Indonesian boy band Sinn Fein.
Yes.
Suggested tunes anyone?
Via Cliona McCarry
Yearly Archives: 2013
Free Anocht?
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Clár @ComhraTG4 – Brian Cowen faoi agallamh ag Máirtín Tom Sheáinín anocht @ 19:30 #CowenTG4
— TG4 (@TG4TV) September 5, 2013
Spoiler alert: Nach bhfuil sé leithscéal Níl brón air.
Pic: TG4
Bra upptakt i Dublin! pic.twitter.com/CFQZVEuD6G
— Daniel Erikols (@derikols) September 5, 2013
Finally.
Anyone?
Meanwhile…
Swedish football fans in Temple Bar ahead of tomorrow’s match with the Republic of Ireland.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Following an editorial in the Irish Times headlined ‘An Unwelcome Partner’ that warmly greeted the news that Ryanair must sell its stake in Aer Lingus, Ryanair spokesman Robin Kiely (above) writes:
…Imagine how the UK media would react if the Irish competition authorities forced BA to sell its stake in British Midland two years later? Perhaps the Irish Times favours Irish merger policy being dictated to or reinvented with the benefit of years of hindsight.
Perhaps in five years’ time they’ll require Denis O’Brien to sell down his 29 per cent stake in INM, where he has considerably more influence than Ryanair has ever had over Aer Lingus?
Ouch.
Ryaniar’s Stake In Aer Lingus (Irish Times letters)
Pic: Business&Leadership
What you may need to know.
1. Its BBC/RTÉ ‘s big new cop pathologist show, three 90 minute movies with more planned.
2. It’s based on John ‘Benjamin Black‘ Banville’s Quirke novels. This is the first one, ‘Christine Falls‘.
3. Walkinstown Wonder Gabriel Byrne was only born to be a ’50s TV cop pathologist.
4. Conor MacPherson did the script, and it was shot in Dublin.
5. Michael Gambon does a great Dub accent. He’s from Cabra.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Quirky.
Broadcast Date: Autumn
(At Pieta House’s Darkness into Light fundraiser in Phoenix Park, Dublin in May)
Three reports on suicide in Ireland were published today which revealed:
The county with the highest rate of suicide is Kerry, followed by Leitrim, Cork, Westmeath and the Tipperary North area.
The counties with the lowest rates are Longford, Dublin and Donegal.
A high proportion of suicides occur on Saturdays and Mondays.
The most common method of self-harm was overdose of medication.
There were 495 deaths by suicide in 2010.
There were 12,010 deliberate self-harm presentations to hospitals by 9,483 individuals in 2012.
There was a significant decrease of 5% in the male rate of deliberate self-harm, the female rate increased by 1%.
The peak rate for self-harm for females is 15-19 years and for males is it is among those aged 20-24 years.
The Report of the Suicide Support and Information System, says that in 307 suicide cases it studied, 41% worked in the construction sector, 13% in the agricultural sector, nearly 9% were in sales, healthcare over 6% and education nearly 4%.
The presence of alcohol was confirmed for 60% of these cases.
Padraic Geoghehan writes:
Despite two successive decreases, suicide rate last year was still 12% higher than 2007
Stabilisation in suicidal behaviour – HSE report (RTE)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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Workers (apparently untethered) hundreds of meters above the Firth Of Forth halfway through the construction of the Forth Road Bridge in 1961.
The Emily-assisted, Joe Caslin-installation on Achill Island, Co Mayo.
Emily tweetz:
Nice little piece in the @IrishTimes about the project we did at the weekend.
Previously: Man of Achill
The squeeful results of a collaboration (a little like Axe Cop in reverse) between Illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks (who drew the heads) and her four year old daughter (who took each one to another level). Finally, colour, highlights and texture were added by Hendricks to complete each piece. She sez:
Sometimes I would give her suggestions, like “maybe she could have a dragon body!” but usually she would ignore theses suggestions if it didn’t fit in with what she already had in mind. But since I am a grownup and a little bit (okay a lot) of a perfectionist, I sometimes would have a specific idea in mind as I doodled my heads. Maybe she could make this into a bug! I’d think happily to myself as I sketched, imagining the possibilities of what it could look like. So later, when she’d doodle some crazy shape that seemed to go in some surrealistic direction, or put a large circle around the creature and filled the WHOLE THING in with marker, part of my brain would think, What is she DOING?!? She’s just scribbling it all up! But I should know that in most instances, kids’ imaginations way outweigh a grownup’s, and it always ALWAYS looked better that what I had imagined. ALWAYS.
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Japlandic writres:
After all the banks admitting that they are using legal letters to satisfy the government’s criteria for long-term mortgage arrears modification – and the deafening silence from the Central Bank on this – I felt it was worth a quick recap on the last four years of Governor Patrick Honohan’s tenure.