Just spoke to first-time buyer who was asked by her bank’s mortgage assessor:”How often do you have friends for dinner & do you have steak?”
— Mark Simpson (@BBCMarkSimpson) April 25, 2014
Mark Simpson is a BBC reporter for Dublin and Belfast.
Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
David writes:
Screenshots taken from my Helmet Cam video, from the cycle home yesterday. They are on a stretch of the Firhouse Road, behind Shamrock Rover’s ground, in Tallaght. No two are the same.
In today’s Irish Independent.
Crikey.
Thanks Ruth Carter
Leon writes:
This driver parked on the pedestrian walking section in Dublin Zoo car park. There was loads of regular spaces and when I said it to her she told me to “f**k off, everyone will be parked there later, what’s the difference”.
Blimey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhamfCZrRvo
David McSavage’s The Savage Eye returns for a fourth series on RTÉ Two on Monday, May 5.
Yay.
We can’t wait to meet new character Angry Emer.
Previously: ‘Irish Women Are Going A Bit Nuts At The Moment’
Thanks Melanie O’Connor
Oh dear. Latest UKIP gaffe – jobless Brit worker in this poster is actually a foreign actor, Irishman David O’Rourke. pic.twitter.com/EByNBAhcIj
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) April 25, 2014
Sweet.
ALL art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde.
Danleo, Denise Nestor, Maser/Leah Burke (Homebird), Will St. Ledger, will be flogging their wares masters of their arts.
Where? The Copper House Gallery on Thursday, May 1st.
Dee Reddy writes:
“Marriage Equality’s vision is of an Ireland in which same sex couples, our families and our children enjoy equality. The contributing artists, the event sponsors and No Fixed Abode share this vision and hope that through this exhibition we can raise funds for Marriage Equality to continue their amazing work ahead of the referendum on same-sex marriage in 2015.”
Eimear Cawley writes:
Women’s what? Seen on the Luas line in Dublin 7.
Anyone?
Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien at the Fashion Gets Political charity show in aid of the Cork City Hospital Children’s Club, in Silver Springs Hotel in Cork last night.
He’s a natural.
Fair play, in fairness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJvSou48Y60&feature=youtu.be
Ryan Giggs gives his first press conference as the manager of Manchester United.