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A mere sample from the treasure-laden Behind The Gifs subreddit wherein backstories to popular gifs are presented for your delectation.


Tokyo cityscapes blurred to bokeh abstraction by photographer Takashi Kitajima who surrounds the distant focal points of his nighttime shots with the magical glow of out-of-focus light sources in the foreground.
Angela Kerins, CEO of de Rehab was on a salary of €234,000 nearly two years ago.
If you can guess the exact figure Ms Kerins earns TODAY (once it is revealed) a special top-up [a remaindered copy of the ‘Broadsheet Buke of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland’ more than likely] could be yours.
Lines close at 6pm. Extended 9am Wednesday.
Rehab Chief Stays Tight-Lipped On pay (Irish Independent)
“A young itinerant is forced to confront his secret heritage.” Which gritty indie movie is @AerLingus describing??? pic.twitter.com/91dn5f2bR5
— Siobhán Colivet (@shivvycol) January 7, 2014
An addition to Donal Moloney’s series on the homeless in Dublin
Christmas day in Westland Row, Dublin with a present-laden Martin and some complimentary festive nom and hooch.
Hang on.
Where are the pigeons?
Previously: Pigeon man: The Interview
GoodBadFlicks laments the descent into lazy cliche of film poster art.
Teal and orange overload, giant floating heads, faces with words on them.
They’re all here. All the time.
The Kentucky Irish-American newspaper, April 1900.
Ger Ryan writes:
Things could have been so so different for the west
Britof Dublin….
Ah now.
The world’s tech companies are coming to Dublin, as the Irish prime minister and his various trade representatives will tell you. Yet every morning, the man in charge [Data Protection Commissioner] of overseeing how these companies use our data cycles to Heuston station, takes a 50-minute train ride out of Dublin, and walks the last five minutes to his office next to a convenience store in Portarlington, a town of some 7,500 people in the Irish midlands…
They’re laughing at us again.
Public Concern About Access To Personal Data On Rise In Ireland (Elaine Edwards, irish Times)
Thanks Serv
Last Saturday’s Irish Independent reported that the former Anglo Irish Bank compiled a list of ‘politically-exposed persons’ (PEP) borrowers, which included certain rugby players, RTÉ stars, musicians, judges and some senior legal professionals, before it was liquidated last February.
The paper reported that the list was presented to the board of IBRC every quarter after it was nationalised in 2009 and that some of the high-profile borrowers’ details were provided by the IBRC to the State under a dedicated ‘Relationship Framework’ document, regulating dealings between the Finance Minister and the bank, after it was taken into State ownership.
At the time IBRC was liquidated, many of these loans were performing, others were impaired while other debtors couldn’t agree on a repayment strategy.
The newspaper didn’t reveal any names and, in its editorial said: “The identity of the PEPs was and remains confidential.”
But yesterday, the paper reported further on the list, saying six Catholic religious orders were placed on the PEP list, as well as a retired senior judge, an RTÉ star, an insolvency expert, a bestselling novelist, a member of the Seanad, lawyers, journalists, some of the country’s leading pension funds, a prominent businessman (*cough*) and a property syndicate, involving a number of “law library luminaries”
The Sisters of the Infant Jesus were on the PEP list and ‘suffered in the crash’, while the Diocese of Ossory escaped without any losses.
Meanwhile, this morning, the Irish Times reports former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Alan Dukes saying:
“The relationship framework between Anglo/IBRC and the Minister for Finance provided for notification to the Minister of matters of potential public interest. Very few such cases actually arose. In no case was there any discussion of preferential treatment of any kind… “IBRC created the lists of politically exposed or high-profile persons to ensure there could be no suggestion that any credit decision in relation to somebody well-known or influential had been granted preferentially.”
Hmmm.
No Special Deals For Listed Anglo Borrowers Says Alan Duke Tom Lyons, Irish Times)
Religous Orders On Politically Exposed Anglo List (Irish Independent)
RTE stars, judges and rugby elite who owe Anglo millions (Irish Independent)