The third in Jimmy Kimmel’s series wherein celebs read out mean tweets directed at them.
In this instalment: Selena Gomez, Larry King, Dr. Phil, Simon Cowell, Jessica Biel, David Arquette, Kirstey Alley, Adam Scott, Tom Arnold, Hayden Panettiere, Anderson Cooper, Eric Stonestreet, Christina Applegate, Tenacious D and Brian Cranston.
Argo, Django Unchained, Les Mis, Amour, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln and Life of Pi.
Seems about right.
(Above: part of a consignment of illegal but still relatively attractive tabs seized at Dublin Port last year)
Minister of State for primary care Alex White yesterday described the tobacco industry as a very powerful lobby that had to be challenged.
Mr White dismissed the industry’s argument that raising excise duty on cigarettes encouraged smuggling as “sometimes self-serving”.
Cigarette packets must carry graphic photographs highlighting the dangers of smoking from next month, he said.
“These packs will appear in our shops from February 1st . . . and will assist in making the packaging of cigarettes, as it were, less glamorous and attractive.”
Well that’s just ridic…hack! cough! harrumph!
Never mind.
Tobacco lobby ‘has to be taken on’ (Mary Minihan, Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Suicidal Man Calls Dublin Radio Station (The Journal)
Screengrabs via Alan Daly and Aaron McAllorum
From the man behind the joyous Summer Rain.
Five Years.
Rob Steenson (featuring Funzo)
The problem came to light again this week after a pony starved to death in a field in the centre of Carlow town and was then left there to rot.
When Jane Kelly, a volunteer with the local SPCA, arrived the pony had been down for four days and was in the last stages of death.Jane rang the vet but 20 minutes before he arrived the animal died.
Yet Another Horse Starves To Death In The town Centre (Lynda Connolly, Carlow People)
Ours is the Speculum.
No it isn’t.
This morning, Hasbro launched a public vote to replace one of its older, ‘classic’ Monopoly playing tokens (car, thimble, boot, dog, boat, hat, iron and wheelbarrow) with a new-fangled one: robot, ring, cat, chopper or guitar.
Our heads say robot but our hearts say cat.
Vote here.
Naturally, the games company already have a combined old-and-new special edition planned for next month.
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At Beaumont Hospital, Co Dublin.
Wait for it…
Ta-dah!
Ian F writes:
Ok, So I was in Beaumont last Aug’, I was in for a while so the food became a pretty hilarious distraction after a while, they give you menus the day before and you can pick from two or three options, so in a way I was responsible for what arrived, sadly the description never matched what lurked under the deceptively fancy metal cover, I rarely touched it. Above was a breakfast while below I called the “let’s just cook whatever is left in the fridge” dish, consisting of a spring roll with sweet chilli sauce, boiled potatoes and what looks like an entire can of sweetcorn, I must add though, that the staff of Beaumont do an amazing job and I cannot speak highly enough of them, they have to work within the budgets imposed on them and perform miracles on a daily basis.
Earlier: Makes The Coombe Look Like The Ritz
