Rehearsals have begun for Dublin City Council’s latest public art commission - a series of five short operas entitled Things We Throw Away - music by Brian Irivne and text by John McIlduff - produced by Wide Open Opera. Each of the five operas tells a distinctive story about things or moments that we might ordinarily observe and pass by. A specially recruited community choir sings Suck it in - as they relish the moment of peace they have while taking a quick cigarette break outside a building. A father and son drink in a bar, the son passes out, the father thinks back to when he was a young boy and he carried him on his shoulders. Drive by Shooting features two old ladies on zimmer frames, chasing an old man on a zimmer frame, determined to shoot him because he has been unfaithful to one of them. A banana-selling woman on Capel Street reflects. A discarded Ironing board sings to the discarded Iron a passionate song about when they were young and steamy.