Pro-life protestors.
Outside the Dail on Kildare Street, Dublin, earlier this morning.
Jaysus.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Charlotte Quay, Dublin.
Ben writes:
Snapped this on my way to work this mNOMNOMNOM
Don’t Ask
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US high school sports coach Carla Hale.
In a termination notice, the principal explained that Carla’s “spousal relationship violates the moral laws of the Catholic Church.”
Pedanto writes:
A beloved teacher is fired from a Catholic school for acknowledging her partner in her mother’s obituary.
Can’t you just smell the compassion?
One School’s Catholic Teaching (Frank Bruni, New York Times)
(Pic: NYT)
This morning I heard someone say,
“Will you read Shatter’s novel today?”
And though I’m no prude,
I threw up and said “Dude!”
Then I turned fifty shades of “No way”.
John Moynes
(Herald)
Shatter’s novel, you say?
Laura by Alan Shatter
“Shatter, an Irish legislator and attorney, draws on his professional experiences for this syrupy, heavy-handed first novel about a child-custody battle. Sean Brannigan, member of the Irish parliament, is vocally pro-family and anti-abortion. But he doesn’t practice what he preaches: having seduced his innocent secretary, Colette James, Brannigan suggests that she obtain an abortion when she finds herself pregnant. Knowing her parents would throw her out if they learned of her pregnancy, Colette moves away and secretly arranges for adoption. John and Jenny Masterson, the adopting parents, “sob with joy” when they are given Laura, Colette’s five-day-old daughter.
But 10 months later, the young woman, haunted by thoughts of the child she never knew, refuses to sign the final consent papers and says she wants Laura returned. The Mastersons resist, and a legal battle ensues between the perfect, well-to-do adopting parents and the unstable, unmarried natural mother.
Guess who wins. Shatter depicts the legal arguments effectively, but flat dialogue and weak characterization detract from the dramatic potential.”
Review: Publishers’ Weekly, 1990.
French Canadian folk singer Alexis Normand makes a cringeworthy bags of the American National Anthem before the 2013 Memorial Cup game between the Portland Winterhawks and the Halifax Mooseheads.
Thinking she’d memorised the Star Spangled Banner correctly, she went wrong after the third line, filling in with gibberish to bridge to the finale.
Afterwards, mortified, she took to Twitter to apologise, the pet.
I’m embarrassed and deeply sorry. I wish I’d had more time to learn the American anthem. Thanks so much for the crowd’s help! #memorialcup
— Alexis Normand (@Alex6Normand) May 19, 2013
Any excuse.
Paddy Cahill of Cycling With sez:
Gul is an Architect and she also lectures in architecture at Queens University, Belfast. We joined Gul for a cycle from her home in Rathgar to University College Dublin where she does research at the Humanities Institute of Ireland. Along the way we talked about growing up in Turkey, living as an expat in the USA, The Netherlands and Ireland, and her special interest in the relationship between architecture and film.
With mere inches to spare, the captain of a sightseeing barge makes an impressive, boss-like, 90-degree “drift” turn through a canal lock in Amsterdam.
Bolton Street product design student Henry Daly writes:
I am trying to promote this project at the moment and hopefully get a job off the back of it some day. If you could post it on Broadsheet it would be great.
Say no more, Henry.
From the video description:
Exo is an electric off-road vehicle for recreational use on dirt, sand and gravel. The aim of the project is to merge man and machine providing a deeply immersive driving experience. The vehicle leans during cornering connecting body motion to vehicle motion and allows a higher maximum cornering speed. The birdcage frame is fabricated from Aluminium tubing. Power comes from a 10kW DC brushless motor run from a Lithium Ion Battery pack.