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What if Joyce had never met Nora?

What if Roy Keane had gone back to Saipan?

What if acclaimed artist Annie West created a buke around these and other What Ifs?

And what if Annie did this with a host of glittering essayists?

What If? (New Island Press) is a new compendium of elegantly fun drawings by Annie and alternative endings to famous stories “bringing to life an imaginary world turned upside down”.

Includes essays from Liz Buckley, Turtle Bunbury, Dr Dean Burnett, Charlie Connelly, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Robert Cullen, Barry Devlin, Myles Dungan, Tara Flynn, Tom Foley,  Jim Lockhart, Declan Lynch, Cathal MacCoille, David McCullagh, Dearbhail McDonald, Frank McNally, Feargal Murphy, Sheila O’Malley, Lorna Siggins, Colm Tobin and ‘sheet ricksmith John Moynes.

In all good bookshops NOW.

Available to order online here

Or at Amazon here

Annie West

Irish made Xmas sticking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked Irish Made Stocking Fillers

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Sea-Watch rescue reports:

An intervention by a speedboat, labelled as Libyan Coast Guard, during one of today’s rescue operations caused several deaths today in the Central Med, 14nm off Libya.

During our first-aid delivery for a rubber boat with approximately 150 migrants on board, a Libyan Coast Guard vessel arrived and attacked the refugees, entering the rubber boat and hitting them with sticks.

Our two speed boats were furthermore beset aggressively, preventing our crew from further providing life vests and medical aid to the people in need.

The violent intervention of the Libyan Coast Guard caused a situation of mass panic on board the rubber boat in distress, in the cause one tube of the rubber boat collapsed, causing the majority of the 150 people to slip into the water.

Our crew immediately tried to rescue as many as possible but a binary number of people could not be saved. 4 bodies were recovered onto the Sea-Watch 2, another 4 unconscious people are currently receiving medical treatment. 120 refugees could be rescued aboard our vessel.

This latest incident of alleged Libyan official units endangered not only the crew of rescue volunteers but moreover caused the death of many migrants. By now it is very unclear why Libyan Coast Guard engaged the way it did. Sea-Watch calls for an immediate and detailed solution of this violation of humanitarian law.

The crew of the Sea-Watch 2 is presently still engaged in rescue operations of multiple refugee boats in distress, all staff is working at capacity. Additional information is being assessed and will be provided in the cause of the day.

Via: Libyan Coast Guard attack on Sea-Watch rescue operation causes multiple dead (Nando Sigona)

‘Libyan Coast Guard’ craft attacks migrant boat, at least four dead: Sea Watch NGO (Reuters)

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Earlier: ‘Who Is “We”? What Constituency Do You Represent?’

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This afternoon.

Brown Thomas, on Grafton Street, launches its annual Christmas window display with help from Chloe Collins, aged 8 from Castleknock (above) and Ciaran Bass, head concierge at Brown Thomas, and Dylan Hamilton, aged 3 from Sandymount (third picture down).

Leon Farrell writes:

With just 64 days until Christmas Day, the Grafton Street store has today unveiled its festive windows featuring more than 10,000 decorations, 7,000 baubles, a mile of green foliage and more than 1 million lights. This year’s Christmas window theme pays homage to the nostalgic scenes from the traditional Christmas greeting card.

64 DAYS!

Ugh

Mmf.

Pics: Leon Farrell/Rollingnews

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The Guardian reports:

A man approaches a bicycle, handheld electric saw at the ready. He powers it on, starts to drill, and is shot in the face with a noxious spray that makes him vomit uncontrollably. This is the dream of the inventors of SkunkLock.

“Basically we were fed up with thefts,” said Daniel Idzkowski (top left) from San Francisco, one of the inventors of SkunkLock.

…With his co-inventor, Yves Perrenoud (top right), Idzkowski created a U-shaped lock of carbon and steel with a hollow chamber to hold one of three pressurized gases of their own concoction, including one called “formula D_1”. When someone cuts about 30% of the way into the lock, Idzkowski said, the gas erupts in the direction of the gash.

“It’s pretty much immediately vomit inducing, causes difficulty breathing,” Idzkowski said. “A lot of similar symptoms to pepper spray.”

Bike lock developed that makes thieves immediately vomit (The Guardian)

Thanks John Gallen and Bertie Blenkinsop

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

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