Monthly Archives: March 2011

The Nature Of Clay

Niall Murphy at 12:45 pm March 4, 2011

Sculptor, Kate McDowell, who exhibits in the US and UK, creates incredible porcelain pieces designed to explore the impact of human activity on the environment. Sez she:

I hand sculpt each piece out of porcelain, often building a solid form and then hollowing it out. Smaller forms are built petal by petal, branch by branch and allow me the chance to get immersed in close study of the structure of a blossom or a bee. I chose porcelain for its luminous and ghostly qualities as well as its strength and ability to show fine texture.

Badum. Tish.

Admin at 12:30 pm March 4, 2011

Dulach Glynn: Twitter’s Paul Delaney.

Richie Boucher: Rich And Douchey

Aaron McAllorum at 12:00 pm March 4, 2011

Let us consider the following:

Lenihan told the Dáil in December that the bank – which has received €3.5 billion from the Government and is 36 per cent State-owned – paid no performance-related bonuses for 2009.

In fact, the bank paid more than €66 million in bonuses from September 2008 to December 2010, the department’s inquiry found.

So Bank of Ireland boss Richie (picture above, after stealing that lady’s dentures) and his team gave the government the wrong steer. No biggie, we’re used to this sort of stuff. So what do they suggest as compensation?

A few sackings? A public statement of remorse?

Yes, they’ve offered money. €2 million in fact.Which means.

They are compensating the government for misleading the government using money the government gave them.

Lenihan Rightly Angry At BoI ‘Catalogue Of Errors’ (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)

Yellow Spiders Found In Mazdas

Admin at 11:30 am March 4, 2011

52,000 Mazda6 sedans have been recalled after several reports that yellow sac spiders (above) were found living in the car’s fuel tank.

Mazda spokesman Jeremy Barnes said it was not clear why the yellow sac spider liked to build nests in the Mazda6.

“Perhaps yellow sac spiders like to go zoom-zoom?” he joked

Playing fast and loose with the word ‘joked’.

Mazda Recall Over Fear Of Spiders (Autoblog)

Never Poke a Sleeping Avalanche

Niall Murphy at 11:15 am March 4, 2011

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99j17GL3qlE

Clearing a Russian mountainside of a potentially hazardous buildup of snow gives rise to a potentially hazardous buildup of snow.

At around 1.15, people start recalculating their safe-viewing distance.

boreme

In Case Of Fire, Refer To Notes

Niall Murphy at 11:00 am March 4, 2011

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Stephen Ireland: The More He Hates Us The More We Love Him

Admin at 10:45 am March 4, 2011

“I won’t come back,” the Cork native told the magazine [France’s ‘So Foot]. “I feel nothing for the national team. I don’t feel at all guilty when they lose and when they win I never say ‘oh dear, I could have been there’.

“Even if Ireland had qualified for the World Cup I wouldn’t have gone. People are calling for me to return, but I only ever played five games guys!

“International soccer doesn’t interest me. Going away for three days to play in Andorra – I’ve got better things to do.

“Also, when you’re Irish you know you’ll never win the World Cup. Even when I played for the youth teams, I got fed up at having to go away. Everyone else was from Dublin and I came from Cork. I had to get the train on my own, pay for a taxi, there was no hotel, no food. The organisation was amateurish.”

On Italian Trapattoni, who once met with the player in an attempt to entice him back into the green shirt, he raged on: “I’ve never seen anyone so arrogant.

“I met him once. He was taking calls every two minutes and made me hang around for 15 minutes in his office.”