A new James Bond Book, Carte Blanche, was unveiled yesterday, with an exotic new villain for 007.

Niall Dunne, a lanky Irish assassin with a strange walk.

The beginning of the latest Bond book, which was published around the world yesterday, heavily features a deadly assassin initially known simply as ‘The Irishman’.

‘Carte Blanche’, commissioned by the estate of the late Bond creator Ian Fleming, is written by the best-selling American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver.

The opening sequence takes place in Serbia where a gangly Irishman with a distinctive blond fringe is waiting for a train carrying methyl isocyanate — the chemical that killed 8,000 people in the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India — to plunge into the Danube.

Bond’s orders are to “conduct an extraordinary rendition” of the Irishman back to Britain so he can be forced to reveal the nature of a bigger threat.

But the spy learns about the train and the Irishman’s plans to derail it, spilling the deadly chemical into the Danube.

Bond manages to stop him, but only just, and within a few pages the Irishman, Niall Dunne — who we learn is from the North, and is described as 6ft 2in tall, with a strange walk — has killed, cut throats and ripped toenails off people getting in the way of his escape plans.

Bond Faces Off Against Irish Villain (John Spain, Irish Independent)

Gordon D’Arcy.

There’s one more typo in there. Can you spot it?

Rte Sport

Thanks SCDH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_kJ3d1vqs4

It’s the classic rural Irish garda/urban American cop buddy buddy set up we’ve seen a million times before.

Hang on.

Release date (Ireland): July 8

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Thanks DD

Busker on Grafton Street last night.

He stays up there for an entire set.

Everybody needs an angle.

Thanks Barry Hartigan