‘Man Alive’ (incorporating ‘Profile’).
Issue 2.
A legal alternative to pot, a profile of Conor Cruise O’Brien and Christy Brown’s “view of the north” (literally written with his left foot). AND the Dickie and Dotty story.
There may not have been an issue 3.
Meanwhile, inside:
When Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled in 2005, it marked the end of an era during which there was at least one Trek series on air continuously since 1987. In 2009, J.J. Abrams introduced the franchise to a new generation of fans. Time for a new TV series? David Foster of 1947 Entertainment is about to pitch the first serious contender:
Although Foster was reluctant to spill too many details, he revealed a bit about the plot:
The series is highly energized with a much younger cast, and uses cutting-edge future technologies with newly envisioned special effects and designs. It includes Klingons, Ferengi, Andorians, Vulcans, Trill, and many more. The Klingons are getting very restless since the Praxis incident forced them to come to the peace tables, and are tired of having to rely on the Federation for support. The Ferengi have discovered a vast new resource that has propelled them towards instant riches and power beyond anything they have previously experienced.
David Foster Preparing To Pitch New Star Trek Series (SlashFilm)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4Wa6aKKiA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Youghal.
So much to answer for.
‘That’ report by economist Morgan ‘Told You So’ Kelly on the mortgage crisis in ireland, in the wake of his Irish Times article on debt relief.
Sanity in a world gone mad.
We reprint in full to demonstrate the size distribution of Morgan Kelly’s brain.
A Note On The Size Distribution Of Irish Mortgages (Professor Morgan Kelly, UCD)
11,000 mortgages over €500k between ’06 & ’09 (RTE News)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOfNq6JY_BE&feature=player_embedded
Partizan 1 Shamrock Rovers 2 (RTE Sport)
Statement from Paul Murphy MEP
I came to Rossport today as part of a delegation of Socialist Party members to support the community and the Shell to Sea campaign against an unsafe onshore high pressure pipeline being and to protest against the giveaway of our natural gas and oil resources to multinationals like Shell.
I have witnessed and experienced the Garda violence that is used against protestors on a daily basis. I participated in a peaceful sit-down protest in front of a truck used by Shell that had been mounted by a protester. In order to remove our peaceful sit-down protest, the Gardai used a level of violence deliberately designed to inflict pain on the protestors.
The Gardai repeatedly called for each other to target protesters’ pressure points. What this meant was made clear when my left ear was twisted repeatedly to the point of excruciating pain and I was repeatedly poked beneath the ribs in a sensitive area causing significant pain. I was also hit in the head and was violently dragged and pulled in such a manner as to rip my jumper.
I was not the only peaceful protestor to be targeted with this level of violence, other participants in the sit-down protest were treated similarly. It is a very sinister development that the Gardai are openly targeting so-called pressure points.
This is a deliberate attempt to inflict significant pain on protesters to get them to give up the protest and to discourage them from participating in future protests. This development, which is a continuation of the Garda brutality which the people of the area have been subjected to for years, must be condemned. I call for an immediate and full public investigation, involving representatives of the community and the trade union movement, into the behaviour of the Gardai in Rossport over the last number of years.
