Above: Viggo Mortensen and Natalie Portman; Joey and Ross; Audrey Tautou; Christopher Walken and Tom Cruise; Christian Bale; Dwayne Johnson and Jim Carrey; Mel Gibson and Bruce Lee.
Philip writes:
“Found a Venezuelan passport and money transfer receipt at the end of the [Samuel] Beckett Bridge this morning about 8.45. Will hand it in to the Pearse Street Garda station later.”
UPDATE: Owner located (see comments)
Meanwhile…
Sarah writes:
“This passport was handed in at the desk in DIT Library in Cathal Brugha Street yesterday. Paddy’s not a student here it seems so we’ve no way of contacting him. If he sees this post, or anyone that knows him does, he can collect from the desk in the library. Otherwise we’ll drop it into Pearse St. Garda station during the week. Thanks.”
Anyone?
Update: Owner located (see comments)
Brendan writes:
“Just received this in the post. Might have been slightly more efficient sending it to my tenant in Dublin rather than to me in Melbourne [Australia]…”
Mervue Business Park, Galway this morning.
Thanks Ed
What you may need to know:
1. Ten years after a satellite crash lands in Mexico, an American soldier stationed somewhere in the Middle East has to cross alien controlled territory to attempt a rescue of his comrades.
2. Monsters: Dark Continent is the sequel to Gareth Edwards’ acclaimed debut Monsters (2010). Edwards just has an executive producer credit on this as he was too busy making Godzilla (2014) to direct the sequel.
3. Scoot McNairy who starred in the original is also an executive producer of this one. He played a blinder in Killing Them Softly (2012).
4. Monsters will become a franchise. There are 2 more sequels planned, one to be directed by Michael Bay. Bring the Rain!
5. The original Monsters is rumoured to have been made on a budget of $15,000 but it was closer to $500,000.
6. The sequel has another debutante in the director’s chair in Tom Green, the Englishman who directed Misfits, not the Canadian habitual attention seeker.
7. Local talent Sam Keeley in the house!
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Monsters Inc.
Release Date: September 26
(Delboy is away)
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An American anti-abortion healthcare provider is planning to open a clinic in Belfast, the BBC has learned. Stanton Healthcare aims to have a clinic operating in the city centre by early 2015.
Representatives from Stanton Healthcare recently visited Belfast, and the BBC understands that they have identified premises on Great Victoria Street in the city as a site for the clinic. The facility would therefore be close to Belfast’s Marie Stopes clinic, which has been open since 2012.
The BBC understands that Stanton Healthcare plans to offer pregnancy counselling and also medical facilities like ultrasound scans. The firm has claimed that over 90% of what they describe as “abortion-vulnerable women” who have ultrasound scans at their Boise clinic choose to give birth.
However, its staff are working closely with the Northern Ireland-based anti-abortion organisation, Precious Life. Bernadette Smyth from Precious Life welcomed Stanton Healthcare’s plans. “We would hope that women in crisis pregnancy would be given free ultrasound, free pregnancy tests and support,” she told BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme. “We want to provide a better service that’s not available here.”
Stanton Healthcare to open anti-abortion clinic in Belfast (Robbie Meredith, BBC News NI)
Previously: Pure Hatstand
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Meanwhile, On Great Victoria Street, Belfast
The chance of the Scots voting Yes,
Is causing some orange distress,
Though maybe this year,
They’ll win it with fear,
They’ve sleepwalked right into a mess.
John Moynes
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Two hundred and thirty one phone cards belonging to an adult asylum seeker from West Africa. At the time the photograph was taken, the asylee had been waiting six years for their case to be dealt with. Every week, the asylee used half their €19.10 weekly stipend from the State to phone home
You may recall RTÉ’s Brian O’Connell’s reports on Today With Sean O’Rourke last week about how some asylee women – who are not allowed work – are engaging in prostitution to supplement the €19.10 they receive a week.
In some instances, some mothers said they are engaging in prostitution as a means to make life financially easier for their children.
After his reports, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said she would be asking the Reception and Integration Agency – which oversees the Direct Provision system – for a report on the matter.
Further to this, Mr O’Connell tweeted:
Hmmm.
Previously: ‘He Took Me Around Some Bushes’
A structural fire on Monday at the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, LA.
Mmf.