The beaked ISIS.
RUN!
Seagulls could attack babies next, expert warns (Independent.ie)
The ‘Skysphere‘ created by New Zealand native Jono Williams – an elevated cylindrical apartment with 360 degree views of the surrounding landscape, accessed by an internal ladder, powered by photovoltaic cells with internal systems managed via smartphone. To wit:
…systems include a fingerprint entry motorized door; refrigerated, in-couch beer dispenser; solar powered management system; miracast projector; wireless sound system; and computer generated voice dialogs. williams has also built a custom queen size bed, added dimmable, colored mood LED lighting, high speed internet, a central ladder for entry and a rooftop starview platform.
Plumbing, a hydraulic lift and ‘modesty glass’ are planned for version two. For now, you pee among the nearby trees.
Our Destiny
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A child being rescued on to Irish Navy vessel LÉ Eithne, off the coast of Libya last month
Further to the news that a baby girl was born on LÉ Niamh on July 22,…
It would be an appropriate and generous gesture to offer Irish citizenship to the mother of the baby girl Destiny, who was born in the LÉ Niamh on July 22nd. The nation is justly proud of what our Naval Service is doing in the Mediterranean, and the birth of a baby on board the Niamh is a powerful and much-needed symbol of a new world of peace and hope. It also symbolises how a small nation can play a healing role in a world that so often distresses and discourages us by its violence and the sheer scale of its cruelties and injustices.
The circumstances of Destiny’s birth are too compelling a symbol to be buried in the sort of red tape that normally characterises applications for asylum. The offer should dispense with all the formalities that normally precede citizenship. Destiny’s mother, together with her baby, could be singled out and given a place of honour in any ceremony that celebrates the creation of new citizens.
She will have to be found and graciously offered Irish citizenship. She may of course decline the offer, but at least a generous gesture will have been made in an age when hostility to foreigners is not as uncommon as one might wish.
Gabriel Daly
Ballyboden,
Dublin 16.
Citizenship and mother of Destiny (Irish Times letters)
Related: Baby girl born on LÉ Niamh after rescue operation (RTE)
Laundrie.
The Irish-made Uber launderette service.
Evan Gray (above) writes:
Last month I launched a new app for laundry and dry cleaning in Dublin. It’s basically a set-up like Uber or Hailo for getting your clothes cleaned. No more rushing to the cleaners either as it runs ‘till late. You just download the app, select what you want cleaned and we come and collect it from you wherever you are….
I’m a Dublin native who’s always been tech obsessed. Love gadgets and anything that makes my life a bit easier. I was working in finance for 4 years and ironing shirts & getting to the dry cleaners was a bit of an inconvenience, either they were closed after work or I didn’t get up early enough on a Saturday morning. Decided I couldn’t be the only one and there had to be an easier way….;
Download the app on the App Store here
Misty Fresh
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Spotted in a souvenir shop in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Daniel Condren writes:
“Sure ’tis a quare shhteal at a tenner hai.”
Yesterday.
Ashtown Park, Dublin 15.
Alan writes:
I realise you don’t normally do this but just wondering if we can return these to James Rowan? The remains of his takeaway dinner seem to have blown out of his hands in Ashtown Park [Dublin 15] joining the empty tins in one of the nicest little parks in Dublin…
FIGHT!
Reppy writes:
Fire at The Man O’War Pub in Courtlough, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin last night.
Grate heat though, etc.
Mmf.
Yesterday, the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council held a protest on Dublin’s O’Connell Street against atrocities committed in the name of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
During the protest, the protesters specifically condemned the killing of three Irish citizens in Tunisia last month.
Reporting on the protest in the Irish Times this morning, Patsy McGarry writes:
A document entitled Irish Muslim Declaration of Peace and Guide to Prevent Radicalisation was launched at the protest by Dr al-Qadri, who is the founder and chief executive of the IMPIC.
He spoke of an incident that had happened at a mosque on Saturday involving members of IMPIC. “In one particular mosque a group of our Council were distributing our flyers for today [when] one of our members was physically assaulted by another Muslim person,” he said. “Some three individuals said ‘We are Isis, are you going to protest against us?’.”
He said, “It tells us, Yes there is a small percentage, even though maybe it is only 100, but we as Muslims must condemn them and we must not remain silent . . . because these people are like an infection, are like a cancer.
“If you will remain silent you will let them come into the mosque and you will let them speak to the youth . . . They will spread the cancer of extremism to the Muslim youth.”
Extremism exists among Muslims in Ireland, anti-Islamic State protest is told (Irish Times)
Previously: Free Sunday?
Meanwhile, in today’s Irish Daily Star…
John Coulter writes:
What an accolade it would be for Ireland if our STEM students and scientists developed the mustard gas needed to be dropped in ISIS strongholds.
Think of the number of tourists who could return to sun traps without any fear of Islamic radicals.
More importantly, think of the number of jobs which could be created in Ireland for Irish people who develop these mustard gas weapons to exterminate ISIS?
An Irish biological weapons industry would also help combat the brain drain of our best young geniuses having to leave Ireland to find work.
Jay.
Sus.
Thanks Michael Pidgeon