Spotted in Tesco Express on the Kimmage Road, Dublin.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
After the first hour or so of this you begin to feel politely bored, as if you’ve just spent 60 minutes in the company of perfectly nice people who have nothing of interest to say and have been forced to say it anyway.
But eventually, after sitting through the whole 22-and-three-quarter hours of Rose of Tralee Part One, perfectly nice people with nothing to say have become a sort of noxious fungal blight, feasting on sponsorship money and destroying everything that is good and wholesome about life.
Tonight we get to find out who wins the exciting holiday in Kerry, the collection of silverware and the use (for one year) of a Renault Megane.
(Pic: Sportsfile)
Previously: The ‘Is The GAA The Illuminati File’ Gets Bigger
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ES54rRuw0&feature=player_embedded
Wait for it.
Via Big Mental Disease
Beats Bosco
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Make your own with this Marvel Cakelet Pan (advanced cakelet decoration skills not incluNOIMNOMNOMNOMNOM)
‘Cakelet’. Whatever happened to buns?
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Taken literally at dawn today.
The replacement for the Ryanair Dublin-Cork route A 61-foot tall dragon-shaped promotional balloon with a glass-bottomed basket takes to the skies above Meath.
Who’d have thought early-morning Trim could be so beautiful and interesting?
(Malachy Geelan)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7uBTAateI
If you caught Exit Through the Gift Shop and Antics Roadshow on Channel 4 earlier this month, you’ll have seen the Banksy-manipulated inserts that accompanied them. If not, here’s a nifty montage of the whole blinking lot.
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Earlier this year Martin McGuinness told the the BBC’s Political Editor Mark Devenport that he felt no shame about republicans’ past links with Colonel Gaddafi.
In the report, Mark Devenport asks exactly what was the link between Colonel Gaddafi and Northern Ireland?
Recalling that in the 1960s the Provisional IRA was badly armed, relying on old weapons, some dating back to World War II, McGuinness says Gaddafi saw the IRA as a comrade-in-arms fighting British imperialism.
The first proven connection with Libya was discovered in 1973 when the Irish Navy boarded a ship called the Claudia, off the Irish coast. They found five tonnes of weaponry supplied by Libya.
Links between Gaddafi and the IRA re-emerged in 1986 after Gaddafi’s adopted daughter was killed along with more than 100 other people by US bombing raids launched from UK bases.
The Libyan leader has said he resumed contact with the IRA in the aftermath of those air raids.
A year later, French authorities stopped a ship, the Eksund, which was on its way to Northern Ireland carrying around 1,000 AK-47 machine guns, more than 50 ground-to-air missiles and two tonnes of Semtex. It is believed that other shipments of arms reached Ireland before the Eskund was apprehended.
In 2003, the BBC spoke to an intelligence source who said there was no question that Libyan arms had greatly enhanced the IRA’s deadliness.
Attacks carried out with Libyan Semtex included the Enniskillen ( Remembrance Day) bombing in 1987 (above), the Ballygawley bus bombing in 1988 and about 250 other booby-trap bombings.
A legal fight to secure compensation from Tripoli for victims of IRA atrocities were believed to be close to a conclusion last year, with as much as £2 billion lined up as the price for Libya’s role in the Troubles.
IRA Victims’ Joy Over Demise of Libya Tyrant (News Letter)
The 38-Year Connection Between Irish Republicans And Gaddafi (BBC News, February 23, 2011)