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TOP TRUMPS We’ve been watching the cards drop and
every single one is a stroke of genius. Creating a cast of known, loved and loathed Dubliners - Dolphin Barney, Lino Richie, The Sesh Moth, Billy Big Bollix, Rat Gar…Chancer Cards are the creation of artists @classquatch and Mick Minogue. With rankings based on Craic, Scauld, Ouravit, Snakiness and Soundness, how one factors this into a game is also on the way. In response to a methodology behind the scores for Ned the Bed on the ‘gram, the response was that, “Ned has a back story that will be later revealed so the scores will make sense in time, also not much craic being a pissy bed!” The full deck will go on sale this spring. ROADMAP Michael McDermott BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY EMPORIUM DUBLINIA… After graduating from IADT and before he split for Berlin, photographer Leon Nevill Gallagher shot the Fall/Winter collection for ‘Emporium’, a Dublin based clothing collective. emporiumdublin.com leonnevillgallagher.ie BUSARÁS… The Dignity of Everyday Life is Eoin Ó Broin and Mal McCann’s homage to Michael Scott’s modernist opus. Shamefully neglected over time, it remains a fascinating building ripe for a 21st century restoration and re-imagining. It also forms part of the Áras Mhic Dhiarmada complex named after the Leitrim republican Seán MacDermott, a signatory of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. Irish Academic Press, €35 On occasion, you’d think the only folk affected by Covid in the music industry were those who megaphoned, or tweeted, loudest – the promoters with clout, the bands with followers, the venues with connections. Therefore, it’s refreshing to hear from the lesser heard in the sonicsphere. Bittersweet Symphony is a 16-part podcast hosted by Cliodhna Ryan, a violinist and member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. In it she chats to fellow musicians about what happened “when the concert halls shut their doors, and the music stopped… what did they discover about what matters to them? What about their sense of identity, value and self-worth and what do they choose to never forget?” The first episodes are with cellist Aoife Burke and NSO violinist Elizabeth McLaren. apple.co/3dlJGWB @ryan.cliodhna #bittersweetsymphony 6