Yearly Archives: 2014

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Scenes from Kiev in The Ukraine, from last night and this morning.

Bloomberg reports:

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych threatened to crack down on anti-government protesters after the bloodiest clashes in the country’s three-month standoff killed at least 25 people.
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Yanukovych, backed by Russia, is seeking to end the crisis that has destabilized the country of 45 million. Activists last night repelled a police attempt to clear their main protest camp in central Kiev. Hundreds remained on Independence Square this morning, including reinforcements from the western city of Lviv, with squadrons of police ringing their burning barricades.
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The opposition is seeking to overturn constitutional changes that strengthened Yanukovych’s powers and to put Ukraine on a path toward EU membership. The standoff began on Nov. 21, when Yanukovych pulled out of a free-trade deal with the EU, opting instead for President Vladimir Putin’s offer of $15 billion of aid and cheaper gas.

Ukraine President Threatens Opposition Amid Civil War Warning (Bloomberg)

Pics via Fútbol Espanol, France 24, AFP Photo, Lord Guevanister, Carles Vinas, Uriks.no, TFHC Saunders

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Justice Minister Alan Shatter will appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions today in relation to the GSOC bugging affair at 4pm.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson, who created the placards above, is organising a protest outside the Dáil at this time.

He says:

“It’s to support GSOC’s Simon O’Brien, Kieran Fitzgerald and to express a total lack of confidence and trust in Alan Shatter and Martin Callinan. It’s also to highlight the abuse of numerous people by certain gardaí.”

Earlier: Putting It On Rits

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An email to members of Adare Golf Club this morning:

“We have lost approximately 200 trees on the property, many of them hundreds of years old and the landscape has certainly changed a little when looking across the Resort. On the golf course we have been extremely fortunate as we did not lose any of the trees which really define our holes or have major influence on how the hole is played…”

Who steals trees?

More as we get it.

Pic: Limerick.ie

Fight!

Previously: Francis repents

Nigel Owens?

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Casanus is a guest house a small island nestled between Antwerp and Ghent in Flanders – shaped like a lower colon and anus.

Created  by Belgian artist Joep Van Lieshout, subsequently renovated and relocated on the grounds of the Verbeke Foundation art park, you can stay there for €120 a night

boingboing/ripleys

(H/T: Temple Bar Denizen)