Monthly Archives: January 2012

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By ‘popular’ demand. A lovingly-compiled slideshow of our favourite things that look like Ireland sent in the past year. Think of it as a coffee table book in digital form. You’re most welcome.

Thanks to:

Mince pie (Therese O’Donoghue) Moss found in New Hampshire, USA (Noirin Ni Earcain) Damaged plasterwork, Siena, Italy (Margaret Lyons) Puddle (Dermot Donovan) Green ‘Gummi’ Bear (Sean Mullen) ‘Time Team’ on Channel 4 (Michelle Bond) Sawdust (Diarmaid Frain) Dublin City Bikes map (Simon Free) McNugget (unknown) Fake Hollywood Burn Prosthesis from Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (Alan O’Sullivan) Pothole in Culebra, off the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico (Diarmiuid Brophy) Stone (Lahcen Campbell) Tree from the Electric Picnic 2008 (Ruairi Carroll) Empty pack of Camel Lights (Kenneth Wilson) Graze on a five-year-old’s knee (Charanga) Bruise on an apple (Bob Lewis) King crisp (Andrew Moore) Cloud above Manhatten (Joe and Tina Buggy) Beer top foil (Naomi Kelly) Soup (Fionn Kidney) Hedge, West Cork (Diarmaid Frain).
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The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like Ireland to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

The NDAA is the $662 billion National Defense Authorization Act that President Obama signed into law on New Year’s Eve. In addition to funding the United States’ ongoing wars and the 900 military bases it maintains in 130 countries, the bill provides for the U.S. president to have draconian worldwide authority to have the military seize anyone suspected of “terrorism” or providing aid to terrorists or “associated forces” anywhere in the world, including U.S. citizens on American soil, and detain them without charge or trial indefinitely.

 

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AN Irish “visitor” caused a stir on Monday when it was discovered washed up on Woolacombe beach.

The large buoy, part of Ireland’s marine weather buoy network, had broken free from its anchor and drifted to North Devon, some 270 miles as the crow flies.

It is normally chained to the sea bed off the Emerald Isle’s southern coast and collects a range of data for weather and marine observation, including wave height, sea temperature, wind speed and direction.

Swansea Coastguard Station told the North Devon Gazette its owners, the Marine Institute in Ireland, were making arrangements for its collection.

The Institute’s website lists buoy M3, normally positioned off the south west corner of Ireland, as “experiencing technical problems” at the present time

 

Giant Irish visitor washed up at Woolacombe (North Devon Gazette)