Ah now.
The verdict from Rotten Wi Fi, a ‘public 3g, 4g and wifi watchdog’ and one of the summit 2013’s start ups.
Stupid rotten Ireland-hating begrudgers.
Showing us up.
Issues with wifi at WebSummit just proved our case (RottenWiFi)
Previously: High Density
A double decker bus has become stuck under a railway bridge in County Down.
The Translink bus is lodged under the bridge [on the Craigdarragh Road] near Helen’s Bay.
Oof.
That’s gotta hurt.
Translink: Double decker bus stuck under County Down railway bridge (BBC News NI)
In Mayo there’s many a cow,
Feeling rather frustrated right now,
And Benjy the bull,
Is facing a cull,
‘Cause he wouldn’t get up on a Frau.
John Moynes
(Getty)
‘Cutout Ralph’ – a Ralph Wiggum illustration by Erick Flores skillfully recreated in red velvet cake, vanilla bean swiss meringue buttercream, Rice Krispies, modeling chocolate, and fondant by Canada-based cake designer Kylie Mangles.
Amazing. It looks just like an actual illustrOMNOMNOM
Jack Leahy, in University Times, writes:
“The photography company hired by College for the graduation season has defended its decision to offer “facial slimming” editing for €30.”
“Students who have their official graduation portraits taken by Lafayette Photography have the option of requesting the service when ordering prints from the company’s website. At €30, the service is at a considerably higher price point than other similar services including teeth whitening and skin tone editing, which are available for €10.”
Seriously?
FIGHT!
Graduation Photographers Defend €30 “Facial Slimming” Service (University Times)
Best piece on abortion I have EVER READ – bravo @sarahditum. “women’s bodies exist for others to use”: http://t.co/hE6KKSsQx8
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) November 6, 2014
If you want to know how flimsy we hold women’s humanity, start by looking at the laws governing pregnancy. The 1967 Abortion Act is often claimed to have legalised “abortion on demand”. It didn’t. In practice, the 1967 Act modifies the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act sufficiently to allow most women who seek a termination to obtain one within the law under most circumstances – but to do so, a woman must convince two doctors that continuing the pregnancy would cause “grave permanent injury to [her] physical or mental health”. It’s not enough for her to simply say, “No, I do not want to have this baby”. Ever so subtly, our law starts from the position that the default outcome for all pregnant women should be motherhood: it’s left to each individual to persuade the medical authorities she is an exceptional case who should be allowed to determine the use of her own body.
Perhaps this doesn’t sound so terrible to you. Maybe you consider abortion a grave matter, one of such moral consequence that no woman alone should be able to make it for herself. After all, it is the end of human life – a foetus that would become a baby, then a child and then an adult before dying in its turn – and surely any decision that ends a human life is to be taken seriously. Except, all of us make decisions every day about whether or not to support other human lives with our own flesh, and most of us choose not to. For example: 96 per cent of us choose not to give blood even though we’re eligible to, and 68 per cent of us choose not to join the organ donor register. People die on waiting lists. And this is sad, but it’s also acceptable: no one is entitled to your blood or your organs unless you are generous enough to share them.
Read in full: My body, my choice: from now on, abortion rights must be fought for from first principles (Sarah Ditum, New Statesman)
Pic: sarahditum.com
“Mattress Mick sees himself at the forefront of the recovery of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger–mauled economy. “Mattress Mick is here to help the Irish people get a good night’s sleep,” he tells me, speaking of Mattress Mick as a character, not in first person (his real name is Michael Flynn). “Irish-made mattresses are the best-made in the world, and I wanted to get across the message that if you sleep well at night you can come back fighting every morning. We can get Ireland back on its feet.” His own best advertisement, Mick has turned himself into a living, walking meme on a shoestring marketing budget.”
The Mattress King of Dublin (Vice)
Previously: The Man Behind The Man Behind Mattress Mick
Pic: Vice
Today’s Irish Times
Martin Wall, in the Irish Times, reports:
“A serving civil servant has given an extensive dossier to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee making allegations of substantial tax evasion over an extended period of time involving, among others, senior politicians.
The senior civil servant has also maintained that various ministers over recent years and a number of State agencies failed to fully investigate the allegations.”…
“The letter makes allegations regarding one former minister. Allegations are also made in the dossier about a former judge.”
“It is also claimed the evidence in the documentation could “be relevant to the defence of the State and of Mr Michael Lowry and Mr Denis O’Brien in the case being taken by the failed bidders in the 1995 mobile phone licence competition”.”
Hmmmm.
