So, you know about the snake in the crate found at St James’ Gate?
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A prize for the most stout-standing punnage.
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
AND he shared a rocket with Michael Collins.
A giant leap from Ulster Unionist Lord Laird in Today’s Irish News.
Via Arlene McDermott
Barrow Street, Dublin, today.
They’re Post-it notes.
Post-it notes.
Via Niall Byrne and Google Ireland via Darragh Doyle and , below, via Bright Side Eire
Just not yet.
The European Commission has cut its growth forecasts for the Irish economy. The commission revised down its 2013 growth forecast for Ireland from 1.9% to 1.4%, with this year’s forecast also marginally down from 0.5% to 0.4%.
At least we have exports:
On the back of an increasingly challenging global outlook, the commission has also revised down 2013 export growth for Ireland from 4.25 to 3.5%.
Which will lead to further emigration easing the unem…
The projected unemployment rate has been revised upwards from a previous forecast of 13.7% in 2013 to 14.4% in 2014. The commission only expects a gradual fall in the unemployment rate to 13% by 2015.
Ah.
100% Hamm
atSupervalu in Kinsale feels the same way about the Tubridy RTE Guide cover that I do. Sent to me from
@doneaka twitter.com/DangerFarm/sta…— Diarmuid O’Brien (@DangerFarm) August 29, 2012
Meanwhile:
Imagine two of my boyfriends in the cover ofthe RTE guide!!! Tonight’s fantasy sorted!
— Sinead O’Connor (@NoMansWoman) August 29, 2012
Thanks Lars Biscuits
iTypewriter
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The iTypewriter by Austin Yang, who sez:
It is a typewriter for the ipad. Users can enjoy the old feeling of typing and also the lastest technology. Even though the elder users who have never used the computer or ipad, they can use this familiar typewriter and type in the familiar operation way. For some specific group of users, this product provide an easier way to type on the ipad. People could be able to recollect old experience and memory by familiar appearance and haptic feedback.
Almost certainly some class of wind-up, in which case the demo video shot in portrait format, presumably on an iPhone, is a lovely touch.
Fairy Nuff
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8-bit vintage Mario, Pacman and Invader themed blackout blinds, made to measure by Direct Blinds in the UK.
Goodbye daylight. Hello repetitive strain injury.
Dublin, earlier this morning.
Anyone?
(Thanks Wayne F)
Circa 1900.
You’ll never get it.
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Update: Via Archiseek.com:
Temporary gateway erected for the visit of Queen Victoria to Dublin in 1900. A ceremonial affair, the Queen was to enter the city boundaries and be given the keys to the city by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. Described in The Irish Times as “the old city gates, a handsome representation of which is to be erected at the entrance of the municipal boundary at Leeson Street Bridge [Dublin].
Thanks Sibling