Scenes from The Velvet Strand, Portmarnock, Co Dublin, a far cry from the ‘brouhaha” of last Friday.
Minor trouble did ensue as Hannah Carvalho (above right) and Darragh Conroy (left) buried Darragh’s brother Eoghan alive.
They just left him there.
Portmarnock-style.
Previously: Like The Opening Scene In Saving Private Ryan
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
Thanks Wayne F
The Elephants at Dublin Zoo this afternoon.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Louise Cribbin writes [via BS App}:
Gorgeous day in Connemara
*removes flat cap, wipes forehead with shirtsleeve, stares into middle distance*
Well Jaysus an’ it is…
Meanwhile, tonight in Sligo
Thanks John Keating
Dublin from the Aviva.
Thanks Andrew
This week, an online sexual health campaign in Brazil promoting safe sex with prostitutes was banned for promoting prostitution.
70 years ago, according to this rather excellent picture set from The Guardian, folk were more practical about that sort of thing.
After all, there was a bloody war on. A war against syphilis and gonorrhea.
And it would be fought with the double-entendre.
(Hat tip: Sido)
You’ll like John.
For the last fifty four years, the amateur woodcarver has kicked back and whittled some, to say the least. He can carve anything out of a single piece of wood, from a block to a toothpick.
Here, he casually introduces some of his extraordinary carvings – each one more impressive than the last.
36 Roman Catholics, 20 Protestants, 3 Quakers and 1 Jew.; 7 peers, a dowager countess (the Jewish Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart), 5 baronets and several knights.
Opening of Seanad Éireann on December 16, 1922, as reported in the Irish Times.
New senators (half of whom were elected by public vote) included Mrs Stopford Green and Mrs Eileen Costello (top), pictured arriving at Leinster House, where the forum sat until it was abolished in 1936.
Good, egalitarian times.
Via Irish Times archive
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
A filter-drenched aerial shot of Dublin yesterday, taken from a “commercial flight”.
Thanks John McG.
