Unrepentant jail bird Ricky English following a spell in chokey for helping to rob two bookies in Tullow, Co Carlow shares his thoughts on Ireland’s open prison system.
Please come again.
Thanks Danny Fallon
From left: Paul Dunne Realex Fire; Aruna Anand; Joe Lyon; Paula Downes; Shawna Scott (Sex Siopa); Damien Mulley; Rick O’Shea; Richard Strahan (winner ugliest website 2013); Alan Irwin (Realex); Michelle McCormick; Shane Stenson (Realex); James King (Realex) and Niall McGarry (Joe.ie).
The controversial just-released launch photo for the Realex Fire Web Awards featuring 2FM’s Rick O’Shea as Jesus and Irish web pioneer and awards founder Damien Mulley as JUDAS.
Damien sez:
“The Realex Fire Web Awards celebrates their 7th birthday this year with a fun filled night in the Ballsbridge Hotel on October 22nd where 600 people that own or run Irish websites are expected to attend with winners being called from 33 categories.
Nominations for the event close on September 5th with over 500 nominations having been made so far. The public and website owners can nominate here.
In fairness.
Tallaght, Dublin this morning.
Thanks Stephen Nutley
Aisling tweetz:
I think this is relevant re your “Totting Up” article!
Temple Bar, our cultural centre of excellence.
Is nothing sacred?
UPDATE: Via McDonald’s Ireland: “The tweet which claims to be by McDonald’s is not from an official McDonald’s account. We have contacted Twitter so the account claiming to be McDonald’s is reviewed,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FXmN93BYY
All the outtakes from Parks And Recreation (Season 6).
A Catholic man savagely beaten by a loyalist gang wielding hatchets and iron bars last night told how he thought he “was going to die”. Dee Sturgeon (22) described the terrifying moment when up to 10 men burst into the home he shares with his Protestant girlfriend and their 11 week-old daughter in a loyalist area of west Belfast.
“They said ‘you will never be back here again you dirty Fenian bastard.’ Mr Sturgeon said he feared for his life during the brutal assault in Ballygomartin Drive around 9:30pm on Friday. The victim, originally from the Markets area of south Belfast said he was in no doubt that he was targeted because of his religion.
‘I will never feel safe in a Protestant area again’ (Connia Young, Irish News) [behind paywall]
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of burning the White House. Only sparklers this time! pic.twitter.com/QIDBQTBmmL
— British Embassy (@UKinUSA) August 24, 2014
For parties it’s witty to bake,
An amusing and well designed cake,
But the house of your host,
Getting turned into toast,
Is a faux pas that one should not make.
John Moynes
Hwaggulous
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The Hyper Lip, created fora travelling photography exhibition by French designer Sascha Nordmeyer: a prosthetic that forces an unhinged facial expression on the wearer.
That’s what it’s for.
Retroshopped
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Australian photographer Jane Long’s digitally restored, coloured and subverted takes on the historic glass plate portraits of Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte (currently preserved at the Costică Acsinte Archive).