Along the Grand Canal, Dublin.
Rock Flanders writes:
Double yellow: check. Blocking footpath: check. Using remaining footpath to drink tea forcing everyone else on road: check.
Former Anglo Chairman Seán FitzPatrick Arrested (RTE)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Sol O’Carroll writes:
Last night, my bike was stolen from just around the corner of my favourite pub in the world, Humphrey’s of Ranelagh,{Dublin].
I understand at this stage you guys must get one of these emails a day, if not more. However, I would really REALLY appreciate it if you could help me out this once.
At 9:30 last night 20th December, I locked my bike on Ashfield Road just off the main drag of Ranelagh. I returned after a pint and a half to go home, and it was gone.
In a time when so many friends are leaving for London, South America, Australia, Canada and beyond, my bike has been my companion. If anyone happens across a LaPierre Audacio 200 (above) in the coming days, I will buy it off you and follow that with the best hug I can possibly give. I just want my bike back. One love.
Literally Maze balls.
From Irish Election Literature:
A Christmas card produced, I assume by the Republican movement or Sinn Fein. I think its from the 70s or early 80s. Marie Drumm was a former vice president of Sinn Féin who was assassinated whilst in hospital by Loyalists in 1976. She was also a commander in Cumann na mBan.
An elderly actor tries to get his mouth around a six-word script line in the outtakes of this commercial for Dysart’s Restaurant in Bangor, Maine.
Stephen King couldn’t write this. Watch to the end for an adorable moment of poetic justice.
Cobra, Sham
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Spotted in The Blue Note off-licence in Galway.
(Thanks Michele Carey)
Having already released a demo of the first fifteen minutes of gameplay, Irrational Games has now debuted the the entire cut-scene opening sequence of the upcoming Bioshock Infinite wherein Booker DeWitt begins to unravel the mystery that lies behind the floating city of Columbia.
The game is pre-ordering now for release on March 26th, 2013.
(Above: Luke Ming Flanagan at a press conference in Buswells Hotel where extracts from a dossier of evidence referring to tens of thousands of fixed penalty notices being cancelled were presented.)
A motorist who was caught driving at 155km in a 100km zone and had his speeding ticket quashed was later involved in a crash in which another driver died, according to data released by four TDs yesterday.
A second motorist, who was killed in a crash in 2012, had a speeding ticket quashed by an inspector a month earlier. A third motorist, who had been speeding at 135km in a 100km zone and had his ticket “terminated” by a Garda inspector, was later involved in a hit and run and killed a pedestrian.
The 20 examples released by TDs Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Joan Collins and Luke Ming Flanagan were from a dossier put together by two Garda whistleblowers. The TDs said they had been warned by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner not to release the full dossier, which included names, locations and specific dates.
In six of the examples, motorists who had speeding offences quashed by gardaí were later involved in fatal crashes.
‘Quashed ticket’ motorists in fatal crashes (Fiona Gartland, Irish Times)
Previously: Why The Points Matter
Last week’s release of Google Maps for Apple’s iOS6 has had a spectacular galvanising effect on the huge number of Apple users holding on to iOS5 on account of their dread of Apple Maps.
According to research by mobile ad company MoPub, in the five days following the release of Google Maps for iOS6, Apple experienced a 29% rise in iOS6 downloads.
There were over 10 million downloads of Google Maps for iOS6 in the first 48 hours alone.
Would never have happened if Steve were still around.
Mmf.