This is a mural we could all get behind. Real leadership! #JohnHume pic.twitter.com/ReSbRf2HsY
— Clíona McCarney (@clionamccarney) May 2, 2014
Meanwhile…via L.A.D
New Mural in West Belfast pic.twitter.com/YFG0OzBLgO
— L.A.D (@LADFLEG) May 2, 2014
Can you guess who it is yet?
Previously: Political Strokes
An award-winning documentary short by Josh Izenberg telling the true story of disillusioned neurologist Dr. John Kitchin – a ‘typical institutionalised, educated Western man’ – who has abandoned the medical world for a new life and a freewheeling alter-ego on San Diego’s Pacific Beach.
He’s nice. You’ll like him.
Ronan F writes:
A Leaving Cert standard lady part on the front window of Hynes shoe shop (now closed) in Galway.
[Screengrab from a study entitled ‘Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013’ published in The Lancet today. Click to enlarge]
Barry writes:
A new study of death rates in children under 5 was published today in The Lancet. According to the study, Ireland has the third worst child death rate in western Europe, with 4.6 deaths per thousand births. Malta, with 7 deaths per thousand births, ranks worst in western Europe, with the UK coming in second on 4.9 deaths per thousand births.
This puts us far behind other western European countries like Iceland (2.4), Sweden (2.7) and Norway (3.0).
Pretty interesting figures in the context of the resounding rejection by GPs of the Government’s plan for free GP care to under sixes, no?
I also can’t wait to hear Iona, Youth Defence, the Life Institute, etc. coming out in force to lobby for something to be done. After all, they care about children. ..don’t they?
Anyone?
Read report in full here
You’ve seen the Sad Kanye picture that’s been doing the rounds today on the Twitter.
Well.
Simon ‘He’s Got His Swagger Back’ Judge has been doing a bit of photoshoppery.
Fair play, in fairness.
Sad Kanye West Unable to Get Excited About Zip-Lining (Gawker)
Thanks Simon
Hello you.
Amy writes:
“Mary Robinson’s thoughts on peace appreciated by the Dutch Metro ahead of [the Netherlands] national Liberation day on the 5th of May….”
En Johnny Giles (far left).
Eclectic.
[Tommy Tiernan]
Quite literally gagging for it.
Tommy Tiernan spoke to John Murray on RTÉ Radio One this morning during which the following exchange occurred…
John Murray: “Because you travel around the country and you take in what’s happening, are we a little but more at ease with ourselves, have we got over that patch where we thought, you know, everything…”
Tommy Tiernan: “No, I think there’s something. I sense, generally speaking, that we are, we’re still soft, vulnerable, mad, depressed, wild, hopeless, miserable, lovely people. And there’s something about us though that is subservient. I think we do have, and [writer] Pat McCabe reminded me of this great phrase: ‘We have backs that are aching for the lash’. And I think that we put up with the things that, we’re so genetically, historically, we’re so used to putting up with bad management and mistreatment that we kinda, there’s something in us that thinks we deserve it. And the way the banks are treating people now. Your man, what’s the Bank of Ireland lad, Richie..”
Murray: “Richie Boucher?”
Tiernan: “Yeah, Dick the Butcher. The banks, you know. We see drawings and we hear stories about three of four hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, people being ousted out of houses by landlords and having to pay exorbitant rents and we ran from the English into the arms of the church and we ran from the church into the arms of the banks. And the banks are the new landlords now. The system is exactly the same – we’re paying exorbitant amounts of money to stay in our own houses. And I think people like Dick the Butcher,if we were, if we had more, if we weren’t so bent over, do you know? If we were a bit more, a bit more…maybe it just takes a generation, maybe it takes three or four generations for people to learn how to stand upright and to feel entitled to stand upright.”
Murray: “So we’re cowed by it all?”
Tiernan: “I think we’re a little bit defeated, you know, and I think. A friend of mine, Gerry Mallon, a comedian from Galway, had this great line that we just don’t have the weather for revolutions.”
Mmmf.
Listen back in full here
Michael Chester/Photocall Ireland
[Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen speaks with Denis O’Brien at the end of the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009]
Brian Cowen has been appointed to the board of Denis O’Brien’s Topaz.
— Tom Lyons (@TomLyonsBiz) May 2, 2014
Sell Topaz.
Or buy Topaz ‘short’ but sell ‘long’?
Maybe get out of fossil fuels altogether?
Etc.
Previously: Topaz The Morning To You
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland