Yearly Archives: 2013
A solution to the age-old problem of ‘dead arm’ caused by embracing a bedmate. Designed by Mehdi Mojtabavi, the mattress features soft slats into which the elbow (or feet, if you’re a stomach sleeper) can be slotted.
Alternatively, you could just avoid the whole scenario with the Ross Geller Hug ‘n’ Roll technique.
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Darragh Clifford, Enda Cunningham, Colin McGann, Nick Sutton, Barry Duggan, Iain Henderson, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Joe Donnelly.
Dublin City Council monthly meeting is back – tune in 6.45pm tonight http://t.co/HeQgs37Kiy#thebridgenamingshow#dcclive
— Mannix Flynn (@mannixflynn) September 2, 2013
Gwan the Rosie.
Update:
Dublin City Council has voted to name the new Liffey bridge after Rosie Hackett
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 2, 2013
The Rosie Hackett bridge it is.
‘Sup?
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Just snackin’
‘Mr. October’ and friend in the 2014 Farmer Calender in aid of Bothar.
Irish Farmer Calendar 2014
Working Late
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Irish Medical Organisation staff, from left, Val Moran, Leah Kenny and Tom Smyth with ballot papers this afternoon following a vote by some of the country’s 4.900 junior doctors on whether to take industrial action over working conditions.
UPDATE: the junior doctors have voted for industrial action. They are obliged to give the government two weeks’ notice of a strike.
Junior doctors set to strike over 100-hour weeks (Herald)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Joe Caslin’s ‘Our Nation’s Sons’ installation of images of a young Irish man on the Achillhenge monument on Achill Island, Co Mayo last night
Previously: Meanwhile at Achill
Pic: Gavin Leane
Isolating quantum coherence – easier said than done.
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the mind-boggling potential (and unlikely appearance any time soon) of quantum computers – theoretically capable of performing computations in finite time that would take longer than the age of the Universe to perform otherwise.
Price Fight
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From the author of Showtime.
Penguin Ireland writes:
They had promised a new politics. They would stand up to Europe (Labour’s way or Frankfurt’s way), get the country working again (Fine Gael’s five-point plan), reverse the culture of favours and jobs for the boys, resist vested interests and protect the vulnerable. But the ink was hardly dry on a coalition deal when senior figures in both parties knew that not a word of their election rhetoric would be realised – the economic situation was worse than their direst imaginings.
This is the story of trying to govern a country on the verge of ruin – the favours, the deals, the policy compromises and previously unthinkable choices that had to be made. It is a gripping tale of high drama (and high dudgeon), of betrayal, backstabbing and disillusionment, of those who rose to the challenge and those who withered under the strain.
Hmm.
Pic via Pat Leahy