Some say it’s a fake.

Look at the letters closely.

The words may be fair but the type is literally not balanced within the ticker.

Fair and balanced?

Oh, forget it.

Was The Ticker At Fox HQ Hacked? (Gawker)

Taken this afternoon during the events to mark the 7oth Anniversary of the bombing of the North Strand area of Dublin by the Luftwaffe.

Noel Brady, age 91 (and still a member of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade), waits for a lift home at the spot where one of the – four – bombs dropped on Dublin on May 31, 1941.

Noel was one of the first on the scene.

Earlier German Ambassador Busso Von Alvensleben unveiled a plaque to the dead at the commemorative ceremony and looked every inch his extraordinary name.:

(Leon Farrell/ Photocall Ireland)

Phrase: “Sex and the City Generation”

What The Telegraph want to say: “Sluts.”

Abortion Soars Among Women In Their 40s (Telegraph)

Jezebel

It will be warm, settled and dry from Thursday through Saturday, with good sunny spells expected each day. Temperatures will be in the high teens at least and in the low twenties in many places, with Friday likely to be the warmest day, when values of 23 or 24 C.

Yes.

HEATWAVE!!!

Weather Forecast Ireland (Met Eireann)

No shame in choking dude.

You might have told Mr Steroid where to get off mind.

Via Big Mental Disease

A letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace arrived at Cork City Hall yesterday, in which the Queen described her visit to the English Market as a particularly “memorable occasion”.

“It was such a colourful and lively visit, as well as a wonderful opportunity for Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to meet members of the public,” wrote the Queen’s deputy private secretary, Edward Young.

“Please would you tell the people of Cork that the warmth of their welcome was deeply moving and greatly appreciated.”

They will never shut up about this.

Queen Deeply Moved By Reception On Cork Visit (Examiner)

Thanks Cathal

What they said in 1990 to scare people: “She’s a ruthless career woman with a ‘new found interest in her children’.”

What they’re saying in 2011 to scare people: “He’s a licentious old goat with ‘unhealthy views about children’.”

Irish Presidential Hopeful David Norris In Row Over Paedophilia Remarks (Guardian)

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Meanwhile…

Like a clean living member of Right Said Fred.

A backstory the X Factor would find too underdog-ish..

We say: Visually-impaired Dragon.

You say: Hairless Ron Burgundy (go to 1.16)

Thanks Mark

This is what happens when you attack the low-paid.

At the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan yesterday.

Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar Arrested On Sex Charges (Guardian)

Quite literally.

It’s all part of Dr Oetker’s cupcake challenge.

And not one of Bodger’s more prosaic fantasies come to life.

Thanks MM

Oh.

Via

Context

OK.

It rhymes with light.

(Hang on, is that a rogue apostrophe?)

Standard And Poors Downgrade Limerick Tunnel (Lisa O’Carrol, Irish Business Blog, Guardian)

Thanks Niall O’ M

What goes on in this town is none of your business.

Words to live by.

Via Big mental Disease

Taffin?

How The Taffin marketing developed from VHS to DVD and got progressively more James Bond-ian.

Includes the worst Irish accent from an Irish person (Brosnan) you’ll hear today and a cameo from Alan Stanford..

Oh and they can see into the future.

Babies are sophisticated mini-statisticians, a new study finds, capable of making judgments about the probability of an event they’ve never seen before.

Using a computer model, researchers were able to accurately predict what a baby would know about a particular event if given certain information.

The model may be useful in engineering artificial intelligence that reacts appropriately to the world, said study researcher Josh Tenenbaum, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The study also demonstrates just how savvy baby brains are, Tenenbaum told LiveScience.

“The deeper thing that this shows is that infants’ knowledge of objects is not a gut feeling,” he said. “They’re actually doing some kind of rational, probabilistic reasoning.“

Babies Are Capable Of Complex Reasoning (Live Science)