Enough Is Enough Is Enough

Admin at 4:40 pm August 13, 2013

Today’s Irish Times.

Pierce writes:

I don’t wish to start yet another FIGHT! but Fintan O’Toole’s excellent column in the Irish Times this morning asks an important question: Who Will Be The Last To Suffer For The Mistake of Austerity?
To help him answer can I suggest he has a look around his newsroom. The Irish Times has gently urged us to embrace austerity since this fiasco began and, like the property boom, will be the very last to shout ‘stop’. And no one will ‘suffer’.

FIGHT!

Who will be the last to suffer for the mistake of austerity? (Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times)

Eye Candy: Sugar Series

Admin at 4:21 pm August 13, 2013

Sugar Series – sweeties, gum, bars and other nommables organised by colour by Texan photographer Emily Blincoe (soon to be available as prints).

OCDeeply satisfying.

22words/thisisnthappiness

Pure Mules

Admin at 4:15 pm August 13, 2013

Michaella McCollum Connolly, from Dungannon (left) and her friend Melissa Reid being questioned by a customs official in Lima airport, Peru, after the pair were detained as they were about to board a flight to Madrid, Spain.

The National Police of Peru said they found more than 24lb of cocaine hidden in food in the luggage of the two women.

Video: The Guardian

Drug Mule Suspect ‘Forced To Take Items (Dan Collins, Guardian)

Train Strike

Admin at 4:12 pm August 13, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNESdSe4ZZs

Via Channel 4 News:

Spectacular footage of Odakyu electric train struck by lightning in Tokyo, Japan.

Young PUPs

Admin at 4:04 pm August 13, 2013

Congratulations to one our youth members who won Gold at Bisley in the Smallbore Rifle Competition. pic.twitter.com/xbLOZCmEKX

— PortadownPUP (@PortadownPUP) August 12, 2013

Safety catch yourself on.

The Progressive Unionist Party putting the gun back into Irish/British politics.

Classic Classic Parking

Admin at 3:40 pm August 13, 2013

Outside the Dropping Well pub, Miltown, Dublin this afternoon.

Thanks Jim Redmond

Thoughtless

Admin at 3:39 pm August 13, 2013

Best thought for the day ever @CorkEveningEcho pic.twitter.com/7h9OOnc3LD

— Conall Ó Fátharta (@ococonuts) August 13, 2013

Platform Boot

Admin at 3:38 pm August 13, 2013

A train recently.

Peter Gribben writes:

I’ve always been a rail user, but feel the prices are making travelling really hard to justify it at the minute. CIE were up in the Dail last month defending their spend for the year, but Irish Rail continue to be performing badly, particulary on the Dublin – Limerick route I take, which is slower than the bus…

Irish rail are pushing their summer sale at the moment, which is three times as expensive as Bus Eireann’s promotion [€5 each way]. Does anyone know why they can afford to drop to these prices, but still look for more money? Are we paying for both the service of these, and then the reduction of the fares on the service too?

Anyone?

Pic: Munsterugby.ie