Yearly Archives: 2014

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Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki discusses her breakup with Rory McIlroy to Graham Bensinger of Yahoo Sports..

“He made it very public from the start. He put out a press release* and all of that so I didn’t have a choice.

I was shocked. I thought I would get a face to face or something but there was nothing. It was just a phone call and I did not hear from him again.”

Oof.

Watch here.

* Yes them.

Previously: New Balls

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Ian O’Sullivan in Tokyo. Japan today

Clay pigeons.

He has them for breakfast.

Mark writes:

“Ian O’Sullivan (age 18), an Irish Junior shotgun shooter has just won the World Championships in Olympic Trap (becoming Ireland’s first Olympic Clay Target World Champion)! And to add extra drama, Ian’s shotgun actually broke half-way through the final shoot-off for the gold medal and he STILL won.”

PULL!

Ireland’s Ian O’Sullivan World Junior Shooting Champion Olumpic Council of Ireland)

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comm Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Portarlington

Ireland has appointed a government official with experience at multinational companies as its new data protection commissioner to head up a body which acts as regulator to the likes of Google and Facebook outside North America.

Helen Dixon, currently the Irish Registrar of Companies, spent 11 years working with two U.S. technology firms with their European bases in Ireland, including software company Citrix Systems, according to her LinkedIn profile.

The best breakfast rolls in Portarlington are found next door, probably.

Ample parking.

Train station nearby.

Win win win.

Ireland appoints data protection chief with corporate background (Padraic Halpin, Reuters)

Pic: Google Street View

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On the Dingle peninsula, Co Kerry this evening.

Maria Brosnan writes:

“No sign of the owners of this car at Inch Strand…”

More as we get it.

UPDATE:
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Let that be a lesson to ye all.

Although merciful on this occasion

She can be a cruel mistress the sea.

*pours rum*

Thanks Maria

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Parisian animator Loïc Bramoullé’s extremely impressive scifi short, (made over the course of two years with a tiny budget and the help of his friends) follows a spacewrecked feline making its way across an alien landscape.

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A University of Huddersfield student has proven for the first time what you’ve long suspected to be true – that people with psychopathic tendencies hide how much of a psycho they are to rise to key managerial positions.

Basically, your boss might truly be a psycho.

*cough*

Study says your boss might really be a psycho after all (Newstalk)