It’s the question everyone (outside Tralee) is asking.
Why did Rozanna Purcell, above, a favourite to win Miss Universe, only end up with a top ten position?
After carefully analysing this handy slide-show, we are now satisfied that Rozanna’s decision to go the full `Krystal-orange’ was the fatal one.
Go on. Have a look if you don’t believe us.
Not you, Karl. Them.
The ‘readers’,
The Central Applications Office (CAO) will not investigate the cyber attack which crashed its website for several hours yesterday until after the second round offers are issued next month.
That’s The Irish Times. They don’t put cyber attack in inverted commas like we do.
“Cyber attack”.
That’s better.
Apparently the guards, if they got involved, would remove the CAO servers (they have no extra kit) thus rendering the second round an even bigger mess than yesterday.
Our web man Karl is still buying the CAO line. Others in the office are loudly snorting their incredulity.
“Hah,” said Nat, removing his socks.”They don’t want to waste police time on something they brought upon themselves. Idiots.”
So, CAO. Webtards or victims of a cruel denial-of-service dawn raid? You be the jury. Yes, you twelve.
CAO To Investigate Cyber Attack (Breaking News – Irish Times)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L0vQgkAQu0&feature=search
Going 100mph. The car broke into three.
Driver was on his way to a Glenn Hansard concert.
You’ve been listening to Liveline.
Seems the Taoiseach was having a cigarette in the stadium after the Dublin-Cork game on Sunday. Turns out he’s sitting in an open area not designated for smoking.
And a bloke called up Joe. Cowen’s office rang in to RTE to apologise.
‘It could have been another Bradford,” said nobody outside the stadium. A terrified passer by did not add: “You would have thought the leader of the country would know where to smoke.”
Still. It’s good to know he’s back on the cigs. We all are.
Either people are having babies or they’ve taken up smoking again.
In the Broadsheet office we’re back to the 30-day habit we ditched during the ‘golden years’. Karl, meanwhile, has been chewing the little gangsters ever since Larry Murphy’s release.
PS Cowen’s Choice of Cigarette? We’re thinking Carroll’s.
PPS We know that’s biscuit not a cigarette.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTW5R16x0IA
He’s an artist. A perfectionist. An auteur.
Knock him out cold with a sucker-punch to the temple.
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Ross Hamilton in Life, created by photographer Angela Halpin at Ardmore Studios, ostensibly for an album cover.
Think that looks tough. It took them eight hours to put it together. Watch the arduous process here.
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At St John the Baptist Church in Blackrock, Co Dublin. yesterday.
‘Renaissance Man’ Laid To Rest (Irish Times)
Tributes Pour In For Former Minister and Academic (Independent.ie)
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More of Brian Lenihan at Beal na mBlath (CLICK the ARROW). He says he’s feeling fine.
Well, at least he’s happier than Kevin.
To Venerate Collins Is To Exult In A Bloody Legacy Of Atrocity (Kevin Myers, Irish Independent)
From the Scotsman:
1. Sara Pascoe: “Why did the chicken commit suicide? To get to the other side.”
2. Sean Hughes (above): “You know city-centre beat officers… Well are they police who rap?”
3. Gyles Brandreth: “I’ve got nothing against lesbians. I mean, that’s the point isn’t it?”
4. Doc Brown: “I was born into the music industry. My dad worked in Our Price.”
5. John Luke Roberts: “I made a Battenberg where the two colours ran alongside each other. I called it apartheid sponge.”
6. Sarah Millican: “I bought a cross-trainer to keep fit. I suppose that it’s not enough to just buy it.”
7. Bec Hill: “Some of my best friends are vegan. They were going to come today but they didn’t have the energy to climb up the stairs.”
8. Dan Antopolski: “How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan.”
9. Andi Osho: “Floella Benjamin is in the House of Lords. How did she get in, through the round window?”
9. Gareth Richards: “My mother is always taking photographs of me – she said if you disappear tomorrow I want you to look good on the news.”
10. Emo Philips: “I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it’s hard to find 32 of them.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVoYgSJMmGA&feature=player_embedded
Her name’s Rita. She’s 26. That’s her in the You Tube. At last year’s Rose. The girl who has broken the hearts of every man, woman and child in Ireland.
Rose without trace.
Damn you, West Clare and New Jersey.
Rose Of Tralee Presenter Dating West Clare Girl (Clare Herald)
