Louise Cribbin writes [via BS App}:
Gorgeous day in Connemara
*removes flat cap, wipes forehead with shirtsleeve, stares into middle distance*
Well Jaysus an’ it is…
Meanwhile, tonight in Sligo
Thanks John Keating
Dublin from the Aviva.
Thanks Andrew
This week, an online sexual health campaign in Brazil promoting safe sex with prostitutes was banned for promoting prostitution.
70 years ago, according to this rather excellent picture set from The Guardian, folk were more practical about that sort of thing.
After all, there was a bloody war on. A war against syphilis and gonorrhea.
And it would be fought with the double-entendre.
(Hat tip: Sido)
You’ll like John.
For the last fifty four years, the amateur woodcarver has kicked back and whittled some, to say the least. He can carve anything out of a single piece of wood, from a block to a toothpick.
Here, he casually introduces some of his extraordinary carvings – each one more impressive than the last.
36 Roman Catholics, 20 Protestants, 3 Quakers and 1 Jew.; 7 peers, a dowager countess (the Jewish Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart), 5 baronets and several knights.
Opening of Seanad Éireann on December 16, 1922, as reported in the Irish Times.
New senators (half of whom were elected by public vote) included Mrs Stopford Green and Mrs Eileen Costello (top), pictured arriving at Leinster House, where the forum sat until it was abolished in 1936.
Good, egalitarian times.
Via Irish Times archive
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
A filter-drenched aerial shot of Dublin yesterday, taken from a “commercial flight”.
Thanks John McG.
(IMF’s Christine Legarde and The European Central Bank’s Mario Draghi)
It’s a thing.
The IMF continued: “There are…political economy lessons to be learned. Greece’s recent experience demonstrates the importance of spreading the burden of adjustment across different strata of society in order to build support for a program.
A spokesman for the EU commission said: “We fundamentally disagree… With hindsight we can go back and say in an ideal world what should have been done differently. The circumstances were what they were. I think the commission did its best in an unprecedented situation.”
ECB President Mario Draghi has entered the debate too, saying: “We tend to judge things that happened yesterday with today’s eyes. We tend to forget that when the discussions were taking place the situation was much, much worse.”
The IMF owns up to mistakes, but EU accuses it of hindsight bias (Investment and Business News)
Meanwhile…
The failure to use monetary policy more aggressively has been a problem; the failure to address credit market problems has been a serious problem as well. Now, in 2013 five years into the crisis the ECB is beginning to talk about some kind of securities’ market and credit market intervention and about addressing the financing problems of small and medium enterprises. Too little too late, one more time.
Growth cannot come only from exports. The Eurozone as a whole is too big to be able to export its way out of the crisis. Every Eurozone economy is trying to export more to the other Eurozone economies; and that does not add up. Some of the impetus for growth is going to have to come from internal demand and that in turn means there has to be more fiscal policy support.
Economist Barry Eichengreen (above), via Crisis Observatory.
Meanwhile…
(Reuters)
http://vimeo.com/67261036
You may like this.
Dubliner Candice Gordon singing In My Garden – from her debut EP Before The Sunset Ends – in a video made by Zoe Kahlert and Theresa Baumgartner in Berlin.
Candice plays the main stage of the Body and Soul festival in Co Westmeath on June 22.
Previously: Candice Gordon – Before Sunset Ends
