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Taking the rock out of the shamrock.

And an ‘L’ out of Marshall.

Nicky Byrne with Emily Shelton and Joseph Jennings and a vintage Citroen on O’Connell Street, Dublin, this morning.

Mr Byrne has been appointed Grand Marshall of the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin on March 17.

Grand so.

UPDATE: Marshal is spelt correctly on Nicky’s shirt. Apologies.

(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)

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Etc.

For the night what’s in it.

Nelson’s Pillar, O’Connell Street, Dublin, March 8, 1966

Most audacious previous attempt?

On 29 October 1955, a group of nine University College Dublin students locked themselves inside the pillar and tried to melt the statue with flamethrowers.

 

Good times.

Pic via National Library archive

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

da-ding-ding

This a family website.

We don’t do ‘sauce’.

Brian Manning writes:

I heard yesterday that the Harbour Bar, Bray, [Co Wicklow] World’s greatest pub, is being sold. So, I mailed the owner to express my condolence and see if I could get my painting back that they had hanging on the wall. But to my dismay some skeeveen has just nicked it!

I know you usually reserve this slot for stolen bikes. Its an arse painting, the Harbour is the only place with balls enough to have this hanging up.

If you stole it please return either it or a bottle of single malt Scotch to the harbour for me (name and contact details are on back of said painting) in the next few weeks before the sale goes through please.

Anyone?

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Mmm.

Snug.

Sheilagh writes:

I came across this pic of Fine Gael’s online campaign team during the 2011 election in Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh’s How Ireland Voted 2011: The Full Story of Ireland’s Earthquake Election.

In a chapter on the online side of the election, the authors [Matthew Wall and Maria Laura Sudulich] found Fine Gael led the way in using online technologies for their campaign.

They said Fine Gael had over THIRTY volunteers working full time.

However, they couldn’t determine how this activity related to the [party’s] performance.

Thirty.

It’ll be like the West Wing, they said.

More on the book here.

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‘Dame Lane’

By Alé Mercado. a Spanish illustrator living and working in Kilkenny.

He sez:

I lived in Dublin for 3 1/2 years when I first moved to Ireland. What I loved the most about the city is how you could find hidden secrets (for me it was mostly record shops… They are all gone now) by moving away from the main streets. Sometimes by leading yourself into alleys that would do nicely for a Chamber of Horrors film scene, Hammer style . These alleys are for me so much the soul of Dublin that everything in the light becomes almost ghostly… It’s like finding amazing life in the deepest abyss and then trying to cope with routine back at the boring daylight surface.

And his method?

My work is fully digital. But is has evolved over the years to be more and more like printmaking, to the point that I hardly differentiate between both of them. The digital part is fully integrated in my print work and vice versa. But it was comics that got me into illustration. For a while it has been something that I’ve tried to hide. Not anymore…

 

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

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