US Secretary of State John Kerry and Tanaiste Eamonn Gilmore in Washington yesterday.
Chin up, etc.
(Photocall Ireland/DFA)
Ugh.
Snow and rain mixed.
This kind:
Meanwhile, in Stepaside:
And there’s more pushing west:
(Pics: Ahmεd³ (top) Alessandro Iannelli and The Meteo Times)
The ‘turf’ float during the parade in Castleisland, Co Kerry, on Sunday.
Yes, that is a small dog
(Pic: Nat)
Yikes.
Anon writes:
In the run-up to the Leinster senior schools final between Blackrock and St Michael’s yesterday, supporters tried to garner support from rugby players, minor celebs, etc. to hold up a sign supporting one side or the other.
One of those they got was Big Tim Sharky (above), most famous for being a steroid-using bodybuilder who moved to Thailand to be with prostitutes and who describes women as “all c*nts”. Nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4aCV26NtlGM
What you may need to know:
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1. Big Boyler Chris O’Dowd just won’t stop: there’s a new series of Moone Boy in the can, talk of an IT Crowd special AND this new BBC/HBO co-production.
2. It’s the first TV series created by Christopher Guest, the genius behind Waiting For Guffman (1996), Best In Show (2000) and A Mighty Wind (2003) – he’s also Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap (1984) and the six fingered villain from The Princess Bride (1987).
3. The cast includes Guest regulars Michael ‘David St. Hubbins’ McKean, Ed Begley Jr. and the mighty Fred Willard.
4. Now you know why O’Dowd has been rocking the beard – clean shaven, he looks about 12.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Tree hee hee.
Release Date: May
Further to our recent Dublin pub trivia fixation.
TEST that hangover.
Maxi writes:
Just a little project Im working on, took some of my favourite pubs in the city centre and tried illustrating in as little detail possible and without the names. A pack of 12-year old King pub crisps for anyone who can name them all.
Anyone?
A lovely short film about Sunday’s parade in Galway city.
Something of a classic, by all accounts.
By Ed Smyda-Homa
Music: Róisín O – How Long
While the LEGO-ised Shaun of the Dead never got approved, Kyle Ransom has provided another zombie apocalypse build to feast our eyes upon. Plenty more pictures over on MOCpages.
Not exactly.
Former British PM Tony Blair’s take on the civil war in Syria and the
tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
Iraqis would have rebelled against Saddam Hussein if there had been no invasion and it would have been “a lot worse than Syria”.
Iraqis previously “rose up in large numbers and were killed in very large numbers”, the former UK PM said. Asked if he had regrets, he said: “How can you regret removing a monster who created enormous carnage.I certainly think that if Saddam had still been in power, it’s true there would have been, probably, an uprising
amongst his people,” he said.
“But I think it would look a lot more like Syria and probably a lot worse than Syria.”
Now that‘s spin.
Blair: Iraq Uprising Would Have Been ‘Worse Than Syria’ (BBC)
(BBC)