Monthly Archives: August 2011

Some digi-cameras simulate the tilt-shift effect. This one has a dedicated tilt-shift lens built in, rendering real life images (and videos) as miniature dioramas. Even with a modest 5 megapixel resolution the results (above) are pretty impressive.

We love the tilt-shift, we do.

The camera costs $149 from Photojojo.

Ben Crawford, age 6, from Galway
Cara Mooney, 13, from Naas, Co Kildare with Bill Ringrose, former president of the RDS.
Safety stewards Oinri Jackson and Neville Jessop


Adam, 6 and Ailbhe Murphy, 8, from Killarney, Kerry

It’s tradition, innit?

Taken literally within the last hour at the Failte Ireland Horse Show in the RDS showgrounds, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

In 2003 there were 3000 people on death row in America.

Many protested their innocence and some (up to 3 per cent) are believed to have been the victims of miscarriages of justice.

In fact 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row in 2003.

Paul Hill (above) was not among them. He was proud to have murdered Florida abortion clinic doctor John Britton and his bodyguard, James Barrett in cold blood (He also wounded Barrett’s wife, June).

Following his arrest and up to his execution Hill, a former presbyterian minister, urged fellow anti-abortion activists: “I think more people should act as I have acted.”

He said God had made him do it.

He also waived all his rights to appeal to commute his sentence and accepted his fate.

So, why did Gay Mitchell and Fine Gael choose to intervene to help Paul Hill (a man who evidently supported the concept of a death penalty) when there were many more deserving cases on death row to plead for clemency in 2003.

Lines close at 5.30pm.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6sm1HZJiVk