He mixed his sports.
Rory McIlroy tweetz:
Total rupture of left ATFL (ankle ligament) and associated joint capsule damage in a soccer kickabout with friends on Saturday. Continuing to assess extent of injury and treatment plan day by day. Rehab already started….. Working hard to get back as soon as I can.
‘sup?
Propulsive pair Daragh O’Connor and Ciarán Ó Scanláin treat Dublin city as their very own gym.
Until the guards put an end to it.
Gravity-mocking tykes.
Music: ‘Hometown’ by Johnny Rock.
What you may need to know:
1. I know what you’re thinking. “The Eurozone may be in meltdown, the future may look bleak, but at least we finally have a sequel to Joe Dirt (2001).”
2. It’s a Happy Madison production. So, there’s that.
3. Why Christopher Walken, why?
4. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that Saturday Night Live really doesn’t travel well. Like Hershey’s. Or any American beer you can think of.
5. For every Bill Murray, Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig, there’s a Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler or David Spade waiting to stretch a one-joke character into a feature length movie.
6. “Only on Crackle.” The Bing of video streaming services.
7. Broadsheet prognosis: Cheese and crackers.
Release Date: July 16
(Mark blogs about movies and more at WhyBother.ie)
The tastefully-promoted Belmayne Estate on the Malahide Road at Clare Hall, Dublin in 2007.
It never stood a ghost of a chance.
Or did IT?
I refer to Olivia Kelly’s article “Dublin ghost estate of Belmayne redeveloped for social housing” As a resident of Belmayne I am livid at such a negative and ill-informed portrayal.
Belmayne is an attractive, well-planned development, with a lovely sense of community, an active residents’ association, an amazing youth cluband wonderful community allotments. It is well served by two national schools, children’s playgrounds, excellent public transport links and is easily accessible to the local villages of Malahide and Portmarnock. I feel truly blessed to have wonderful neighbours, good hard working professional people I know I can rely on.
In particular, I take offence to the comments attributed tothe Clúid spokeswoman Karen Kennedy. While not without its problems, like any new estate, I have never witnessed anything remotely resembling the “highrates of anti-social behaviour, rubbish piled up on the streets” or dereliction which she depicts. And I have been here longer than Clúid has.
I also take issue with your reference to Belmayne as a ghost estate. The development has always had a high level of occupancy, as evidencedby the fact that it never appeared on the Revenue Commissioner’s list of some 2,700 ghost estates.
My neighbours have strived hard to build a community with asense of identity and pride. Belmayne might have been Ireland after the property crash. Your article makes it sound like Berlin after the war. It was never thus.
Dermot Regan,
Belmayne,
Dublin 13
Belmayne not a ghost estate (Irish Times letters)
Dublin ghost estate of Belmayne redeveloped for social housing (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)
Previously: Remember When Gorgeous Living Came To Dublin?
Dublin’s Great South Wall and Harry Crosbie
Siobhan Maguire, in yesterday’s Sunday Times, reported:
Businessman Harry Crosbie is aiming to raise up to €300,000 to smooth over the cracks in Dublin’s Great South Wall to make it safer for pedestrians.
Mr Crosbie is looking for a sponsor to pay for a safe pathway along the wall, which ends at Poolbeg lighthouse.
“You’ve got this beautiful walk so why don’t we open it up to the city? What we want to say to the sponsors is ‘we will put their name on it’ so the pathway could become the ‘Google Way’ or ‘Ryanair Way’,” he said. “I’m going to write to them all, it’s not a whole lot of money. It would be a lovely small gift to the city.”
Crosbie’s idea, for a twometre wide surface down the middle of the walkway, was inspired by a conversation with Gay Byrne, the broadcaster after a friend fell on the path and broke her nose. Both agreed the surface was uneven.
Seems legit.
Pic: Geograph.ie
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage.
Like all struggles for democratic rights, so too this historic rejection of the Eurogroup’s 25th June ultimatum comes with a large price tag attached. It is, therefore, essential that the great capital bestowed upon our government by the splendid NO vote be invested immediately into a YES to a proper resolution – to an agreement that involves debt restructuring, less austerity, redistribution in favour of the needy, and real reforms.
Soon after the announcement of the referendum results, I was made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my… ‘absence’ from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement. For this reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today.
I consider it my duty to help Alexis Tsipras exploit, as he sees fit, the capital that the Greek people granted us through yesterday’s referendum.
And I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride.
We of the Left know how to act collectively with no care for the privileges of office. I shall support fully Prime Minister Tsipras, the new Minister of Finance, and our government.
The superhuman effort to honour the brave people of Greece, and the famous OXI (NO) that they granted to democrats the world over, is just beginning.
Minister No More! Yanis Varoufakis
Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis resigns despite referendum no vote (The Guardian)
Previously: ‘We Are A Proud People…Like The Irish’
Let’s have singing and dancing and mirth,
Now we know what democracy’s worth,
The tables will turn,
And the bondholders burn,
And the Greeks will inherit the earth.
John Moynes
(Al Jazeera)
Gerry Quinn writes:
On top of Cashel Hill looking over at the 12 Bens in Connemara on a beautiful Sunny Sunday. Just as well we ignored the terrible weather forecast…
Clogher Head, Dingle.
(Thanks Anne)
Barbara writes:
Hi there, maybe your savvy readers would know…. Why – like this landlord – are landlords, letting agents and estate agents asking for bank details? An Employer reference would be enough to assure of income, previous landlord reference to assure you’re not awful. Bank details or a bank reference a bit too much I think and nowhere is it legally required….
(Screengrab: daft.ie)
