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On Westland Row this morning.

Via Derek O’Neill 

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On Aungier Street this morning.

Via Ciarán Ferrie

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Bull Alley, Dublin 8 yesterday evening.

Via Annja O’Brien

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At junction of Dorset St and North Circular Road yesterday evening.

Via Jim

Keith writes:

“In order to highlight the widespread illegal parking in and blocking of cycling lanes, road users have taken to the social networks tagging violations with the hashtag #FreeTheCycleLanes. It is Bike Week after all!”

Illegal Parking in Cycle Lanes – #FreeTheCycleLanes Campaign (Dublin Cycling)

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny with with First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon in Dublin this morning before the British Irish Council Summit.

Ah go on so.

It’s a caption competition.

Taoiseach to host 24th British-Irish Council Summit (Merrion Street)

Previously: Meanwhile, In London

Pic: Enda Kenny (Twitter)

Update:

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Huh?

Anyone?

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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Sky News reports:

“A stowaway has died after falling from a British Airways jet on to an office block in southwest London. He and another man are believed to have clung on to the passenger plane as it flew more than 8,000 miles from Johannesburg in South Africa to Heathrow.”

“The second man, aged between 25 and 30, is in a stable condition in a west London hospital after miraculously surviving the ordeal. The victim died as the plane came into land over Richmond at around 9.30am on Thursday. He reportedly landed on the roof of NotOnTheHighStreet.com in Kew Road.”

Stowaway plunges to death from BA plane (Sky News)

http://youtu.be/SaW47WxcwPQ

Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show delivered a solemn monologue to his audience last night in reply to the Charlestown church shooting in South Carolina.

America, in five minutes.

Charlestown Church Shooting Leaves Jon Stewart Jokeless (NBC News)

Previously: Are They False?

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This afternoon

At the Cerebral Palsy Football World Championships in St George’s Park, Tatenhill, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

Sinead Furlong writes:

Ireland’s Paralympic football team secured an emphatic victory today in their second group game at the Cerebral Palsy Football World Championships defeating Australia 4-1 [Dillon Sheridan (2), Gary Messett, Eric O’Flaherty]

Following an opening defeat to tournament favourites Russia this was a game Ireland needed to win to ensure their tournament stayed on course.

The Irish team have just forty eight hours to rest and recover before their final group game against Portugal on Saturday, at 1pm [streamed live here], while Russia take on Australia.

The top two teams in each of the four groups reach the quarter-finals. These World Championships are the only chance the Irish team have to secure a precious qualifying spot at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.

Should the Irish team reach the quarter-finals they can be almost certain of a qualification place.

From top: Jason Moran, Ireland, and Zachary Jones and Christopher Pyne, Australia; Dillon Sheridan, 10, Ireland, celebrates with team-mate Carl McKee after scoring his second second goal and the irish squad.

Full team schedule here

Paralympics Ireland

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Hmm.

Friscondo writes:

Patsy Suspect in Charleston massacre, ‘Dylann Storm Roof’, 21, pictured with Rhodesian and apartheid-era South African flags on his jacket…

Seems legit.

Any excuse.

Any further excuse.

Charleston Shooting Suspect Identified as Dylann Roof (Gawker)

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Paul Krugman and friend (top) and Greece spending Vs Spanish spend

Ahead of a possible Greek deal/exit.

Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman writes:

How did we get to this point?

Nothing fills me with quite as much despair as the persistence of the story line that it’s all about continuing Greek fecklessness, that the Greeks haven’t done anything.

In fact, Greece has imposed almost inconceivable pain on itself. Above is a comparison between Greece and Spain, the current favorite son of the austerity camp (although the Spaniards themselves aren’t impressed)

The problem has been that severe spending cuts in an economy with no independent monetary policy and no ability to devalue lead to severe economic contraction, which in turn means that a large part of what’s gained fiscally at the front end gets lost via reduced revenue.

This isn’t the fault of the Greeks, it’s basically a design flaw in the euro itself.

Thinking About the All Too Thinkable (Paul Krugman, New York Times)

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