Monthly Archives: May 2013

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Personalfinance

Denis O’Brien and Dermot Desmond, top, at the National College of Ireland earlier this afternoon, where a business lunch was held to launch the college’s three new courses in finance: Certificate in Personal Financial Planning, Diploma in Personal Financial Planning and Certificate in Personal Insolvency Practice.

Personal insolvency, eh?

Previously: A €140 Million Write-Off From Bank Of Ireland And AIB

Pics: National College of Ireland

CustomHouseCustom House in Dublin.

A new study by urban designers and planners David Jordan and Fergus Browne  which sees the Liffey Quays transformed into a boulevard linking the Phoenix Park to Dublin Bay and includes a proposal to transform the Custom House into a Civic Museum for Dublin along with the creation of a pedestrian plaza fronting it.

21st Century Liffey

Pub_StagsHeadThe Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin

Sunday night home of Stag’s Head Raw (upstairs)

Barry writes:

We are thinking of extending the idea and putting on gigs during the day also. Those of you old enough to remember the 1980s will probably thinks back fondly to Sunday aternoons whiled away in boozers all over Dublin supping pints while listening to the ‘next big thing’. So the question is; Would YOU go to a gig on a Sunday afternoon?

Anyone?

Meanwhile:

biggles

Conor Deasy’s Biggles Flys Again (this is their choon ‘Friends) play the Stag’s Head Raw on Sunday with support from Dott and I Have A Friend.

€8. 8pm.

Biggles Flys Again

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Frogs literally jumping into Spring on The River Shannon.

From The Secret Life of the Shannon on Sunday, RTE One, 6.30pm.

Anne-Louise  Foley writes:

A bit of nerd trivia, this series was filmed (by Crossing the Line films) using a Phantom High Speed Camera (1,000 frames p. second) the same kind of camera used in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’.

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The world’s tallest international cricketer, Mohammad Irfan  pictured with Mohammad Sufyan Ahmed (aged 2) during a visit by the Pakistan cricket team to Castaheany Educate Together National School in Ongar ahead Pakistan’s match with Ireland in Clontarf. today.

Ireland And Pakistan In Dramatic Draw (BBC)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)