Donal Comerford writes:
A rather fine example of the Opel Agila spotted during yesterday’s commute home. Possibly Carlow’s finest export…
Yearly Archives: 2013
The Bishop of Cork and Ross has distanced himself from comments made by a priest who asked mourners at a funeral to pray that former lord mayor of Cork, John Murray (above), would be found not guilty of sex assault charges.
Murray, 83, of Gregg Rd, Cork, was found guilty by a jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court last Friday of sexually assaulting a teenager in 1996. The former Labour city councillor is due to be sentenced by Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin next Monday.
However, it has emerged a visiting Augustinian priest who was celebrating a funeral Mass in a church on the southside of Cork City last Thursday asked mourners during the prayers of intercession to pray that Murray would be found not guilty. The priest knew the deceased and it is also understood he is a friend of the Murray family.
Bishop: Friar’s comments on former lord mayor Murray ‘inappropriate’ (Eoin English, Irish Examiner)
Is He Yours?
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Found in traffic this morning.
Niamh writes:
A colleague found this little tyke on Camden Street [Dublin] this morning darting in and out of traffic. He’s very friendly so we’re presuming someone is missing him. He’s currently keeping us company in the office but he unfortunately can’t stay long. If anyone knows where he belongs or could volunteer to mind him until we find out where he does it would be marvellous.
Anyone?
Mr Ogle, a union boss,
Is making the whole nation cross,
Like a Stalinist Grinch,
He’s planning to pinch,
Your Christmas and not give a toss.
John Moynes
(Gareth Chaney/Photocall Ireland)
The trailer for Sign Painters by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon who, in 2010:
…travelled the United States, documenting the remaining practitioners of this near lost art, but also covering a resurgence of interest in the trade, from both the public and the people holding the purse strings.
Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.
The film also features work from Dublin’s great sign-painter, Kevin Freeney.
Screening at Dublin’s Sugar Club on December 5th from 8pm.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
The first episode of a new animated web series by Terry Reilly.
He’s from Monaghan so he is
(Thanks Terry)
Mona?
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When robins built a nest in a hanging basket on Fred Margulies’s porch a few years ago, he documented the arrival of four eggs and the subsequent nurturing of the chicks by the parent birds, right up to the rather poignant moment a month later when the entire brood left the nest for the last time.
Via Pablo Píriz