Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum

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Economist David McWilliams

 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Give him a shovel and he might complete a ghost estate.

David McDreamy writes:

My daughter suggested that maybe a good thing would be to give the Syrians the tools to complete these houses that were half-built. This doesn’t sound preposterous. After all, Japanese women rebuilt much of urban Japan with rudimentary tools after the Second World War…

Let the homeless refugees breathe new life into our ghost estates (David McWilliams)

Earlier: A Spin Out Of Crisis

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Model Rosanna Davison and husband Wesley Quirke at Electric Picnic 2015

Further to the recent brouhaha surrounding Rosanna Davison’s thoughts on cleaner living.

Lois writes:

Can Rosanna the vegan drink cider and what about the Wes low carb cure …sugar it can’t be…

FIGHT!

Electric Picnic 2015: Lights go out on dazzling weekend of music and fun (Irish Mirror)

Some people are in the stands….they think it hasn’t started.

A sparsely-populated  Aviva Lansdowne Road, Dublin this evening for the Euro 2016 qualifier against Georgia.

Update:

Republic of Ireland 1 Georgia 0

Game on.

*Dearg Doom guitar break*

Ireland Vs Georgia, Live blog (BBC)

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Last night.

From left: Ireland Rugby head coach Joe Schmidt, Olly Hodges [IRFU Leisure Rugby Manager]  and South African-born Irish international rugby player and Richard Strauss.

All became Oirish citizens at a ceremony in Dublin.

Comin’ up here, takin’ our jobs, makin’ us better at rugby etc.
Citizen Schmidt: Ireland rugby coach now one of our own (Irish Times)

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This is a spoon.

Celtic supporter’s ‘safe cutlery’ rejoinder to Turkish football fan chilling ‘Welcome To The Hell’ blade threat photo horror.

Any excuse

Celtic supporters mock Fenerbahce fans’ threatening ‘knife’ pictures with their own versions – featuring spoons and bananas (Independent.co.uk)

Thanks Monolo

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NO REPRO FEE FEE. 1/9/2015. Fighting for the popcorn Models Jenny Jonhson (Kilkenny City ) and Leah Tiernan (Knocknacarra Galway) wear their county colours at ODEON Point Village to celebrate ODEON Cinemas partnership with the GAA to screen the All Ireland Hurling final this Sunday 6th September. FREE tickets for this iconic Irish sporting event are available online now at GAA.tickets.ie. Photo: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland.

 

Stop that.

Models Jenny Johnson (from Kilkenny City) and Leah Tiernan (from Knocknacarra, Co Galway) become embroiled in a senseless, possibly staged popcorn melee to promote the FREE live screening of the All-Ireland hurling final in Odeon cinemas around Ireland this Sunday.

Bring your county colours/denim hot pants/hair extensions/whatnot.

Tickets here

(Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie)