Shot from below, as if flying through the air, a school of blue silversides swims through mangrove trees on a coral reef off Cuba.
The image, captured by underwater photographers David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes was one of National Geographic’s Best Photos Of 2016.
If you must watch an over-the-top, grid-bothering, wub-wub-wub Xmas Lightstravaganza, make it the Johnson Family Dubstep EDM Christmas Light Show.
They have a drone.
Namawinelake tweetz:
How the other half (or 0.0001%) live – inside Wilbur Ross’s New York apartment. 1/2 of Wilbur’s wealth came from Bank of Ireland…
171 West 57th Street $18,500,000 for sale (Street Easy)
Previously: Wilbur Ross on Broadsheet
Farming emojis.
For all your farming emoji needs.
Aisling Hussey, of Irish Farmers Journal, writes:
The Irish Farmers Journal is very excited to launch Farmoji, a new app which brings farming to life.
From farm animals to machinery, Farmoji contains over 100 detailed agri-themed stickers that convey everything farmers love about agriculture.
Farmojis range from humorous images to practical farming tools, images of farmers at work and word bubbles with a number of well-known farming phrases from ‘Hit the Diff’, ‘Rippin’ and Tearin’ like an Auld Shirt’ and ‘It’s too Cold to Snow’.
Yay!
You can download Farmoji for an Android here and for an iPhone here
Irish Farmers Journal launches Farmoji app (Irish Farmers Journal)
A letter of complaint sent by Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin to RTÉ last night.
Following that Claire Byrne Live show concerning refugees crossing the Mediterranean.
Earlier: A Rigorous Screening Process
Red Flag offices on Ely Place, Dublin 2; Denis O’Brien; Karl Brophy, of Red Flag
You may recall Denis O’Brien’s action against communications company Red Flag Consultancy – claiming the group was involved in a conspiracy against him.
Further to this…
The Irish Times reports:
Denis O’Brien has failed to get court orders directing Red Flag Consulting to disclose documents that would reveal the identity of its client for a dossier of material about the businessman.
…The dossier, which Mr O’Brien said arrived at his Dublin offices in October 2015 on a USB memory stick contained in an unstamped envelope, includes some 80 media reports and other material, including a document entitled: “Who is Denis O’Brien?” and “The Moriarty Tribunal Explainer”.
…However, Mr O’Brien was entitled to documents relating to communications between Red Flag and its client concerning the dossier with the client’s name redacted, the judge ruled. Such documents were likely to reveal the nature of the relationship between Red Flag and its client and were relevant because Red Flag’s motivation in preparing the dossier was an issue.
Meanwhile…
Mark Tighe tweetz:
Par 34 of High Court ruling in Denis O’Brien vs Red Flag says O’Brien needed to provide more evidence about how he got USB stick.
Denis O’Brien fails to get orders identifying Red Flag’s client for dossier (The Irish Times)
Previously: They All Have It Infamy
New York advertising/marketing agency sparks&honey’s A-Z Cultural Glossary 2017.
Intersectionality.
Millennial Fatigue.
Waste Bullying.
They’re all here.
From top: National Library of Ireland staff with winners; Minister for Arts Heather Humphreys, Director of the National Library of Ireland Sandra Collins and Broadsheet’s Olga Cronin; Aaron McAllorum and Olga
This afternoon.
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
A presentation by Arts Minister Heather Humphreys to the websites that best reflected the events of 1916 and recorded life in Ireland in 2016.
Are we hot?
Orla Sweeney, of the National Library of Ireland, writes:
As part of Remembering 1916, Recording 2016, our largest web archiving project to date, we reflected the participatory nature of this year by asking people to nominate websites that best remember the events of 1916 and also those that best record Irish life in 2016.
The public nominated your site as one of the five key websites in Ireland that record life in Ireland in 2016. Your website, along with Rabble.ie, TheJournal.ie, Waterford Whispers and The Irish Times will be archived and preserved in the National Library of Ireland’s web archive. It is important that we preserve a record of the online life of Ireland for future generations.
Aaron McAllorum (sports editor) and Olga Cronin (chief correspondent), both of this parish, nipped out during lunch to collect the certificate, (dedicated to all Broadsheet commenters) meet the library’s lovely staff and bring back some overdue books.
Thank you all.
Mmf.
