Evening Herald, August 24 1977
Kerry’s defeat to Dublin in the All-Ireland semi final marred by London movie theatre fracas.
Dublin Beat Kerry, Semi-Final 1977 (Brand New Retro)
Evening Herald, August 24 1977
Kerry’s defeat to Dublin in the All-Ireland semi final marred by London movie theatre fracas.
Dublin Beat Kerry, Semi-Final 1977 (Brand New Retro)
Dublin’s Lord Mayor Oisin Quinn (in passenger seat below) over the city to promote the FlightFest fly-past on Sunday September 15.
Name those planes anyone?
(Photocall Ireland/ Irish Air pics)
What you may need to know:
1. Seth Rogan has finally stopped trying to appeal to middle America. Smart move.
2. Zac Efron has realized that the teen idol thing wears thin fast. Getting peed on by Nicole Kidman was only the beginning.
4. Neighbors is directed by the guy who did Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) and Get Him To The Greek (2010). The latter is officially underrated.
5. Rose Byrne. That is all.
6. It’s not the first movie called Neighbors.
7. Broadsheet Prognosis: There hasn’t been a great frat comedy since Old School (2003). It’s time…
Release Date: 2014
(h/t James Cregan)
“What do you think of a man who could run all day beside a trotting horse, and be fresh enough to preach that evening? A kind of a mixture of rubber, steel, electricity and the love of God, that’s what Francis Xavier was. He was what you might call a beefy saint.”
The Beefy Saint, by Fergal McGrath SJ, Chapter 1: The Rocky Mountain Priest)
A religious pamphlet published in 1922, specifically for Irish boys, set in a fictional boy’s school ‘St Ronan’s’ and designed to educate them about manly saints including Francis Xavier.
Good times.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

The Edge, pictured attending the funeral of Seamus Heaney in Donnybrook, Dublin yesterday.
Anon writes:
Not doffing the cap to the the great poet!? Damn rock stars…
Pics: RTE, Coventry Telegraph
BMXer Ryan Taylor of the Triple 8 team takes to the ramp with his ridiculously tiny Rocker BMX.