Monthly Archives: July 2012

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Richard Waghorn writes:

Many thanks for featuring my time lapse of Dublin recently. I have had another go, this time using photos taken by the crews on the International Space Station – It features some nice passes of Ireland…

Photograph sequences were taken by the crews of Expedition 30 and Expedition 31 on board the International Space Station (ISS) between December 2011 and June 2012. The sequences were then compiled using Final Cut Pro. Music is called Acoustic Plains from audionetwork.com

 

 FINALLY.

Work to treble the number of bikes from 500 to 1,500, and more than double the number of stands where they can accessed from 44 to 100, will begin before the end of the year, Dublin City Council has said.

The new bike stations will initially be installed east of the current stations towards the Docklands, and west to Heuston Station.

The provisions of the 56 new stations and 1,000 bikes will be the first phase of a five-year expansion plan to increase the number of bikes to 5,000 and the number of bike stations to approximately 300.

Dublin Bike Hire Scheme To Treble In Size (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Bernard Carroll writes:

The post box on Lower George’s Street [Dublin] has been replaced with a modern one. This box dated from King George’s time, probably the very person the street was named for, which could be easily discerned from the large letters GR, George Rex, that were part of the box door casting…
…Above where this post box sat are the remnants of the supports for the overhead cables of the old electric tramway, now still serving the public as a bracket for a Garda Síochána CCTV camera.
The architectural heritage of our streets should be cherished for enriching our lives.
In a letter to your paper Barry Whelan, An Post’s director of communications and corporate affairs, gives many reasons for box replacement.
Unfortunately the only reason that appears to fit this act is vandalism, with An Post being the vandal.

Dispatching Old Post Boxes(Bernard Carroll, Irish Times Letters)

Previously: “We Are Proud Of Our Old-Style Post Boxes”

This Is Progress

Pic: ClickKenO4

Thanks Amy Butler

BREAKING: Sean Quinn’s ‘Missing’ Nephew Makes Another Public Appearance (Rodney Edwards, The Impartial Reporter)

Update: In Ballyconnell:

Father Brian D’Arcy and Mickey Harte Lead the pro-Quinn procession this evening.

And Sean Quinn, apparently close to tears, addresses the crowd:

Pics via Northern Sound News