[Bodybuilder Oli Cooney who died age 20]
He had stopped taking the anabolic steroids but the irreversible and long-term damage to his heart had already been done. Despite having three heart attacks and two strokes, which left him with weakness down one side and without speech for a time, he responded well to physiotherapy but returned to working out at the gym three or four times a week.
He told a nurse he would rather have another heart attack than another stroke because of the effect a stroke would have on his body.
An ingenious if long-winded mechanical timepiece created in 2013 by Turnvator Janosch.
Every minute, a ball is released onto an inclined track where traps indicate the time in minute, five-minute and hourly intervals.
Driven by a 2.5kg weight, the clock runs for twelve hours at a time and according to its inventor, has an accuracy error of just one second in 24 hours.
No Give
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John Gallen writes:
“For the day what’s in it… New research from Amárach shows the effect that recent charity scandals is having on the charity of the public. Some highlights…. (study conducted last month). “Percentage of Irish who don’t give to charity increased from 11% to 24% from 2005 to 2014.” Obviously, there’s the crash in there too. But, since the recent charity scandals broke, and namely the CRC scandal, 62% of people have ‘changed their perception of charities’. SIXTY TWO ! It gets worse…. a whopping 55% say they have ‘reduced their willingness to donate to charities‘…”
Show Me The Ring.
From Sketchy Productions.
Starring Stephen Donnelly Paul Lalor, Mark Breen (flashing) and Emma Doran. Filmed and edited by Daniel Dalton.
Name that location anyone?
What you may need to know:
1. It’s James Gandolfini’s last movie.
2. It stars Tom Hardy. Baaaaaaaaaannnnne.
3. It’s written by novelist Dennis Lehane, adapting his own short story. He also wrote Shutter Island (2010), Mystic River (2010) and Gone Baby Gone (2007).
4. We do like a gritty low-rent crime flick.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Hardy Boiled
Release Date: September
Scenes from the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Cumann na mBan at Glasnevin Cemetery, Glasnevin, Dublin today.
From top: The granddaughter of Thomas McDonagh, Muriel McAuley by the graveside of Cumann na mBan founding member Elizabeth O’Farrell; Members of an all female Tri Service Guard of Honour drawn from 6th Infantary Battalion, the Air Corps and the Naval Service; Mrs Squee, Sabina Coyne.
Earlier: Available In The GPO
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
[The Ansley Sailor Silver (top) as sported by Darren Kennedy (right) with mermen David Gandy, and Oliver Cheshire at June Rodgers in The Red Cow Inn a fashion whatsit in January]
Audi Murray writes:
The Ansley Watch Company was founded in 2012 by Arthur Smith an Irish entrepreneur from Dublin and an Irish-based Swedish designer, both completely Horology obsessed with a penchant for Vintage watches. We’ve launched 2 unisex collections;The Army Series’, and ‘The Sailor Series’ in Sweden and in Ireland we’re having a fantastic reaction from customers,stockists and hope to export Ansley this year. We’re firmly committed to keeping Ansley production in Ireland and we feel there are so many small companies within the Heritage community that can add to the Ansley brand.
Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked Irish-Made Stuff. No fee, timepieces, etc.
Pssst!
Would you like the above watch – worth €149 on YOUR wrist for nothing?
Ansley have given us one to GIVEAWAY.
They would like YOU to complete this timely sentence
Would you ever just give the Ansley watch to_______________________ because of his/her history of lateness [may include anecdote here].
Lines MUST close at 5.45pm 6.35pm
Finally.
A vast and exhausting exhaustive overhaul to our Thin Blue Timeline covering all aspects of the Garda trouble of late. A graphic version will be completed tomorrow for those who like pictures with their text. Thanks to all who suggested entries. All errors will be corrected.
Behold then the diary of an appalling vista.
December 22, 1996:
French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier is beaten to death outside her holiday home near Toormore, Schull, Co. Cork on the night of December 22, 1996. Her murder remains unsolved.
1997 – 1998 2007:
[Dates unknown] Ian Bailey is twice arrested over the course of 1997 and 1998, for questioning about Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder. During both arrests he was taken to Bandon Garda Stations, where he denied killed Ms Du Plantier and was released without charge.
December 2, 2003:
Kieran Boylan, from Ardee, Co. Louth is caught by members of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in a ‘Garda stakeout’ receiving more than €700,000 worth of cocaine and heroin at Dublin Port. He’s charged and released on bail.
October 6, 2005:
Boylan is caught with €1.7million of cocaine and heroin in Ardee, Co. Louth, by members of the Garda National Drugs Unit.
December 21, 2005:
It’s reported Boylan was remanded on bail by Judge Desmond Hogan pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to the Dublin Port charges. The court heard a detective garda agree with Boylan’s defence lawyers that Boylan believed the heroin he collected was cocaine and that this indicated that he was not ‘in the hierarchy of the operation’. The court also heard the detective accept that Boylan was in debt and under pressure from his associates in England – whom Boylan was involved with before when he was jailed for 7 and a 1/2 years in England over cannabis possession, in 1997.
February 16, 2006:
It’s reported that Judge Desmond Hogan – again in relation to the Dublin Port charges – sentences Boylan for five years and suspends the final two years, on condition Boylan keeps the peace.
2007:
[Dates unknown]
It’s reported on March 30, 2014 that three gardaí told an internal inquiry, carried out by now retired Assistant Commissioner Ray McAndrew, that Ms Farrell received preferential treatment during the early stages of the investigation into the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, as she was considered an “important” witness. RTÉ’s This Week reported: “This includes one allegation in 2006 that a senior garda inquired about whether garda funds could be used to pay for fines, including speeding fines, owed by Ms Farrell. That internal report, carried out by a now retired assistant commissioner, Ray McAndrew, over 2006 and 2007, has never been published. However, sections of it have been released under discovery in the legal action taken by Mr Bailey. RTÉ’s This Week has also learned that another senior officer was tasked with investigating the allegation that Ms Farrell was offered preferential treatment as a witness. That report has also not been published.”Continue reading →
Alec Guinness, born 100 years ago today, writes to a friend as he begrudgingly prepares to shoot Star Wars.
Guinness once claimed it was his idea to have Obi Wan die in A New Hope so that he wouldn’t have to reprise the role.