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Thanks Tanya O’Neill (The Westmeath Examiner, The Connacht Telegraph); Enda Bolger (The Irish Sun); Colm Heaney (The Irish Daily Mirror); Geoff McGrath (The Irish Daily Mail); Dermot Ahern (The Irish Examiner) Nick Sutton (UK covers)

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Jason writes

Here is one for the broadsheet readers, what is the purpose of these roads and junctions meticulously road marked in a field in Cork.
1. Google self drive car test site
2. Bored person building a tiny town
3. A training site for drivers

Anyone?

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fiona-roberts-intimate-vestiges-designboom-02Details from Intimate Vestiges by Australian artist Fiona Roberts,  blending traditional decor with elements of the human body. To wit:

a hair chair with ceramic mouths, a shag pile rug made up of thousands of ceramic fingers and a dark window, concealed by curtains that look back at the visitor are installed throughout the faux-bedroom. these conventional items of the house that generally go unnoticed, become here, the focus of the viewer’s attention, drawing them in to a personal narrative about everyday routines, memories, accidents, habits, and fear.

Currently on show at Kickarts Contemporary Arts in Cairns, if you’re passing.

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magnum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHRbQ3WWCE&feature=youtu.be

Gulp.

Starina writes:

as a lovely palate-cleanser after a week of hateful MFM [Mothers And Fathers Matter] ads – here’s the new prevideo trailer running on youtube this week; Magnum ice cream, featuring trans women and drag queens….

About time a bNOMNOMNOMNOM

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charlieandkate

 

James Gabriel Martin writes:

Here’s a really special man and photo I got on Saturday at Dublin Castle as the results rolled in. Eighty-year-old Charlie Mooney was there with his daughter Kate to celebrate the passing of the referendum.

STILL mmmf-ing.

James Gabriel Martin Photography

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