Kieran Muprhy writes:
Red Bull have left cans trapped in blocks of ice in UCC [University College Cork]. Genius or cruel?
And that’s all that matters
Chris Somers writes:
On sale in Tesco. Spotted on Friday but I said I’d hold off as this is really the kind of thing that gets the spirits up on a dreary Monday morning.
Any excuse

Mild-mannered chat show host Stephen Nolan,from BBC NI, cruelly denied an interview with soon-to-be-Fine-Gael-TD Helen McEntee, pours out his heart on the day of the Meath East by-election.
Oh, the humanity.
Thanks anon


Otaga Times (New Zealand), April 20, 1899.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
The proposal, made on a number of occasions in the 19th century, for a canal from Dublin to Galway through which transatlantic steamers would travel on their way to Europe. Had it gone ahead, it would have been the Irish version of the Panama canal, severing the country in two. It never happened, possibly because it was quicker for the ships to go the longer way round than to stop at every lock…
Medical specialists in Ireland are now the lowest-paid within the English-speaking world, the president of the Irish Medical Organisation has said. In his presidential address to the organisation’s annual conference on Saturday, Dr Matt Sadlier (above) warned the recent 30 per cent cut in salaries for newly appointed hospital consultants could cause “generational damage” to the Irish health service.
The IMO president neglects to say that existing hospital consultants are paid one third more than their counterparts in the North and Britain in the NHS.
*lifts tiny violin to chin*
Medics in Ireland are lowest-paid in English-speaking world, IMO told (Irish Times)
(IMO)
Pierce Gleeson writes:
We encountered this cliff face of icicles walking in Glendalough [Co Wicklow] on Saturday. On the east face of Lugduff. Many of the icicles were eight or ten feet long. As we stood watching a few collapsed with booming cracking noises.