Osaka-based barista Kazuki Yamamoto – already a master of plain old two dimensional latte art – takes it to the next level with milk-froth mini-sculptures.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
No, really.
The sad, lonely and ‘peculiar’ phenomenon of post-famine celibacy in Ireland.
From The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland by Timothy Guinnane.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
(Ruairi Quinn and friend outside the British Embassy, Dublin 2001)
Ireland has nothing to fear from proposals for eight new nuclear power plants in Britain, this country’s nuclear safety watchdog says.
A three-year study by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) found the day-to-day running of the plants would pose no health risk here.
And it said even in a worst-case scenario, where the most serious kind of accident was combined with the least favourable weather conditions, the maximum radiation dose likely to be received by members of the public was still well within safety limits.
‘Nothing to fear’ from UK nuclear plants (Caroline O’Doherty, Irish Examiner)
(Photocall Ireland)
Made by 27 young people seeking asylum alone in Ireland during a six-day Easter Camp on human rights In March organised by the Irish Refugee Council and UNICEF.
In a group open letter to government ministers following the camp the children wrote:
The children took up four separate projects at the camp relating to issues of equality, integration, education and resilience.
The results will be on display in the Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin from May 24-31.
Voices Of Young Asylum Seekers Exhibition (Facebook)
Previously: An Irish Asylum Seeker Writes
Live at 12 midday at Patrick’s Church, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo (above) officiated by parish priest Fr Stephen Farragher,
Listen here.
Any excuse.
Previously: Gwan The Mass
Iceland has now formally halted its EU application. Those mad, swivel-eyed loons evidently prefer prosperity and democracy to immiseration.
— Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) May 22, 2013














