Long Johns!
Aoife Murray writes:
BBC [1950s) drama Quirke is shooting on North Great George’s street today. Check out ye olde authentic washing line outside Senator Norris’ place! No sign of Gabriel Byrne yet.
Yearly Archives: 2013
James McClean (top) and wide-brimmed IRA gentlemen from the 1920s.
It comes after the Republic of Ireland star professed his love for song The Broad Black Brimmer by The Wolfe Tones prior to Sunderland’s game against West Bromwich Albion at the weekend.
The song tells of a boy whose father is killed while fighting for the IRA, with the title referring to the wide-brimmed hat worn by many of the group’s members in the 1920s during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War.
McClean tweeted: ‘On flight for the maras game. Only one thing for it —headphones in, Wolfe Tones on! What’s everyone’s fave song? Broad Black Brimmer edges mine.’
The Broad Black Brimmer by The Wolfe Tones
(Getty)
Gavin Sheridan (above), known as the FOI-nator for his repeated requests for documents under the freedom of information act, will today learn if Nama and Anglo/IBRC are considered ‘public authorities’ under an EU directive, known as Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) Regulations.
It’s been a three-year campaign for Gavin, who told his story in the most recent edition of the Sunday Business Post magazine (above), saying:
“Without adequate access to information, all citizens do not have proper freedom of expression, and we all suffer as a result. If we really want a reformed Ireland, and to learn from the lessons of the past, we must make a decision: secrecy or transparency? And if we choose the latter it must come from the top down. Anything less and we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.”
Fair play though. In fairness.
More here.
Update:
OCEI has lawfully interpreted the regulations. NAMA appeal dismissed. #nama
— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) February 27, 2013
Ice Floe Dog
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2LxhE7O5ug
Get off that ice floe, dog.
You are not a seal…etc.
In The Russian port of Magadan, an unfortunate dog – somehow stranded on a chunk of floating ice in the Sea of Okhotsk – is rescued by heroic fishermen.
How Big?
at
Oh.
A Guinness container outside Trinity College, Dublin, in the wee small hours (2.02am) of this morning.
Earlier: It’s Tank Time.
Thanks Phil Meyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYDfrqkjugc
Wikipedia sez:
At temperatures below about −25 °C (−13 °F), bubbles will freeze in the air and may shatter when hitting the ground. When a bubble is blown with warm air, the bubble will freeze to an almost perfect sphere at first, but when the warm air cools, and a reduction in volume occurs, there will be a partial collapse of the bubble. A bubble, created successfully at this low temperature, will always be rather small; it will freeze quickly and will shatter if increased further.
That’s what we thought.
Previously: What Happens When You Throw Boiling Water Out The Window On A -41°C Day?
The Government plans special legislation to cut the pensions of the highest-paid former public servants by some 5 per cent.
Although the move is part of a general cut in all public pensions above €32,500, the greatest reductions will be imposed on senior figures who held high public office and those who led State and other public institutions.
Those affected by the measure include former taoisigh Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen, John Bruton and Albert Reynolds and many members of the previous government.
Mr Ahern and Mr Cowen will see their pensions cut to €142,655 from €150,163 under the move; Mr Reynolds’s pension will drop to €141,513 from €148,961;and Mr Bruton’s pension will fall to €134,728 from €141,819.
How will they get by?
Former top public servants face 5% pension cut (Arthur Beesley, Martin Wall, Pamela Duncan, Irish Times)
(Laura Hutton, Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
In this clip from an interview with CNN, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson explains the theoretical protection strategy that will be used should a giant asteroid threaten the extinction of humanity.
They won’t be nuking that sucker, either. It’ll be more ‘touchy-feely’ than that.
Abnormal/wide load traveling Dun Laoghaire Port to At James Gatethis evening 10pm -3 am .Motorist advised to useN11 and M50 .
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) February 26, 2013
Related: Container Yourself
(Thanks Cathal O’Rourke)
UPDATE: Chris Donoghue tweetz:
Saw your tweet too late & got stuck…
