Mark Tighe of the Sunday Times has his penalty saved by Richard Boyd Barrett who despite injury effortlessly moves to the right during last night’s Politicians Vs Journalists match at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.
The event raised over €40,000 for Temple Street Hospital and Concern.
ESB Charity Cup 2013 (Storify)
Journalists pay penalty in political showdown at Aviva Stadium (RTE News)
Previously: Danger Here
Zoë and her bike when the world was full of possibilities.
Zoë writes:
Here’s me and my bicycle [on] the day that I got it. I’ve had it for 4 years, but it was stolen last night from outside Peter’s Pub on South William Street, [Dublin]. I really, really want to get it back if I can, so more people keeping an eye out for it would be great.
Outside the Donore boxing club, St Theresa Garden’s, Dublin.
Donal Moloney writes:
Congratulations to Jason Quigley [he has just won silver in the World boxing championships in Kazakstan] from the kids from Donore boxing club and everyone at St Theresa’s Gardens flats.
Jason Quigley has to settle for silver as unbeaten run ends (Irish Independent)
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An incredibly contemporary-looking and rather chilling colourised photo of the would-be assassin Lewis Powell following his arrest in 1865.
Powell – who conspired with John Wilkes Booth to kill President Lincoln – attempted to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, which he failed to do, despite his brutal best efforts.
From a series of recently colourised US Civil War era photographs.
READ ON: The Would-Be Assassin And The Camera (Michael Sacasas, Petapixel)
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
Illustrations from The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual by Simon Rich and Farley Katz.
Impressive animal portraits emerging from a complex swirl of intricate, expressive strokes of jet black ink by UK artist Si Scott.
Les O’Byrne writes:
Don’t you just love Bollywood Movie Titles?
Mickey Virus (2013). From IMDb:
When Delhi Police comes across an unusual case revolving around hacking they seek help of an expert who thinks like them only to come across a lazy hacker Mickey Arora.
Ah. Of course.
