httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5aEhGuBYk&sns=em
Occupy Chicken.
What the cluck?
A video to mark the reopening of Joe Macken’s pop-up hipster eaterie Crackbird today at 60 Dame Street, Dublin (formerly Fan’s).
Hen-believable.
Etc.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
These photos show John Walker Lindh at age 17, touring Ireland with his [Irish-American] father Frank. It was 1998 on the week that the Good Friday Agreement was passed. By that time John was accustomed to wearing traditional Islamic garb and despite the unusual appearance, Frank said he found Irish people to be open and accepting.
Three months after visiting Ireland, John headed for the Yemeni capital Sana’a. He learned Arabic and began reading the original text of the Koran, committing large passages to memory and immersing himself in Islamic culture. The following spring he wrote to say he was moving to the mountains [of Pakistan] and for several months his concerned parents heard nothing from him.What he had not told them in his letter was that he intended to cross the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan to volunteer for the Afghan army.
Ireland Stand Up – the name seeming to conjure up that version of Irish nationalism of yore where Catholicism was an assertion of ‘Irishness’ – cannot be too well staffed. It has a pitiful number of Facebook followers and has been up and running for little more than two months. Yet, they managed to draw 55 TDs and 20 Senators, including no less than Minister for Europe Lucinda Creighton (above with Eamon Gilmore), to a meeting in Buswell’s hotel near Leinster House last week. Creighton offered her support to the group’s agenda, namely that the Irish government ought to (eventually) reverse its callous decision to nix the Irish embassy to the Holy See!
When you hear of valuable advocacy networks for prison reform; or immigrants say, failing to attract even a tenth of these numbers (let alone endorsements) at meetings in Leinster House then something is seriously awry.
Standing up for the Holy See (James Cussen, Politico)
(Photocall Ireland)
This is what happens when you put your new mobile number on Facebook…
Thanks Ruairi Carroll
Eh…
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Occupy Limerick. You tell them about the missing apostrophes. We’re scared.
(Thanks Louis Scully)
Bunclody, Co. Wexford.
Bodger’s already set up a tent outside.
(Thanks Marts)
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, had to be extracted from a restaurant near Parliament House as angry protesters banged on the glass.
Supporters of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra picketed the Lobby restaurant over comments by Mr Abbott this morning that the tent embassy should close.
As many as 200 gathered in front of the restaurant, banging on its glass walls and yelling “shame” and “racist”.
PM Dragged Away After Being Trapped By Protesters (The Age)
