Yearly Archives: 2013


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Phil Spector – David Mamet’s film revolving around Spector’s sensational trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson – premieres on HBO in March with Al Pacino (having survived the Stephen Rea challenge) in the title role and Helen Mirren as his defense attorney, Linda Kenney Baden.

Dat ‘fro.

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After two weeks of maintaining their burgers were horsemeat-free, Burger King has admitted selling beef burgers containing horsemeat which originated from Larry Goodman’s Silvercrest plant in Monaghan.

A Burger King spokesperson said:

“Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA. Within the last 36 hours, we have established that Silvercrest used a small percentage of beef imported from a non-approved supplier in Poland. They promised to deliver 100per cent British & Irish beef patties and have not done so. This is a clear violation of our specifications, and we have terminated our relationship with them.Through our investigation, we have confirmed that this non-approved Polish supplier is the same company identified by the Irish Department of Agriculture as the source of Silvercrest’s contamination issue.”

Previously Shergar-Free

Burger King admits selling beef burgers and whoppers containing horsemeat, Daily Mail

A monument to Queen Victoria by John Hughes RHA, unveiled outside Leinster House in 1908.

Removed in 1948, ostensibly to provide parking for cars…

…and taken to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, an unofficial dumping ground/storage depot for politically incorrect government sculptures.

Photographed by Patrick Healy at the hospital (above) in 1971, Victoria languished unloved and unkempt until…

…the mid-1980s when she was shipped to Australia, tidied up and placed outside the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney (above).

The rest of the monument, including statues of Erin, remain in the grounds of Leinster House (above) and Dublin Castle.

More information here.

Victoria outside Leinster House pic via National Library
Patrick Healy pic via South Dublin Public Library archive
Leinster House pics by Aaron McAllorum

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

Nurses protest against the HSE’s graduate nurse recruitment scheme outside the HSE headquarters at Dr Steevens’ Hospital in Dublin minutes ago.

(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)

 

Protest over graduate nurse recruitment scheme, RTE