From the media room at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in the National Convention Centre, Dublin.
Before this happened:
Lesson for Fine Gael: don’t put media room on side where protest is to be put if you don’t want photos taken from the media rm *rolls eyes*
— David Cochrane (@davidcochrane) March 31, 2012
It’s Gardai who have ordered the blinds closed and not FG I am told.#fgaf12
— Suzy Byrne (@suzybie) March 31, 2012
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland) (Mary Minihan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4hKrHGU_vY
The opening scroll of Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith from a bootleg copy bought in 2005 in Shanghai by blogger Winterson.
For reasons best known to themselves, the bootleggers translate the words from English to, well, hideously mangled English.
The original 2005 Winterson Post is the origin of the Do Want/Do Not Want meme.
MORE SUBTITLES: Episode III: The Backstroke of The West redux (2009 post) (Winterson)
Inspired by the famous Penrose Triangle, Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedűs created Frustro, a typeface whose characters face two different directions at once.
That is all.
Thanks Paul Minogue
Fintan Gillespie writes:
Denis Mahony Motors [North Road, Dublin 11] offered anyone who liked their Facebook page over the last few days entry into a draw to win a new Mercedes.The Contest was to end on Sunday. They have just revealed that this offer was an April Fool’s.
The fan count dropped from 10,000 to about 5,000 in just over 20 minutes:
Oh.
Motorists on the northbound lane of the N11 [ between Ashford and Coynes Cross, Co Wicklow] were all asking the same question this morning. Who is Sarah and what did he do that he is so sorry? Laura Wood of East Coast FM’s morning show Freshly Squeezed said the amount of texts and calls to the show were unbelievable and social networks also were asking the same question.
Thanks Susan Clarke
In his opening address to the ardfheis at the National Convention Centre, Mr Kenny also urged people who had not done so to register for the household charge by the deadline of midnight tomorrow night.
“I know that new taxes are never popular. The Household Charge is no exception. But it is needed to fund essential local services,” he said in his opening address to the Fine Gael ardfheis.
“To close the gap in our public finances, we must instead broaden the tax base to include a property based charge because this is less harmful than taxes on work and investment.”
Well, we’re certainly convinced.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sG1shD3ObA
Infectious, melodic, power pop-infused, goddamn hipsters, The Gandhis are playing Stag’s Head Raw (the home of new Irish music upstairs at The Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin) on April 1.
The Dublin band’s new album ‘After Autumn’ is released this very weekend. This is their single ‘Hunting’ from late last year and a rather nifty video directed by Cock and Bull TV’s Donnacha Coffey.
8pm. €8.
