We did tell you.
Scenes from the Wes Anderson-themed fancy dress party and screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel at the Light House cinema, Market Square, Dublin on Friday night.
The Grand Budapest party at the Light House (Facebook)
Photos by Simon Lazweski
[Today’s Irish Times]
You CAN have it both ways.
Take that, Morgan Kelly.
Pershing college lecturers.
Banks’ SME loan refusal rate rises to 54% (irish Times)
AIB reports 92% approval rate for SME lending (irish Times)
Previously: it’s Not You, it’s SME
Chiquita, tell me what’s wrong?
“Tropical fruit supplier Fyffes is to merge with US-based rival Chiquita in a deal creating the world’s largest banana company, which will be based in Ireland.”
Rivals to merge and base largest global banana firm in Ireland (BreakingNews)
Thanks Atticus
[Vampt’s Lean Machine post-workout hooch]
An alcoholic sports drink!?
Gatorade out of here.
“A properly formulated beer beverage is likely to do you no more harm than you are likely to get from a sports drink,” Desbrow says. “In fact, it probably is likely to do you more good, because it’s got a lot of these sort of natural compounds, like polyphenols, that are actually good for your health.”
He’s talking about compounds found in plants that are believed to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidative effects. A 2011 in Germany suggested that polyphenols in beer may be especially useful for those who go through prolonged strenuous exercise, which tends to lower the body’s immune function.
In the study, those who were given nonalcoholic beer every day for three weeks before and two weeks after a marathon reported fewer incidences of upper respiratory tract infections and were up to three times less susceptible to the common cold.”
Beer As A Post-Workout Recovery Drink? Not As Crazy As It Sounds (NPR)
Thanks Eva
Location unspecified.
Is it:
A. Note to Gardaí: Why belabour me? Concentrate your efforts on apprehending a rapist.
B. Note 2: Gourds. Why bet? Me go get a repast.
C. None of the above
(Thanks Sean)
Shot in 2012 by Thomas Hubener (most likely filming with the GoPro attached to him) this POV video shows a perfectly synchronised gymnastic rings duet (with fellow performer Raphaël Schulé in shot) .
[Enda Kenny and Frank Flannery at a Fine Gael think-in in 2008]
Mr Flannery’s future as director of elections for Fine Gael is also uncertain after it emerged he was paid to lobby the Government on behalf of Rehab.
Last night, Mr Flannery said he and Mr Kenny had already “had a chat” about all these matters – but he added that their discussions were private.
The former Rehab chief executive said all his work for Fine Gael was voluntary and he did not take a penny in expenses. He also insisted he has not received any direct communication from PAC requesting his attendance at its hearings.
Ger writes:
“I have total outrage fatigue at this stage but this is completely ridiculous. How do these fuppers sleep?.”
FG adviser to quit Rehab board as Enda Kenny seethes (Independent.ie)
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Sheila Larkin writes:
My sister bought these in Brooklyn yesterday… fertile green fields. Should they have not been “lovingly” hand picked, no? Just me then ;)
[Frank Watson and his twin brother Bill at Duffy’s Cut in Pennsylvania]
Reuters reports:
On a cold winter’s day, historian Bill Watson found himself standing in the snow, picking through the roots of an upturned stump near railroad tracks in a place now known as Duffy’s Cut.
The exposed roots once held in their grip buttons, human bones and old coffin nails – vital clues in a centuries-old unsolved mystery.
The stump, pulled up several years ago, stood over the final resting place of seven of 57 Irish laborers who perished at the railroad construction site in 1832, during an outbreak of cholera. Also found at the scene was a skull that had been pierced by a bullet and cleaved by a hatchet.
“It’s not just cholera,” said Watson, who with his twin brother and fellow historian, Frank Watson, is leading the excavation project to piece together what may turn out to be a grisly tale of anti-immigration violence from the 1800s.
For the last 10 years, the Watsons and their research team have struggled to find out what happened to the crew toiling under a boss named Philip Duffy, as they cut a swath through the heavily wooded terrain to lay train tracks about 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The brothers’ interest in the site began in 2002, when they discovered references to the immigrant laborers in a document file compiled nearly a century ago by Pennsylvania Railroad president Martin Clement and later kept by his personal assistant – the Watsons’ grandfather.
Those documents indicated that all 57 laborers, hired right off the boat from Ireland, died of cholera within six weeks of arrival. The number was far more than the eight deaths listed in local news accounts at the time.
While the cause appeared to be cholera, physical evidence uncovered at the scene also hinted at cruelty and murder, the Watson brothers said.
“We have no idea what percentage of these guys were murdered,” said Bill Watson, who chairs the history department at nearby Immaculata University. “But if we have 57, it’s the worst mass murder in Pennsylvania history.”
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The most likely scenario, the historians say, is that the labourers had been isolated because of the cholera outbreak but some of them broke quarantine and local residents, already angry that an influx of Irish labourers had suppressed wages, lashed out in a wave of anti-immigration violence.
Centuries-old mass grave of Irish laborers probed in Pennsylvania (Reuters)
Pic: Mustafah Abdulaziz for the Wall Street Journal
