Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Mike Hogan 4Fm, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Joe Donnelly.
Meanwhile, in Cork
Thanks Joe Leogue
The Lowry tapes, published by Sunday Independent, will be broadcast on #vinb tonight. Listen very carefully to *how* things are said.
— Elaine Byrne (@ElaineByrne) March 14, 2013
He should never have nicked her bike.
Waterford from the International Space Station today.
Meh.
Via Astronaut Thomas Marshburn
Thanks Shane Gavin
UPDATE: Cork:
Literally vice-like.
Thanks Paul Flanagan
The shamrock and bowl years
Diarmaid Keane, of the US Embassy, Dublin, writes:
From Reagan to Clinton, Nixon to JFK – every U.S. President since 1952 has embraced the shamrock ceremony at The White House differently.
With help from the National Archives of Ireland and the RTE archives we have put together a short video explaining how the day has evolved over the years.
Top pic: Ambassador Thomas Kiernan and John F Kennedy on St Patrick’s Day, 1961 via Boston Irish Heritage
Pic 2: Ireland’s ambassador William Fay and Richard Nixon, White House, March 17, 1969. Via Nixon Foundation
Pic 3: Garrett Fitzgerald, then Foreign Minister with Jimmy Carter, 1977 via US Embassy, Dublin
Pic 4: Brian Lenihan Snr and then Vice President George H Bush, 1988.
Pic 5: Albert Reynolds, Bill Clinton and Phil Coulter, 1994 via US Embassy, Dublin
pic 6: John Bruton and Bill Clinton, 1995 as above
Pic 7: Bertie Ahern and George W Bush, 2001 via CDR
Pic 8: Brian Cowen and Barack Obama, 2010 via US Embassy, Dublin
Pic 9: Waterford Crystal bowl for Barack Obama, 2012 via US Embassy, Dublin
“A Study in Ted” by Stephen Wildish.
We have one – ONE – A3-sized print to the first person out of the hat who can name all the Fr Ted characters in Stephen’s study.
Lines close at 9pm. ‘A Study In Ted’ is available from Jam Arts Prints
(Thanks Mark at Jam Art Factory)
Villagers – The Waves (MMOTHS remix)
Mmoths is the ridiculously talented 18-year-old Newbridge, Co Kildare, producer who supported the The xx on their recent UK tour.
Villagers are the great white hope of Irish music.
It’s like an Irish musical royal wedding.
Albeit a sedate, ethereal one.
Thanks Ciaran Le Cool
A daily double at the Willows pub in Dundrum, Dublin.
(Thanks Steve Duggan)
Oooooh.
Hobnobs too good for ye?
No recession thNOMNOMNOM
Thanks Pól Ó Bhroin
Update:
Anon writes:
Are you in a job and working next Tuesday? Guess who won’t be at work. Clue: they eat green biscuits.
Closed Sets
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Miniature glass and jar terrariums (€140 – €260) from Etsy store Face of The Earth: self-contained bryophyte ecosystems incorporating tiny scenes inspired by TV and movie sets.
Above: the Beetlejuice house, the Crystal Ship RV from Breaking Bad and a Tolkienish hobbit hole.
Not her silly.
She’s a pot full of them.
The winner of yesterday’s competition and a hamper full of Keogh’s Shamrock Crisps and other stuff is long-time Broadsheet commenter/first time winner Clampers Outside, who wrote:
Please give the Keogh’s Shamrock Crisps Hamper to my Mom and Pop because of this….
‘Sham Around!’ (with apologies to House of Pain)
Yo Keogh!
Pack it up, pack it in
Open bag to begin
I came to win
Rattle tha’ potato skin
I won’t tear the pack up
Sure you’d better back up
Try and deny my Ma a win and Pop an’ crew will act up
Shamrock is the best stock… come on!
Come on, throw your hands up
If you’ve got the cream let it sour for the green
Ballinskelligs is the best, someone’s talking jest
Yo, I’ll bust a potatoe eye
And then I’ll take the pinks home
Eat it, dunk it
Chomps be munching
And I got more rhymes than there’s crips that are dunking
Kerry is tops
Sure ’nuff I got me Pops he’s nowhere near over the Hill
More spuds for Mom and Pops[Chorus]
I came to get a Nom [2x]
So get your Keogh’s and munch a nom
Munch a nom [3x]
Nom up! Nom up! and munch down.
Fair play though, in fairness.