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While Ireland slept…

Burklert writes:

[Irish Navy vessel] LE Aoife on Saturday evening in Cobh, Co Cork. Video was taken by somebody other than I. We passed there by boat not long after they had the situation under control. We were wondering why there was so much activity going on, this video fills in the gaps…

Stay for the commentary.

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Rosanna Davison and juggling clown Garry Rossiter today.

Anyone?

Lines close at 6pm

UPDATE: Yes it’s the launch of the Irish Heart Foundation’s ‘Fats of Life’ campaign supported by the HSE to “encourage more adults to replace bad fats in their diet with healthier ones so they can reduce their cholesterol.” Obviously.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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“When finished, the bridge will carry a single southbound tram track in the centre and two southbound bus and cycle lanes either side, one lane going straight on to Marlborough Street, the other turning right and heading towards O’Connell Bridge.”

The Irish Times’ southbound only Liffey bridge.

What, no passport controls?

Also: FIGHT!

New but nameless, we can cross that Liffey bridge when we come to it (in February) (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Thanks Ruadhán

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Ella Zulia.

Landed in Dublin on this day, 1904.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

 The wire-walker Ella Zuila the most famous Australian public entertainer of her time, though now almost forgotten:

Ella didn’t just walk the wire; she cycled it; wheeled a child over it in a barrow; walked it in stilts and with a full-body blindfold, and, on one memorable occasion, hung from it by her knees to catch her fired-out-of-a-cannon husband.

Sadly, Ella’s career came to a tragic end in Dublin, on this date in 1904, when she and her tricycle fell off the high wire in the Round Room of the Rotunda. There was no safety net, and she was too badly injured ever to perform again. She died in 1926. A little plaque to her in the Rotunda wouldn’t go astray, surely?

 

Ella Zuila (SimplyAustralia)

Pic via US Library of Congress

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A bubble, yes.

The bubble, no.

But we know a man whose property investments my well be.

G’wan the boom.

Huge Dublin property surge sparks frenetic bids (Jerome Reilly Sunday Independent)

Previously: Obsessed

Graphic: Independent.ie

Thanks Paddy Joe

 

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Youtuber naturebatslast plays his dog Cecil several recordings of wolves howling. Cecil responds appropriately.

Wolves have a far more sophisticated range of vocalisations that domestic dogs, so – as one Redditor puts it – Cecil’s response could be something akin to George Costanza’s dismissive ‘yadda, yadda, yadda’.

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