Ah here.
Outside Grogan’s, South Williams Street, Dublin, this evening.
Meanwhile, in France..,
Tour de France 2013: Dan Martin wins stage nine (Guardian)
It’s the nephew!
Thanks Dongle
Der Gülp.
A pro choicer at yesterday’s pro life rally on O’Connell Street.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
He proclaimed his innocence.
With some justification, in fairness.
A pro-choice protestor at the pro-life rally yesterday is bundled away by plain-clothes officers having apparently been found in possession of little more than a ‘tude.
Fairly chilling.
Thanks Tea Dea
The Topaz service station, Goatstown, Co Dublin, this morning.
Nave writes:
don’t know what happened exactly but looks like it was lucky the place didn’t blow up!
Is He Yours?
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He doesn’t know where he is.
Kate Keane writes:
Please help! this dog was found in Portobello [Dublin] this morning. He is very friendly so I think he is a pet that has escaped.
Hurl 16
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Hill 16, Croke Park, Dublin, this evening.
Grown men weeping, Joe.
Previously: They Called Him ‘Culchie’
Thanks John Gallen
Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s re-released 1989 ‘racy’ novel Laura in Discount Books, Merrion Row, Dublin, yesterday.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
Sarah Malone writes:
Man shaking terrified child at counter-demonstrators during [yesterday’s] Rally for Life. So upsetting.
Karina Bracken writes:
I was carrying this saying nothing and a man told me “Your mother should have killed you”
Previously:
Meanwhile, it’s all about the virgin…
Some religious iconography on de march.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Finally.
Westside, Galway City.
Thanks Joe
It was the breast of times.
Paul Quigley writes:
In an old cottage in an island off Mayo I found a copy of the Irish Independent, dated November 1, 1979. Was great fun to thumb through and see what was making the news then.
And of course the funniest thing is how little things have changed.
Of course the front page story is about a financial crisis, and we have the headline inside that AIB’s profits fell a full (shock, horror) 2 million pounds.
There’s an editorial on the skills gap – not enough people to work with computers, which are “the in-thing at the moment.” The editorial deplores inadequate second level education in computers. This is 33 years ago, and computing education in Irish schools remains poor. I wonder if we’ll still be deploring the state of IT education in another 33 years?
Another unchanging crisis – the WHO [World Health Organisation] were in town 33 years ago warning Ireland about its low levels of breastfeeding. Today, Ireland still has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in Europe, which has been linked to many health problems.Then-Minister for Health Charles Haughey didn’t get that one sorted then.
How many of the WHO recommendations have been implemented? Could they come to town with the same wish list again?