Wrights of Howth, Dublin Airport doing an Oliver St John Gogarty with their €4.29 Pound of Kerrygold butter (sells in Tesco for €2.95)
Ridiculously good value for Dublin Airport, in fairness.
You’ll have seen the Justin Bieber/Harry Styles You Tube comment-off (top) gloriously reconstructed by British actors Grahame Edwards and Eryl Lloyd Parry earlier this week.
Well they’re back already with a sequel – this time dramatising a NSFW argument between Latinsha Duke and MIKEFUCKINGWINS23 on the viral GoPro: Fireman Saves Kitten.
Maria Duffy writes:
Following our Love/Hate table quiz– we present our Fr Ted quiz with all proceeds going to help SpunOut continue to support young people around Ireland.
Date: Tuesday, December 10th.
Time: 7:00pm sharp.
Location: D2|Nightclub, 60 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.
Price: €24 for a team of four, or €6 per person.
Tay: Whether you like it or not.
Father Ted Quiz
Good and bad in new tourism statistics. One that jumps out is a 44% drop in overnight holidaymakers from the Republic during Jan to July.
— Julian O’Neill (@julianoneill) November 28, 2013
Anyone?
Let’s run it up the fleg pole.
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
It doesn’t all go on salaries.
The ‘Goalies’ of GOAL are delivering tarpaulins, kitchen sets, mosquito nets and other essential aid to more than 6,500 people this week in the Jaro Municipality on Leyte Island in the typhoon-struck Philippines.
Fair play, etc.
From top: GOAL’s James Kelly with Lea Go ( a local councillor); boy carrying Mosquito nets; GOAL humanitarian officer Kevin Murphy; Kevin with GOAL global humanitarian advisor Frank McManus; Villagers in Paresen carrying supplies.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

https://vimeo.com/80200103#at=0
A light project entitled Lucid Stead by artist Phillip K Smith III unveiled last month in the high desert at Joshua Tree in Califormia.
Composed of mirror, LED lighting, custom built electronic equipment and Arduino programming amalgamated with a preexisting structure, this architectural intervention, at first, seems alien in context to the bleak landscape. Upon further viewing, Lucid Stead imposes a delirious, almost spiritual experience. Like the enveloping vista that changes hue as time passes, Lucid Stead transforms. In daylight the 70 year old homesteader shack, that serves as the armature of the piece, reflects and refracts the surrounding terrain like a mirage or an hallucination.
Bad, bad news for Irish publishing: Books Ireland shuts after @artscouncilhelp withdraws funding pic.twitter.com/JPAdSsGuxK
— Sinabhfuil (@Sinabhfuil) November 28, 2013
Nothing says Dubai more than a re-worked Eagles cover performed by an oversized Leprechaun.
On a Sheikh Zayed Highway, Warm wind in my hair.
Warm smell of Sheesha, rising up through the air.
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light.
I said, “that’s either a stalagmite, or it’s the Burj Khalifa alright!”A model met me at the doorway, and a big big bouncer as well.
I was thinking to myself, “This could be heaven or this could be hell!”
I asked if they took cobone discounts, she said “No Sir, NO WAY!”
There was a Paddyman singing in the corner, I thought I heard him say:Welcome to the Hotel Burj Khalifa, such a lovely place, such a lovely place.
They’re living it up at the Hotel Burj Khalifa, any time of year, you can find it here.So I called up room service, please bring me your best wine
He said, “That’ll be a million dirhams” and I said. ‘That’ll do just fine!”
So I drank it with chicken wings and hamburgers for fun.
And to wash down the chocolate cake, I ordered another one.Last thing I remember I was running for the door.
They finally checked my credit card and their jaws dropped to the floor.
“Relax” said the night man. ‘I’m from country Kerry. I’ve been working here to pay my bill since 1963!”Welcome to the Hotel Burj Khalifa, such a lovely place, such a lovely place.
They’re living it up at the Hotel Burj Khalifa, any time of year, you can find it here.
By The Paddyman