Yearly Archives: 2013

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Johannesburg — Following the death of former South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela today at the age of 95, sources confirmed that the revered humanitarian has become the first politician in recorded history to actually be missed. “Today we lost not only an international hero and a symbol of the resilient human spirit, but also the very first political figure ever who people actively wish was still alive and affecting world affairs,” said political historian Wallace M. Delaney of Columbia University.


Nelson Mandela Becomes First Politician To Be Missed (The Onion)

Helena Zakade Inzerillo Meets Mandela 2007

“Tread softly, breathe peacefully, laugh hysterically.” Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 (ABC)

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon, dies aged 95 (Telegraph)

Any excuse.

Previously: Nelson’s Irish Riddle

Waiting For Paul McGrath’s Da

(Un.org)

christmas

christmas 2[The Burke Xmas home, top and from left: ESB-gorging Halle Burke, Abbie Burke, Kyle Burke and family chum Courtney Brauders]

Not just famous for its pottery and late night chipper.

Nevan writes:

Another charitable Christmas house for your viewing pleasure. The Burke family in Arklow [Co Wicklow] have lit up their home every year for the past 21 years in aid of Crumlin Children’s Hospital.

 

Do-gooding Hollister-clad light hoggers.

Pics: Michael Kelly/WicklowNews.net

melee

Let’s do this.

Hard-nosed Dublin City University take on posh-faced Trinity TV in an elaborate Anchorman news crew melee reenactment presented by Dublin City University Media Production Society (DCUMPS).

Brick killed a guy with a Bodhran.

Thanks Eve Kerton

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An Inuit father searches for his son lost in the Arctic.

A multi award-winning Supinfocom graduation project directed by Paul-Emile Boucher, Remy Dupont, Benjamin Flouw, Mickaël Riciotti, and Alexandre Toufaili.

laughingsquid

hospital

Sources confirmed the review involves a single doctor who has worked at some of the country’s most high-profile private facilities in recent years

The exact details of the cases cannot be published for legal reasons….the incidents relate to medical procedures which took place since 2009 and involve at least 20 female patients…they had raised concerns about severe post-operative complications after their treatment by the same doctor at various hospitals.

 

20 women’s claims linked to one doctor (Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Irish Examiner)