Robert Wojack asks:
Another one bites the dust?
Anyone?
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
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(The opening of Donal Ryan’s ‘The Spinning Heart’)
Kitty writes:
One of the three Irish authors listed for the Man Booker Prize longlist is Donal Ryan, who is a Tipperary writer originally published by [Stoneybatter, Dublin-based] The Lilliput Press – the only independent Irish publisher anywhere near the list! Go underdog!
Lilliput Press novel makes Booker longlis (Anne Hayden, On The Batter)
HB Feast, top, as advertised, and Rachel’s bar, above)
Rachel Ball writes:
With the recent spate of complaints about bald Brunches… Since when does the chocolate not go all the way down the middle of a Feast? (see pic, attached) My colleague assures me it’s been commonplace for ‘years’. All that nibbling the ice cream off the outside wasted.
(Fine Gael Cork County Council Councillor Michael Hegarty).
The car turned into the car park of a church and the driver, Mr Hegarty got out and ran from gardaí
…but Garda Cillian Barry gave chase and saw the man jump over a wall of the church yard and run to a derelict area where he found him hiding in bushes.
Garda Barry said he detected a smell of alcohol from Mr Hegarty and noticed his speech was slurred.
…and he brought him back to the garda car where he asked him to provide a sample of his breath. Mr Hegarty blew into the breathalyser and failed, leading him to arrest Mr Hegarty…
What happened next?
He got off on appeal.
Yay.
Fine Gael councillor successfully appeals drink driving conviction (Irish Times)
Previously: Councillor fails to annul drink-driving case after arrest on ‘non-existent street’ (Cork Examiner)
(Independent.ie)
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Just some cat cruising down Tara Street, Dublin this lunchtime.
(Thanks Jarlath Murray)
Sky News
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It’s chem and us.
At Bishop Lucey Park (The Peace Park) Cork City, Cork.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4IkVFwZIA8
WikiPearls are balls of Ice cream encased in an edible protective membrane, which prevents them melting in your hand.
‘Inspired’ by the design of the human cell and invented – in collaboration with French designer Francois Azambourg – by Harvard professor David Edwards, the frosty treats are currently available in three flavours at the Wikibar in Paris – mango ice cream with a coconut skin, chocolate ice cream with a hazelnut skin, and vanilla ice cream with a peanut skin – the concept may soon be extended to yoghurt, cheese and coffee.
Sparky Sweets PhD breaks down Charlie D’s story of Pip, who be blind to the peeps that actually got his back.
Mo’ money, mo’ problems, bud.
Two divers floating off the coast of California narrowly avoid being swallowed by a pair of feeding humpback whales.
A kaleidoscopic timelapse of Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles by photographer and filmmaker Michael Shainblum, who sez:
These clips were all processed from their original form, into the kaleidoscopic visuals that you see in this video. Many people visit these large cities every day, and all of these places have been shot and filmed, but I wanted to emulate these urban landscapes in a way that nobody has even seen before. I wanted to put man-made geometric shapes, mixed with elements of color and movement to create less of a structured video, and more of a plethora of visual stimulation.
Full screen and HD for best effect.