httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4btXjfSqwk

Anderson Cooper corpses squeefully. Go to 2.30.

“All I can say is they should thank their lucky stars it wasn’t a Gerard DepardTWO.”

Via Gawker

“Roundstone Pier, Connemara – August Bank Holiday.” (Neil Ginty)

“The Ring of Kerry last week. All the way from Chicago for that?” (Hugh Roche)

Send your bleak Irish Holiday Snaps to: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie.

Robbie Keane About To Start His American Dream (Balls.ie)

Via Boing Boing

Thanks Ciaran le Cool

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iWKulQzeYw&feature=youtu.be

And his relentless sanity.

Hanover Quay studios, Dublin. 2009

Hanover Quay studios, Dublin. This week.

William Murphy writes:

Hanover Quay Studios became a focal point for U2 fans from across the world and the wall across the street became the new ‘U2 Wall’, featuring lots of graffiti. In general the graffiti was not very artistic but I considered it to be interesting.

I visit the area every few weeks and when I visited earlier this week I was more than a little bit surprised to see the most of the U2 specific graffiti had been painted over and replaced by very generic graffiti and/or street art.

William Murphy (Google+)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYhkXrRAdc&feature=player_embedded

Lucinda. Take note.

Christine O’Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan’s Show Over Gay Marriage (LA Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

On Kildare Street this afternoon. From left: Glenda Gilson, Ray Foley, Alan Hughes, Karen Koster and Nora Owen.

And outside the Royal College Of Physicians.

Ben Frow and Vincent Browne.

Front, from left: Lisa Cannon, Sinead Desmond, Ben Frow, Martin King and Urlusala Halligan

(Brian McEvoy) (Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)