A two-legged wooden chair designed by Benoit Malta that promotes mobility in the user by way of ‘bearable discomfort’.
Sitting all day makes you die young. If your chairs are all four-legged, fix yourself here.
Just Like Us
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The road leading to the Port Tunnel, Dublin this morning.
A protest by truck drivers over a Budget 2015 decision to impose higher road tax for lorries in Ireland compared to the UK.
Fred writes:
“Just moments ago at the port. Hundreds of trucks, no burning tyres! Must be the most polite truckers protest i have ever witnessed! And they even left the right lanes open! Was expecting tea as i was walking by :)”
UPDATE:
8.30: All clear.
Thanks Fred
Heytsbury Street, Dublin 8
HalO writes:
This bike was dumped outside our house a few days ago and hasn’t been claimed(or nabbed). It seems to be in fine nick just missing a saddle. If anyone has had one similar taken lately let me know.
Shanganagh Cemetery, Old Bray Road, Shankill, Co Dublin yesterday.
Thanks Liam and Dei McDonald
Roynaissance
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The eyes follow you around the room.
Aidan McFaul writes:
“Saw this painting in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Think it might remind you of someone we know :-)
MORE to folly
Thanks Nick Sutton (UK papers), Meliosa Fitzgibbon, Aran Brazil, Colm Heaney, Garrett Rowe and Kevin Cramer.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
‘It has terrified first-time buyers, they are absolutely panicking. Our offices are being besieged by them. They think that if they don’t buy right now, they will never be able to.” The speaker is Keith Lowe, chief executive of one of the country’s biggest estate agents, DNG. The subject is the new mortgage-lending limits proposed by the Central Bank this week – proposals which many property experts are describing as one of the Central Bank’s worst-ever mistakes.
First-time buyer? Maybe it’s time to start panicking (Sarah McCabe, Sunday Independent)
What Goes Up writes:
“This article (above) is surely a sign that it’s time for First Time Buyers to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside…”