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A new mural on the side of a seven storey residential building at Rebibbia in Rome by local street artist ‘Blu’ – part of a series of works by a neighborhood group called “Mammut” endeavouring to redevelop abandoned green spaces in the city.

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With two pairs of a pair of tickets to the ‘Not The Edinburgh festival But Better…’comedy festival this weekend at the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow we asked you: tell us a joke.

You cracked gags of varying degrees of chuckleness in their dozens.

Emma at the Mermaid sez:

We had to avoid picking the dirtier jokes cos like we’re all profesh here, so the winners of the two pairs of weekend passes are: David for his many jokes, our favourites below and Mikeyfex ‘cos these Mermaids never heard that one (below) before….

David:

1. “Two buckets of sick were walking down the road. One said to the other, “I was brought up around here.”

2. Poor young Sean is a little dyslexic. One day in the science lab., his schoolmate said to him, “Can you smell sulphur dioxide?” Sean said, “Smell it? I can’t even smell my own name!”

3. A drunk goes up to the pianist and says, “Can you play a jazz chord?” “Yeah, here you go, G flat demented nineteenth.” “No,” says the drunk, “A jazz chord!” “Ok, how’s about P blunt flattened eleventeenth?” “No, you know, a jazz chord.” And the drunk starts to sing, “A jazz chord – – to say – – I love you.”

Mikeyfex: Two friends are hunting and one accidentally shoots the other in the chest. He goes down and is unconscious. In a blind panic the first guy rings 999. He gets through and says ‘I’ve accidentally just shot my friend. I think I’ve killed him! What can I do!’. The operator says ‘sir remain calm, first of all I want you to make sure he is dead, can you do that?’. The operator hears the man drop the phone, then he hears two gun shots, and the phone is picked up again. ‘Ok,  what next?’

Thanks all.

Mermaid Theatre

Previously: JOKES JOKES JOKES

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Going to Sligo?

From tomorrow until August 8 at the Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.

An exhibition of prints and drawings about the “sad and nerdy love life” of Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats by artist, illustrator and Broadsheet pal, Annie West.

Including this gem….

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Annie West: Yeats In Love (TreadSoftly.ie)

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A cat apparently found in Ballyheigue, Co Kerry

Via Radio Kerry:

it appears that yellow paint for road markings was rolled on to the dead animal…Kerry County Council has now released a statement on the matter and is looking into the incident….

Radio Kerry (Facebook)

Thanks Donie O’Sullivan

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The High Court has this morning refused an application by The Irish Times for injunctions preventing the publishers of The Times of London using the words ‘The Times Irish Edition’ in promoting its new daily digital Irish edition of the UK newspaper.

Judge John Hedigan made the ruling because he said there had been a nine-month delay by the Irish Times in making the objection.

In yesterday’s Sunday Times [not online] Mark Tighe reported:

Brian Murray SC, for Times Newspapers, said although Liam Kavanagh, as chief executive, claimed The Irish Times did not become aware of the proposed “Times Ireland” name until May, tweets from senior Irish Times editorial staff showed they were aware of it since September.

Judge Hedigan was shown tweets from David Cochrane, The Irish Times’s community editor, and Hugh Linehan, its digital development editor, from September 2014, when the two posted a link for a job advert for the editor position of “The Times Ireland”.

In January, Cochrane retweeted a message congratulating Richard Oakley on being appointed editor of “The Times Ireland”. Murray said Times Newspapers later learnt Cochrane had “secretly” registered the Twitter handles “@TheTimesIreland” and “@TimesIreland” in February.

Murray said interlocutory injunctions can be granted only to parties that acted promptly, and the delay in taking the case appeared to be a tactical one aimed at disrupting Times Newspapers’ launch. He said a “Sunday Times Ireland” app had been sold for some time, using the words Ireland and Times together without objection.

Times Newspapers said it agreed not to use The Times Ireland name in May after The Irish Times launched a High Court action. It now intends to sell the app as The Times & Sunday Times (Irish edition). He said the new Monday to Saturday part of the package would be referred to as The Times (Irish edition).

In his affidavit, Kavanagh said the registration of the Twitter handles by Cochrane was “not a cynical exercise by the plaintiff, but a legitimate step to protect its goodwill”. Kavanagh said it was taken “without any awareness” of Times Newspapers’ intention to use those names.

Hmm.

Judge refuses injunctions over Irish edition of London Times (Mary Carolan, Irish Times)

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