Monthly Archives: June 2012

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Kiera O’Connell and Seamus Hegarty write:

I don’t know if you guys have heard but on the 28th of July the people of Cork and Ireland are going to try and beat the Guinness World Record for the amount of people body painted at one time. Here’s a little video of a warm up they did on Tuesday:

Smart.

See, the clue was in the name.

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Political pensions and lump sums for former TDs, Ministers and Senators have cost nearly €2 million every single month over the past year and a half.

An estimated €32.7 million has been spent by the Oireachtas and Department of Finance since January 2011 on pensions for former politicians. The cost includes more than €9.5 million paid in lump sums (some above) to the record number of public representatives who retired after the last election.

Crikey.

In fairness Michael Squee, Ciaran Cuffe, Gay Mitchell, Eithne Fitzgerald, Proinsias de Rossa and Maurice Manning “gifted their pension entitlements back” to the state.

Political Pensions: The Cost( Story.ie)

Thanks Ken Foxe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY

What you may need to know:

1. Judge Dredd is a character from classic Brit sci-fi comic 2000AD. Sly Stallone starred as Dredd back in 1995. It didn’t go well.

2. This second bash is more faithful to the original comics. Dredd don’t take his helmet off for no-one.

3. Behind the helmet? Kiwi bad-ass Karl Urban, AKA Éomer from Lord Of The Rings and Bones McCoy from the Star Trek re-boot.

4. The bad guy is played by Lena Headey with some heavy scarring make up so you may not realise she also plays Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones.

5. It’s written by Alex Garland, and directed by Pete Travis, who did Omagh.

6. Irish connection: hot ginger Domhnall Gleeson is in it somewhere.

7.. Looks like: a dystopian version of The Raid (2011), minus the cool martial arts bits.