Yearly Archives: 2013

Suzanne Lee, who will appear before a disciplinary committee today, said she is aware she may be expelled, but does not regret her actions.

“I’m not from a background that most students in this university are. I worked before I came here…I would rather defend people like me and their access to education and if that requires me getting expelled, (so be it),” said.

Egg-throwing UCD Students Face Expulsion For targeting Taoiseach (BreakingNews.ie)

Previously: I Threw An Egg

Four People, No Direct Hit

(Pic: UCD)

Sailing in Ireland.

It’s not all upturned collars and gin-fuelled bores.

Niamh Rabbit writes:

One of the Irish sailing associations (the IRCA) have set  up a series of training sessions around the country so that people can try out sailing on boats owned by their members. It’s a great chance to get out in the middle of Dublin Bay (or off any coast), and really experience the sea.

I took up sailing last summer and it’s incredible. Seriously, you can leave work in Dublin City Centre at 5.30pm and by 6.30pm be sailing with dolphins in Dublin Bay (photographic proof here). Then you come in as it gets dark and get drunk talk about the sea with the rest of your crew. This is a great chance to try out the sport.

Irish Racing Cruiser Association Training Programme (ICRA)

(Pic via Niamh Rabbit)

You may recall Hugh McDowell’s dog key drama yesterday.

Well.

Simon Corcoran writes:

I was strolling by Merrion Gates [Co Dublin] yesterday evening when a glimmer of silver caught my eye, wedged in against the road/pavement. Above is what I found? As a keen dog man, I had been intrigued by your post earlier In the day relating to lost keys. Could you pass on contact info for the guy who lost his keys?

 

Yay.

Update: It’s genuine

Fiona Hynes’ Herald exclusive which reveals:

* Staff should have considered performing abortion, even before couple requested it.

* Lack of guidellines on abortion ‘a contributory factor’.

Over to you, Youth Defence/Iona Institute/Unpleasant man outside the GPO last Saturday.

Via Kevin Doyle (Evening Herald)



Further to Monday’s filter-free tour of Dublin in the 1970s and yesterday’s romp through the 1980s…

Behold: Dublin in the 1990s in colour.

‘Mom’ jeans, broken dreams and foam “cut to size”.

Good times.

From top: Halston Street; Blackrock Dart station; GPO Arcade; Nassau Street; Smithfield Fruit Market; Fitzwilliam Place; Whitworth Road; O’Connell Street Bridge and Abbey Street; The ‘Lady of Mann’ on the Liffey and College Green.

Pics via Dublin City Library archive and Geograph.

Thanks Sibling Of Daedalus