Yearly Archives: 2013

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz33ICD7pqE

What you may need to know:

1. It’s the other Die Hard in The White House movie – the one that doesn’t have Gerard Butler in it.

2. It’s directed by German auteur Roland Emmerich, who has  blown up the White House over the course of a film-making career, which includes such masterpieces as Independence Day (1996), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 2012 (2009).

3. It stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx as President Django, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Girl, and JAMES WOODS.

4. Roland Emmerich gives great trailer.

5. Broadsheet Movie Pitch: Kick Aras, a topical thriller where a militant bankrupt builder holds the Irish parliament to ransom, and only disgraced Garda Jonathan Rhys Meyers can bring him down. Featuring Brendan Gleeson as The President Of Ireland, Domhnall Gleeson as a weaselly Junior Minister and Brian Gleeson as Squeebag.

Release Date: June.

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RTÉ is reporting Praveen Halappanavar will receive the final draft report of the HSE’s review into the death of his wife, Savita, on Friday.

Solicitor expects to recieve Savita Halappanavar report on Friday (RTÉ) 

(screengrab: Irish Times)

 

Screen Shot 2013-03-27 at 12.49.07Two feather-beaten seagulls on a Dublin rooftop today.

This is why they crap on everyone.

Thanks Simon Kingston

Meanwhile, close by:

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Dylan Townsend writes:

This cat rules our neighbourhood in true Chairman Mao fashion…found him wandering his snowy beat early this morning.

BGXH7Q2CQAA1nMtair2Wafflewaitress tweetz:

Hmm, guards, army with guns etc…wonder what’s occurring here? Nosy cow at Dublin airport. On a plane.

Ladies and gentlemen – to your conspiracy theories!*

(*or killjoy rational explanations)