Yearly Archives: 2013

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Harrumph.

Perishing optimistic tech-tards.

Via Niall Harbison

hurlboardCustom built using two hurls by the IDA.

To mark the visit of Tony Hawk to the web summit and to open the new skatepark in Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin at 4pm this afternoon.

Niall Staines writes:

The Hurlboard symbolizes old and new; how Ireland’s traditional passion and creativity has inspired a thriving modern tech community.

 

Yes yes.

But how does it go?

Like the clappers.

 

Gnarly.

The Making of the Hurlboard here.

IMG_0874The Irish Ferries port terminal, Dublin.

Siobhan writes:

A friend has suggested we contact you in case you could help. My son, wife and two little boys are on a brief visit to Dublin, visiting their great grandmother. In the taxi on the way from the ferryport to the house in Finglas at 7.30pm on Tuesday night, my six year-old grandson left behind his Darth Vadar backpack containing his pride and joy, his new Nintendo 3D DS, complete with games, which had been given to him for his birthday.
It was the Irish Ferries port in Dublin. They came off the Jonathan Swift and took a waiting cab at the rank to Finglas. They have no idea which firm the cab was, but my son did notice that the driver’s surname ended in the letters ‘……son’.
He is brokenhearted about this and nobody has, as yet, handed it in to the police. ‘……son’. If anybody, has any idea what might have happened to it, or how we can retrieve it, we would be hugely grateful.

Anyone?

halloween1 pallThis morning.

G writes:

South bank of the Royal Canal, between the Convention Centre and North Strand [Dublin]. Couple of small fires last night. Urchins pictured stayed with their stockpile all night, have been collecting wood and tyres for a month now.

Fair play though, in fairness.

-1Bangurz.

By London-based Dubliner John Dillon who sez:

“I remember a time when I was about 12, my friend & I went into town to buy some ‘Blackcats’ on Moore Street [Dublin] and it was ridiculously sketchy. We got directed to some oul one and we both had to ask for them using some code word. They broke us up & sold them to us one by one outside some cafe while the other waited across the street ‘casually’. Needless to say we were both bricking it.”

 

 

This week’s Le Cool Dublin cover

90318969(From left: Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave, Enda Kenny and Bruce Aust of NASDAQ at the ringing of the New York stock exchange bell yesterday in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin)

We’ve had five years of financial hell,
But at long last it seems things are well,
Our national debt,
Is no longer a threat,
Since our chieftain rang a magic bell.

John Moynes

(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)

00093064(Helena Christensen with Andrew Healy CEO of the former National Irish Bank at the launch of Danske Bank in Baggott Street, Dublin 2006)

It is the second bank in Ireland to close in the space of a week after ACC announced it is handing back its banking licence.
The company [Danske] has not been able to re-establish a sustainable retail banking business model in Ireland following the financial crisis.
The bank has reported a loss before tax of €31.4m for the first three months of its financial year, and impairment charges of €22.8m.

Danske Bank to close with loss of 150 jobs (RTE)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

maskLimerick, 1986.

Mike M, writes:

“Once I saw that mask ye put up [yesterday] I knew I had a photo of me wearing it back in the 1980s. Got my father to dig it up and scan it in. So there I am on the right in 1986 in Limerick, aged 5; my cousin in the middle, Pa C, aged 4; and my brother on the left, Paud M, aged 3. They were simpler times – where a face mask from Quinnsworth and your aunty’s 1980s shirt were enough to go trick or treating.”

 

Previously: 1980s Halloween Mask