https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTW_gijQY_w#t=39
Behold the card to end all cards, with a catch.
Swyp is a credit card sized metal device that stores all your debit, credit, loyalty and gift cards. It’s accepted everywhere and works with a companion app to track your purchasing behaviour.
The catch, for now, is that it’s limited to cards issued in the US.
Damn.
Gulp.
Newstalk’s George Hook speaking with Julian de Spáinn (Conradh na Gaeilge) in the run up to Lá Mór na Gaeilge (big Irish language day).
Troid!
Listen here (interview starts at 21.50)
Thanks Ultach
The cover of Tomorrow’s Valentine issue of the Irish Times Magazine
beautiful anchor in fairness.
Via Irish Times Life
Thanks Ciaran
Valentine responsibly.
Jewellery, clothing or cash only, please.
A message from the Migraine Association Of Ireland
Lovesick? A Valentine’s Day Headache (The Migraine Association Of Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GURsH5nxPm4
You may have heard this earlier on the John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio One and wanted to know what they looked like. .
A very candid vox pop about romantic text messages for the week that’s in it.
*swoon*
Thanks John Bela Reilly
‘sup?
Brians have expressed “outrage” that a Thames Valley Police horse of the same name may have it changed to a more “god-like” one such as Hercules.
The six-year-old horse is on trial with the mounted section, but if he passes various tests he will be Brian no more….
Ah here.
Brians ‘outraged’ by police Brian horse name change plan (BBC)
(BBC)
Mmmf.
Eoin Higgins writes:
I was six when Geraldine (we sat beside each other in Junior Infants) surreptitiously dropped her envelope of love declarations into my schoolbag. She was six-and-a-half. An older woman. I remember finding the card (above) when I got home from school later that day, delighting in her choo-choo-choosing me.
…There are other Valentine’s cards in my biscuit tin of romance, but Geraldine’s is still the one I treasure most. Not just for the precociousness of the verse contained within, but for the fact there is any verse at all…
Former Fianna Fáil Minister Pat Carey speaking to Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ Radio One this morning about coming out as a gay man, aged 68.
G’wan the Pat.
(Photocall Ireland)
UPDATE:
Staying in tomorrow?
Melanie O’Connor writes:
Former Minister Pat Carey will be in studio speaking about his sexuality. Mary O’Rourke, Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell and comedian Al Porter will discuss the phenomenon of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and review the highly anticipated movie.
Yikes.
The Saturday Night Show, RTÉ One, 9.50pm, Saturday.
David Carr (left) at the Spiel event in Dublin during last year’s web summit with tech entrepreneur Shane Snow
I am sorry to have to tell you that our wonderful, esteemed colleague David Carr died suddenly tonight after collapsing in the newsroom. A group of us were with his wife, Jill, and one of his daughters, at the hospital. His daughter Erin said he was special, and that he was.
He was the finest media reporter of his generation, a remarkable and funny man who was one of the leaders of our newsroom. He was our biggest champion, and his unending passion for journalism and for truth will be missed by his family at The Times, by his readers around the world, and by people who love journalism.
An email sent by Dean Baquet, editor at the New York Times, informing staff of the death of David Carr.
David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58 (New York Times)
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