If you’re a mini PETROLHEAD.
John Swan and son Lionel arriving in their Ferrari at the RIAC (Royal Irish Automobile Club) National Classic Car Show 2014 today at the RDS Simmonscourt., Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Year and model anyone?
UPDATE: 308 (1979).
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
[Stall holder Betty Creed (top) and William Allright (above) with the Dublin Discovery Gospel Choir]
Members of the Dublin Discovery Gospel Choir – ‘Ireland’s leading multi-cultural choir’ celebrated their 10th birthday with Mr Walter Allright from Donnybrook, Dublin on his 99th birthday on Moore Street in Dublin this morning.
Mmf.
The choir’s 10th anniversary concert ‘ Home takes place next month. Details here.
Fairly ‘amazing’, in fairness.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Angahard writes:
“Grand stretch in the evening. Walking in Griffeen Valley Park, Lucan [Dublin].”
Dame Street, Dublin this evening
Thanks Simon Judge
Raise a ticket stub to William Dargan.
Without him you’d be on the bus.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
“Readers taking the train or DART home today might be interested to know that it is the birthday of William Dargan, who not only brought the railway to Ireland but was the only Irishman ever to have a statue erected to him in his own lifetime, displayed at the Irish Industrial Exhibition which took place on Leinster Lawn [Dublin] in 1853, and which he underwrote.
Queen Victoria attended the exhibition and was very taken with Dargan, whom she found ‘touchingly modest and simple’, going so far as to press his arm to show him that she had ‘the… intellect to understand and… heart to appreciate’ his work.
Dargan, an Irish patriot whose fortune declined in later years, invited the Queen to tea at his home in Mount Anville, but steadfastly refused to accept a knighthood. Meanwhile, the Queen’s husband, Prince Albert, remarked sniffily that the Irish public ‘looked like Italian beggars’. I am not sure what happened to his larger-than-life statue (shown above) but I think there is still a mural of the dashingly frockcoated Dargan up on the wall at Bray station?”
Anyone?
Print via MonkstownParish.ie
Alan writes:
Originally listed on 24th Jan 2014 @ €340,000. As of 24th February its €400,000. Thats probably a mistake…right?
Right?
OH yes.
It’s judgment night.
Fluffybiscuits writes:
Tonight is the Eurosong final, can you ask fellow Broadsheet readers to get behind Can-Linn and Kasey Smith [top with Ryan Turbridy] It’s the only song that stands a chance of doing well in Eurovision as it’s good. Eoghan Quigg’s song is a downer, 1989 called and asked Patricia Roe for her song back, Andrew Mann while talented is not Eurovision and the other song is so forgettable that I cant even be bothered looking for it. Come on Kasey!!!
EuroFIGHT!
UPDATE: Can-Linn wins!
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
The grundies of the great and the scants of miscreants.
But whose are whose*?
Prints from Design Different.
(*Answers in tiny script at the bottom of each print. For cheaters.)
We’re tay people ourselves.
But…
Via the very annoyed, in fairness Restaurants Association of Ireland:
“The Restaurants Association of Ireland today called for an end to the distribution of free coffees from Ulster Bank to promote their consumer mortgages. The message communicated by Ulster Bank is very much one of anti-hospitality industry, completely going against their ethos to “help for what matters”. As an institution that has always represented itself as the prime consumer and small business lender, Ulster Bank is showing little or no support for small hospitality businesses through this tragic PR stunt.
Speaking on the PR nightmare, Chief Executive of the Restaurants Association Adrian Cummins said, “For every cup of coffee Ulster Bank continues to give out free of charge, struggling cafes and restaurant owners are deprived of their daily morning/afternoon income. These people are struggling to fulfil bank payments, and instead of supporting local business, Ulster Bank have effectively employed an independent marketing company to do the exact opposite.”
Splutter.
Thanks DD
It’s not all clogs and ‘erb.
Daryl Mulvihill writes:
Amsterdam city council just sent out a letter as gaelige to its Irish residents….
Translation: “As a resident of Europe living in the Netherlands, you can decide to vote in elections in the Netherlands for candidates for the European parliament. You will receive a form to clarify. Read the terms and conditions on the form carefully please if you want to vote. If you want to vote in your native country please ignore the form. If you want to vote in the Netherlands and you are not registered please return this form with the relevant documents to the following address.”
