Aaaaggghh!!
Tara Sparling writes:
The closed-down Guiney’s in Talbot Street [Dublin]. Scariest shop window in Dublin?
Splutter.
James Timelord writes:
The Roberts Roberts [Irish coffee company] folks are doing a Random Acts of Kindness thing on Twitter. Use their hashtag and you can win free stuff. They call it Random Acts of Cup Kindness with the hashtag is #RACK. And when you click on it … well “the perfect cup” is not what they thought it was…
[Leo Varadkar during the Hell and Back event in Wicklow last year]
Saturday…
Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar said the €50 million “seems extraordinary” and more detail was needed.
Irish Water Faces Criticism Over 50 Million Spend (irish Times, Saturday)
Monday…
Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has backed Irish Water, commenting that “in time” people will see the benefits of the new authority.
Varadkar: People Will See Benefits Of Irish Water (Irish Times, today)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
A short punchy trailer for Ponydance: The Movie by Broadsheet pals Doris/Magee Productions [AKA Derek O’Connor and Ian Whelan], and produced by Willie White about Belfast dance troupe Ponydance on TG4 TONIGHT at 8pm.
Previously:
An ambitious forecast by BBC Future – what to expect from 1000 years in the future to 10 quadrillion (100,000,000,000,000,000,000) years hence.
Don’t make any plans.
Full sized version here.
This afternoon.
Ross Coghlan writes:
Crying chair/traffic cone, Meath street, Liberties [Dublin]
Glasnevin, Dublin this evening
Thanks Cathal O’Rourke
Update:
At Smithfield Fruit and Veg market, Smithfield, Dublin.
Thanks Piajade
Update:
Dublin city this evening at 5.05pm.
Thanks Emmet Martin
Shameful coverage of the Castleknock killing in most of today’s papers.
— Shane Hegarty (@shanehegarty) January 13, 2014
Good to see the Irish Times and RTE sensitivity in coverage of death in Castleknock. Disappointing to see Guardian’s line of speculation.
— Shane Hegarty (@shanehegarty) January 13, 2014
Flowers outside Beechpark, Castleknock, Co Dublin this morning (top and above) and criticism from the Irish Times’ Shane Hegarty.
Man held in Dublin over ‘ritualistic chess killing’ (Henry McDonald, The Guardian)
Earlier: Charged
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Dear God, fetch the chalk. We’ve found another one. pic.twitter.com/mIcvdxE5a1
— Lisa (@BiscuitAhoy) January 13, 2014
..leave me where I am, I’m only sleeping.
Passenger numbers at @DublinAirport up 6% to 20.2m in 2013. An extra 1.1M customers. http://t.co/s5WCQujmSe #aviation #growth
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) January 13, 2014