Advertisement for Magdalen Asylum Laundry in Galway from April 1913.
Good times.
Earlier: Whose Sheets?
Via Limerick1913
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Bon Jovi at Slane!
Elton John at Oxegen!
And now the ‘Mac will play the mobile phone sponsored arena venue in the Dublin docks.
Our middle-aged corporate concert demographic overfloweth.
LEGO Who
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LEGO builder Thorsten Bonsch is planing a series of 11 LEGO dioramas celebrating Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary this year, starting with this scene from The Snowmen Christmas special (click for a larger version).
[via The Brother Brick]
‘wtfdublin’ writes:
This (above left) is a life size statue of convicted rapist Mike Tyson currently on display in Westwood gym in Clontarf [Dublin]. I suppose it’s a good incentive for the advert behind it for ‘Box Fit self defence style class for women.
Thanks @wtfdublin
In a promo for Betabrand clothing, BASE jumping team Maryland Crew & Co. leap from heights in Greece, Switzerland and Malaysia.
It’s a hard oul’ station, the life of a sponsored extreme sportster, right enough.
Ah.
Small ad in The Irish Times, November 1975.
Earlier: Out Of Sight
Postcard via John Hinde archive
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
A Cape fur seal predating blue sharks (it killed and ate five of them) off the South African coast, spotted by shark expert and diver Chris Fallows, who offered the following sobering thought:
If karma does indeed exist, the seal had better watch out if it returns during the great whites’ winter hunting season.
Killjoy.
Discovered by Redditor Taybow.
Engaged
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(Above: the protest outside Stepaside Garda Station yesterday)
Shane Ross, Independent TD for the area, told the crowd yesterday the four other TDs were “duty bound to support you in this mission”.
“I would urge you to block up the telephones and the emails of the Department of Justice so they can’t do any business and they’ll realise what the depth of public opinion is here,” he said.
But in a statement hours later Mr Shatter said Stepaside Garda station was among those identified in the Garda Commissioner’s policing plan for closure and he was not going to “second guess” that assessment.
“I have not done so in the context of Garda stations to be closed in other parts of the country and neither will I do so in my own constituency,” he added.
Presumably, all operators are busy at present and your call will be answered in strict rotation.
Shatter says station to close despite protest rally (Judith Crosbie, Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)