Stephanie Ryan carries a bridal Bridal Bouquet created by Kay’s School of Floristry using Guinness bottle caps at the Brazen Head in Dublin.
Why?
We literally haven’t a clue.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
For Monty Python and The Holy Grail fans with no shame. And $40 to spare.
A Mercedes-Benz 300SL ‘Gullwing’, Porsche Spyder and pre-war Auto Union Grand Prix racer made entirely from reclaimed car parts and random bits of scrap metal by German firm Giganten Aus Stahl – exhibited at this years Frankfurt Motor Show.
Scrap, but not cheap. The Gullwing costs €69,000 and you can tow the Porsche and Auto Union away for €39,000 and €54,000 respectively.
MORE PIX: Turning scrap metal into German classics is our kind of recycling program (Autoblog)
They’ve added Adele.
Through the window of Walton’s Opus II, George’s Street, Dublin.
We’ve a good mind to go in there and play Stairway on a Steinway.
Thanks Onetwothreefour
Water Clock
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The dot-matrix clock at Osaka Station City that displays the time, and a wide variety of graphics using drops of falling water.
Lough Atalia Road, Galway City Centre.
Thanks Barry Whelan
The IRA’s “armed struggle” was what the fourth Geneva Convention defines as an “armed conflict not of an international character”. Under the convention, the parties to such a conflict are bound to respect certain standards in their treatment of “persons taking no active part in the hostilities”…
It should go without saying that the IRA, partly under the leadership of Martin McGuinness, consistently breached every one of these provisions. But apparently, it does not, so let’s put it on record again. The IRA killed 644 civilians, by far the largest category of its victims (by contrast, and contradicting its self-image as defender of the Catholic community, it killed just 28 loyalist paramilitaries). It incinerated, for example, the members of the Irish Collie Club at the La Mon Hotel. It killed children, including Nicholas Knatchbull, Jonathan Ball, Tim Parry and Paul Maxwell. It practised kidnapping, torture, and acts of naked sadism, such as forcing Patsy Gillespie to drive a van loaded with explosives at an army checkpoint. (Widespread revulsion did not stop the IRA from trying this tactic again.)
It held kangaroo courts and imposed arbitrary sentences that included mutilation through so-called “knee-capping”. All of these are war crimes for which there is no statute of limitations.
I don’t know what personal role McGuinness may have played in any incident. However, what is clear is that he was, for almost the entire period of the conflict, in a position of authority within the IRA. Legally and morally, this makes him responsible.
McGuinness Push For Park is Step Too Far (Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times)
McGuinness Would Be ‘Good’ President, Says Brother Of Claudy Bomb Victim (Fionnan Sheahan and Adrian Rutherford, Belfast Telegraph)
A Bold Piece Of Opportunism – And He Might Just Win (David McKittrick, Independent UK)
(Photocall Ireland)
A 2009 concept by Russian architects Arch Group – since revamped with ash-veneered MDF, up to three beds, sockets for charging gadgets, luggage storage, LED-reading lamps, electric blinds, Wi-Fi, safety deposit box and a touchscreen TV.
Bored kids banging on the walls – out of shot.
