13475346851131[Judge of the Day Hall of Famer Seamus Hughes]

Hughes again.

Telling the court that it was their “first meeting”, Judge Hughes asked Power to explain his behaviour.
“I dunno. It was Paddy’s Day. I was mouldy,” he said.
In mitigation, Mr Cooney told how his client left school at 14, had been expelled from a FÁS course, was unable to read and write, and suffered from ADHD.
“Ah sure half the population has that. That’s just something from the imagination of three pharmaceutical companies.“

What the Glaxo Smithkline Beecham!?

Judge suggests ADHD is just a pharma creation (Mullingar Advertiser)

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“This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations.”

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (The Onion)

Home Rule Stamp

Edward Carson [Unionist Alliance leader 1910-1921], top, and John Redmond [Irish Parliamentary Party leader  1900-1918], below..

Together at last.

SPLUTTER!

Feargal Purcell of An Post writes:

“The stamp marks the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the Government of Ireland Act 1914, better known as the Home Rule Act. The 60c stamp, designed by Ger Garland, features John Redmond, Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and Unionist politician Edward Carson. An accompanying first day cover features the stamp and a reproduction of a satirical cartoon of the time. The stamp features Carson and Redmond against a map of Ireland. Both are available at www.irishstamps.ie, main post offices or the Irish Stamp shop in Dublin’s GPO.”

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Concorso D’Eleganza Villa D’Este is an annual  motoring extravaganza showcasing some of the rarest coach-built one-off vehicles in the world.

At this year’s event, BMW unveiled the ‘MINI Superleggera vision’ – a sleek, rear-finned, Union fleg tail-lighted, hybrid German-Italian electric roadster – in collaboration with ultra stylish Milanese coachbuilders Touring Superleggera.

MORE: MINI superleggera vision is an italian coach-built electric roadster (designboom)

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What you may need to know:

1. Ponydance are a comedic dance troupe, based in Belfast.

2. Broadsheet faves Doris/Magee made an award-winning movie about them.

3. Their new show plays in Dublin this Friday and Saturday, as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.

4. We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to the Saturday performance, to the person who can best answer this question: How many dancers does it take to change a lightbulb? [Lines MUST close at 4.45pm]*

5. It’s enough to give modern dance a good name. Almost.

Release date: N/a

*Update: winner Psydehsow.

 

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The Miniature Railway [operated by members The Dublin Society of Model & Experimental Engineers Ltd (DSMEE) in Marley Park, Rathfarnham, Co Dublin which NORMALLY opens in May reopens on Saturday.

The service operates on Saturday afternoons (weather permitting) 2.30-5pm from June  to September (behind the bell tower).

Took their blummin’ time.

DSMEE

Thanks Kevin Whitty

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Borussia Dortmund’s rather brilliant anti-Nazi promo. To wit:

We at BVB make our position unequivocally clear. We will not tolerate any far-right disposition in our stadium. Intimidation and discrimination have no place at our ground. Should anyone have the misguided belief that they can misuse our sport and Borussia Dortmund to spread their inhumane propaganda, then they should be in no doubt: The schwarzgelb family will stand firm against them! It is the only way we can rid our stadia of such attitudes. Nazis and football do not go together!

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