Dunnes Stores, Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, Dublin.
Thanks Ryan Cullen
Update:
it must be an annual fetish, i took this in Dunnes Stephens Green exactly 1 year ago yesterday. @broadsheet_ie twitter.com/piajade/status…
— piajade (@piajade) June 11, 2012
Was Sean Fitzpatrick really a guest of Denis O’Brien’s at Poznan?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But really?
Really?
REALLY??
More as we get it (unless it’s nonsense).
Earlier: The Golden Circle On Tour
(Graham Hughes/Photocall Ireland)
A ‘history defacing’ Tumblr from Archie McPhee wherein photos of celebrities are given the googly eyes they so richly deserve.
(Above: Nietzsche, Feldman, Hilton and friend)
If you’re a Tumblrite, you can submit your own celebs for begooglment.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan (centre) with Cardinal Sean Brady (right) and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin at the Eucharistic Congress opening at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, yesterday..
Tim leads a very hectic life.
Dr [Diarmuid] Martin also refused to comment on the fact that New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is playing a leading role at the congress, is embroiled in controversy over an alleged payout policy of €20,000 to encourage paedophile priests to quit the priesthood. “I have read the stories in the newspapers but I know nothing about it,” he said. Archbishop Dolan, who is now a cardinal and the head of the archdiocese in New York, was appointed in March 2010 by Pope Benedict to lead the Apostolic Visitation to Ireland to examine the four archdioceses here.
(Pic by Frank McGrath lifted from the irish Independent. Sorry)
Damn nature you awesome, etc.
Its scientific name is Dracula simia, the last part nodding towards the fact that this remarkable orchid bears more than a passing resemblance to a monkey’s face – although we won’t go as far as to be species specific on this one. The Dracula (genus) part of its name refers to the strange characteristic of the two long spurs of the sepals, reminiscent of the fangs of a certain Transylvanian count of film and fiction fame.
Will Lett writes:
So much to love in this piccy from the local paper in Poznan, but my favourite bit is the random shoe in the foreground
The former base of 77 gardai, processing 3000 prisoners a year. The latest of around 40 garda stations shut in 2012. More closures planned for next year.
(Thanks Oisin)
At the showgrounds in The RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, for the second day of the Eucharistic Congress within the last two hours.
Turned out nice.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Long before skinny jeans, when vinyl was shellac and all bikes were fixies, there was Harry Gibson: the substance-abusing boogie-woogie stride pianist who first coined the term ‘hipster’.
Discovered by Fats Waller in 1939, Gibson – a precursor to the Beat Poets – played the jazz clubs of Manhattan as Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson until 1945.
In 1947, the controversial lyrics of his song ‘Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine’ (set to the 1938 Max Fleischer Betty Boop cartoon classic “Sally Swing” above) resulted in all of his music being banned from radio play.
Damn.
(Hat tip: KerryView)
