Milverton, Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Grace Garvey writes:

My dream home, Milverton on Herbert Park, has been lying idle for four years now.

It was bought at auction in 2013 for €4.6 million by a solicitor on behalf of a mystery client and has been shuttered up since.

It’s a gorgeous Edwardian house that’s beginning to show some signs of neglect (The photo above doesn’t do it justice).

Anyone?

Empty gaffs to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Empty Gaffs’

From top: Yesterday’s London Evening Standard; tweet from spoof Daily Mail account

These attitude mirrors the conveyor belt of myths perpetuated against Scottish independence; subsidy junkies, Arc of Insolvency, Skintland etc etc, and it’s no surprise to see them wheeled out again against Ireland’s entirely legitimate issues about a hard border.

All of this is entirely consistent with the politics of Leave: blame foreigners, blame immigrants, blame Bureaucrats, blame anyone but take responsibility. The political narrative of false-grievance, exceptionalism and stoking resentment will however soon run its course.

The problem for Brexiteers and English xenophobes is that the Irish have been deeply embedded in European politics for a very long time, and whilst goodwill for the British is spent, Ireland has considerable allies who will support her.

Cogadh!

The Subsidy Junkies (Bella Caledonian, Don’t Read Everything You Believe)

Rude!

Ellot Loudermilk writes:

It’s back! No, not the leather jacketed man, the site that ensures you don’t have to put any thought into your Christmas shopping.

You’ve been kind enough to feature my site, Whatthefuckwilliget.com, on Broadsheet the last few years, so I’d be much appreciative if you’d share this again, lest anyone put actual thought into their presents.

What The Fupp Will I Get?

Archer Lars Anderson demonstrates the dark art of ‘uncentering’ an arrow on release to bend its flight.

Achieved by a combination of air resistance and a deliberately offset shooting technique, the trick can send arrows around corners, over obstacles and even – with a sufficient headwind – right back to the archer.

awesomer

Ciaran Tierney writes:

Galway City Council want to bring in new bye-laws to regulate busking in the city centre and buskers say they are vague, restrictive, and unenforceable. In recent weeks, a war of words seems to have opened up in the local media between the buskers and the city centre traders, who rightly point out that they pay rates and that they shouldn’t have to listen to terrlble cover versions being blasted out through amplified sound systems every day. How did it come to this? That a city famed for its culture and vibrant street life, despite enduring so much rainfall, could be on the verge of losing the wonderful street entertainment which has helped spread Galway’s popularity all across the globe. The buskers are angry.

READ ON: The Great Galway Busker War Of 2017 (Ciaran Tierney Blogspot)

Last night.

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Dustin the Turkey is ‘pardoned’ by Reece Smyth, Chargé d’Affaires at the United States embassy, at a Thanksgiving Reception at the US Ambassador’s residence.

On the last Thursday in November, the US President grants last minute clemency to a hand-selected turkey, sparing the bird from someone’s Thanksgiving dinner table.

Dustin time, you might say.

We’ll see ourselves out.

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

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