Ed writes:
Not sure if anyone’s brought this piece in last Sunday’s Sindo to your attention already, but it reads like a Fortean Times press release, on speed. I work with an environmental NGO, and safe to say I’ve never heard of the potential of this awesome super incredible irradiated water. And what’s with that second last line (‘Intriguingly, chickens and sheep fed the energised water turned into giants…)?
Wave goodbye to global warming, GM and pesticides (Tom Prendeville, Independent.ie)
The Little Museum of Dublin, on St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, are having journalist and author Padraig Yeates and former Irish Independent, now Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers (above) over to talk about the 1913 Lockout.
The museum people say:
“Kevin Myers will open with a controversial reappraisal of Strumpet City, this year’s One City One Book, long the definitive narrative of the events of 1913. Myers will argue that the book is ”the moral inspiration for the disaster that was the Croke Park deal,” in a blistering critique of the second most celebrated Dublin novel.
“Lockout: 1913 author, Yeates, will then revisit the industrial dispute that made William Martin Murphy and Big Jim Larkin household names, and changed Dublin irrevocably.”
Mr Myers will speak at 5.30pm and Mr Yeates will speak at 7pm.
The Little Museum of Dublin: The Lockout Lectures
Pics: Padraig Yeates and NDRC
But some of us are also looking at the gutters.
David Cantwell writes:
General meter disruption… Just off Pembroke Street [Dublin] right now.
The crack, anyone?
A US Scud missile test launch in the Persian Gulf yesterday that looks like something*.
(*not a Scud missile, though)
Syria crisis: UK and US finalise plans for military strikes (Guardian)
Thanks Diarmaid Frain
The former Happy Mondays maraca shaker is hoping more people follow his lead in setting up hives of bee colonies in towns and cities. Bez now lives part-time on a commune, the Cwm Yr Hoel Farm near Swansea in south Wales, where he is learning to keep bees but was back in Manchester today to help promote the initiative.
However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic. He said around 100 bees got inside his pants and he had to run into the woods away from the hive but was “stung everywhere” inside his trousers.
Good buzz?
Oh Beehive.
Could not make this up.
A far cry from the Happy Mondays: Bez backs urban beekeeping scheme (Pat Hurst, The Independent)
Pic: PA
Freerunners Ronnie Shalvis (Luigi) and Christian Russell (Mario) of the CBR Stunt Team take to the partially animated streets.
3player | Print And Be Damned – Thursday, 22 August 2013 http://t.co/XBYTLLdOrA – very good programme if you missed it
— Kevin Bakhurst (@kevinbakhurst) August 28, 2013
Kevin Bakhurst, RTÉ Director of News giving the ‘oppo’ a ‘big up’.
But did RTÉ report on this…
(From last Sunday’s Sunday Independent)
They did not.
Anyone?
Previously: RTÉ And The Lowry Tape
The new @newstatesman – Syria: the west humiliated. Plus @edsmithwriter on genes, and me on vaginas (again) pic.twitter.com/MkJfPINntu
— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) August 28, 2013
Kerry manager legend Charlie Nelligan, 2010
‘Little’ Charles Nelligan (left), 1957.
YIKES!
Seán Mac an tSíthigh tweetz:
“Kerry’s biggest baby in 1957 weighed 15.5lbs and went on to win 7 All-Ireland medals…Charlie Nelligan.”
15.5lbs.
Illuminati, dude.
Top pic: YouTube
Daniel O’Donnell shows impressive control at the Hidden Hearing Heroes awards where Stuart Foy (above) picked up the Sportsperson award for his contribution to soccer and the Deaflympics.
Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
Update:
Kazam.
Thanks Rory McGuigan
