Yearly Archives: 2013

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The Adelaide Star, August 28, 1937

“O’Toole then struck him with an oar. The merman moaned and vanished.”

Did they just kill a man?

Good times.

Any excuse

Fishermen Declare Merman Again Seen (1937) (Fadó Fadó)

(Hat tip: Sibling of Daedalus)

 

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(L-R) Vincent Browne, Tiernan Brady, Susan Philips, Ailbhe Smyth, Gerry Fahey
on last night’s Tonight with Vincent Browne

 

 

 

Gay-bashing, gay marriage, and how the media needs to get a grip (Una Mullally, Irish Times)

00138190Enda meets Kelly Petit during canvassing for Meath East by-election outside the Bank of Ireland in Ashbourne, Co Meath, on March 25.

00138191Enda, now joined by – then Fine Gael candidate now TD-  Helen McEntee, hears Kelly is on her way inside to apply for a mortgage.

00138192“Don’t worry. I’ll go in and put in a good word,” chirrups Enda.

00138194  “Could you sort this lady out with a mortgage?” Enda asks the bank’s kind-looking home loans officer.

00138193“Are you sure this is going to work,” asks Kelly quizzically.

00138195“I’m the taoiseach.” Enda exclaims. “I do this for a living.”

Two weeks later…

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This morning’s Irish Star.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)