SR writes:

Just wanted to pass on my thoughts to the family and friends of [Adventurer, climber, fund-raiser] Ian McKeever [above, who died on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, yesterday].

Ian was a pretty incredible, inspirational but very human guy who was ambitious (in the best sense) and crazy (in the very best sense).

I will never forget climbing with him because of his enthusiasm and courage. But the thing I will remember most was his kindness. Goodbye Ian.

 

Irish Adventurer Ian McKeever Dies On Mount Kilimanjaro (RTE)

Ian McKeever (Kilimanjaro Achievers)

(RTE)

From December 29, 2012:

Kilimanjaro Achievers 2012 (Facebook)

…Ireland continued to struggle, too. The proportion of households without a working adult was the among highest in the European Union, and yet the government, under pressure from its creditors, undertook a series of cuts that reduced aid to the poorest, including child support payments. At the same time it increased property taxes.


Europe’s Debt Crisis: No Relief on the Horizon (Suzanne Daly, New York Times)

Pictures by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times

The three most viewed/shared/ items on Broadsheet during 2012.

Nailing the numbed-out, sex-crazed, nihilistic teenage boy demographic like a boss.

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A Broadsheet New Year (Karl Monaghan’s Blog)

From top: Smithfield Horse Drama; Irish Playboy Cover Brouhaha (NSFW), and Poznan Moob Guy Fracas.

Horse pic by Mark Henderson

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Wonderful – if sometimes unsettling – photos by [New Zealand photographer] Robin Morrison from Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. I had that coat!

 

From top: Jack Russell terriers and owners at the Adare Game and Country Fair, Co. Limerick, 1985; Woman and tulips, Co. Limerick, 1985; Cottage window (location unknown); Deely family, Fanare, Co. Clare, 1985; Cleary’s pub, Ballydehob, Cork: Abbey Bar, Dublin; No Children Allowed (location unknown); O’Leary, Skerries, Co. Dublin; Carrigaholt, Co. Clare, 1985; P. Kangley, Bookmaker, Leitrim  Castletownshend, Co. Cork and Dunboyne village, Meath.

Via The Auckland War Memorial Museum archive

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