Yearly Archives: 2013

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Wait for it.

Brendan Howlin gets his Naomi on at Merrion Row and Merrion Street, Dublin, this afternoon.

Stay for the huffy walk.

Dublin Says No writes:

“Members of Rage against the Regime (RAR) today lodged requests at the Department of Finance regarding the Anglo Tapes.

On exiting the building they encountered Minister (for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan) Howlin.

Derek, from Dublin Says NO, recorded RAR,as they tried to question the Minister.

Mr Howlin tried to grab the camera and refused to speak to us. So much for being a voice of the people

Like to see him try that with Ursula Halligan.

Dublin Says No (Facebook)

property(Property Sales in the first six months of 2012 and 2013, media coverage of today’s Daft report and a stock photo of a ‘spinning’ top)

Or boom-hungry DECEPTION!?

What Goes Up writes:

The Daft Report on asking prices got coverage today in media outlets – with them all parroting the line that prices in Dublin were up but prices in the rest of the country were down.
However, if you look at the figures in The Property Prices Register of actual sales for the first six months of 2012 versus the first six months of 2013 the numbers are the exact reverse – with a tiny increase in the number of sales nationally and a fall in the number of sales in Dublin. Inception Or Deception?

 

You decide.

Inception Or Deception (Japlandic.com)

Ireland’s Great Divergence (Ronan Lyons, Daft)

kofiMissing in Dublin 6 since Friday.

Deirdre Cole writes:

Our cat, Kofi went missing on Friday [June 28] in Harold’s Cross [Dublin]. We’ve had Kofi for over five years and she has been through a lot with us including successfully relocating from London to Dublin with us, in a recession-busting move that would have got the better of lesser cats.
We (Kofi’s human parents) are desperate to get her back. She’s a very timid, shy cat and we are worried that she might be injured and hiding somewhere. Her details are…tortoiseshell, female, about 6/7 years old, no collar, microchipped and spayed. Thank you.

 

1am Update: Kofi has been found!

 

101005a2It wasn’t all fun.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Following on from the post about the  funeral bouncy castle in Galway, this may be a continuation of the old Wake Games, very popular in the west, back in the day (1880s).

The games reflected the dark side of the Irish psyche, and included ‘The Slipper’ (smacking someone on the hand very hard with a wet piece of cord), ‘Getting a Trade’ (impersonating an employer abusing an apprentice) and ‘The Purchase of the Sheep’ (role-playing sheep having their wool pulled out by a prospective buyer). Then there was bachelor-shaming game, The Silly Old Man:

 

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An early demonstration of Ireland’s refusal to let single people rest in peace.

 

Source The Funeral Customs of Ireland (pages 280-281)

Pic: National Library of Ireland

Mulvey_Lorcan_London_celebrations2013The illuminati’s remorseless conquest continues.

Members of London GAA club after progressing to their first ever Connacht Football Championship final.

They will play Mayo on July 21.

But where?

Emmet Keane writes:

This is truly historic and, away from the buffonery of inviting the Queen to throw in the ball, gives Ireland a genuine chance to connect to its emigrant population, many of which came from the West.

An Spailpín Fánach writes:

Firstly, the Connacht Council should get on the phone to the London Board and find a stadium to host the Connacht Final. They have three weeks, which is loads of time to cut a deal with one of the twenty stadia in London that have capacities of more than 10,000.

This wouldn’t be cheap, of course, but in this year of The Gathering it would be interesting to see if the Government is willing to put its money where its mouth is and underwrite the operation.

…Why go to the trouble? Because we, the nation, owe the Irish in London. We owe them big-style down the years and now that a unique opportunity has arisen, where an English team is playing a high-profile match in the most Irish of entities, the All-Ireland Championship, that gives us an opportunity to celebrate, remember and look forward.

This is a chance for a second Polo Grounds [GAA ground in Upper Manhattan], and if it’s not grabbed it will be gone. But it’ll be bigger than the Polo Grounds in its way, because the Irish were always welcome in America. They were not always welcome in England – no blacks, no Irishmen, no dogs, as the signs often said.

London In The Connacht Final Is A Cause For National celebration (An Spailpín Fánach)

Pic: GAA.ie