Monthly Archives: June 2012

Typical.

The father’s swanned off.

Mute swans usually lay between four and six eggs; however this Limerick swan had a clutch of nine cygnets in recent weeks. “Nine is an incredible number. The average is four to six although we did have up to 10 cygnets sighted before,” says Westfield Wetlands committee member Sean Ryan.

 

Family Of Nine Cygnets Is A New Attraction At Limerick Wetlands (Niamh Dillon, Limerick Leader)

(Sean Ryan)

Thanks Niall O’M

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydAICgkWX0

Via Ball.ie

Before the Spain-Portugal Euro 2012 semifinal, people in the Poznan fanzone sang ‘Stand Up For The Boys In Green’. What have we wrought?

Mmf.

Poznan Will Never Forget – Polish Singsong For The Irish Last Night In The Fanzone (Xavier McDaniel, Balls.ie)

Thanks Turt Hell

“In the library of Farmleigh House in Dublin (where I used to work as a tour guide), there is a document known as Queen Elizabeth I’s Irish Primer. Probably dating from the 1560s, the preface to the primer says it was written at the Queen’s command, and in the light of her desire to spread the Reformation to the Irish people, for most of whom Irish – not English – was a first language.”

 

Meeting The Queen (EarlyModernJohn)

Images and Text of primer here

Thanks Tom Lowe

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ooD8DeeQx0

Wait for it…

Tv3’s Ron Burgundy Alan Cantwell on last night’s Tonight With Vincent Browne.

Epic.

Vincent Browne: “Alan you wanted to talk about the Barclays {bank] story.”

Alan Cantwell: “Yeah I’ll come to that in a moment, but what’s interesting about the publications, particularly the coverage of the handshake was the lack of a picture of a queen on the front of [Sinn Fein newspaper] An Phoblacht. [looks to SF’s Mary Lou McDonald] Would that have been a bridge too far…for Republicans? Mary Lou? [smiles]

Vincent Browne: “I would imagine it was because it was printed several days ago.”

Mary Lou McDonald: “It would have gone to press.”

Cantwell. “Of course.”

[silence]

Cantwell: “Anyway….Let’s get to Barclays story. Interesting story this in fact. It’s an incredible story of deviousness…”

Via Oireachtas Retort.

Thanks Lars Biscuits

The Twittlesphere went bonkers yesterday as a new generation of social networkers were collectively trolled by the above ‘screengrab’ from Back To The Future.

Two years ago, the website Total Film pulled off the same sting.

The real Future Day isn’t for a while yet.

Sorry, Back to the Future Fans, the Future Still Isn’t Here Yet (Slate)