddy-duddies. Boring music that didn't speak to kids', The song Pretty Vacant was, he added, 'not a political song, it's not a love song, it's a primal scream. Reflecting what was going on in mid-70s London. For good and bad, punk made a big chink in the age of deference ... We did change the world. It's something that I'm proud of'. Ahead of the Pistols in 1977 lay that controversial debut album and the single, God Save the Queen, and, in Nottingham Magistrates Court in November, a hearing into whether the record's title was indecent; the manager of a Virgin record store in the city had been accused of contravening an 1889 Indecent Advertisement Act by displaying the front cover. After a trial he was found not guilty. The album remains famous. As Mojo's writer remarked in 2017, as a cultural artefact it instantly attained a status on a par with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, and arguably remains punk's most powerful statement. Bill Hamilton still has fond memories of those heady days. 'The Pistols, The Clash and The Jam – they spoke to me when I was in my early twenties', he says. 'I thought, they're saying things that I think are meaningful and important to me'. As for John Lydon - Johnny Rotten of old - he still adores the album. "That album cuts through so poignantly", he told Record Collector magazine earlier this year. "It's a powerful, powerful piece of music we put there together ... I'm amazed it's not accoladed more highly. It's a masterful record done accidentally. Creativity by misappropriation. When you don't quite know what you're doing you get closer to the truth of the thing. God, I love the venom I could deliver the lines with ..." * Sex Pistols (Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock) Featuring Frank Carter headline a Glasgow Summer Sessions Punk All-Dayer at Bellahouston Park, June 21. R
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'This isn't charity: it's community:' Singer, producer funnels efforts toward paying off school cafeteria debt
TUPELO – As part of his effort to promote his album as well as to give back to the community, Ethan Nolan started collecting backpacks for kids this upcoming school year. But in the midst of doing that, he discovered that some kids wouldn't be able to eat if their delinquent school lunch accounts weren't paid. "I just wanted to turn the message in my music into an actual movement," he said. So through CashApp and Venmo, he helped raise more than $700 to pay off the debts at Milam Elementary. Next on the list is Carver, with more than $300 to pay off. He hopes to work his way through all the school in the Tupelo Public School District. "We got all the students that did not qualify for free lunches and had outstanding balances taken care of," he said. "There's still more debt in the community, and we're going to try to get all the schools. It''s a really big goal." But he refuses to take credit for the good deed. "We've got a ways to go with this. And it's not me; I'm a face and I hold a bucket. This is what community is all about," he said. In many ways this is a full-circle moment for Nolan, who will be the first to admit that he's made a few unwise decisions in his life, including getting expelled from high school many years ago. Now 34, he's put into music what life has been like, hoping to provide some help along the way. "It started with me releasing this album called 'Expelled' and it's about being counted out, or generalized and defying those odds and flipping the script on people," he said. "It's about what I went through being expelled, my school life and I thought there's really no better way to show the transformation from being expelled from school and encouraging kids to stay in school. Don't do what I did. And if you do, there's a message for you, too, which is acceptance. Accept yourself." Nolan is a relative newcomer to the music industry, having started in producing a couple of years ago and then boosting his repertoire by learning how to play the piano at Tupelo Music Academy. Much of his inspiration comes from his father, Dennis Nolan, who's been playing string instruments as long as Ethan can remember. And it was his dad's influence, as well as his own work in the community that inspired him to not only make music, but to make a difference. "I've always like to try to help, and I was struck with an epiphany that I should have been doing all along, full time, 10 years ago," he said. "Naturally when I make the music I want it mean something and I want it to change things. So that's how the school backpack drive and school lunch debt drive got started. It's been perfect." Nolan has collected about 100 backpacks so far, and once the lunch debt payoff drive is complete, he'll focus on finishing that. Nolan is also having a free concert at the Blue Canoe July 29, which will serve as the finally fundraising drive for the donation drive. "I'll be doing my thing with a full backing band," he said. "We'll have an altar call and pass out buckets for donations and all that." As for his music, Nolan says its hip-hop, "soft of with a different vibe because we have a full band. It's not what you normally think of when you hear it's a hip-hop show. There isn't anyone around here doing the same type of show that I'm doing that I know of with a full rap catalog on Spotify and Apple Music." "Those are beats that I made. I took the album and got my band together and said we're about to learn this album. So went and played it live, and did the King Krawl this last weekend, and then we'll be doing our third show at Blue Canoe." For Nolan to be the frontman with his group is out of the ordinary because he's usually been the drummer, playing the piano or producing. "Now I get to talk to about chords and progressions and all that." he said. Meanwhile donations can be made via CashApp at $ethannolan or Venmo at @ethan-nolan-1
Scoop
3 days ago
- Science
- Scoop
Saipan Environment Forum Hears Caution On Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup
An expert says there is pushback from environmental groups when it comes to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent An expert says there is pushback from environmental groups when it comes to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Bradley Nolan, waste management adviser at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), spoke at the 32nd Pacific Islands Environmental Training Symposium at the Crowne Plaza Resort Saipan. He was asked from the floor about efforts to address the massive plastic accumulation zone in the North Pacific – a swirling gyre of marine debris between California and Hawai'i, commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Nolan, who presented on regional waste management resources, acknowledged the urgency and complexity of the issue, tying it to global negotiations under way for a plastics treaty. 'Article nine of the plastics treaty currently under negotiation talks about legacy plastics and cleaning up the marine environment,' he said. 'There are a number of technologies trying to scrape up and clean the patch, and it makes sense to do that – but now we're seeing pushback from some environmental groups.' According to Nolan, a growing number of scientists and green groups have raised concerns that clean-up efforts could destroy an unintended but now-established ocean ecosystem. 'Because that garbage patch has existed so long, it's created a new marine habitat – a floating ecosystem that didn't exist before,' Nolan said. 'Efforts to clean it up could cause massive bycatch and harm species that have come to depend on it.' While the 'patch' isn't a solid island of trash, it is a dense concentration of microplastics and floating debris, which accumulate due to oceanic gyres. Roughly 80 per cent of that material comes from land-based sources, not ships, he said. Calling the garbage patch 'a significant problem with no simple solution', Nolan said the issue touches on marine biodiversity, waste transboundary movement, and the production of harmful micro- and nano-plastics. 'This is a complex issue – and complex issues rarely come with easy fixes,' he said. In 2023, the Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, removed about 25,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch remains a symbol of the global plastics crisis. While innovation in clean-up continues, experts like Nolan stress that prevention – especially at the land-source level – must be prioritised across the Pacific. The four-day symposium features workshops on hazardous waste, climate adaptation, and the PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) contamination crisis facing islands such as Saipan and Guam. It concludes on Friday.
