At the end of the games in Brazil,
There’s a big pair of boots left to fill,
We need a new bloke,
Who can say “Okey Doke”,
To the panel, just like good old Bill.
John Moynes
(RTE/Photocall ireland)
Yearly Archives: 2014
Being Frank
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An interview that credits Pope Francis as saying about 2% of Roman Catholic clerics are paedophiles stirred controversy Sunday, as the Vatican sought to raise questions about the article’s accuracy and others called on the pope to take more action on the issue.
The interview by Eugenio Scalfari, published Sunday, quotes the pope as calling the rash of sex abuse scandals “a leprosy in our home” and saying the pedophiles include “priests and even bishops and cardinals,” according to a CBS News translation. “And others, even more numerous, know about it but keep quiet, they punish without saying the reason why. I find this state of things untenable and it is my intention to confront it with the severity it requires.”
The Vatican has pushed back on some points. According to Vatican officials, Scalfari does not record his conversations with the pope nor transcribe them word for word. News.va, an official Vatican news source, cited Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi as saying Scalfari quotes Francis from memory alone, and that the pope does not review the results before publication.
Any excuse.
Did Pope Francis really say 2% of Catholic clergy are paedophiles? (Lauren Raab, LA Times)
Pic: Wikipedia
New Jersey supplanted by the digital landscape of Los Santos in 8-Bit Bastard’s accomplished Grand Theft Auto 5 redux of the Sopranos opening credit sequence.
And here’s the side by side for comparison purposes.
Ah here.
Before scoring Germany’s World Cup winning goal, Mario Götze was arguably best known for these photos from a holiday with his girlfriend in Ibiza in 2012.
He’s no Marty Whelan, in fairness.
Linda Cosgrave writes:
A selection of photos of the Poolbeg towers I thought you might like….
You’ll miss them when/if they’re gone.
Another side of the work of celebrated American war photographer Robert Capa, currently on display at New Yorks’s Governor’s Island as part of an exhibition by the International Centre Of Photography.
Better known for his black and white images of the Normandy landings and the Spanish Civil War, Capa also worked with colour film from 1941 to his untimely death in 1954, recording – among other things – intimate portraits of artists, writers and actors in the 40s and 50s.
Above: Pablo Picasso and his son Claude at Vallauris in France; Ernest Hemingway and his son Gregory at Sun Valley, Idaho and Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre on the set of Beat the Devil, at Ravello in Italy.
Epic aerial footage of St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan yesterday by Darren McCarra.
Bill O’Herlihy signed off last night from RTÉ Sport.
He’ll leave it there so, live.
Meanwhile….
Tonight is the night for @billoherlihy to earn the affection of fans by committing to NEVER EVER represent the tobacco industry EVER again.
— ProfJohnCrown (@ProfJohnCrown) July 13, 2014
Bill!! Go out on a high!! Renounce tobacco contacts on your last night. Do it please. #RTEWorldCup
— ProfJohnCrown (@ProfJohnCrown) July 13, 2014
Ewok writes:
“Unruly bus stopping replica world cup madness on Oranienstrasse, Kreuzberg, Berlin tonight. Damn hipster good at football drunken volk…”