Ben Eustace writes:
“Thought you might like this. Took it in Dartmouth Sq [Dublin] yesterday with my puppy, Jasper, when the sporadic weather led to a rainbow.”
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Beautiful
atSamantha Brick hasn’t gone away you know – I hear she’s appearing on RTE’s Late Late Show tomorrow night…
— lisa o’carroll (@lisaocarroll) April 12, 2012
Charlie Brooker on Brickmania here
“My son had a hernia and needed to be operated on [in Syria]. I left him for just a minute, and that’s when the soldiers came into the hospital. By the time I got back to my son’s room, his insides were outside his body. He has had four operations so far. They say a small bullet or shrapnel hit him, cut him open. I have spent a year like this, watching him suffer.” Fadia al-Abdo, 27, with her year-old son Mohammad Dali
“I have lost my brother, the dearest thing to me.” Salha, 13
“I was ordered to fire live ammunition at protesters. It was unbearable.” Mohammad Khalaf al-Ugla, 25
Plz RT: Writing novel set in Cork 1996; anyone feel like sharing memories of Cork/Ireland in mid-90s, email or @ me here. Gwan ya langerzzz
— Darragh McManus (@McManusDarragh) April 12, 2012
Ah but if you remember the ’90s in Cork you weren’t there, etc., etc.
From Tara W on Adverts.ie:
Free for collection (Bray), a book my mother gave me. Don’t know what she was thinking with this one – I am a career woman with money in the bank, independent all the way! She should have bought it for herself. Or my sister.
Emigration clearout, please check out my other items :)
FREE- An insulting Book My Mother Gave Me (Adverts.ie)
Thanks Mark
The man spearheading the investigation into Anglo Irish Bank, Paul Appleby (above), secured a bumper €300,000 pension deal by resigning as director of corporate enforcement the day before retiring from the civil service.
He went back to being a principal officer in the civil service for 24 hours before being re-appointed as the acting director for six months.
He was allowed to use his director’s salary of €150,712, rather than a principal officer’s rate of €92,672, to calculate his pension entitlements.
Appleby Quit One Day Early To Net €300k (Mary Regan, Irish Examiner)
(Laura Hutton/ Photocall Ireland)
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Brian Mahon writes:
I would really appreciate a helping hand with a campaign my friends are running today, the 12th of April. The story is thus. Ireland only contributes .52% of it’s GNP to world aid. This is in direct conflict with the agreement it signed in 2000 when it pledged to give .7 of it’s GNP to aid in tandem with the project by the UN, the Millennium Development Goals
What we’re doing in UCD is using the concept of Kony 2012 (work with me here!) to point to the fact that the Irish Government has not kept its promise. The reason for the Kony style of promoting our cause is twofold. The style they utilised, whatever about it’s substance, caught fire and spread around the world in a matter of hours. We’re hoping for a similar effect. Only here in Ireland. Moreover we feel that it is a target and aim that is achievable and tangible, unlike, say capturing Kony. It is something that we can directly affect and lobby our TDs on.
Meg writes:
This is a personal project I am currently working on, a new letter each week, and I am currently taking requests for what movies to do next, (in alphabetical order of course). A broadsheet shout out would be greatly appreciated.
Only too happy. We love a movie alphabet so we do.
E is for Eraserhead.