YIIIIKES!
Don Reilly writes:
Any broadsheet readers have any scary Santa photos? It’s not a competition ’til you say so..This is me with Gulag Santa, Switzer’s [Grafton Street, Dublin 2] circa 1970….
Have you a terrifying memory of a department store Santa Claus? Santa and you to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Santa And me’.
International idioms illustrated by Paul Blow for Viking Direct.
Phrases From all Over The World (VikingDirect)
Thanks Charlotte
Ah here.
This morning.
Emma Jane Morrissey writes:
New Central Bank on North Wall Quay/ former Anglo Building is gold plated. A bit alarming , no?
FIGHT!
Puca writes:
Walking my dog on extension lead in Sandymount [Dublin 4] yesterday evening and my dog was about 10 ft behind me (sniffing railings) and suddenly some guy comes jogging up from behind with a dog also on a lead. T
he two dogs snarl at bare teeth at each other. I immediately rein my dog in and apologise but the bearded jogger stops and asks
“What’s that about?”
I said I didn’t see them approaching from behind and apologised again but he persists
“What’s that about?”
When I say that I have already apologised and that he seems to be implying it was an intentional manoeuvre by me, he comes back with:
“Your dog attacked mine, I’m entitled to give you grief”
As if it’s a contract I have unwittingly signed. After some handbags, it all ended with his pithy:
“Oh fuck off.”
As he jogged away.
The encounter itself was mildly diverting, but his language describing his entitlement to give grief (as if I had not read the Ts & Cs of dog walking) was illuminating.
Have the unwritten rules of the social contract been replaced with an actual contract (entitlements and all)?
Anyone?
Rollingnews
Save Poolbeg
Before (top) and last night (above)
The Four Courts Luas stop.
A regular haunt for rough sleepers.
Mark Malone writes:
How will you remember 1916? By locking out the homeless from getting some shelter seems to be Dublin City Council’s answer.
Bottom pic via Stew Red
Meanwhile…
Why is this private company removing sleeping bags from homeless people in Dublin? @DublinTown They say “We are Dublin Town” #NotInMyName
— Paula Geraghty (@paulageraghty) December 7, 2016
Meanwhile…
In Temple Bar, A Tattoo Parlour Turns On An Anti-Homeless Sprinkler (Dublin Inquirer)
Bird’s Super Valu, in Beechmount Shopping Centre, Navan, Co Meath, writes:
Attention all customers! A very sad thing happened in our store last Friday, December 2, someone stole our Santa letter box!
We are worried that as a result those letters won’t reach Santa, so if all our customers can SHARE THIS POST so that the parents can resubmit their children’s letters. It is a very sad day here at Super Valu Beechmount 😢
Ah.
Here.
Santa’s letter box stolen from Beechmount (Meath Chronicle)
H/P: Kevin Jenkinson
‘sup?
On the hunt for a stocking filler for a young ‘un?
Ross McDonagh writes:
May I please suggest my debut children’s book – The Curious Fox – as an Irish made stocking filler? It tells the story of a fox cub who wakes one morning with a question on his mind:
‘I wonder if I have a feature / that sets me ‘part from other creatures?’
He goes on a journey and meets an array of animals as he tries to figure out what makes him special in the world, and learns some very important lessons at the end of an eye-opening day (with help from his Irish mammy, of course!)
I’m from Dublin, as is the book’s illustrator Conor O’Brien. It is published by Veritas and printed in Cork and available in Eason’s and Veritas stores, or online on Amazon or Veritas online.. Thank you
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’
Greyhound Clares Rocket receives the Doire Construction Champion Stakes Trophy
Some bright spark thought he’d line his pocket
By stealing a dog called Clares Rocket
To cut to the chase
He’s got egg on his face
And his name’s on a Circuit Court docket.
John Moynes
Pic: Riverside Kennels
Former Irish swimming coach George Gibney
Further to yesterday’s post about how the US attorney’s office and American journalist Irvin Muchnick’s attorney Roy Gordet both asked US District Judge Charles Breyer to issue his final and binding order – in relation to Mr Muchnick’s efforts to obtain 20 documents, or 43 pages, of former Irish swimming coach George Gibney’s US immigration file…
Readers will recall how all previous requests by Mr Muchnick yielded only parts of this file with some pages redacted.
Gibney was charged with 27 counts of indecency against young swimmers and of carnal knowledge of girls under the age of 15 in April, 1993 – but sought and won a High Court judicial review in 1994 that quashed all the charges against him.
The judicial review was secured following a landmark Supreme Court decision – after which Gibney left Ireland for Scotland and then Florida.
Further to this…
This morning, Irvin Muchnick writes:
US District Court Judge Charles Breyer has issued a final order in Concussion Inc.’s favour in Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security – our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for hitherto redacted United States Citizenship and Immigration Services files on the visa history of former Irish Olympic swimming head coach George Gibney.
The court’s action came a mere 24 hours after the federal government informed Judge Breyer that it had decided not to take up his suggestion, in a tentative order on November 2, to release certain portions of the remaining disputed 20 documents covering 43 pages.
As noted here yesterday, the next legal step is the government’s decision on whether to comply with the order or appeal it to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Breyer’s new 10-page order is virtually identical to the 11-page one last month, which can be viewed here. The only difference is in the conclusion language, which reflects the shift from “tentative” to “final.” Here is the language:
“DHS is ORDERED to disclose substantive information contained in the A-File about Gibney’s alleged crimes, decisions about immigration benefits he sought, and the dates any documents containing such information were created.
“DHS may continue to withhold identifying information about third parties other than Gibney, as well as Gibney’s past addresses, salary history, A-number, and the like. It may also continue to withhold portions of documents revealing the investigative procedures used to obtain information about Gibney, but not the information itself.
“Based on the foregoing, DHS has properly redacted or withheld some documents but not others. The Court has separated those two categories and highlighted what DHS must disclose to comply with this order.”
Previously: Bringing The Truth Home
The Chief Justice, Her Brother And How George Gibney Got Away
