Monthly Archives: May 2012

By Fuchsia Macaree who sez

This is Billy in the Bowl. It’s one of my favourite stories about Dublin – a handsome beggar in the 18th century who was born without legs wheeled himself in a bowl around Stoneybatter, strangled people and eventually got caught. This is his ghost, which I definitely heard go by on several occasions when I lived on Prussia St.

 

Le Cool Dublin

Ronan Costello at The University Times writes:

To assist students with procrastination during the exam period we decided to run a photo competition. Here are their submissions.

Above: Flowers Blossom at the Heart by Timmy Crowley; I know, I can read
by Mohd Amir Anwar; That Finished Exams Feeling by Alice Bentley and The Freshman Decline by Maurice Casey.

View the current full set here.

Angela Merkel has been forced to postpone German ratification of the eurozone’s “fiskalpakt” until after an Irish referendum on May 31 by a gathering domestic and European backlash against austerity.

 

Now this is getting interesting.

Eurozone Crisis: Angela Merkel Forced To Postpone ‘Fiskalpakt’ Ratification (Telegraph)