Yearly Archives: 2013

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Dressed in our best suit, drinking whiskey in the lashing rain in a church graveyard while singing ‘The Parting Glass’.

We’ve all been there.

In fairness.

This Ad Exploits Every Irish Cliche And Stereotype Imaginable — And Is Still Astonishingly Beautiful (Richard Feloni, Business Insider)

YebHe’s the Filipino climate commissioner, above, who announced he was going on hunger strike nine days ago, at the UN negotiations in Warsaw, saying he wouldn’t eat “until a meaningful outcome is in sight”.

Well.

Maeve McLynn writes:

“He’s still fasting and the international support for him has really taken off. Yeb started a petition with Avaaz calling for all countries to face up to climate change and really work to tackle it. He will personally hand the petition over to the COP Presidency before the end of the negotiations (tomorrow).”

You can sign the petition here.

At the time of posting, it’s just over 289,000 short of one million.

Previously: Climate Change Hunger Striker

Thanks Maeve

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Pics: Seán A O’Leary

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They were characterised as unkempt scroungers with no ideas.

But this week, among other things, Canadian-born, Dublin-based vlogger Katie Varvos tells us how the Occupy Movement has defied critics through their Rolling Jubilee project, that has helped almost 3,000 people across America abolish more than $14million of debt.

Stay for the cat and prize of dinner for two in Bóbós on Dame Street, Dublin.

Previously: The Unemployed Graduate on broadsheet.