Monthly Archives: February 2011

“And what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
I’m a-goin’ back out ‘fore the rain starts a-fallin’
Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty

“And I’ll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
But I’ll know my songs well before I start singin’

“And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”

Or words to that effect.

Fionn Kidney Twitpic Stream

Introducing the Dogbrella. From the website:

This inverted bumbershoot forms a waterproof cocoon around a small dog, enabling canine and master to maintain a walking regimen in inclement weather. The tip of the umbrella hooks to your pet’s leash to keep it from straying beyond its protective canopy.

$29.95 from Hammacher Schlemmer

At St Mary’s Hospital in the Phoenix Park.

She told reporters:

“Very much Like the Celts when they voted for their Kings on the Hill of Tara during Neolithic times we too fulfil our sacred duty to send a shaft of light to the gods of democracy.

“I am reminded of my husband, Archduke Martin and his ‘Your Country, Our Gall’ project which brightened up our lives in so many ways. And still makes people laugh today.

“A dhaoine uaisle, Lá stairiúil é seo im’shaol féin, i saol mo mhuintire, agus i saol na tíre go léir.”

Previously: Who Writes This Crap?

(Photocall Ireland)

“I also believe that [Tony] O’Reilly, if he was still involved in business decision making at IN&M, would not have countenanced the situation that has developed whereby staff at the newspaper, some of whom have 20 years service, would be left with mere statutory redundancy to buffer them from pending unemployment.”

“…I hope that Gavin O’Reilly, son of Tony, who graduated to the position of chief executive at IN&M, and who consistently has enjoyed salary and other benefits of more than €1 million per annum, finds some way to honour his company’s moral obligations to the workers at The Sunday Tribune. I don’t doubt what his father would do if he, rather than his son, was the boss.”

Go The Matt, etc.

Sadly It’s Time To Mourn The Passing Of A Fine Newspaper (Matt Cooper, Irish Examiner)

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