The grounds of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin this afternoon ahead of the Forbidden Fruit Festival this weekend featuring the Flaming Lips and Public Enemy.
A nation of millions can’t hold us back.
Mmm, Cupcake
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A 5hp, 38mph electric golfcart modeled on Bale-era Batman’s ex-military hooptie.
Leather seats, four-link rear suspension, an iPad stand – none of these things will detract from that salmon-pink Pringle jumper you’ll be sporting at the wheel.
A mere $35,000 (€25.700) from Hammacher Schlemmer.
We’re great.
No really.
“To help launch Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular, a Free Family Festival in Dublin and Cork in July this year, incorporating the best of the Street Performance World Championship and expanding to Music, Food and more, we asked fans, followers and friends to tell us what they think makes Dublin Spectacular.”
Laya’s Healthcare Spectacular (Facebook)
Thanks DD
Harbo Towers
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Nice front vroom, in fairness.
“Niall ‘Harbo’ Harbison [Controversial, web-bothering click ‘ho’] has put his Ranelagh, Dublin pad on the market.. Maybe he’s off to the northside?”
FIGHT!
The twentysomething “pull-out generation”.
Poster demographic for unprotected sex.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett writes:
“Add an abnormal smear test result into the mix (pre-cancerous cells on the cervix are usually caused by human papillomavirus, HPV; up to eight out of 10 people will be infected with it at some point. As a character in Girls says, “all adventurous girls” have it) and I became pretty convinced of the importance of strapping it up…”
Splutter.
Unsafe Sex; why everyone’s at it (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslettt Guardian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx2EP-6he-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpeZDzQhqyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1AQv6hI2oo
Via today’s Irish News (unavailable online)
NI First Minister Peter Robinson has voiced support for the Belfast preacher whose firebrand sermon is at the centre of a hate crime investigation.
The DUP leader said that in the past he had joined the congregation of Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle to listen to Pastor James McConnell (above) preach and that he intended to go back to the church in the future.
He described the preacher as “somebody who has lived his life for Christ”. The first minister said it was “the duty of any Christian preacher to denounce false doctrine”. “That’s a duty – so he’s perfectly entitled to do that – it’s an appropriate thing for a minister to do”, he said.
The DUP leader also said he did not trust Muslims who had been involved in “terrorist activities” or those who were “fully devoted to Sharia Law”. But he did say he would “trust them to go down the shops for me” and undertake other day-to-day tasks.
Right so.
No word from the First Minister about the homophobic sermons then?
Peter Robinson under fire for backing Pastor James McConnell’s Islamic remarks (BBC News)
Wolverine
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[Jordan Belfort in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin last night]
He advised the [2,500] mostly sales personnel and entrepreneurs in attendance to take action. “Successful people take action: they are not held back by their fears. They move into situations that stretch them.”
$80 a ticket.
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ on the prowl in Dublin (IPamela Newenham, Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
Me So Tony
atPaul from East Cork says he didn’t need any degree to be an Anthony Hopkins lookalike… Er… What do you think? pic.twitter.com/SZxdnWdFlQ
— 96fm Opinion Line (@OpinionLine96) May 28, 2014
Uncanny.
Former Fianna Fáil senator Dan Kiely is pressing ahead with a legal challenge to the result of the local election in the Listowel electoral area. The now independent candidate lost out by just two votes to Fine Gael’s Mike Kennelly in the final count – a result that was upheld in a recount demanded by Mr Kiely on Sunday.
Mr Kiely is now going to the courts in an effort to force another recount – one that will allow him to look at the 173 spoiled votes in the Listowel local electoral area.
Mr Kiely said that neither he nor any of his agents were party to the adjudication on the invalid votes on Saturday and did not have an opportunity to examine them before the recount.
Former Senator lost out by two votes (Dónal Nolan, The Kerryman) (not available online)