Monthly Archives: April 2012

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Patrick Mooney writes:

The first Samsung Night Run @ Dublin took place last night. A first for Dublin, with the city centre streets closed off to 5000 participants to run the 10km course in horrendous rainy and stormy conditions. It was great! This was my run.

 

Representing IBEC [Irish Business and Employers Conference] at the launch of its campaign for a Yes vote this morning were, above from left: CEO of Fujitsu Ireland, Regina Moran, Vice President of GlaxoSmithKline Ireland Sally Storey, IBEC President and Managing Director of Gilead Sciences, Julie O’Neill, CEO of CPL Anne Heraty and Managing Director of Tour America, Mary McKenna.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Currently unavailable on Amazon, the mysterious game of Three-Man Chess pitches grey pieces into the time-honoured battle of black and white.

How this unholy mutant is supposed to work is anyone’s guess. The product description isn’t that helpful:

Play chess with 3 people at the same time with this three player chess game. Without compromising any of the rules, strategy, or fun of Chess, this variant board has been developed that accommodates three players. The only changes from conventional chess are some protocol issues that must be followed to maintain order where the teams border each other, which is simple and necessary.

The complexities of the third player are infinite. Your threatened piece may be allowed to maintain occupancy as your position is beneficial to the threatening player. But how long can it last? This scenario may exist all over the board. There are multiple trust and doubt situations among all players.

Word.

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‘Opera singer’, songwriter, plastic surgery enthusiast, joyful self-publicist and web thing du jour, 21 year old Ukrainian Valeria ‘Living Barbie Doll’ Lukyanova has been responding to a welter of internet hate since her vast Facebook picture archive became a viral sensation in the last week.

Can’t imagine why folk would have a problem.

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