Worth every cent.
The former right of way through Lissadell House in Co Sligo. The entire estate was purchased for approximately €4m in 2004.
Private property again.
They might have a look at those potholes now.
G’wan de land de land de land de land de land.
Etc.
Supreme Court overturns Lissadell House ruling (RTE)
Previously: The Right Of Way Through Lissadell House, Co Sligo
The winning proposal in an international competition to rejuvenate the Changsha Meixi lake district in China – an undulating, 500-foot-long steel bridge spanning the Dragon King Harbor River, inspired by the Möbius strip and designed by Beijing and Amsterdam-based firm NEXT Architects.
Construction begins in 2014.
[Commemorating] Armistice Day, College Green, Dublin 11am, November 11, 1924.
Via National Library of Ireland:
This huge crowd was gathered in College Green for the unveiling of a Celtic Cross in memory of the 16th Irish Division. The Irish Times estimated that 50,000 people were present at this ceremony. The Celtic Cross was temporarily erected in College Green for later transport to Guillemont, France, to stand as a permanent memorial to the dead of the 16th Irish Division.
TheStory.ie is a crowd-funded investigative website run by journalists Gavin Sheridan (who co-founded the site with Mark Coughlan) and Ken Foxe and lawyer Fred Logue that sources Freedom of Information documents.
It has obtained a mass of unseen data since it began four years ago, funded by public donations.
Gavin writes:
As time went on we developed new techniques for seeking data rather than paper, techniques to obtain large amounts of information with a single request, included billions of euro of previously undisclosed public expenditure. We have trained journalists in Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Spain.
However, proposed changes to the funding of FOI requests (including a raft of hidden charges) could spell their end.
Gavin adds:
We’ve had sight of new amendments to the FOI Bill 2013 proposed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform [above].
We will be blunt: if passed, Freedom of Information is dead. TheStory.ie will, in all likelihood, cease all FOI requests. And we will not seek funding from the public to support an immoral, cynical, unjustified and probably illegal FOI fee regime.
We will not pay for information that the public already pays for. We will not support a system that perpetuates an outrageous infringement of citizen rights.
READ ON: Killing Freedom of Information in Ireland (Gavin Sheridan, TheStory.ie)
All of the papers agreed,
That some Cyrus is just what they need,
Though it has to be said,
She’s no clothes left to shed,
So instead she just sparked up some weed.
John Moynes
Pic: Billboard
A [21-year-old] former classroom assistant (above) who allegedly made a sex tape with a Belfast schoolboy that ended up on a pornographic website could face up to five years in prison for ‘abuse of trust’ if charged and convicted.
The former classroom assistant was suspended from St Mary’s Christian Brothers Boy’s Grammar School in west Belfast after a 30-minute sex video, featuring her and a teenager, thought to be a 16-year-old, emerged on the internet.
The age of consent for sexual activity in Northern Ireland is 16, however it is illegal for anyone in a position of trust to engage in sexual activity with a person under 18 years of age.
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What you may need to know:
1. We live in a world where Vince Vaughn is still a movie star, apparently. That said, he was in Swingers, Made (2001), Zoolander (2001), Old School (2003), Anchorman (2004) and Dodgeball (2004), and it looks like he’s been working hard to lose the bloat, so we’re still willing to forgive him a decade of poo – with the possible exception of Fred Claus (2007).
2. Simon Delaney with half-decent American accent @ ’20
3. Chris Pratt, AKA Andy from Parks & Recreation @ 50. He has since transmogrified into a Marvel hero.
4. What Richard Did Next: Jack Reynor makes US movie debut @ 1’02. Looking good.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Vince learns important lessons about growing up, scores possible hit in process. And yes, he’s in Anchorman 2 (2013).
Release Date: January 10
*cough*
atSo whoever brought home two of our trophies “by accident” on Wednesday, can we have them back? Or we might just put CCTV screenshots online
— 2013 Web Awards (@webawards) November 11, 2013
Previously: This Is Not A Sex Toy