https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ1j2XdftfA&feature=youtu.be
Istanbul , Turkey
Water bottle fridge spillage misunderstanding leads to multi thwack mayhem captured on cctv and screened on Turkish telly.
Featuring ferocious, Ali-shuffling ‘Irlanda turist’.
KAVGA!
Via Ishaan Tharoor
Thanks Robert
London-based The Irish World, on sale tomorrow
Of their cover story, Irish World editor Bernard Purcell writes:
We know how necessary creative ambivalence and polite fictions have been to the peace process/political process and it is clear that a great many people – if by no means all – have made their accommodation, or peace, with that.
But when we tried to get a straightforward answer – yes or no, or yes and no – to two simple questions posed by email and by telephone to their respective press departments: Is the IRA intact and still active? Does it pose a threat to people in the UK and Ireland? we found that not one single agency or participant in the process – of the handful who did reply – could give us an answer.
We asked Downing Street, the Home Office, MI5, the Northern Ireland Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Metropolitan Police, the US Embassy, an Garda Siochana, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the All–Party Parliamentary Group on Irish in Britain and…Sinn Féin.
Those who did reply were Foreign Affairs, PSNI, US Consulate General in Belfast and the Gardai. The Gardai and the US Consulate told us it was a matter for the local police, the PSNI.
Foreign Affairs gave, understandably and predictably, a lengthy nuanced reply which did not actually answer the question with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
That evening, after a day of trying to get a response from the NIO, North Secretary Theresa Villiers, backing her PSNI Chief Constable’s nuanced, balanced take on recent events affected to be not at all surprised the IRA still exists and is active – albeit in a non-terrorist capacity.
Still haven’t head from Sinn Féin…or the MPs whose all-party committee purports to represent Irish people in Britain….
In the age of Google Earth, the once artful oeuvre of globe-making has been largely replaced by poor quality mass produced products.
Not so the elegant watercoloured earthballs emanating from the open plan workshop of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers of Stoke Newington, London – as documented in this short by Cabnine Films.
This morning.
Swords Castle, Swords. Co Dublin.
Sam writes:
Volunteers on a Archaeological Excavation at Swords Castle in Dublin as part of Heritage week. The archaeological excavation with Swords Castle. They are looking for people to get involved; to dig, to organise artefacts, to wash pottery, to help with soil samples…Just head for the castle until September 10..
Dem bones.
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)
‘sup?
The White Hag Brewery of Sligo.
Want YOU.
Paul Mullin at The White Hag, writes:
We’re One!
After 12 tumultuous months, we’re back at the RDS [Ballsbridge, Dublin 4] for the Craft Beer festival, and this year we’re bringing 12 (TWELVE!) different varieties of beers.
Following a successful fleadh #2, and an even more successful crowdfunding exercise on Linked finance, were upping our production to meet demand here at home and abroad.
Anyway, Broadsheet has been good to us, so by way of reward, we’d like to invite a few of ye along to the RDS this Thursday, Friday or Saturday, give ye some nice Tshirts (as above), and a crate of beer to bring home with ye.
Just tell us why you need this prize, please?
Lines MUST close at 5.15pm 6.15pm
History In Pictures tweetz;
Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 1929. The sun can’t shine through like that now due to the surrounding tall buildings.
Model Rosanna Davison and husband Wesley Quirke
You may have seen a recent article on Independent.ie about Rosanna Davison, who has written a book called Eat Yourself Beautiful.
From the article…
Rosanna has adhered to a vegan diet, which is free from gluten, dairy and refined sugar, since she adopted it as a practical college project for a week. She immediately noticed striking benefits in terms of weight loss, glowing skin and shiny hair and decided to keep going. Recently she persuaded her husband of just over a year, Wes Quirke, to go gluten-free too.
“Earlier this year Wes was getting rheumatoid arthritis in his knuckles and knees, as well as back pain. I said to him ‘Stop with the pizzas and beer at the weekend, you can get gluten-free everything these days!’ – and within a couple of weeks these pains had left him. So now he is really receptive to anything that I say to him.”
