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We’re not normally huge fans of racing games but this insane fly-through launch trailer for Ubisoft’s Trackmania 2 Canyon is just so damned eyeball-pleasing.
Despite the labyrinthine build, it’s also easy to play, using little more than the arrow, backspace, and enter keys on a PC keyboard.
Apparently, you can do it with one hand. But that’s your own personal business.
Trackmania 2 Canyon on PC is addictive, beautiful, and oddly local (Ars Technica)
Four bedroom semi: 102 Willow Avenue, Athlone Co. Westmeath
Four-bedroom semi: 15 Grove Park, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
Five-bedroom period house: ‘Rooskey’, Killinaker House, Killinaker, Co. Leitrim
Reserves “must not exceed” 50k.
Part of the Allsop house fire sale in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin on September 23.
Gay Mitchell: “Understands our past, believes in our future”.
Mary Davis: “Pride at home, respect abroad”
Martin McGuinness: “Towards a new Republic”.
Michael D Higgins:“The President who will do us proud”.
Seán Gallagher: “Let’s put our strengths to work”.
Bodger: “I am high. Come dance with me.”
Prime Time last night revealed that between 300-500 people could lose their jobs with Aviva due to a fall in “domestic demand”. Aviva employs 1900 people in Ireland.
This was the insurer’s response:
300-500 jobs.
We have a pretty good idea where some of that work might be going:
Time to take Lansdowne Road back.
500 Jobs Under Threat At Insurer Aviva (Claire O’Sullivan, Irish Examiner)
Call Centre India (Job Aggregator)
The humans behind MyPetReview.com tested their pets against the County Clare surf on Sunday. Much fun was had but the dog in pic 2 remains puzzzled as to why he was the only animal wearing a lifejacket.
Andrea Corr and Orla Tinsley at Hughes and Hughes in Dublin this evening for the launch of Orla’s memoir ‘Salty Baby’.
