http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNfiXZzmhjw&feature=relmfu

What you may need to know

1. Well, there’s the cast, starters: Jessie Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Melanie ‘Inglorious Basterds’ Laurent, Isla Fisher, Michael Caine and James Franco’s little brother Dave.

2. It’s directed by Louis Letterier, who did the first two Transporter movies, and the Ed Norton version of The Hulk. He also did the Clash Of The Titans remake, but nobody’s perfect.

3. We’d like to see Jessie Eisenberg fight Michael Cera, armed only with rolled-up copies of McSweeney’s Magazine.

4. Suggested tagline: It’s Ocean’s Eleven meets The Prestige!

5. Our prognosis: Bollocks. but extremely watchable bollocks all the same.

Release date (Ireland): March 2013

Dublin, 1992.

Khaki trousers with Doc Marten shoes.

Oona Tully writes:

I found these negatives in a pile of college notes last week and scanned them. Given the current re-visit to the abortion legislation in Ireland, I thought you might be interested to see that protests on the streets have been going on for some time. This one, in O’Connell Street in 1992, was against the ban on the provision of information on abortion services outside the State; it was in reaction to the X-case, plus it was in defiance of the Eighth Amendment of The Constitution.

The Thirteenth Amendment and the  Fourteenth Amendment (both in 1992), most likely reacted to the X-case and not this protest. The amendments changed the information ban, by guaranteeing a pregnant woman’s right to freedom of travel and to information about abortion services available abroad respectively.
A case, not a protest it seems,  will prompt the legislators.

Oh.

A six-week supply of Great Britain stamps  (an old batch from 1912-13) was received in Dublin on February 10, 1922.

And overprinting began the same day.

A week later, Ireland’s first official postage stamps were made available to the public

Shortly after the overprints appeared, Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, was questioned in Parliament “whether the King’s head on British stamps . . . had been defaced by being printed over by the Irish Provisional Government . . . .” Churchill responded that “. . . it is the usual practice in a period of transition to overprint postage stamps, and the present arrangement has been agreed to by His Majesty’s Government . . . .”

 

1922 Set with Overprint (RareBooks.net)

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has expressed his distress at some of the reaction to the death of Savita Halappanavar. The archbishop challenged assertions that Ireland was not a safe country in which to be pregnant. “The facts show us we have in fact one of the lowest levels of maternal mortality in the world, which means that whatever practices we have are producing the results that we should respect,” he said.

The fact that Ireland had few maternal deaths showed that where conflicts arose over treatment options they have been resolved successfully, he added.

Minister for Health James Reilly said yesterday that a Government decision on providing clarity on abortion was unlikely before the new year.

Dr Reilly said he would be bringing the expert groups report on abortion to the Cabinet on Tuesday week but that consultation would be needed before a decision was reached.

Everyone relax. Bottler and the Bishop are on the case.

Archbishop defends record on pregnancy (Paul Cullen, Patsy McGarry, Kitty Holland, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov, Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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