Monthly Archives: January 2011

Taken within the the last hour. Alan Shatter and Olivia Mitchell introduce the new Fine Gael candidate for Dublin South, banking expert Peter Mathews.

Peter claims to have accurately predicted the size of the property bubble and opposed the creation of the National Asset Management Agency to deal with the problem. Nobody likes a smart arse.

Peter is wearing a musical tie, which plays ‘I kissed A Girl’ by Katy Perry when you press the knot.

FG Says Government ‘Disintegrating’ (Irish Times)

Statement From FF Dublin South Candidate Maria Corrigan

(Photocall Ireland)

US sculptor and modeller, Mike Libby customises real (dead) insects with antique watch parts and other mechanical components to create the unique, delicate, unsettling steampunk cyborgs you see above.

His work has been exhibited alongside that of Damien Hirst and Dorothy Cross and the tiny clockwork corpses sell online from $600 to $1200 each.

Insect Lab

“TAXI! Airport, please.”

How things change:

“The reward for taking hard decisions is never given in the short term. If Fianna Fail flinch from these hard decisions, or relapse into FG-style internal feuding, then the electorate will feel not just right, but rightly entitled, to punish the party at the polls.Cowen has shown decisiveness over the Callely controversy and one can expect more of the same for those prepared to disturb the uneasy peace of disciplined Government in the months ahead.”

Conor Lenihan, Evening Herald, August 2010.

Discussion on Politics.ie

Remember EU Commission President Jose Barroso (above) tore Ireland a new one the other day? When he angrily claimed our financial problems were ALL of our own making? The absoloute cheek!

Well the Telegraph has come out to bat for Eire today. Not entirely unexpected given their hatred for most things European, but still. We must seek comfort where we find it.