Monthly Archives: September 2011
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Chairman of Irish Life & Permanent John Bourke speaks with Emma McNamara on Morning Ireland, August 30 2011.
John finds himself unable to suppress a chuckle as he comments on the circumstances of Irish Times letter-writer MP MacDomhnaill – one of many people in difficulty with their mortgage repayments.
Irish Life & Permanent was effectively nationalised in 2011, receiving €3.8bn of state funds.
We’d have preferred ‘Don’t Forget Your Shovel If You Want To Go To Work’ but that’s just us.
Queenstown Airport, New Zealand, earlier this morning.
Musical Welcome For Irish team (Stuff NZ)
Video here
King Kock
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Writer’s block as seen by Lyn Allen, who goes under the alias Kitty Moss, an illustrator and designer based in Dublin. That’s one of the first Dell laptops.
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DJ and master remixer Jim Pavloff whips up a multi-sourced home-brew version of The Prodigy’s (NSFW) ‘Smack my bitch up”.
Chin-strokingly good.
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Not necrophiliacs, certainly. An eerie and atmospheric work in progress by Jake McKee.
Tracking courtesy of the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero dolly (if you’re into that kind of thing.)
(Thanks D Fallon)
This literally just in.
‘Bagheera S*Krasa Mira’, a seven-month old Sphynx from County Dublin, has scared off (with just the power of her stare) hundreds of other cats to to win the ‘Summer of the Cat’ competition, a UK and Ireland-wide search for feline squee-ness, organised by cat food maker Royal Canin.
Members of the public were asked to submit photos of their cats during July and August. The next 10 top Irish cats in the list included:
‘Tarmac’: Age: 1 month Breed: Domestic Short/long Hair Location: County Kildare
‘Kiltonga Moonshine’ Age: 8 years Breed: Birman Location: County Kildare
‘Bertie’ Age: 3 years Breed: Exotic Shorthair Location: County Galway
‘Mono’ Age: 4 months Breed: European Shorthair Location: County Kilkenny
‘Frozi’ Age: 10 months Breed: Colourpoint Longhair Location: County Wexford
‘Gulliver‘ Age: 1 year Breed: Domestic Short/long Hair Location: Co. Meath
‘Phoebe’ Age: 2 years Breed: European Shorthair Location: County Antrim
‘Angel’ Age: 4 months Breed: European Shorthair Location: County Dublin
‘Pagan’ Age: 4 years Breed: Maine Coon Location: County Laois
‘Lulu’ Age: 1 year Breed: Domestic Short/long Hair Location: County Meath
You shouldn’t really have favourites.
But ours is Gulliver.
Summer of The Cat 2011 Competition Photo Gallery Gallery (Royal Canin)
