http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKMemlQf3IU
A tribute to all your favourite scenes of degenerate drug use in the movies, presented in five remedial, madouvit chapters: The Giggs, Tripping Major B*llsack, Overfalsity Of Confidence, F**k Yeah Motherf**ker and Asleepyness.
Utterly NSFW unless you work in film, in which case full screen and volume up.
Have you heard of this new online game?
Where everyone tries to defame,
An innocent kid,
‘Cause heaven forbid,
She escapes a whole lifetime of shame.
John Moynes
Pic Meath Chronicle
From the image series Unlikely…But Not Impossible by Italian photographer Giuseppe Colarusso – a whimsical mix of Photoshops and actual pieces made by Colarusso himself
More here.
Finally.
The cover of TV Now, out now with the impeccably aged, in fairness, Bryan Murray (Fitz) and Angela Harding (Mary) and, top, the pair in Strumpet City.
Deborah McGee writes:
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Dublin Lockout this August, we reunited the cast of Strumpet City, RTE’s iconic series that depicted the trials and tribulations of tenement life in Dublin during that time.
Strumpet City actors on the cover include Tom Jordan (Farrell), Ruth Hegarty (Lily), Vinnie McCabe (Pat), Eileen Colgan (Mrs Mulhall), Gerry O’Brien (Joe), Pat Laffan (Fr O’Sullivan) and Jimmy Murphy (Willie Mulhall). Former actors passed away since the show aired include David Kelly, Cyril Cusack and Donal McCann.
Top pic: RTE via Herald.ie
Racist graffiti was daubed on the walls and a double-glazed window and door pane were also broken at the house on Wayland Street, off the Castlereagh Road at around 1am on Monday.
The 27-year-old man renting the house has been living in Belfast for eight years.
The Nigerian national had only been in the property for a few days before the incident happened.
Victim left ‘scared’ by racist attack (UTV Live News)
Pic: Tony Rice
Captain Redbeard writes:
Buying tickets for the Dubs [football semi final in Croke Park, with Kerry] , the first page claims tickets are available but when you click through they’re not. For the time being.
This happens every time, makes buying tickets a 3 day process…One can only assume that the process by which the upper tiers are opened up for sale is not automated? So do I have to wait for someone to open them up manually?
Does he?
Anyone?
An estimated 430,000 people enjoyed the biggest ever Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Derry over the last week where orange and green played in a trouble-free atmosphere.
Why is there such a contrast between Derry’s Fleadh and Belfast’s Flegs?
Steven McCaffery writing in The Detail may have an answer:
But there will be lots of discussion about why Derry is broadly dealing better with cultural tensions than other areas – it is at least showing what is possible and providing an example to learn from.
Recent figures show that the Catholic and Protestant populations are balancing-out in Northern Ireland which, regardless of the failings of politics, provides its own dynamic towards the ultimate emergence of a shared future.
These are times that demand a live-and-let-live attitude. Flexibility is called for. Dialogue is required.
The message of the Fleadh is simple: we need a change of tune.
As the peace process struggles, why is Derry different? (Steven McCaffery, The Detail)
Pics via Keiron Tourish, Ryan
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