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Presenter Steve (at Carrickfergus Castle, county Antrim) and cameraman Timbo – they’re ‘here to please’.

Steve sez:

I will make a promotional video naming your business outside Ireland’s oldest castle or somewhere else in Ireland and include your web address on the video max 15 words.

VIDEO: I will make a cool video outside Ireland’s best castle for $5 (Fiverr)

(H/T: Lisa O’Brien)

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A ‘sculptural dining table’ by Spanish artist Alejandro Monge comprising what appears to be a cube filled with charred fifty euro notes atop which flickers a biofuel flame .

While there’s nothing especially groundbreaking about the intent of the piece (‘…a note is a dyed piece of paper that represents a number, 10, 20, 50 dollars, yens, euros. a figure that we exchange in order to acquire something wanted. a figure that within itself has no more value than the one given to the job or the time traded…’), the skill with which Monge has reproduced, coloured and glued  every note by hand, even finding a way to replicate the petrified appearance of ashes using resin is very impressive.

Tenuously related: Burning Issues Of The Day

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SPLUTTER!

Mark writes:

Dublin’s Merrion Cricket Club [Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Co Dublin] unveiled its state of the art modern club house at the weekend. Player participation in Irish Cricket has grown by almost 100 percent in the last ten years, making it the fastest growing sport in Ireland,. After four years of fundraising up to a million Euro, the bright, modern, flood protected new clubhouse is now open for business.”

FIGHT!

*puts on ‘Cricket box’ briefs*

From top: (l-r) Sean Stanton, Richard Bisgood and J.J. Walsh: as pic 1; Richard Bisgood; Sean Hussey; Elena Tice and Brett Thompson.

Merrion Cricket Club

(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)

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