A Pro-Morsi rally on O’Connell Street, Dublin, organised by the Egyptian-Irish Forum this evening.
Thanks Ray Ray, Shane Griffin and Rachael Kane
Tesco, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
Thanks Pjade
Drug dealer turf markings? Tributes to murdered friends? Tokens of lost virginity? Or just aggressive littering?
The Mystery of Flying Kicks – directed in 2010 by Australian self-confessed ‘sneaker head’ Mathew Bate – seeks the truth behind an urban phenomenon at which most people have wondered and around which an entire subculture has grown up. Sez he:
In an effort to get to the truth once and for all we asked the people of earth to help us solve this mystery. Using an on-line call out and a phone message bank, this documentary was made entirely from donated photographs, phoned-in theories, video, vlogs, and animation.
Ah here.
A much needed Panda cub update from Tapei Zoo.
They must never become extinct.
Via Huffington Post
Thanks John Gallen
US 800m silver medalist Nick Symmonds dedicated his medal to his gay and lesbian friends and called for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.
“As much as I can speak about it, I believe that all humans deserve equality as however God made them,” he said to R-Sport. “Whether you’re gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there’s anything I can do to champion the cause, I will, shy of getting arrested.”
“I respect Russians’ ability to govern their people. I disagree with their laws.”
Impressive.
But he seems to be carrying a lighter lunch than Rob, in fairness.
US athlete Nick Symmonds speaks out against Russia’s anti-gay law in Moscow (Alan Luhn, Guardian)
Pic: Getty Images
Meanwhile…
Jade Kelly (left) and Rose Mullen chained to the railings outside the Russian Embassy, Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin, in protest at Russia’s anti-gay laws.
Thanks Sarah Meyler
Mario and Fafa present the case against and for the retirement of the legend that is Johnny Depp, to wit: poor Tim Burton will be ruined, but there won’t be another Pirates Of The Caribbean sequel.
Giant Waterford Man in Dublin, part deux.
By Lee Grace, who sez:
This second illustration (see first here) is the scene taken from a street perspective with a few characters trying to get me the hell out of the way!
This week’s le cool Dublin issue
Meanwhile, free this evening?
Ciaran Le Cool writes:
We’re putting on the street art show of the year later this evening in the Dublin Whiskey Company (33 Mill St, Dublin 8). The best of Irish graffitti and street art on show. 7-11pm. All welcome…
What do we want?
A high-tech voter database.
The Union of Students of Ireland launching SERD (Student Elector Registration Database). A national student voter whastit allowing the USI to “marshall and influence hundreds of thousands of votes in constituencies all over the country”.
As the database will instantly match student votes to constituencies and local TDs.
FIGHT!
From top: President of the USI Joe O Connor; Michaella Hannick (Athlone IT), at left, and Karen Cambell (IT Tallaght); group shot.
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
Everything you needed to know about being a good Catholic wife in 1938 but were afraid to ask.
Your husband comes first in the house. His will should prevail. Therefore you belong to him more than to your parents (p. 23).
You are beginning a new life which you have entered through sacred doors. It was not a mere ceremony which took place before God’s altar. God’s hands were extended over you in blessing for the holy task which lies before you (p. 3)
And, in the context of the recent debate Ireland has had on abortion, here’s a section called ‘A Murderess’
When the mother’s life is endangered by the birth of the child, the life that is coming may not be destroyed. Even the doctor may not do this. He may do all that is possible to save the mother’s life except anything that would directly destroy the life of the child … Woe to the mother who is a murderess! (p. 26).
Good times.
‘Your Husband Comes First in the House’: a Catholic Guide for The Young Wife (Ciara Meehan)
The Dublin City Business Improvement District (BID) said restricting access to O’Connell Street to allow the State and community event marking the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lockout and Bloody Sunday would see shops lose trade on one of the busiest retail days of the year.
Shops oppose Lockout commemoration on Dublin’s O’Connell Street (Irish Times
How about when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth visited in 2011?
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Thanks Oireachtas Retort