Monthly Archives: February 2011

The Irish Times.

Anyone else?

No, just the Times. It’s their ‘thing’.

Seriously? No other news organisation. Nobody?

It’s a solo run, dude. Check out this Google news search:

Heavens. They really are alone on this.

Or it could be just a long-running typo.

No. You think?

Anything’s possible with the Old Lady. You know that.

Well. Thanks.

You’re most welcome,  bro

Thanks Rex Banner, Eoghan Glynn

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Salma Elbouzari, age 2,  and her father Seid  joined members of Ireland’s Libyan community in Dublin today to present letters to the Department of Foreign Affairs and the European Union House on Dawson Street, protesting against their country’s ruler Muammar Gadaffi and the bloodshed he has unleashed in Benghazi and Tripoli.

(Photocall Ireland)

Libya: Journalist Prepare For ‘Floodgates To Open’ (Guardian)

Images from photographer and former Road Records proprietor, Dave Kennedy’s website Visions Of The Phoenix Park. Sez he:

I’ve been taking photographs since my early twenties. I moved into digital about five years ago but still enjoy a day out with a camera loaded with old style film. I particularly enjoy a day out with a monstrous medium format film camera, there is something very wholesome about carrying around a piece of equipment that weighs far too much for the purpose it serves.

I like to shoot a lot in infra-red, it’s something I became hooked on a few years ago and now I find it hard to take normal photographs.

Only open a wet week, but big on promise.

Lots more at Dave’s Flickr Photostream.

(Thanks Sinéad)

Dublin South Independent candidate Buhidma Hussein Hamed confirmed to an election worker that his brother was killed by government forces in Benghazi.

A volunteer with fellow Dublin South candidate Peter Mathews’s campaign said he contacted Mr Hamed to offer his sympathy. In an email to Broadsheet, he wrote: “It is indeed true – I spoke to Hussein this morning and offered him my condolences.”

Mr Hamed, who fled Libya in the 1990s, took part in a rally yesterday in O’Connell Street with his daughter Rukiyah (pictured below, with Mr Hamed at back).

Before today’s news he gave an interview which appeared in this morning’s Irish Times. He said: “My brother told me it is a massacre – they are using anti-aircraft weaponry against unarmed civilians and the hospitals cannot cope with the number injured. He said the international community must do something.”

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