Actually.

Coca Cola Are Back With A Beautiful New Feel Good Advert (Niall Harbison, Simply Zesty)

This just in.

Sarkozy getting yanked on a walkabout.

Little shit.

21 years ago today we were playing in the quarter finals of the World Cup.

We were poor.

But we were drunk.

At the launch of JobBridge: Enda Kenny, Martin Murphy, MD of HP (Ireland) and Joan Burton.

Blogger Stewart Curry doing the tearing:

Why “we might hire you after the internship” is Bullshit

There’s often the carrot dangled that after three months, there’s the chance of a job. Well big fucking deal. Surely that’s what a job interview is for. Say you do get the job – after a year there you’ve only earned 75% of what you should have been paid, because you spent three months working for nothing.

Why “you get to work with an awesome team” is Bullshit

First off – are they really that awesome? Secondly – will it really look great in my CV? If I Google the team I’ll be working with, will I see incredibly talented, thoughtful, engaging people who are famous in their field or industry, and acknowledged by awards and/or peer respect for the work they do? When I move on from my internship with this awesome team, will my next potential employer go “Wow, you worked with ‘Famous Web Designer who spoke at Build’ … what’s he/she like?”. Or will they just go … “who?”.

Why “it will look great on your CV” is Bullshit

Did you do work experience at Pentagram? Ogilvy? Happy Cog? No – you worked for some company I might barely have heard of, doing work that they didn’t consider was good enough to pay you for. I’m sorry, but the big message it sends is that you were desperate and taken advantage of.

Why “you’ll make great contacts” is Bullshit

Go to Refresh Dublin, Refresh Belfast, Build, Pub Standards, Open Coffees, Bar Camps, meetups, Nerds on a Boat even – and you’ll make great contacts. Follow people like @SabrinaDent or @EamonLeonard or @DesTraynor on Twitter and ask them questions and you’ll learn a ton.

Calling Bullshit On UnpaidInternships (IrishStu.com)

Grace Dargan (5), right and Mia Lambe (5) and ‘Sami’.

Taken an hour ago in Temple Bar at the launch of the Made In Temple Bar festival (July 15-24) celebrating 20 years of the “cultural quarter” in its present form.

Celebrate.

It’s literally hen-believable.

Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

Context

Via Cian McMahon

Niall Breslin on Twitter

Niall Breslin?

Define ‘work’.

Jammies till lunchtime.

And by ‘lunchtime’ we do mean ‘after Countdown’.

Jobs.ie questionnaire

Pat Fitzgerald, the MV Saoirse’s engineer, underneath her hull.

via

Hysteria, ‘Hasbara’ And The Flotilla (Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post)

Building Boom In Gaza’s Ruins Belies Misery That Remains (Ethan Bronner, New York Times)

Taken literally within the last hour at the Irish short-stay visa waiver programme launch at the Department of Justice.

The new headmaster and the head of geography.

Keeping the bromance fresh.

They also have ‘date nights’.

(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

WATCH the sequence speeded up here.

Thanks, Red.

After thirteen movies.

The Trailer For Pixar’s Lady Led Film, Brave (Jezebel)

‘The Christian Radich’ Tall Ship heads up the River Suir

The Europa on her berth in Waterford city

The ‘Christian Radich’ at Waterford city

The gaff pilot cutter ‘Jolie Brise’ heads up the River Suir passing Duncannon Strand on her way to Waterford City.

Taken literally this morning.

Ships.

That are tall!

Yay.

Tall Ships To Prove A Real Spectacle – Best Viewing Points (Elaine Furlong, Enniscorthy Guardian)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)