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A mural by Joe Caslin of two men on the corner of Dame Street and George Street, Dublin which appeared over the weekend

Another mural of two women will be installed at another location later this week.

The Herald reports:

It is based on the famous National Gallery painting The Meeting on the Turret Stairs about a princess and her bodyguard who fall in love but aren’t allowed to marry.

“Here we are 1,000 years later and we’re still talking about a higher power who can prevent that union taking place and that’s the core thing – it’s just about love,” Joe said.

I hope giant mural of two men will further gay marriage debate, says artist (The Herald)

Pic: Cathal Farrell

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Pac Man, Pong and Space Invaders (play free at these links) combined into a complicated but enjoyably productivity-sapping retro mashup. To wit:

To increase your score-bar in Pacapong you simply collect as many pills as possible within the time limit.  Once fired your Pacman can be controlled to a small degree, but will always be inclined to heading towards your opponents side.  To make things a little trickier (and more awesome) you also have to contend with ghosts, hit them and you’ll lose a chunk of your score bar (unless you pick up a power pill).

To make things yet even more trickier (and indeed more awesome), you also have to contend with Space Invaders who descend your side of the screen whenever your opponent collects them – with some careful manoeuvring you can even shoot them with the pills you collect with Pacman.

Available for free download here.

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Former Group Chief Executive Officer of Independent News and Media, Gavin O’Reilly

[Gavin] O’Reilly faced some bizarre obstacles during his years as INM chief executive. For a while, he was under surveillance by a team of people led by a former MI5 intelligence officer.

The matter came to a head on June 2, 2011, the day before INM’s annual general meeting, when O’Reilly was followed into the city centre by a group of men. This led to the Gardaí being alerted, and the men following him being questioned. Does O’Reilly know what it was all about?

“We found out quite a lot,” said O’Reilly, “and the Garda Síochána found out quite a bit. But as to who the paymaster was? No. I can only speculate, but whoever they were and whatever they wanted to do, I suspect they were probably disappointed by what they found.”

“Maybe they thought I frequented houses of ill repute, or something like that [laughs]. Probably what they found was me going into the office every morning at seven o’clock. But yeah, it was strange.”

INM said in January 2014 that it had carried out an extensive investigation of the matter and that the issue was closed.

Gavin O’Reilly in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post.

There you go now.

Previously: Gavin Gone

dundrumDundrum Town Centre during flooding, 2011

Though millions of shoppers have come,
To splash all their cash in Dundrum,
The planners declare,
No more building there,
Or to flooding the town will succumb.

John Moynes

(Pic: Kieran O’Boyle)

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Anthony writes:

Welcome to Wicklow – sign by a farmer placed on coilte land, on the Wicklow Way saying who is welcome on national parks and wildlife (ie public) land (brockagh mountain) and threatening to shoot ur dog. Mine DNGAF as u can see.

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Thanks Enda Bolger (The Irish Sun); Brian Oliver (The Irish Times); Dermot Ahern (The Irish Examiner); Geoff McGrath (The Irish Daily Mail); Colm Heaney (The Irish Daily Mirror); Nick Sutton (UK covers)

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