Slaphead writes:
Re; your posts on the Barge pub [Grand Canal, Dublin]. This pic was taken outside the pub when the canal was being dredged a few years back.
Slaphead writes:
Re; your posts on the Barge pub [Grand Canal, Dublin]. This pic was taken outside the pub when the canal was being dredged a few years back.




Scenes from day 2 of the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis at the INEC, Killarney
From top: Palestinan Ambassador to Ireland, Dr Hikmat Ajjuri; Ryan MacGillabhui (left) and Ruairi McLaughlin from Derry; Tommy Benny with a statute of a H Block blanket man at the merchandise stall, and an unrepentant Janice Boylan.
Now here’s Martin with the weather…
Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend so he enlisted 60 friends and family, chose an appropriate tune and staged ‘the world’s first Live Lip-Dub Proposal’:
On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent’s house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He “wanted to play her a song”…
(Hat tip: Darragh Doyle)
@broadsheet_ie @planetjedward graffiti on the quays in Dublin twitter.com/lauraannenolan…
— Laura Nolan (@lauraannenolan) May 26, 2012
Paralympic swimmer Xavi Torres, 37, of Spain carries his orthopaedic legs after a training session on the Balearic island of Palma de Mallorca on May 15. This summer, Torres, who has previously won 16 paralympic medals, will participate in his sixth paralympic games. He currently owns four world swimming records in different categories.
A paralympic swimmer prepares to defend his world records
(MSNBC Photoblog)