In 1962.

Santa arrives on Dublin’s River Liffey on a Jet Ski-like thingamajig, as recorded by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann, Ireland’s longest-running indigenous newsreel series.

Watch clip of Santa’s arrival and scenes from Dublin’s Moore Street and Henry Street during Christmas in 1962 here.

Mmf.

The Gael Linn Collection

Via Irish Film Institute

 

Behold: the 1995 Ferrari F50 Berlinetta Prototipo – successor to the F40 and the showpiece of Ferrari’s F1 know-how in street legal form.

Twenty five years ago, this windswept, carbon fibre, 500bhp, 4.7-litre, V12 racer had a top speed of 325km/h, accelerating from 0-100km/h in 3.9 seconds.

349 were made but this was the first.

Fully documented and road tested by a succession of Ferrari drivers including Niki Lauda, it’s up for auction next month.

uncrate

“Well, if Fine Gael sought to silence her, we well and truly failed – I think is the first thing to say.

“And I think the second thing to say is the decision to deselect her is looking better by the moment.”

Health Minister Simon Harris commenting on deselected Fine Gael Wexford candidate Verona Murphy’s most recent comments.

Earlier:

A roadside Verona Murphy Poster in Wexford during the recent by-election

This morning.

Deselected Fine Gael Wexford candidate Verona Murphy gave an interview to South East Radio’s Morning Mix.

Via Independent.ie:

She said she was silenced by the party and subject to a media ban in the final days of her recent by-election campaign.

Speaking to South East Radio on Thursday, Ms Murphy said she had raised the issue of migrants as a security issue. “I apologise for the words I use. I stand over the fact it is a security issue,” she said.

In her unsuccessful by-election campaign, Ms Murphy said asylum seekers coming to Ireland have to be “deprogrammed” as they “carry angst” and may have been “infiltrated” by Isil. She also claimed that children as young as three were being “manipulated” by Isil.

Ms Murphy said that in her role as president of the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) she was at the “coalface” of the issue of migrants trying to get into the country.

She said she had attended security briefings from MI5 and Interpol on the issue of migration. “I doubt anybody in Dáil has as much experience of the migrant issue as I have,” she said.

Now watch me migrate to the far right

Listen back here

‘Do we have to wait to have a London Bridge incident on Wexford bridge?’ – Verona Murphy insists she’s not a racist (Independent.ie)

Verona Murphy to decide on future as general election independent candidate (RTÉ)

Lisa Smith

Not social media.

Heartless bastards.

Via RTÉ:

Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith, who is facing trial accused of ISIS membership, has been granted bail with strict conditions including an internet and social media ban.

The former soldier, who left Ireland and married after she converted to Islam, was located in a Syrian refugee camp, and after a trek to Turkey with her two-year-old daughter, she was brought back to Ireland on 1 December.

However, on arrival she was arrested and questioned for three days before she was charged with being a member of the middle-eastern terror group.

Lisa Smith is granted bail, release expected tomorrow (RTÉ)

Pic: RTÉ

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Now this is just beautiful.

A stunning duet between the former An Emotional Fish frontman (top right) and Wexford-born songstress Wallis Bird (top left) in honour of the late, great Daniel Johnston who died earlier this year.

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Four Courts, Dublin

This afternoon.

Mary Carolan, in The Irish Times, reports:

“A separated father of three with joint custody and access rights has won a significant Supreme Court appeal over Dublin City Council’s categorisation of him on its housing list as a one-person household.

“…The five judge court’s unanimous ruling has implications for more than 800 separated persons in similar situations on the council’s housing list who were treated as single person households, meaning a lower Housing Assistant Payment (HAP), after their former partner was categorised as a larger household with a larger HAP.

“…The children stay with their father three nights weekly in his one bed apartment and spend the other four nights with their mother in a larger unit.

“He gets €990 monthly Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), a single person’s rate while she gets a larger HAP as a separated mother.”

Separated father wins Supreme Court appeal on housing support (Mary Carolan, The Irish Times)

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