This morning.
Marc O’Morain writes:
Stopped on double yellow lines at rush hour to use the ATM on Baggot Street [Dublin].
What about the law?
They are the LAW.
Strandhill, Co Sligo, yesterday lunchtime.
Thanks John Keating
2006 Called…
at#vinb spread the word guys, the property market is starting to bubble again. We can’t keep property on our books. Buyers queueing up! PLS RT
— McGuirk Beggan (@TerenureEstates) July 2, 2013
Jus’ trollin’?
You be the judge.
Allan Cavanagh writes:
I don’t know which is worse, the exaggerated claims or the belief a property bubble is actually desirable…
24 TDs voted against legislation to provide abortion strictly when women’s *lives* are at risk. Think about that.
— Ruth NíE (@rowfas) July 2, 2013
From top: Brian Walsh, Billy Timmins, Terence Flanagan and Peter Mathews being met by Caroline Simons of the Pro Life Campaign outside Leinster House last night.
The four Fine Gael TDs were expelled last night from the parliamentary party after voting against the second stage of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.
So what is happening to the bill?
Abortion legislation debate to resume in Dáil (RTE)
Extract via Politics in the Republic of Ireland. Edited by John Coakley and Michael Gallagher Fifth Edition (Routledge)
(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)
Walkies
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(Brian O’Driscoll (top) following the test defeat against Australia last weekend and , above, analysis by Murray Kinsella of why change was needed)
O’Driscoll, who is on his fourth and last Lions tour, was the leading candidate to replace the injured captain Sam Warburton, not least because he was in charge of the team in 2005 and has worn the armband twice on this tour.
But with the bid for the series being overwhelmingly Welsh, Jones – who led Wales in Italy in 2009 under Gatland but has been overlooked since for the permanent position – is charged with invoking the spirit that took the men in red to the Six Nations title against England in Cardiff last March.
Alun Wyn Jones to captain Lions team as Brian O’Driscoll misses out (Guardian)
AFP
America’s Finest News Source reports on the latest must-have gadget from Samsung: the Apex.
Arrrr Fleg
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Lisburn, Belfast, yesterday.
Mt writes:
I’m living next to a fairly loyalist area in Belfast and work next to a similarly loyalist area in Lisburn so naturally my daily commute this month is a pretty “Flegy” affair.
New additions this week to the regulars (Union Jack, Scottish flag, ulster banner, and UVF flag) are the pirate flag in Lisburn above and the Confederate flag just down the road. I’m not sure if its satire or I should watch my back for slavers..
Related: Pirates Of The Mildly Insane (Slugger O’Toole)
Update:
This morning.
Mt writes:
Israeli flag in the mix this morning near Ballymacash
Buzz O’Neill writes:
The new Aldi on the East Wall Road opens this Thursday and, as is their want, Lidl are to follow directly across the road, [with also a drive thru McDonald’s and a Penny’s]