Yearly Archives: 2014

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With an authentic Viking helmet on offer we asked YOU to create a front page headline for the morning after the battle of Clontarf.

You answered in your ‘hordes’.

Runners up:

“Scandinavian Tourists Caught Up in Northside family Feud During Dublin Sea Font tirp” (Hybrid)

“Cath Chluain Tarbh: Boru Marbh!’’ (Nessy)

“Boru-tal Brian Beheaded As Vikings Clontarf-ing All The Way To Bank” (Optimus Grime)

“PAPPED! Viking Maidens Caught Bearing Ankle At Waterhole, pages 1-17. (Battle at Clontarf, Life & Style, pg. 42) (Ahjayziz)

“Headless Body Found In Topless Tent” (realpolitithick)

Winner:

The Star: AXE ME BOLLIX – EXCLUSIVE! BORU’S LAST WORDS
The Sun: BORU-HOO, WIDOW MOURNS HER BRIAN
Evening Herald: KILLING SPREE IN DUBLIN 3
Irish Times: PROPERTY SLUMP AFTER INCIDENTS ON DUBLIN’S NORTHSIDE
Irish Independent: GARDA CHIEFS DEMAND PROBE INTO AXE VIOLENCE
Sunday Independent: WAS DENIS O’BRIAN BORU BEHIND AXE LICENCE DEAL?
Daily Mail: SHAME OF OUR NATION’S TENT DWELLERS

(all from Ger).

Thanks all.

Previously: Would You Like A Real Viking Helmet?

Thanks Grainne Glenny

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Doc Sweets on James Joyce’s groundbreaking first novel – one of the first books where motifs are the most important element of the text…

… and Joyce be flipping them literary devices like a mother****ing hustler…

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Splutter.

Foreign games?

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy added: “The GAA is delighted to be involved in this partnership and we are particularly looking forward to the roll out of the programme in Scotland after its success in Ireland last year. “Sport has the potential to make a special connection with young people and we believe the other holistic elements of the camps can make a real difference to the young people participating.”

FIGHT!

Celtic and GAA join forces in Scotland (CelticFC)

Thanks Shane O’Leary

00115970[Noel Dempsey in 2000]

He’s back.

Further to news that former Transport Minister Noel Dempsey is to chair a new company aimed at ‘reviving’ the Temple Bar cultural quarter…

Eamon Delaney writes:

…what Temple Bar really needs is someone fresh, with a strong arts background, or an actual entrepreneurial reputation who could oversee the balance between a cultural quarter and a tourist play-pen. Instead, we get an old FF face, after a lifetime in public service. TBC director Martin Harte said that Dempsey’s work in the early days of the Temple Bar transformation had given him “considerable experience and knowledge about the area”.
But this might be a reason not to give him the job, given what has become of Temple Bar. Apparently, Dempsey has been involved in consultancy since leaving politics and will receive a nominal fee for his work. But Temple Bar is our cultural quarter, a valuable national public asset, and not some anonymous corporate company to whom his like can ‘consult’ discreetly and privately.
But it’s also about a fresh start, and giving someone else a turn. And yet so many of these FF faces insist on crawling back into public life, and cannot see how this will get peoples’ backs up. And as for Dempsey’s knowledge of the arts, he will always be the man who told the Irish public that the impending arrival of the IMF was a ‘fiction’. Clearly, here is a man for whom a work of fiction and the brutal reality of the economic truth is just a matter of words. If only the bailout was ‘a fiction’, the long suffering Irish public might have forgiven him.

Is a hapless former FF minister really the right person to inspire a cultural revival? (Eamon Delaney, Independent.ie)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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[Wind turbines outside Roscrea, Co Tipperary]

Some organised and disciplined,
Protestors will take on the wind,
They’ll march day and night,
And keep up the fight,
Till they get our whole atmosphere binned.

John Moynes

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall ireland)

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Clinch is a new Irish recruitment jobs site.

Damien Glancy, their CTO says:

Born from the notion that “hiring shouldn’t suck,” Clinch offers a hiring experience that is more engaging, more honest, and basically more human – for both jobseeker and employer alike. Our in-house photographers and copywriters work alongside companies to create a profile on Clinch that provides unique insight into their workplace and culture. For the job seekers themselves,
Clinch provides a sort of “window on the workplace,” allowing them to get a real feel for the company and the people who work there. The more informed people are, the better choices they can make when it comes to submitting job applications.

Their robots.txt though shows their true feelings stripped of the marketing:

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#     ____ _ _            _       _
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#               // / | | | | \ \\      "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! ALL RECRUITERS!"
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They’re even running a competition for employers to use the service for free.

 

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