Filmaker Evan Parson’s evocative NSFW animation (an excerpt from the Oscar nominated 2007 documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience) of a typically grim, brutal and fearful day in the life of a US soldier in Iraq – based on a true account by veteran and writer Colby Buzzell who was deployed in Iraq from 2003 to 2005.
“Sup?
Dean McLaughlin tweetz:
Corpse of a Minke Whale found at Magilligan Point [Co Derry] on Tuesday. The MOD [Ministry of Defence] liaised with HM Coastguard and Limavady Council…
Irish woman amongst the women rescued from 30 years of slavery. @SkyEnda reports for #drivetimerte
— Drivetime RTE (@drivetimerte) November 22, 2013
Works for Sky.
No London bureau see?
At least he’s fuppin Irish.
Previously: Was It For Telefís?
UPDATE:
Meanwhile, over on TV3 on the 5.30pm news:
TV3 reporter Geraldine Lynagh, live from London.
UPDATE:
On the Six One News:
RTÉ’s Ray Kennedy, live from London.
They’re back.
Bigger, knobblier and mercifully blight-free.
“The Lumper potato, which gets its name from its knobbly appearance, had not been commercially cultivated since the potato famine in the 1840s when it was virtually wiped out. Glens of Antrim, a family run business operating for 41 years in the rural town of Cushendall in Co. Antrim, have set out about bring it back in to production.”
They’re no Skerries’ roosters, in fairness
Lumper potato returns to Marks and Spencer Ireland (Shelflife.ie)
Related: Antrim farmer revives Irish famine potato (BBC)
Pic: National Geographic
Frequent visitor Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore laying a wreath at the US Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin today marking the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK.
The embassy’s unusual design (by John Mac L. Johansen and Irish architect, Michael Scott) was personally approved by President Kennedy when he took office in 1960.
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland, US Embassy (top)
The picket fence on the grassy knoll at Dealy Dallas where many believe a second gunman fired on President John F Kennedy fifty years ago today (around 6pm Irish time).
Unable to conduct their own ceremonies on the plaza, as they have done annually since the murder, groups of conspiracy theorists – they prefer to be called “assassination researchers” – are holding conferences at nearby hotels. Officials have told them they will be permitted on to the plaza at 2.30pm.
Earlier this week, city workers re-laid the road surface along Elm Street, removing sections that had been marked by conspiracy theorists with Xs to show the approximate locations where Kennedy was hit.
Meanwhile…
Co Waterford- based Pulitzer finalist Anthony Summers has revealed the identity of a previously unknown possible marksman in the assassination of JFK in his updated book ‘Not in Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK’.
The man – named by Summers as Hermínio Díaz García – was a Cuban, a crack shot and a known political assassin who had already killed some twenty people.
Sez Summers:
“Today 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. In all that time no one, other than Lee Harvey Oswald, has ever been plausibly named as having perhaps taken part in the assassination. Now, there is reason to suspect that this anti-Castro Cuban freedom fighter fired at President Kennedy.”
Díaz fought alongside the most aggressive anti-Castro exiles and reportedly told his leader Tony Cuesta, head of the group Commandos L, that he personally took part in the President’s assassination.
The fresh information surfaced in an unexpected call to the former chief counsel of the U.S. Congress’ Assassinations Committee, Professor Robert Blakey.
Eighty-one-year old Reinaldo Martínez, himself a Cuban exile living in Miami, said he had information he wished to share before he died.
Professor Blakey, together with Summers flew to Florida, questioned Martinez in depth with Blakey haileing the new information as a “breakthrough of historic importance.”
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— Jess SilverGreenberg (@jbsgreenberg) November 22, 2013
Harrison Ford is left speechless by a card trick performed by David Blaine.
Pffft!
Nothing like travelling through the galaxy at hyperdrive lightspeed.
Cormac Farrell tweetz:
Just found a nuclear fallout survival manual in my grannies house. Now where’s the iodine tablets.