Yearly Archives: 2014

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-d-f5IOr4

In Galway?

Rob writes:

“The Why Not? Adventure Film Festival and Galway Cycling Campaign will present “A Night of Cycling Shorts” in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, Galway TONIGHT at 7.30pm as part of National Bike Week. Up to TWO hours of short films, representing the best of Irish and International Bicycle Cinema will be screened.
The night will also see a showing of the 2013 International Cycling Film Festival winner. We’ll also have some bike-related COMPETITIONS on the night.
It is free in but limited seating so first come, first served.”

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What you may need to know

1. Sly Stallone is back! And he’s digging deep into that address book.

2. The Expendables 2 (2012) was better than The Expendables (2010) thanks to a gonzo Van
Damme turn and a surreal walk-on from a geriatric Chuck Norris.

3. This time out, Bruce Willis asked for too much money, so Sly gave him the boot and called Harrison Ford instead.

4. Always nice to see confirmed anti-Semite and monumental asshole Mel Gibson. Not really.

5. Also: Wesley Snipes. Free at last! And KELSEY ‘FRASIER’ GRAMMER!

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Where’s Nicolas Cage?

Release date: August 15

elephant

Caught on the ‘Ele-cam’.

Expectant mother Yasmin gets an itch.

Catherine O’Connor writes:

“Captured in the middle of the night using infra-red cameras female Asian elephant Yasmin showed some interesting behaviour.  Picking up a long slender stick with her trunk she scratched her ear with great skill. A behaviour that has not been observed at Dublin Zoo before…”

Anyone?

Dublin Zoo

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[Today’s Irish Daily Mirror front page]

Kathleen was just 20 when she went into Airmount Maternity Hospital in Waterford to have her second child in 1966…little Patrick was transferred to Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin for a “small procedure” – and never seen again.
It was only after decades of heartache and secrecy that she discovered he was buried in a pauper’s grave in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery.
[Kathleen] also found out her little son’s heart and lungs had been removed for research purposes.

Mother and baby home horror: ‘My baby was taken from me and I was told he was dead… I want to know WHY?’ (Alana Fearon, Irish Mirror)

Previously: Human Lab Rats