Category Archives: Slide Shows

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It’s like the Guinness Christmas ad.

If the Guinness Christmas ad made your feet wet and stopped you getting home.

Back at 9am.

(Comment lines Remain Open Throughout The Night)

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Sandymount and Artane.

Because nothing says festive season like a whopping great ESB bill.

In 2006, our houses looked like this all year round.

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Mary! Her brother Thomas! RTE’s Brenda O’Donoghue! Mary’s daughter Debbie! Tescos! Xpose! Checkout number six!

Recriminations and finger-pointing will have to wait another day.

This afternoon, Ballyfermot welcomed home Mary Byrne.

Heart-gladdening.

Special shout-out to Margaret Stanton, of Ballyfermot, below, who was up till all hours last night making her glasses. Worth it though.

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(Yes, it’s pretty dull)

With almost three quarters of the votes cast in the Donegal South West by-election counted, tallies show Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty has a significant lead.

Significant, there’s a word.

The likely winner should be known from unofficial tallies by lunchtime with a final official result due in the late afternoon or evening. Counting is taking place in the Finn Valley Athletics Club in Stranorlar.

Initial results, with 72 per cent of boxes opened, show the Sinn Féin candidate on 39.8 per cent, Fianna Fáil candidate Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill on 21.5 per cent and Fine Gael’s Barry O’Neill on 18.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, on waste ground near Stranorlar A.C., a flock of starlings squabble over a dropped crisp.

Doherty Ahead In Donegal Count (Irish Times)

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Casper Ryan, from Sandycove. Don’t wake him. We’ve only just got him off.

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Morgan C Jones! Dermot Carmody! Des Bishop! Other People! Giving the Dail the silent treatment literally about an hour and a half ago.

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What a day.

Thursday, apparently.

Embattled gombeen men, cute babies, Joe Higgins, Colm McCarthy, IBEC-heads, a scary sequence of shots of the IMF’s Ajai Chopra, Japanese media, homeless people (poignantly) begging, a man reading the Irish Independent, cops, crazies and lots and lots of camera people.

All human life. Here it is:

The definitive gallery of a country gone ‘rogue’.

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MIRIAM! KOSTER! MACARI! ROCHE! PIPPA! DALY! FITZPATRICK! THE PERSON PLAYING THE ROLE OF BEAUTY!

They’re all starring in Alan Hughes’ panto. Each performance will have a different celebrity.

Take that, Brussels.

Hoorah.

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EXPLOSIVE

* Daniel O’Donnell did not seem to want to flirt with me at all.

TELLING

* The day Keith Duffy told me he was a bit sad.

PROVOCATIVE

* Danni Minogue was Australian.

INTIMATE

* My stand up row with people I can’t name.

BRAVE

* AA Roadwatch was a constant source of traffic news.

HONEST

I quit television to spend more time with my money.

Includes incredible Lorraine through the years slide-show (below)

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