Yearly Archives: 2013

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyvivVLKC6s

What you may (or may not) need to know:

1. Why even bother with movie trailers anymore?

2. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are best buds in real life.

3. Now they’re bad-ass TV cops.

4. It’s a HBO mini-series.

5. The idea being that each series features different protagonists.

6. What’s the tune? Whispering, by Alex Clare.

7. Harrelson is rocking an awesome wig. McConaughey is naked. What’s not to love.

8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Your new favourite TV show.

Broadcast date: January 2014

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The fans gave one hell of a roar,
And watched to see who would score more,
Then “Hip, Hip, Hooray!”
Shouted the GAA,
We can sell them all tickets once more.

John Moynes

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

gtaClaude with hurl.

Darren Lynch writes:

Grand Theft Auto V is only 7 days away from being released and some of us will kiss our real world jobs/lives goodbye, and next Saturday is the All Ireland Hurling final replay between Clare and Cork. So, what better way to mark the occasion than combining the two! Right?? Well that’s how my mind was working anyway….

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CddMD3QqTFs

Youtuber Caitlin Heller’s disastrous attempt at making a sexy twerk video for her boyfriend.

First the tail, then the fail, then the epic flail.

UPDATE: *sigh* It was all just a big a hoax by chatshow webmeister Jimmy Kimmel.

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90312788Chris Andrews during the 2011 General Election

If it didn’t fall into its lap, you could say it is a master stroke by Sinn Fein. In one fell swoop, it gives the party a strong possibility of a south Dublin seat, as well as creating a serious threat in this constituency to Kevin Humphreys, the second Labour TD – and, most satisfyingly for SF, it also puts a serious block in the way of a Fianna Fail seat there for barrister Jim O’Callaghan (Miriam’s brother).

Even as it is, Andrews’s ‘defection’ is emblematic of a wider political shift, which is the further welcome removal of SF from its IRA-associated past and the arrival into the party of credible, street-savvy and mainstream figures like Andrews.
…Andrew’s FF expulsion didn’t faze him. He was already disillusioned by the system and once told me, revealingly, that the problem was that people did not want real political change – “They only want to change the gatekeepers.”

Andrews’s defection a harbinger of political change (Eamon Delaney, Irish Independent)

Sinn Fein confirms former Fianna Fail TD Chris Andrews has joined party (Jason Kennedy, Irish Times)

Previously: Regime Change

coppersSunday 1.30am, Harcourt Street, Dublin

Anon writes:

I’m usually not the type to whip out my phone and start recording, but this guy (above) was working as an extra doorman at Copper Face Jacks [Saturday night]. He had no numbers on his shoulder and was ignoring people who had queued properly and letting in people he knew.
I was threatened with arrest under the public order act for enquiring why he – a garda with no shoulder tags – was working the door.  Farcical.

walkJulie writes:

Hundreds of people turned up at sunrise in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan yesterday to walk 5km to mark the start of International Suicide Prevention Week [September 8-14]. Funds raised went to the local SOSAD ( Save Our Sons & Daughters ) office.

 

SOSAD 

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Youtuber RutgherMusic’s telly-capture of UK F1 driver Paul di Resta’s second practice run at Monza with a thermal imaging camera showing the heat coming off the tires of his car.

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