A daily greeting at Modisa Wildlife Project in Botswana between conservationist Valentin Gruener and Sirga – a lioness he rescued as an orphaned cub.
If mawkish thoughts of Christian the lion, inevitably engendered by this video are making you feel uncomfortable, here’s something a little more sobering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T02nzfGsZdc
Bill O’Reilly‘s plan to defeat ISIS.
There’s no an i in Team America.
Four JobBridges for MetroHerald.
Four.
*stares at hands*
FOUR
Journalists – Metro Herald (JobBridge)
Thanks AC
And fronting the DUP float at next year’s Pride … pic.twitter.com/YiwNzuycdK
— Allison Morris (@AllisonMorris1) September 24, 2014
Former NI Ministers Edwin Poots (top) and Nelson McCausland (bottom) ahem in today’s News Letter.
Poots and McCausland axed as Robinson moves to ‘settle things’ (Sam McBride, Belfast News Letter)
Previously: There’s Poots As Queer As Folk
Traditional Irish sea-going craft.
Made by volunteer hand in Dublin.
Anita writes:
“In May 2013 Broadsheet featured a piece about a new Curach Club in East Wall, Dublin 3. Our club name is Cumann Curach Atha Cliath. Well the club has gone from strength to strength and we have now added two naomhógs (Kerry style curach) to our fleet (all made by vounteers!
We are having the official launch of the two new naomhógs this Saturday 27th at 1pm at East Wall Water Sports Centre, just off the Alfie Byrne Rd., Dublin 3 and would love your readers to join us. Thank you.”
The, ahem, ‘final update’ of German illustrator Dirk Loechel’s humungous spaceship comparison chart.
Dozens of additions and modifications to an already exhaustive array of fictional craft (with the exception of the real world ISS, a yellow-boxed speck on the upper left) from Star Wars, Dune, Warhammer, Independence Day, Mass Effect, Wall-E, Dune, Starfox and many many more.
Previous iteration: Know Your Starships
See the full sized version in all its 4268×5690 glory here.
If you like this sort of thing, you may care to peruse Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions and wave goodbye to any plans you might have had for the afternoon.
Why don’t they build more houses in Dublin?
They have a market now what’s stopping THEM?
Not so fast.
Yesterday members of Property Industry Ireland, Dr. Peter Stafford, Aidan O’Hogan, Tom Phillips, chair of the planning and regulation committee and Ms Marian Finnegan, member of the market supply and demand committee appeared before the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to discuss the subject of commercial and domestic property – supply and demand.
Mr Phillips revealed in relation to the one of the reasons developers were not building dwellings is that penal levies were being imposed on them and therefore it was not in their interest to build at this time.
“…the Metro in Dublin adds a levy to certain developments. The Metro is on hold, but the levy is still in place. The levy is there for a 30-year period. If the money has not been spent in 30 years, it can be refunded to the developer. I can think of no other levy that has a 30-year life span. There is another special levy in Kilternan. To build an apartment in Kilternan, one pays a levy of €11,000 per residential unit and then a special levy of over €40,000. It works out at €55,000 per unit in levies. That is apart from a potential windfall tax, Part V social housing and other costs. There are many costs. That is the situation for people who have land at present. It is a tricky point…”
Anyone?
Meanwhile…Pace of property price hikes picks up again – CSO (Irish Independent)
Palestinian pedestrians and a motorcyclist commute along a road between ruins of houses in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip.
