We didn’t get past the jockeys’ changing room.
It was all a bit Ascot..
Scenes from the Dubai Duty Free Irish derby yesterday including the Derby Food Paddock and The Maker Hotel tent on the Curragh Racecourse in County Kildare.
Have we reached peak ‘brown shoe’?
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Italian illustrator and graphic designer Marcello Barenghi uploads a timelapse of one of his photorealistic drawing sessions nearly every week.
They’re very impressive and fairly mesmeric.
See all 150 (to date) here.
“the highs certainly out weighted the lows and made it all worthwhile. As a kid all I wanted to be was a professional athlete and to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games. ”
400m athlete David Gillick (above)
We’ll always have Birmingham
David Gillick calls time on competitive athletics career (Conor Pope, Irish Times)
A Bender Bending Rodriguez, Sr. joint constructed for the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup in Santa Rosa, California at the weekend.
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Entertainer Rolf Harris provided some light relief as he was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012.
Could we have guessed what he was yet?
Rolf Harris guilty of child sex abuse (Martin Evans, Daily Telegraph)
The ‘New Gents’ Winter 2014/2015 neckwear collection
Rob Maguire writes:
“Brazilian designer visits Dublin, Dublin inspires slick hipster tie collection…”
Some neck.
From top: The Dublin Bus tie; The Georgian Door tie; The Guinness bow tie; The Luas Red Line tie and the An Post Box tie.
.@munchious RT @adavies4: Andy Coulson arriving at the Old Bailey. Recognise anyone in the background? pic.twitter.com/PShOX5Drbs
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) June 30, 2014
Bonkers skimpily-defrocked dancing clerical Zelig Fr Neil Horan.
He loves bugging people.
Previously: Not Now Father
Bob writes:
“Just to prove it’s a 4×4, has to try ruining the lawn…Union Wood, Sligo on Saturday…”
Phoenix Park, Dublin on Saturday.
Thanks Art Van Delay
Darren Cleary writes:
“This is a story about an annual charity game which takes place at Tolka Park every year. The United Warriors Special Olympics club play a Shelbourne XI in the Leo Keogh Cup Final. This year’s game took place last Sunday.
The Shelbourne team is made up of fans, club staff, and volunteers who donate between €10-20 to play in the game, the Warriors are a Special Olympics club based in Rathcoole [Dublin] made up of boys and girls of all ages with disabilities. All proceeds raised go to the Warriors and it pays their league costs for the year.
Shelbourne kit man Johnny Watson and Shels fanatic Stephen Fagan (who is the captain of the Warriors) came up with the idea over six years ago. The prize on offer in the final is the Leo Keogh Cup, the trophy is in memory of Stephen’s cousin Leo who was 12-years-old when he lost his life in a car accident a few years ago. I put together this report for FM104 on the day. It’s a really inspirational story and it highlights how a small gesture of playing a football match and donating a few quid can make a big difference to these lads”
Fair play though, in fairness.