Presidential hopeful Michael D Higgins – with wife Sabina – at the National Museum last night to launch a collection of his poems and writings old, new and bilingual.

It’s his version of Obama’s The Audacity of Hope.

With poems.

Some in Irish.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Thanks DC

From space.

NASA satellites on the Atlantis space shuttle mission, which is coming to an end as we write, were able to capture the geomagnetic phenomenon known as Aurora Australis while it was auroring.

You’d think they might have moved that white stick? Seeing as they’d gone all that way.

Nasa Sees Southern Lights From Space (International Business Times)

Click here to see how he looks.

Thanks Jono

Oh.

Cover Via Mark Lappin

David Quinn responds to Enda Kenny’s speech.

Beyond parody.

David Quinn  blog (Irish Catholic)

(Photocall Ireland)

“It is simply a honorary position bestowed on me by the Vatican for my charitable work keeping the P-man in Pradas.”

Peter Sutherland. A Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory (2008)

“They were impressed by my idea of putting the customer first. And by ‘impressed’ I do mean ‘amused’.”

Fergal Quinn. a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory (1994)

“You left your watch on my bed table…”

Alec Baldwin on Twitter

Via iPaddy