The V6 Maserati G3.0 hearse – 6.62 (21.7ft) meters of supercar style to go out in..
From top: Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin 6; A Cheetah
‘sup?
A huge, exotic, hungry cat prowls Dublin 6.
Only Cecil can stop him.
Rarr.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
No one expects to meet a Big Cat in the leafy suburbs of south Dublin, but that’s what happened to Mr Cecil A. Graves at Grosvenor Square, Rathmines on March 3, 1913.
Mr Graves, described in contemporaneous news reports as a very important official in the Customs House, encountered the stray cheetah in the course of his evening constitutional.
Fortunately the customs official was also a man of action and – ably assisted in his defence by his loyal terrier – clubbed the feline interloper with a stick before stabbing it to death with his penknife.
No satisfactory explanation as to how a cheetah came to be prowling around Dublin 6 was ever forthcoming, although some suggested it might have been a pet of one of the soldiers stationed in nearby Portobello (now Cathal Brugha) Barracks.
The animal’s unclaimed carcass was ultimately appropriated by Mr Graves himself either as a trophy of the field or an illegal import. He subsequently sent it to a taxidermist to be stuffed.
The Natural History Museum in Merrion Square contains a very fine specimen of a cheetah. Perhaps it’s the same one?
Anyone?
Tales Of Old Dublin (Sibling of Daedalus)
Pics: Google Maps, pbase
The Bank Of England’s new plastic polymer five pound note, released last month, rigorously tested by this reviewer and used as a record stylus by Michael Ridge.
The just released trailer #2 for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Looking to be a proper spiritual successor to the original trilogy, now that the warm and fuzzies of The Force Awakens have subsided.
Tone Alone
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‘sup?
This afternoon.
Existential leprechaun at The Wolfe Tone Monument, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.
Lonely little fella.
Thanks Miss Thea
Uncanny
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Splutter!
Centra, Santry, County Dublin.
Don Reilly writes:
8 cans for €10, or 8 for €13.50!
Hic.
Announced earlier this year, Nintendo’s re-releases its iconic NES videogame console next month.
Packed with 8-bit classics like the Super Mario Bros trilogy, the first Zelda, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong and more, the console has been bumped up to HD, and allows for instant game-saving, a nod to the old-school difficulty of the games.
Avaiable for pre-order now at various game shops for €65-70.
BONUS:
A split-screen comparison of gameplay on the original NES and the new box.
Should you find that NEScessary.
NEScessary.
Suit yourselves.
Below are three clips are from a forthcoming documentary by Gemma O’Doherty about the 1985 death of Fr Niall Molloy in Kilcoursey House in Clare, Co Offaly – the home of Richard and Therese Flynn – and the subsequent cover-up of same.
Fr Molloy died at the house on the day after the wedding of the Flynns’ daughter Maureen to Ralph Parkes.
The first clip is of Gerry North, a neighbour of the Flynns, describing how a witness in the case told him gardai wrote his witness statement.
The second is of another neighbour of the Flynns, Brian Sheridan, who speaks about the close relationship between Fianna Fáil minister Brian Lenihan Snr and the Flynns,
In the third clip, former Garda sergeant Kevin Forde of Clara, Co Offaly, who was the first officer on the scene at the murder of Fr Niall Molloy at a mansion in Clara in 1985, describes his concerns about how the murder case was handled. The case was soon taken over by his Dublin superiors.
“‘There were two guards there to interview me’. He said ‘I was absolutely scared’, he said, going in. ‘Never had been in for an interview before in my life’ which he hadn’t and he said ‘I was scared’. And he said ‘but when I got there, I realised the two guards were more nervous than I was, in case of what I’d say’. And he said, ‘basically what happened was they told me what to say, I repeated it and they wrote it down’.
“He said it was very short and ‘I was never asked any awkward questions or anything like’ just, he said, ‘they kind of said, is this what happened and is this what happened and is this what happened and I said “yes”. And I repeated it he said and they wrote it down and that was it’.
“So I said to him one day, ‘so, 95% of what’s in that, you were told?’. ‘Oh yeah’, he said, ‘95%’. So basically, you’d to kind of add it up, the only thing that was the truth maybe, or that he had put into it, his name and address.”
Gerry North.
“I can still see Brian Lenihan swinging in a hammock and a big smile on him and I remember him going in, we were at the bar, and he made some comment, he couldn’t get a pint, so he went in and pulled his own pint which showed how friendly he was with the Flynn’s. He just wasn’t a wedding guest, he was part of the furniture. So, you know, he was always in and out of Flynn’s.”
Brian Sheridan
“I had concerns about the investigation because when I learned that neighbours hadn’t been called to, no enquiries had been made, say house-to-house enquiries and so forth – that, that concerned me.”
Former Garda Sergeant Kevin Forde
The Fr Niall Molloy documentary will be broadcast on YouTube, where Ms O’Doherty’s previous documentary Mary Boyle: The Untold Story (2016) has garnered 200,000 views.
Previously: The Father Of All Cover-ups
Rest Well
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Michiyo Yasuda, former head of colouration at legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, has passed away at the age of 77.
Responsible for the palette and mood of nearly four decades of award-winning feature-films and shorts, Yasuda had been working with studio heads Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata since her youth, first as a rank-and-file colourist at Toei Animation, then joining the pair at their start-up, where she stayed until her retirement in 2009, after final film Ponyo.