A picture taken of the statue depicting Sr Catherine McAuley – who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831 – and a ‘penitent’ with a baby outside the International Centre of the Sisters of Mercy on Baggot Street in Dublin this afternoon.
Previously: O The Sisters Of Mercy They Are Not Departed Or Gone
Oh The Sisters Of Mercy, They Are Not Departed Or Gone
Thanks Conor Horgan
Update:
Thanks Fuzzy Duck
The Special Olympics Limerick parade and opening ceremony last night.
Fair play, etc.
Thanks Sarah Sheeran
For the last few years, NASA physicist Harold White and his team have been working on the design for a faster than light speed spaceship. A recent collaboration with artist Mark Rademaker has yielded the visuals for an updated model, a ship nestled at the center of two enormous rings, which create the ‘warp bubble’.
White discusses the concept and the ship in the above video (starting at around 42:00 if you want to cut straight to the chase)
Naturally, it’s called Enterprise.
Businessman Harry Crosbie
Newstalk reports:
“Businessman Harry Crosbie has lodged High Court proceedings against the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). The court action calls on NAMA to stop pursuing any outstanding debt against him. The High Court case also calls for the removal of the receiver from the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre – and also looks for compensation for so called ‘leaks made by NAMA of personal information regarding his financial affairs’.”
Businessman Harry Crosbie lodges proceedings against NAMA (Newstalk)
Previously: Meanwhile, At The Commercial Court
So You Saw Harry Crosbie On The Saturday Night Show, Right?
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
Ombudsman Peter Tyndall
Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has announced that he will carry out an investigation into how complaints are handled by public hospitals in Ireland and he has asked YOU to help, saying:
“Despite the high number of interactions with our hospitals, relatively few people complain when they are unhappy with the service they receive. Compared with other jurisdictions, complaints to the HSE and to my Office are very low. I want to find out why this is. I want to ensure that people have access to an efficient and effective complaint handling service and to be confident that where poor practice is found, the health service is learning from its mistakes and preventing recurrence.”
Complaints can be made through the Ombudsman’s website here; by emailing hsecomplaints@ombudsman.gov.ie; phoning 1890 22 30 30; or writing FREEPOST to Ombudsman, 18 Lr Leeson Street, Freepost F5069, Dublin 2
Ombudsman to investigate how public hospitals handle complaints
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg1Qyz0Jus
No, not a spoof viral for an upcoming zombie apocalypse flick but the gleeful and terrifying promo for armament developer G2 Research’s new and highly controversial Radically Invasive Projectile, the G2 RIP, released early this year – a bullet featuring tiny knife-like ‘trocars’ that penetrate and shred flesh.
Initially marketed at women in the home as a ‘one-shot man-stopper’, it’s designed to take out ‘all vital organs’, creating a massive exit wound in the process.
(H/T: Andrew Sheridan)
The long-awaited What The Feckxico Versus Cameroops Group A fixture
Conor Quinn tweetz:
…today’s World Cup game should be a belter according to the Indo
In Sligo?
A ‘funding-free’ alternative Yeatsday celebration, you say?
Drumcliffe Tea House right beside the grave of Yeats [Drumcliffe, Co Sligo] are having a birthday party for the 149-year-old dead poet from 3-5pm TODAY.
What’s on offer?
Yeats Cakes! Free chocolate Muffins with Moon and Stars icing! Whiskey Biscuit Cake (also known as WBCake). Free Biros! Silly string! A guy running around shouting out Poetry!
PLUS artist Annie West will be standing around ambushing greeting random passers by with free postcards, “whether they want them or not”.
Annie writes:
“There will be many attempts to raise Yeats from the dead, or at least make him spin in his grave : Misplaced apostrophes. Reckless use of multiple exclamation marks. Misquotes all over the graveyard.
Middle aged scruffy women stepping around graves at Drumcliffe with dainty feet, muttering and arguing about whether Yeats is actually down there or still in France….”
You had us at scruffy.
Laura Gaynor writes:
I give you, the one and only WB Yeats.
