Monthly Archives: March 2013

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Oisin writes:

Charlie Flanagan stood up in the Dáil yesterday and complained about SF TD’s wearing Easter lily badges produced by the National Graves Association every year to remember 1916 and fund the up keep of republican graves.
Charlie’s father Oliver J. was well known for saying very offensive things in the Dáil including speaking of the need to “rout the jews out of this country”.

 

Godwin’s in two.

Respect.

Image via An Phoblacht

MagdalenaBors2 MagdalenaBors1 MagdalenaBors4 MagdalenaBors5Melbourne based artist Magdelena Bors photo series The Seventh Day, for which she built a bizarre range of alien landscapes inside her home featuring single characters seemingly overwhelmed by the chaos. Of the ‘connection between ourselves and the natural world’ represented in her work, she sez:

I am fascinated by the simultaneous strength and fragility of this connection as we go about our lives, spending most of our time within the confines of the small compartments we call home.

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Further to yesterday’s Bertie tree grab post.

Ruadhán MacEoin writes;

Was just wondering whether there’s any chance of giving the Save Ireland’s Forests petition a bit of notice. They need 100,000 signatures. It’s a good cause. People will be sick if Ahern now grabs 1/8 of the country’s land mass in exchange for three weeks’ worth of interest payments on the so-called national debt…

 

Petition here

Previously: Treeson

(Photocall Ireland)