Yearly Archives: 2014

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSn8Isv-3M&feature=youtu.be

The times are ker-chinging.

The late Colonel Gaddafi Bob Dylan shilling for Chrysler during last night’s Superbowl break.

At least he didn’t go electric.

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Snug.

Michael Skelly writes:

Anyone who works from home with a cat during the bad weather knows their insistence in ‘helping’ you can get very frustrating. I think I may have found a solution where he feels he’s helping but doesn’t get in the way of things too badly….

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Some of the The Irish Winter Olympic team in Sochi, Russia earlier.

From left: Jeff Pain (skeleton coach), Florence Bell (Alpine skiing) Conor Lynne (Alpine) Seamus O’ Connor (Snowboard) Sean Greenwood (skeleton) and Aidan Woods (Physio).

Earlier: Born 1997

Previously: Ireland Expects

Via Sean O’Connor

Thanks WayneF

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On the streets of Galway City yesterday.

Photographs by Chris Tierney (top) writes:

“So I hear tell that the controversy over the Iona/RTÉ payout is all a load of twitter generated fury. Funny that, because I decided to go out and see if I could find some flesh-and-blood people who would also have a thing to say…’

 

More Here: Send A Message To RTE/Iona (Chris Did This)

Thanks James Hooper

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Girl Band @ Whelan’s, Camden Street, Dublin (€10)

Nialler9writes:

Dublin band Girl Band’s Lawman [above] is the best Irish single of the year so far, a noisey rumbling six-minute rock juggernaut of a song. They launch that song’s release on Any Other City Records with a gig in Whelan’s with local support from Simon Bird and Jetsetter. Win a pair of tickets in the gig guide [link below] this week.

Nialler9’s Gig Guide February 4-9 (Nialler9)

90143194 (Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Micheál Martin TD and First Minister Peter Robinson at Farmleigh in 2009)

NI First Minister Peter Robinson in an interview with Steven McCaffery of The Detail has said the Irish government is avoiding a “hidden history” that ties it to the birth of the Provisional IRA.

I think there has been denial on behalf of Irish Governments for some considerable time about the role played by government ministers and officials in terms of the growth of the Provisional IRA. People don’t want to talk about it. It’s not a case of being embarrassed, they seem to be offended if the issue is raised, but at the same time are quite happy to point the finger at the British state.

It is abundantly clear that the responsibility that seemed to fall on (Capt James) Kelly, was one that was placed on him by the State.

It is a period of time which shows very clearly that the Irish State was funding the guns going to the Provisional IRA, was preparing itself to invade Northern Ireland, and now of course they sit back and try and draw a blind over this area of history.

In a statement, Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin said:

The death of almost 1,800 men, women and children at the hands of the IRA was a hideous crime against their neighbours, against their country and against the proud ambitions of Irish Republicanism.

But it is not a crime for which the Irish Government has culpability.

It is a narrative which distorts the facts of an unprecedented crisis in Irish history and deliberately ignores the decades of concerted policy and action in the Republic of Ireland aimed at thwarting the subversive threat posed by violent republicanism and loyalism.

Genuine culpability or just whataboutery to deflect from unionism’s own failings?

YOU decide.

The Legacy – Political battle lines – (Steven McCaffery, The Detail.tv)

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland