Two solicitors tweeting their concerns regarding the Seanad referendum.

This changes everything/nothing.

Is there a constitutional expert in the Upper House?

Article 27?

Short version:

Article 27 allows a Seanad majority and 1/3 of the members of the Dail to jointly petition the President to refer a bill to referendum on the basis that the matter is of such national importance that the will of the people should be ascertained.

Long version:

27(click to enlarge).

Thanks Legal Coffee Drinker

 

9030345090303498President Higgins (top) with Tatjana Josipovic, President of Croatia, yesterday and greeted this morning by Prime Minister Zoran Milanovi at Croatian Government Buildings in Zagreb.

Tall, aren’t they?

President Higgins says economic crisis threatening to undermine EU democracy (RTE)

(Fennels/Photocall Ireland)

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Adidas ‘Super’: a ‘test commercial’ written and directed by TJ O’Grady Peyton, currently shortlisted for the Cannes Young Directors Award 2013.

Shot on location in Darndale, Dublin (and Bray, Co. Wicklow).

Featuring Packy Connors, Stephen Clinch, Johnny Elliot, Robbie Quigley, Jake and Megan Ward.

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The latest installment of illustrator and animator Andy Martin’s Illustrated Aliens project.

Andy writes:

If you have 42 seconds to spare today, you could spend some time under the waters of Planet Five. From a single cell, one creature evolves into the next and for a fleeting moment the darkest depths of the sea are transformed by a dazzling display of light and colour.

View the rest of the planets here.

Previously: Planet One

saki2Dublin Zoo’s new addition.

Look at his little head.

Soon it will sprout enormous moody-looking sideboards.

Kelley Cousins writes:

Dublin Zoo is delighted to welcome a newborn white-faced saki to the South American House proudly sponsored by Kellogg’s Coco Pops. The young male, yet to be named, was born to mum and first-time dad on 30th April and weighs approximately 150 grams only.

 

A name, anyone?

Dublin Zoo

White-Faced Saki Monkey?

mountainsThe Dublin mountains this morning.

Thanks Gearoid McHugh

dunlDun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, just before lunch.

Thanks Brian Bennett

BME5DHiCQAEx4bb-1Beyond the Sky Road, Connemara, Co Galway, at lunchtime.

Thanks Helen O’Rahilly

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Dungarvan, Co Waterford, at 11.30am.

sunThe South Wall, Dublin, this afternoon.

Thanks Martin Mullen

 

open-1*Drum roll*.

And the winner of the four ball outing at the home of The Irish Open, Carton House, County Kildare (above) is Mick Skelly…

Winner GolfPreviously: Do You Care For The Golf At All

GreenCrossParcelSlideImageAnd the winner of the the Green Cross Parcel stuffed with Tayto chocolate ‘n’ cheese ‘n’ onion bars is Moira Cardiff’s friend Joyce in Australia.

Moira writes:

Please send the Green Cross Parcel o my great friend Joyce in Perth Australia. Even after 30 years in Australia she misses the Irish ‘stuff’. She is recovering from her breast cancer operation and is still in hospital after 5 weeks. She could do with a taste of home.

Thanks all

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