Jeez.
Thanks Shane
Monthly Archives: August 2012
From Amnesty International (NZ):
Last week, activists in Uganda held their first Gay Pride. In a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, this was incredibly brave, and is a huge step forward for human rights.
They were all upright before the storm
Sand sculpting in the courtyard within the last hour.
Thanks Aaron McAllorum.
The extremely rare Asymmetric Derp Marsupial Child Bomb.
A thing of sheer magnificence.
What do you mean you ‘weren’t invited’?
The ladies of Ladies’ Day at the Horse Show in the RDS, showgrounds, Ballsbridge, Dublin, this afternoon.
From top: Elaine Bury, Dawn Leadon-Bolger, Joanne Murphy, Rieleen Wessels, Paula Clancy & Louise Gallagher and Eva Hayes-Morrissey.
(Laura Hutton-Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Scarepants
at
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YSfq_ZNGQ0
Phoenix (above), from Coleraine, has JUST won Best Rescue Cat of The Year at the National Cat Awards!
Judges included Rick Wakeman.
More as we get it.
Or damn hipster Postman Pat?
YOU decide.
Outside Neary’s, Chatham Street, Dublin, earlier.
(Thanks Fergus O’Neill)
PS: Can you spot the make?
UK Police are definitely inside the ecuadorean embassy
#wikileaks#assange— odotm (@odotm) August 16, 2012
The UK governments threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy to arrest Assange is an assult on the rights of asylum seekers world wide.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 16, 2012
The government of Ecuador says British authorities have threatened to barge into Ecuadorean embassy in London if officials there do not comply with demands to hand over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been hiding out there while his request for asylum is considered.
“We are not a British colony,” said the country’s prime minister in a press conference today. “The days of the colony are over.”
LIVE TWEETS: Humunculous Flannel & James Albury
That’s how they rolled.
“At the weeklong Dublin Horse Show this year, impeccable stewards… saw to good form by day but through the night guests kicked up their heels in elegantly high-spirited horseplay…[A]fter the events of the show came the sparkle of champagne parties and the hilarity of crowded hunt balls that carried on till dawn. The young guests pranced through Irish dances like the Siege of Ennis and the Walls of Limerick, stomped to When the Saints Go Marching In, and, inevitably, galloped to John Peel over and over again… When show week was over, the horses were sleek and fresh as ever, but not the guests. “That’s why Dublin is so dull the rest of the year,” a host observed. “It’s because it takes 51 weeks to recuperate.”
Horseplay At The Horse Show (Life Magazine, August 27, 1956)
Thanks Sibling
Meanwhile, in 1901:
From The National Library of Ireland:
Love to think of the lady in the feathered hat doing an Eliza Doolittle on it and ROARING “Move yer bloomin’ ahem!” :)