Good. Then we’ll begin.
David McSavage was a guest on Vincent Browne’s Friday Late on TV3 last night, sharing an uneasy sofa with newly-elected senators, John Crown (Ind), Kathryn Reilly (SF), Catherine Noone (FG) and Susan O’Keefe (Labour).
It was a bitter, teacher-baiting, bile-ridden, panel-teasing bravura performance from the newly blonde comic. Chompsky was spotted visibly shaking with laughter.
The Irish Twittersphere, however…
Harsh? Fair?
You decide.
Today’s Independent front page.
We don’t know much about art, but we are strangely drawn.
Tracey Emin told the BBC the bride and groom “looked really naive and natural, like a child’s fantasy of a bride and groom”.
Sadly, the so-called editors at the Independent rejected Nat’s front page sketch of the couple on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
Relax, ladies – he’s still on the market.
It was just a thinly-veiled pretendy Late Late Show wedding last night between Ryan and the People’s PR Princess, Georgia Salpa.
Georgia was wearing a replica Kate Middleton bridal gown. Ryan was wearing his trademark Union Jack thong, designed by Paul Costelloe..
Watch the full Late Late Show here
The ‘shopfest has only just begun. Meanwhile, the Facebook page has 40,000 friends and counting.
Who says the Royals contribute nothing to the modern world?
Now that’s good value.
William, ‘Prince’ William and ‘Britain’s Prince’ William.
It just left An Phoblacht’s headline ‘Imperial Forces Of Occupation Figurehead Marries’
Olle Ekman: lead singer of death metal bands Volturyon and Deals Death gets his Satan on prior to band practice.
Someone‘s going to be sliding across the dance floor tonight.
A lot.
Oh, go on then. Facebook Icons by Leonard Savage
It was only a matter of time before someone made this, but we’re grateful it was done so well: A cinematic mashup of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige, The Machinist and Equilibrium. But YouTuber “themanbatman” has taken the fan-edit phenomenon to a new level, using clips from all those movies to suggest an all-new narrative where a man played by Christian Bale has been incepted by dream hacker Leonardo DiCaprio to believe he is a horrible creature known as The Batman.
Well, Debbie O’Donnell found her.
She’s rocking a bubblegum pink-coloured Louise Kennedy number, if memory serves.
But what’s the verdict from the fashion gurus?
“This is a disaster. She looks like Hilda Ogden on the way to bingo.” Mary Qunt, drag queen.
“I love it. She’s saying: ‘Look at me. I’m here, I am a woman in a pink dress’.” Debbie Thing, beauty editor, Have A Shit magazine.
“Amy could wear a sack of potatoes on her head and still look great.” Ted, marketing assistant, Irish Potato Growers’ Association.
“My first cousin, the Earl of Cashel, would walk often around naked save for a coat from Louise Kennedy’s 2004 Spring/Summer collection.” Martin Mansergh.
Go outside and look up at the sky.
Marvel at man/woman’s ingenuity.
Return to your seat at the bar and resume sobbing.
