Dubliner Joe Fitzpatrick at the 50th anniversary of the ‘Niemba Ambush’ at Cathal Brugha barracks yesterday.
The attack cost the lives of nine Irish soldiers working in the Congo for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.
Joe, now 70, from Cabra was one of just two survivors on the day.
Irish Can Be Proud Of Mission To Congo (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)
The Irish Army In The Congo: The Far Battalions. Review (History Ireland)
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It’s a ‘The Facebook’ Face-Off
Broadsheet.ie: 271
Queen (Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland): 62,959
Queen (rock band): 5,733,556
Hats off to Freddie, Brian May, etc.
The Queen Joins Facebook – 40,000 ‘Likes’ In One Hour (Telegraph)
Edison Peña, one of the 33 Chilean miners rescued a few weeks ago after being trapped following a mine collapse, spent many of his 69 days underground, running. He did loops of three to six miles a day in sawed-off steel-toed boots, and when he was finally taken above ground he stated his intent to race in the New York City Marathon.
Race organizers figured they’d fly him up as a special guest, but Peña insisted on racing. He wanted to finish in under six hours, and the Marathon officials, fearing for the health of a guy who’d never run a marathon before—and who, lest you forget, had just spend two and a half months underground—pushed him to walk as much as he needed. But Peña ran most of it, completing the first half in around two hours and finishing the entire race in five hours, 40 minutes and 51 seconds.
Respect. Fist bump.
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Does Conan’s New Print Ad Mark The Peak Of Owls (EW.com)
August 1 (Sunday Tribune): We are NOT!
November 5 (Irish Times): We are HOT!
In previous posts, (Irish Times Typo Shame, Irish Times Glaring Typo Fixed (Replaced By Even More Glaring Typo), Top 10 Irish Times Typos of The Last 10 Weeks, etc, etc.) Broadsheet may have given the impression that we thought standards were slipping at the Irish Times. Nothing could be further from the truth.
We also may have alluded to the paper’s central role in the fraudulent promotion of the property industry in Ireland (and its subsequent attempt to control same) during the boom. This was an error on our part.
Finally, our disgust at the €1 million payoff to former MD, Maeve Donovon (and Madam’s current €300,000-plus salary) – as wages at the paper are being slashed and staff let go – was mere sour grapes.
We may be hot but we also know how to say sorry.
This is:
“The gathering mortgage crisis puts Ireland on the cusp of a social conflict on the scale of the Land War, but with one crucial difference. Whereas the Land War faced tenant farmers against a relative handful of mostly foreign landlords, the looming Mortgage War will pit recent house buyers against the majority of families who feel they worked hard and made sacrifices to pay off their mortgages, or else decided not to buy during the bubble, and who think those with mortgages should be made to pay them off. Any relief to struggling mortgage-holders will come not out of bank profits – there is no longer any such thing – but from the pockets of other taxpayers.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH2ABLVu1is&feature=player_embedded#!
TRAVEL EXPENSES relating to Údarás na Gaeltachta outlined in media reports were “reading like a mini-Fás”, the Dáil’s Committee of Public Accounts heard yesterday. Committee chairman Bernard Allen of Fine Gael said senior officials from the State agency for Gaeltacht development had travelled to destinations including Las Vegas, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
TD Compares Gaeltacht Body’s Travel Expenses To Mini Fas (Irish Times)
VIDEO: An Crisis (TG4), where a globetrotting Sean Nos singer reveals the true extent of her business empire.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjckqAU8IkM&feature=player_embedded
Get thee to .50 secs.
The government is giving away cheese because…
(The pun line closes at 3.30pm).
Along with a packet of Easi Singles, the top THREE winners will have their winning entry used as a meme for the 3.45pm posting.
Do your worst.
Well, they do go a treat with wine.
People On The ‘Verge Of Despair’ (Irish Times)
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