A US Navy ship packed to the gunnels with US troops arrives in New York Harbour at the end of WW2.
(Pic: US Navy/New York Historical Society)
Yearly Archives: 2013
“@AlisonHyland1 Majority of texters to the station (@TippFmNews) side with Michael Lowry saying he is being unfairly targetted.”
— Conor Ryan (@conor_w_ryan) July 26, 2013
*’Roads’ may include the mobile phone licence, Dunnes Stores tax chicanery and other ‘stuff’.
By Annie West.
Unless you happen to be Alan Dukes and Mike Aynsley. In which case you can kick sand in his face.
SAVED!
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Is this yours?
Do you lock it at Charlemont Luas?
It was Inches from being lost forever.
Until a couple of pesky kids came along…
Eoin Maguire writes:
Just helped someone stop a person seconds away from stealing a bike under Charlemont Luas Bridge [at the Grand Canal, Dublin].
Locks had been sliced through with mini angle grinder. He claimed he “lost his key” before scuttling away.
The bike is now locked at Royal Eye and Ear hospital, Adelaide Rd if the rightful owner would like to collect.
Go inside to the [hospital] porters and show that your key opens the old lock.
Kudos to Aoife who spotted it in the first place.
We’re taking back the streets.
One politely retrieved hybrid fixie at a time.
Whaddyanuts writes:
Spotted this beauty at Seapoint [Blackrock, Co Dublin] last Sunday – It’s the 2nd cloud that looks like Ireland that I’ve spotted. See The Broadsheet Book of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (New island) – p155 I think.
We’re also getting a bit of witch.
Staring Cat
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Colm of Irish Archaeology writes:
In medieval Ireland there was a jester known as Braigetóir. How did his entertain his lord? By passing wind – the man was a professional farter.
Lovely.
Killarney, Co Kerry, today.
Fr Hugh O’Flaherty, ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican’ (we think).
Artist unknown.
Thanks Jim John Jameson
Today’s Financial Times
Today’s Irish Times
T writes;
The only real difference? FT indicates O’Byrne’s vested interest in talking up the price of gold. Irish Times bills poor Mark as an ordinary punter.
And that’s why it’s illegal here.
The ad is a spoof of a beer commercial, touting weed as a sensible alternative to alcohol. Pot, says the ad’s narrator, is “the new beer”, because there’s “no calories, no hangovers, and no violence” associated with its use.
Produced by the Marijuana Policy Project andt screened this weekend to beer-chugging Nascar fans on the ‘Jumotron’ outside Indianapolis Speedway.
NASCAR Fans Will Be Treated To Ginormous Pro-Marijuana Ad At Brickyard 400 (Sportsgrid)
Thanks Joe