(H/T: Patrick Lehane)
Yearly Archives: 2013
Tom Lyons tweetz:
Garda van on O’Connell Bridge keeping an eye on things. Also on O’Connell Street – some flag waving young people.
The fenian fleggers are back.
UPDATE: Conor D writes:
Right Now: Irish Republican Voice protest outside Independent House, Talbot Street
Previously: Meanwhile, On O’Connell Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIpQ4ah5XTY
The rare and character-building sixteen-point turn out of a car park.
You’ve been warned.
Garden Tower in Toronto – The nighttime version of an installation by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata at Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (which ended yesterday), consisting of hundreds of chairs and benches stacked up into a hollow tower, lit from within.
(Pix: Alex Tsang)
Stacks of things were high on the agenda this year.
De Hedald
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The work of photographer Eamonn Farrell, part of a collection entitled Elements Of Nature that will be exhibited at Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin from tomorrow.
Eamonn (who also runs the Photocall Ireland agency) writes:
“My work, by contrasting the texture and form of the female body, shorn of clothing and the trappings of technological gizmos, with that of our natural world, is intended to remind us of our vulnerability, as well as our strenghts as a species. And reinforce the fact that we need and will not survive without planet Earth, but it will happily live on without us.”
Phoarr. Bewbs. Hard core. And so forth.
Name those locations (above) anyone?
Irish Mirror journalist Cathal McMahon doorstepped John Gilligan at his welcome home party in Clondalkin, Dublin today.
“I had nothing to do with Veronica Guerin’s murder. I couldn’t wait to get that trial [Veronica Guerin assault charge] on in Kilcock.
Mrs Guerin, Lord have mercy on her, she never wrote one word about me.
I won’t be hiding from nobody. I’ve no problem with anybody.”
Watch here
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
Average Guys
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The average American, Japanese, Dutch and French male (l-r, top two pix) – drawing on official data from CDC (US), e-stat (Japan), RIVM (Netherlands) and ENNS (France) and Illustrated by The Feed’s Nickolay Lamm.
USA: 29 BMI, 176.4 cm height, 99.4 cm waist
Japan: 23.7 BMI, 171.4 cm height, 82.9 cm waist
Netherlands: 25.2 BMI, 183.3 cm height , 91 cm waist
France: 25.55 BMI, 174.4 cm height, 92.3 cm waist
Much as you’d expect, really.
(Pic: WHO 2008 data)
Scenes from inside and outside the Allsop auction at the RDS in Ballsbridge, Dublin this morning.
Previously: Allsop Admission