Monthly Archives: January 2012

How insufferable?

Oh, about two-thirds.

Ireland’s economy will grow at about a third of the pace forecast by the government, the country’s bailout partners said, as export growth slows.

Gross domestic product will expand 0.5 percent this year, representatives of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission said today in Dublin. The troika in October forecast 1 percent growth, below the government’s 1.3 percent prediction.

“Ireland continues to face considerable challenges,” they said in a statement confirming the government had met its bailout targets in the fourth quarter. “Domestic demand remains subdued, unemployment high and trading partner growth is slowing.”

Irish Economy To Miss Government Growth Forecast, Troika Say (Bloomberg)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)

 

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyiHS555A5Y

Marie Moran writes:

Debt Justice Action, which is a new coalition of social justice
organisations, launched a new campaign yesterday called ‘Anglo: Not Our Debt’. The Vincent Browne show ran a programme on the campaign last night, and we featured on the RTE news, Drivetime, the Late Debate and other channels AND Mamon Poulet. One of the campaigners put together this video, which is funny and clever and also motivational! We are really trying to get the message out there that Anglo is not our debt, and that there is a feasible way out of paying it, and trying also to appeal to a very broad base of people (who will inevitably suffer horrendously as a consequence of us bailing out this dead bank). Any chance you could post the video to Broadsheet?

 

NotOurDebt.ie
Music: Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)

The scene at Donaghmede, Dublin, literally earlier after more than €100k was stolen at gunpoint.

And who is left to pick up the pieces once all the news crews and detectives and the heavy-dude-with-the beard have gone?

That’s right.

The man in the white suit

Neither tarnished nor afraid.

Just a little lonely.

More than €100k taken in Dublin armed robbery (RTE)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland) 

 

To mark the Chinese new year, which starts on Monday (it’s the dragon’s turn))

By Vavara Shavrova:

This is an excerpt from a time lapse sequence of over 1500 photographs that follows the transformation of a Peking Opera male actor into a gorgeous female character. I shot this in my studio, on a top floor of a warehouse building, in an old part of Beijing, where I used to live between 2005-2010.

 

Le Cool Dublin