Youtuber LJ Tors sez:
My cat would not stay outside. Here he is squeezing through the small doggie door. He had regular vet checks and vaccinations, and was healthy. I just could not keep him away from the dog’s kibble inside the house. I did find him a new home last year where he was an only pet so they could regulate his diet.
Good.
An ad from the Common Sense Gum Co. of New York circa 1911.
Still fresh after 102 years, in fairness.
Paul Clarkson, (above) editor of The Irish Sun and Roy Greenslade, (top) media commentator and Guardian columnist discussed on Morning Ireland with Gavin Jennings the decision to omit topless shots from page 3.
It’s all a Protestant/Catholic thing, apparently.
Gavin Jennings: “When he says that “The Irish ain’t British” to quote you Paul and that there are cultural differences which are behind this decision, what do you understand by that?”
Roy Greenslade: “Well I can only think it’s a reference to ah religion em..”
Jennings: “Sorry, Paul is it?”
Greenslade: “It’s going to be very embarrassing in the Six Counties at the top of this country where there are lots and lots of people of a similar religion and they are still going to get Page 3 so I don’t know what the Sun is going to do about that? Em, it also is interesting isn’t it to suggest that em Protestants quite like having em Page 3 and Catholics don’t, rather interesting thing in the debate”
Jennings: “Paul, do you want to answer that?”
Paul Clarkson: “Well as I was trying to say it’s not really about religion. As I say, there is certainly a Catholic guilt in the Republic that people have grown up with but that’s only a small part…”
Jennings: “No Protestant guilt in the North, is that right?”
Clarkson: “No, but in the UK, especially our readers in Northern Ireland they’re very much more aligned to the UK paper and they actually are very, identify themselves strongly as British. As well, we’d have a much larger em sort of Protestant…”
Jennings: “So are you saying that strongly identifying yourself as British means that you’ve got less of a problem with topless pictures on Page 3, really?”
Clarkson: “Well, this is from talking to our readers. We’ve talked to our readers and in Ireland they do have a hangup and it’s part of what makes…Ireland Irish. They do have a problem with it and it’s certainly more prevalent in Ireland than it is in the UK where they very strongly, their readers have come out and say “We want page 3 to stay”.
Listen here.
Scroll to around 06:45.
1998 called.
They’d like their arms-locked-walking-towards-camera thing back please..
RTE’s female presenters/sctors at the launch of the RTE 2013/14 season in Montrose, Donnybrook, Dublin, yesterday, including above from left Anglea Scanlon, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Miriam O’Callaghan, Keelin Shanley and Ciara O’Callaghan.
Previously: Staying In This Winter?
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
It’s going to be the best Autumn/ Winter season ever.
From top: Miriam O’Callaghan an Darren kennedy; Miriam O’Callagfhan and Ryan Tubridy; from left: Jason Barry, Laurence Kinlan, Aoibhinn McGinnity and Peter Coona; from left, Blathaid Treacy, Emma O’Driscoll, and Diana Bunici, and ‘Damo’ and Ryan Tubridy.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Was the Irish Independent’s feisty political editor Beaker Fionnan Sheahan bullied or p0wned by Sarah Bardon of the Irish Daily Mirror?
YOU decide.
Previously: Bullygate
Today’s Irish Sun.
Her wife used her secret lesbian powers.
@jamiesont Apparently a few people spotted she wasn’t drinking at the summer party. Nursed the same spritzer all night.
— The Media Blog (@TheMediaTweets) August 9, 2013
Although it is still early days, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), can reveal that we are not ruling out that female panda Tian Tian may be pregnant.
A second hormone rise in progesterone levels was detected in Tian Tian on 15th July, and then confirmed on Wednesday 7th August, which indicates she may be pregnant or experiencing a pseudo pregnancy; this means that in around 40 to 55 days Tian Tian will either give birth to a cub or her false pregnancy will end. If there is a cub, it could be born between late August and early September.
Twin panda cubs for Fota?
Any excuse.
Panda Update: Definitely Maybe! (Edinburgh Zoo)
Previously: This Changes Everything
Pic: Rob McDougall
Think tonight was the gig of the year, 3000 rocking in the @FeileBelfast tent to the Tones, super experience, thx for the night!
— The Wolfe Tones (@wolfetones) August 8, 2013
It’s all about continuity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEJaIjF_Lo
What you may need to know
1. James Gandolfini’s second-to-last movie. Still can’t quite believe that one.
2. It co-stars Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Catherine Keener and Toni Collette. Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with amazing actresses of a certain age, so why not put them ALL in one movie?
3. Gandolfini’s daughter? It’s Eve Hewson, Bono and Ali’s child.
4. Looks fun. But tell us it doesn’t make you a little sad.
Release Date: Winter
(Adult tapirs Marmaduke and Rio with their new calf at Dublin Zoo on July 1 and , above, Rio with her charge)
The Irish Examiner understands the incident took place after zoo keepers agreed to allow the family to view the tapirs from a closer site than most visitors — a step that is usually closely monitored by expert workers.
However, after entering the second site it is understood one of the zoo’s two adult tapirs — a female called Rio, whose weeks-old baby was also in the location — became agitated. An attack followed, resulting in the child suffering serious injuries after being mauled by the animal.
Child, 2, seriously injured in tapir mauling at Dublin Zoo (Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Irish Examiner)
Previously: Meanwhile At Dublin Zoo
Pics: Dublin Zoo
