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Postcards from the edge of town.

Send lawyers, guns and money.

From top: Carlow, Bray and Lucan transformed Tallaghtfornia-style by sun-kissed designer Gavin Beattie.

Further Irish placename postcard suggestions welcome below.

Gavin Beattie

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 From top: Today’s Ireland edition of The Times; the proposed hotel viewed from South Street, Dublin 8

BAM properties will use an ‘inverted hotel model’ where the reception area is switched to the top floor and the rooms are located underneath for the eight storey, 202 bed hotel.

Hey at least Denis isn’t involved.

Oh…

The Times (Ireland Edition)

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The new Google campus in Madrid occupies a former five-storey 19th century battery factory in the city designed by London based Jump Studios.

Inside – as you’d expect – modular work spaces, meeting rooms, a cafeteria and a 200 capacity auditorium for the campus’s 7000 staff.

Oh, they’ll be sick as pikes down in Grand Canal Dock.

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Oh.

Dublin City Council hoarding this afternoon.

Snapsnap writes:

Just ask Paddy…

Meanwhile…

tomandbatman

‘sup?

This afternoon

Meath Farmer, pumpkin magnate and – how does he find the time? – Broadsheet social media manager Tom ‘Dylan’ Dillon (left) with hay-stuffed (by his own hand) teddy superhero which will be in the showgrounds of the RDS for the duration of the Web Summit.

Why not sit on him and have a real strawman argument?

And then have a look at the teddy.

*chuckle*

Meanwhile…
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Anon writes:

Handed out as I was leaving at the RDS…Probably a start up.

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