Millions of years old. The world’s most famous campaign poster redesigned by Mike Rosulek back in 2009 to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
“In the jacks”
South William Street, Dublin.
Thanks Cathal O’Rourke
This is an irish Times report on Michael Noonan’s now infamous Bloomberg breakfast briefing (the feta one) as it currently appears online.
The story went up just before lunchtime yesterday.
A contributor to the PoliticalWorld.org site copied and pasted it at the time.
And this, he asserts, is how it then read:
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan today warned voting Yes in the upcoming EU fiscal treaty referendum on May 31st would be a “leap in the dark” and a “dangerous leap but that Irish citizens should take it”.
He also told a Dublin event that no other European country but Ireland would be able to pass a referendum on the fiscal treaty. “In all other countries people are concerned about growing inequality. In Ireland we need to keep focus on more important issues of corporate profitability and tax protection we offer international organisations. This is not the time for drastic moves to the left simply to suit populist demands for simplistic idealism of “social justice”
You may notice the changed intro and the rather incendiary quote which is now missing from the story.
There are four possibilities.
1) Noonan never made the remark. It was inserted by a mischievous sub-editor (from the ‘left” perhaps) and hastily removed.
2) The PoliticalWorld.org contributor pasted the quote in for the ‘laugh’.
3) The Irish Times was hacked.
4) Noonan did say it (because that’s how he rolls) and The Irish Times chose, for whatever reason, to remove it.
More as we get it.
A nifty, slightly discombobulating video by Joe Pearse. Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
(Hat tip: Cian Byrne)
38 Years Ago
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At 5.28pm, 5.30pm and 5.32pm in Dublin and 6.58pm in Monaghan.
Photos from the Dublin City Library digital archive. From top: South Leinster Street; Talbot Street; Talbot Street; Marlborough Street: South Leinster Street, and the rest from Talbot Street.
Fergus O’Neill writes:
I’ve invented the first twin use ‘Euro 2012 & Fiscal treaty’ t-shirt. The message is ‘Lets wreck Europe… again’.
Yours for €15. Available here
His And Hers
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It’s Monkey Tennis time.
That Summer schedule in full.
From RTE.ie:
Creedon’s Cities: John Creedon travels to Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway to “meet the people that make each city so special and find out more about their hometowns”.
Martin & Paul’s Surf’n’Turf, chefs Martin Shanahan and Paul Flynn “travel to eight seaside locations in Ireland, source local produce and create a signature dish for the area in 24 hours”.
Chaplin: The Waterville Picture tells “the story of the screen icon’s love for the Kerry town”.
The Science Squad presented by Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Kathriona Devereux and Jonathan McCrea and will “bring Irish viewers up to date with the latest developments in Irish scientific research across a wide range of sectors”.
Documentaries and factual programmes include Labour’s Way, Ireland outside the Euro? (hmm), Cracking Crime and Truckers and Faster, Higher, Stronger, which is part of RTÉ’s Science Week.
The Big Money Game returns with two new presenters Brian Ormond and Sinéad Kennedy.
And our favourite? For Fair City fans there will be “a wedding, an engagement, an injured child and teenage heartbreak this Summer”.
Glen Killane, MD, RTÉ Television, sez: ““There is so much to look forward to and the entertainment won’t just be confined to the various sports arenas, with the return of firm favourites like the Rose of Tralee, Saturday Night with Miriam and For One Night Only.
“If we can get some decent weather and some good results in Poland, London and in Croke Park, it just might be the tonic we all need in these difficult times.”
Bicycle lane, Portobello, Dublin.
(Thanks Service Charge)
And all his balloons would go pop.
Ruairi Quinn at the schools Anti-Bullying Forum in the Clock Tower conference centre, Marlborough Street, Dublin, this morning.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)