Inspired by Colin Morris’s Sankey visualisation denoting common misspellings of the name Gyllenhaal (top),  The Pudding has created an interactive spelling bee for other commonly misspelled names including Alanis M-, B- Spears and Chuck P-.

Test your celebrity spelling chops here.

Previously: Gylenhal?

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He kept his yokes down under,

For personal use.

Via The Sydney Morning Herald:

An Irish tourist found with 10 MDMA capsules at a Parramatta music festival on Sunday has escaped conviction after he argued the party drug is “not strong enough” in Australia and all of the pills were for his personal use.

David Crean, 32, was arrested at the Ultra Music festival and charged with supplying a prohibited drug after a sniffer dog sat down next to him when he entered Parramatta Park at about 1.45pm.

According to police facts, Mr Crean – who is in Australia on a two-week holiday – was “nervous” and “visibly shaking” when he was spoken to by police, and when an officer asked “be honest, do you have any drugs on you?”, he admitted he had drugs in his underwear.

Mr Crean told police he “did not intend on selling the capsules and planned on consuming all of them himself as the purity of MDMA in Australia is not strong enough”, the facts state.

In fairness.

‘Incredibly foolish’: men sentenced after being found with MDMA at Sydney music festival (SMH)

Thanks Darren C

Cruelty level: Demonic.

Previously: Vera and Ava Twomey on Broadsheet

Thanks Wicked Fairy Sad

This morning.

St Michan’s Church, Dublin.

Anglican Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson (shamone!) and Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin along with Garda Supt Pat Leahy inspect damage to the church’s crypt and to The Crusader, an 800-year-old mummified corpse who had its head decapitated by vandals.

More as we get it.

Monday: Mummy Loses Head

Rollingnews

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins

This morning.

In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court has found that the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee acted significantly outside of its terms of reference in its dealings with the former Chief Executive of the Rehab group, Angela Kerins.

The Court found it has the power to declare the Public Account Committee’s actions unlawful in the light of the fact that the committee was acting outside its remit and that a relevant Dáil committee had come to the same view. The High Court found the courts had no such power.

Supreme Court finds PAC acted outside remit in relation to former Rehab group CEO Angela Kerins (RTÉ)

Rollingnews

Um.

Modular home, anyone?

Ardbrae Park, Bray (MyHome)

Fun fact: The first Mobile Home Park in Ireland was opened at Ardbrae, Vevay Rd, Oldcourt, Bray in 1966, aimed at providing an ‘alternative way of living in an ideal location on a low budget’.

Previously: Behold: Ubershed






This morning.

Iveagh House, Dublin 2

Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney chairs a meeting of Brexit ‘stakeholders’.

More as we gzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Rollingnews

Seanad Eireann

Anon writes:

There are growing calls for all NUI graduates who have not registered for the Seanad elections to do so. Here’s the thing. I am a graduate of NUI – they awarded me a diploma (in absentia) and sent a very impressive conferring parchment by post.

The Constitution provides for Seanad seats to be elected by the graduates of NUI in a dedicated constituency.

It is silent as to whether the franchise is restricted to graduates awarded primary degrees, nor does it appear to mention recipients of postgrad awards. The NUI registration process however, requires the applicant to specify the details of the primary degree awarded.

This appears to be custom & practice within NUI rather than a stipulation mandated in the underlying legislation. Are there any constitutional lawyers in the house?

Anyone?

UPDATE:

Anon adds:

Answering my own question: 7.—(1) Every person who is a citizen of Ireland and has received a degree (other than an honorary degree) in the National University of Ireland and has attained the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the register of electors for the National University constituency. [Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937] Oh, well.

Fight!

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