Monthly Archives: June 2012

Sarah Keane writes:

My (mini) contribution to the tricolour effort in my Copenhagen office. Once I put it up last week, I was informed that ‘flag etiquette’ in Denmark says you can’t ‘fly’ (ahem, stick on your computer) a foreign flag without the Danish flag above it. Having lived in Scandinavia for a while, I felt compelled to obey the rules but made a smaller and even more wonky Danish flag.
Unfortunately everybody is too overjoyed having beaten the Dutch to notice my defiance. Damn them and their warranted national excitement.

 

Defiant Tricolours to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

You may recall the post a couple of weeks ago about the first ever Late Late Show line-up from 1962, which featured the incredibly striking Verona Mullen.

Whatever happened to her?

We wondered.

Last night Verona’s niece Martina Mullin wrote:

My dad’s going to love it [the post]. Verona was his sister. She is no longer with us so he and his brothers and sister will be delighted with this stuff. In answer to your question she is buried in Barcelona.  She got breast cancer at 32 and died aged 42.  She was doing a masters or PHD in Harvard when she got sick so that kinda puts Gaybo in his place.  She said before she died that her greatest regret was that she didn’t use her good looks to marry an accountant.  Sure isn’t that all any woman wants!

The White Castle, Duke Street, Co Kildare.

Reserve not to exceed 50k.

From Allsops:

The property comprises a detached castle arranged over ground, first and second floors. It is believed to have been built in 1417 by Sir John Talbot, Viceroy of Ireland, to protect the bridge over the River Barrow. Built into the wall on either side of the original entrance doorway are two sculptured slabs which state that the castle was previously owned by the Earl of Kildare signified by the coat of arms to the right of the entrance doorway. The property is a protected structure.

 

The White Castle, Kildare (Allsop)