“…Although Rosanna agrees that proper sourdough bread is easier on the digestive system, she is a believer in non-coeliac gluten sensitivity, and cites research that shows gluten to be the bad guy responsible for a huge range of medical conditions from autism spectrum disorders to schizophrenia to arthritis.”
The article has prompted the following response from Arthritis Ireland…
And on Twitter…
love 2go 2 @rosanna_davison bk signing in my wheelchair &splints and ask her2cure me with her wisdom…all while eating king crisp sandwich!
— Aoife Weller (@AoifeWeller) August 25, 2015
Uh oh better get the painkillers ready @rosanna_davison @Arthritisie #glutenfreemyarse #rheumatoidarthritis pic.twitter.com/zSj3n2hqmc — Aoife Weller (@AoifeWeller) August 25, 2015
Jaykers.
Natural beauty: Green beauty queen Rosanna Davison (Carolynne Dunne, Independent.ie)
Mark Stedman/Rollingnews.ie
Update:
Rosanna Davison writes:
Comments I made on gluten and its connection to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the Irish Independent Weekend Magazine have caused quite a reaction this week, and I would like to explain exactly what I said and what I meant.
Firstly, I completely agree with Arthritis Ireland, in that those who have been diagnosed with RA must manage their disease with the advice of their GP and consultant, and not through diet alone.
My qualification in Nutritional Therapy from the College of Naturopathic Medicine enables me to advise on a client’s diet and nutritional needs, but always in conjunction with their GP if they’re on medication, have a disease or need to get tests done.
During the course of the interview, I was asked whether my friends and family had benefited from my influence on their eating habits. I replied by saying that my husband had experienced huge benefits from embarking on a gluten-free diet. Earlier this year, he began to show the clinical symptoms of RA, with intense fatigue and painful swollen knuckles in both hands and knees, which he would have upon waking and would only ease up a few hours later. I was naturally very concerned, and having treated a number of clients with RA already, I recognised the symptoms of this autoimmune disease.
Possible non coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) was my focus here, along with potential gut permeability, dysbiosis and inflammation.
Wesley decided that he’d rather look at dietary options first, so I designed a diet specific to him and his nutritional needs, that was free from known pro-inflammatory foods, including gluten products, as his diet had been high in them in the weeks and months leading up to the onset of his pain. To our amazement, his pain cleared up completely in under three weeks, which made a huge difference to his life. However, when he decided to see if he could eat gluten-containing foods again, the pain returned within 24 hours and it continues to follow that pattern if he does eat gluten.
I was asked what I thought about gluten-free diets and the controversy surrounding them, to which I explained that non coeliac gluten sensitivity is an emerging concern, with research showing it being possibly implicated in a number of autoimmune and neurological diseases.
I was by no means stating that gluten causes arthritis or any other diseases, or that they can be cured by removing it from the diet. But I felt that it was acceptable to share the experience that my husband had with making dietary changes to control his pain.
Arthritis in all of its forms is a serious and debilitating disease, and sharing my personal story was the intention, not to create any sense of false hope for sufferers or state that a change in diet is all that is needed to cure a disease.
Ferrolic is a clock that uses the strange motion of ferrofluid (a colloidal suspension of nanoscale ferromagnetic particles) to create shapes and occasionally digits. To wit:
Ferrolic was designed from a strong fascination for the magical material Ferro Fluid. The natural dynamics of this fluid makes that this display bridges the gap between everyday digital screens and tangible reality. Because the fluid behaves in a unpredictable way, it is possible to give the bodies perceived in the Ferrolic display a strong reference to living creatures. It is this lively hood that enables Ferrolic to show a meaning-full narrative like for instance having the creatures play tag. In addition the natural flow of the material, it can be used to form recognisable shapes and characters. Ferrolic uses these both layers in parallel in order to display scenes and transitions in an poetic, almost dance like, choreographed way.
Previous ferrofluidic shenanigans: Ferrofluid Bubbles & The Blood Of Some Strange Machine
Brand new MacBook Air found [in] Temple Bar in Dublin this morning. It has a name on the login. The owner can contact shaneocurry@gmail.com PLs RT
— Mark Malone (@soundmigration) August 25, 2015
Anyone?