Yearly Archives: 2013

Duggie0 Duggie1 Duggie2 Duggie3Ben1Ben2Ben3Duggie the dolphin and Ben the dog.

Best friends.

Owing to the scarcity of other dogs/dolphins on Tory Island off the coast of Donegal and a little thing called inter-species LOVE.

National Geographic has made a video of their friendship here.

Duggie helps Ben swim home when he’s tired.

Mmf.

Thanks Best Photos Of Baltimore

 

-1‘Complacency Revisited’

A Hillen-esque study of a relationship gone all mechanical.

By Jason Kearney, AKA Cuts

Who sez:

Complacency Revisited to me conjures up the emptiness experienced when a relationship degrades to the point where neither person is living a fulfilling life, instead they both seem content with being passengers along the other’s ‘road’, regardless of this being pointed out to them.

 

But enough about the coalition, etc.

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

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And why YOU shouldn’t try it.

Downhill mountain bike rider Colin Ross takes on one of the Mourne Mountains in Co Down.

DavyF writes:

Pretty nifty vid of the Mourne Mountains. They inspired C.S Lewis y’know…

 

Created by Andy Yoong

Music: Skee-Lo by Plump DJ’s

Previously: Skiing In The MourneMountains

Via Mpora

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Lucan Gazette-lifting Tommy Morris (top and captured on cctv), aide to Fine Gael TD Derek Keating.

Now wanted for questioning by the guards.

There is no free press.

Gardai probe alleged ‘theft’ of free papers by FG TD’s aide (Luke Byrne, Independent.ie)

Thanks Sido

Update:

90300394Tommy Morris, in hairier and possibly happier times, protesting against Gerry Adams and the staging of the 1992 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Ballyfermot.

(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvHgbDH3PA

Bottler appearing on last night’s BBC Newsline as he met his Northern counterpart Edwin Poots at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen.

He just keeps giving.

Previously: Gwan The Bottler

Hat tip: Neasa Conneally

pr-castle-oliver3Castle Oliver, Ardpatrick, Co Limerick.

Yours for €3 million.

Jdawg writes:

Not only does it have beauty, but it also has Ireland’s largest private wine cellar. It can hold more than 55,000 bottles and not only that. The wine cellar can be accessed from any floor of the house by spiral stair cases. Hic.

 

Castle Oliver (FormerGlories)

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Two incredible hand-drawn animations by Jake Fried, who uses one sheet of paper per animation, layering Tippex, paint, ink and coffee to create the fleeting details of changing scenes.

By the final frame, each sheet of paper is covered with a layer of mixed material, inches thick.

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In the past four years, 300,000 people have emigrated from the Republic of Ireland; four out of 10 of them were aged 15 – 24.

Half of those aged between 18 and 24 have considered emigrating.

Four out of 10 adults aged between 25 and 34 have also thought about leaving the country.

The survey found that just over one quarter of those aged between 35 and 54 has also considered moving abroad.

 

300,000 Irish people emigrate in four years (BBC)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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The Smoking Gun is reporting that Charles Ramsey, the man credited with rescuing three women held captive in Cleveland, Ohio is a serial domestic abuser with no less than three convictions that resulted in jail time.

Cleveland Hero Was A Repeat Domestic Abuser (The Smoking Gun)

Previously: Bound To Happen

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Derek Keating tries to raise awareness about the 1,500 children who go to school in prefabricated classrooms in Lucan, in the Dáil on Tuesday evening.

Just a few hours after The Herald broke the Lucan Gazette story.

What timing.

Read more of the transcript from Kildarestreet.com here.

Previously: Boss, I Made The Cover

Here’s Lucan At You Kid

Thanks Oireachtas Retort

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)