Ah here.
Tesco, Crumlin Shopping Centre, Crumlin (top), and another Tesco location (above) in Dublin today.
It seems to bNOMNOMNOMNOM
Thanks Norm and Jimmy Murphy
The scene (top) outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France this morning.
At least 12 people are dead after three hooded gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs attacked the headquarters of a French satirical magazine and opened fire on journalists and police guards.
The three men – described by a police union spokesman as “commandos” – are on the run after walking into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris’s 11th arrondissement at about midday and fleeing in a getaway car driven by a fourth.
Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine known for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2012.
“Several men in black cagoules were heard to shout ‘the Prophet has been avenged'”, wrote Pierre de Cossette, a broadcast journalist with Europe1 News.
Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo attacked by gunmen (Guardian)
Shooting reported at Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo (Telegraph)
Previously: Anything Good In Charlie Hebdo?
Pic: International Business Times
H/T: Gavin Sheridan
Meanwhile…
Paris this evening.
Gastroporn
at
“Presenting the issue as a genuine problem, not as a suggested Troika tax, would have had a far greater chance of success…. Not spending time in the middle of Political chaos…..”
An ad placed by Ogilvy Mather advertising (Dublin) in this month’s Marketing magazine.
John Gallen writes:
Finally someone in the ad industry is having a go at Irish Water’s disastrous and arrogant communications strategy….
FIGHT!
*swerve*
at
Splutter.
Using the latest data from the Central Statistics Office.
Out of work mapper Omar Sarhan writes:
I did another map based on all that drink driving data that was published in the Indo/Examiner before Christmas. So broadsheeters (is that a word?) might like it. Leitrim is either very law abiding or drivers are just good at not getting caught!
YOU decide.
Previously: Many Rivers To Cross
Behold: the next evolutionary spasm of the selfie – Nixie, an autonomous drone that can be worn as a bracelet until you deploy it to fly off, take a snap of you then return.
Showcased back in December at Intel’s CES keynote conference, the vanity quadcopter is still in development.
Start queuing now. Send pictures of yourself standing in line.
((H/T: Graeme Kelly)
Stop that.
We have visitors.
Lansdowne versus Old Belvedere in the Avivia’s Lansdowne Road Nua’s back pitch this week with unexpected and frankly unwanted bladder action from a home player at 1:47.
Harrumph.
An extremely cute tilt shift timelapse of various bustling locations in Norway and Iceland by Damp Design.
Longboat Quay North, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2
Susan Ryan, aged 41, was due to be evicted “by appointment” from her apartment at Longboat Quay North in Dublin 2 on Monday, October 21, 2013.
Ms Ryan had fallen into mortgage arrears with her lender understood to be Ulster Bank.
Gareth Naughton, in The Herald, reports:
Mr Gray [Dublin City Sheriff’s Office court messenger Paul Gray] knocked on the door a number of times and called out Ms Ryan’s name but there was no response.
Using a key provided by the bank official, they entered the apartment.
Gda [Bronagh] McArdle [present to ‘ensure there were no public order issues’] said that on entering the bedroom she found Ms Ryan “visibly pale in colour and was cold to touch” with no pulse detectable.
“There was a substantial amount of empty medication trays piled up at the bedside,” she told the court.
The dead woman had spent the weekend in Wexford visiting her mother along with her sister Barbara Ryan, who told the court that everything had been “normal” with nothing out of the ordinary happening.
…Coroner Dr [Brian] Farrell said that, from pictures of the apartment, [Ms Ryan] appeared to have been living on “convenience foods”.
Woman took her own life on night before eviction (The Herald)
Pic: Daft