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Graeme Kelly writes:
I was being productive [ahem] on this site when I came across a grass path in Swaziland that Google had mapped… !
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The winning designs for the 2016 €2 coins to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.
The winning designs by Emmet Mullins (top) and Michael Guilfoyle (above) feature depictions of the statue of Hibernia, the “historic personification of Ireland”, on top of the GPO in Dublin and lettering from the proclamation rendered in Book of Kells styleee.
FIGHT!
(RollingNews.ie)
Harcourt Street, Dublin on Junior Cert results night last year.
The youngster who went out last night,
Failed to give the newspapers a fright,
Though some of their peers,
Got messy on beers,
Most made it back home all right.
John Moynes
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Jane Fogarty, of PawPawPawPaw, writes:
I know you don’t normally do this but I’m a young Dublin based artist and was hoping that you could promote my new venture into illustration. It came from a love of all pawed and non-pawed creatures. A nice gift for the animal lover in your life. They are vector images drawn on a graphics pad using Adobe Illustrator and printed on high quality paper. I would like to offer a free illustration to one of your readers. Personalised Pet Portrait Prize goes to a pet-owning reader with the most heart-tugging reason for needing a portrait of their pet..Just complete this sentence:
I really badly need a portrait of my pet owing to____________________________________
Lines MUST Close at 12 NOON 2.15pm
Update:
The winner is Claire: “I got my lad 11 years ago and have been without him for 3 now. After a good friend and my Granny passed away in the one week, my mam decided it would be a real comfort and I was elated that the petitions I had left around my gaf as a kid, pleading for one had come to fruition. It was the only thing I ever really wanted as a kid, and the one thing I was proud to introduce and say was all mine. He was the most loyal,placid,and compassionate fella. He was the one person that was always there regardless, sharing garlic cheese chips together at 4 in the morning,or just licking my face when I wasn’t myself. He was my best pal and carrying him in my arms lifeless and limp with his big brown eyes just about hanging in there, knowing he wasn’t coming home, was heartbreaking. He gets a mention in my house daily because he was so integral and such a character. One of these would look lovely in our kitchen for Buddy :)”
Thanks all.
Economist David McWilliams
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Give him a shovel and he might complete a ghost estate.
David McDreamy writes:
My daughter suggested that maybe a good thing would be to give the Syrians the tools to complete these houses that were half-built. This doesn’t sound preposterous. After all, Japanese women rebuilt much of urban Japan with rudimentary tools after the Second World War…
Let the homeless refugees breathe new life into our ghost estates (David McWilliams)
Earlier: A Spin Out Of Crisis
From left: Tanaiste and Labour Party Minister for Social Protestion Joan Burton with Fine Gael Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald and Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan at a media briefing following the special government Meeting on the EU Refugee Crisis.
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has said Ireland will welcome 4,000 refugees under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme.
However…
The figure includes the 600 people already committed to earlier this year under the proposed EU Relocation programme, and the 520 programme refugees currently being resettled to Ireland under a previously-agreed programme.
Ah.
Speaking following a special Cabinet meeting this morning, Ms Fitzgerald said ministers have decided to establish a network of emergency network and orientation centres around the country. Ms Fitzgerald said the cost was was €12m a year for every thousand refugees.
Govt announces plans to accept 4,000 refugees (RTÉ)
Earlier: Our Uncivil War
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)