The BB8 robot toy from Sphero.
Move over R2D2. You’ve been outcuted.
Now watch puppies play with it.
On sale today for €135.
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Simply Conex
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The annual North West Walls festival at the Belgian town of Werchter where six street artists from around the world (Gamma Gallery, Fintan Magee, Smug, Pixel Pancho, Nychos and Lula Goce) were presented with blank canvasses in the form of stacks of shipping containers.
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Most other newspapers, in Ireland and worldwide, used versions of the dead child on page one….we used what I think is the strongest image as the lead image on the first foreign news page. On page one we carried a picture of Michael Fingleton matching a report on his evidence to the Banking Inquiry.
…Were we right not to use the picture on page one?
In hindsight probably not – by the time we went to press later last night the images had gone viral and were all over news bulletins and Twitter.
The shock element by the time the paper hit the newsstands this morning was gone and most readers would have understood that these heartbreaking images of a dead innocent child… say more about our failure in Europe to deal with the refugee crisis than an acre of print.
Frank Millar, picture editor of the irish Times
How the photo of Aylan Kurdi resonated with Irish Examiner readers (irishExaminer)
Pic: Paul Sammon
Rethinkin’
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This afternoon.
Wood Quay civic offices, Dublin
At the first-ever Renua think-in were from left: Fr Peter Mcverry, who spoke on homelessness, Renua leader Lucinda Creighton and corruption sleuth Dr Elaine Byrne, whose talk was entitled ‘democratic renewal’.
Fight, etc.
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews)
Sleepover.
Frustrated by a lack of sleep, due to her boyfriend’s constant fidgeting in bed, a woman suggests a plan which puts their normal adult relationship up against the values of a more innocent time…
Yikes.
A restless short by Cork-born filmmaker Emmet O’Brien (of A Novel Approach to Dating” fame) starring Dan Coughlan and Mary Pappin.
A silent but impressive timelapse by Toby Smith of the container ship Gunhilde Maersk making its way from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Ningbo, China.
Algabrew
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This afternoon.
Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
Barry H writes:
A simple explanation for people who partake of the offer…
What did he say?
*burp*