Yearly Archives: 2013

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Body & Soul Festival @ Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath (Friday 21 – Sunday 23)

Nialler9 writes:

It’s easy to forget Body & Soul started as an area at Electric Picnic. It has expanded into its own niche Summer festival with a great atmosphere over the last four years taking place in the walled garden and woodland surroundings of Ballinlough Castle. This year’s lineup features bigger names than ever like Nick Cave, James Murphy, Solange Knowles and PiL amongst the soul, reggae and electronic acts like Charles Bradley, The Congos, Fuck Buttons, Nicolas Jaar, Kate Boy (my tip), Mmoths, Candice Gordon, Jon Hopkins, Pantha Du Prince and Michael Mayer.

 

Nialler9’s Gig Guide June 18-24 (Nialer9)

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The Ryanair AGM this morning where the airline’s board voted to purchase 175 Boeing 737-800 series aircraft for $78 million in a deal worth €12 billion.

Ryanair: still ‘the world’s favourite airline’ (Telegraph Travel)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpUWpcbewNQ

At the Miss USA pageant on Sunday night: Miss Utah, Marissa Powell flubs a response to a question about gender-based income inequality, inadvertently stealing the limelight from eventual winner Miss Connecticut, Erin Brady, though not quite eclipsing the reigning queen of flubs Miss Teen South Carolina.

Just adorable.

Then the poster girl of ‘Go Back To Sleep America’ Miss Alabama, Mary-Margaret McCord stepped up to address the NSA Prism surveillance programme.

Just terrifying.

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Grand day to take off in Fimnegans in Dakkey and all that.

Meanwhile….

Anger over ‘vigil for life’ leaflets given to pupils in Dublin primary school (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)

Previously: Mind The Step

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Just a quarter.

 Completing its tenth review of Ireland’s bailout programme, which also saw it release the final €950m of its loans, the IMF said there needed to be resolution on the 25% of loans that are currently non-performing.

The IMF said it was vital that this was achieved before the country enters the European banking union, and ahead of European stress tests due to take place next year.

And good luck with that.

Bad loans at Irish banks hindering new lending – IMF (RTE)

IMF approves $1.27bn to Ireland (irish Times)

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Historian George McCafferty explains the story of Glendalough to Michelle Obama and her daughters earlier.

Lise Hand tweetz:

“The Obamas at the Deer Stone in Glendalough. Poor Sasha (top right) eaten alive by the midges…”

 

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)

Update:

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Thanks Liam Phelan