Before spray tan…

The goth girls of Dublin, 1989.

A short but memorable item on RTE fashion show, Head To Toe, presented by Mary Sullivan.

Watch here.

Ever wonder where goth girls go?

We don’t know about the rest of them but the Elvira-clad goth (top pic right) is Beibhinn Byrne (below left with Elsa Jones), who can be regularly can be seen on TV3’s Midday.

Broadsheet readers will know Beibhinn as Caspar ‘The Friendly Hipster Kid’s ma.

Previously: The Cure In Ballsbridge, 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0in2wmYpoA

A trailer for ‘The Yank’ (2012). Written and directed by Sean Lackey. Starring Colm Meany and Fred ‘Best In Show’ Willard.

May contain Guinness.

Sez the blurb:

Shot on location in Cleveland, Dublin and County Clare, Ireland, “The Yank” tells the story of Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Cleveland bachelor. For Tom, “the perfect woman” is beautiful, hard-working, family-oriented and (like his parents) 100 percent Irish.
Tom’s plan to find his dreams takes him on a journey of self discovery to a land that defies his original expectations. He may find out that the grass isn’t always greener, even in Ireland. With the help of family he’s met for the first time, he may ultimately determine what it is to be Irish in 2013….the year of THE GATHERING!!!!

 

Thanks Jack Jones

Oh.

Movember.ie

The iRock – a rocking chair with a built-in generator that feeds power to your docked iPad or iPhone with each, eh, rock.

One hour of rocking, the manufacturer claims, will recharge an iPad up to 35%. There’s also a pair of 25-watt speakers built into the back of the chair.

Available in four flavours and yours for $1300, granny.

likecool/dvice

French tax officials investigating links between Google’s French arm and its European head office in Dublin seized files during police raids at four Paris addresses linked to the company.

Google, which declares its European profits in Ireland, insists that all its advertising in the region is handled by staff based in Dublin and that Google France’s work is limited to “marketing assistance and service support”.

The arrangement means that while Google generated between €1.25 and €1.4 billion in revenue in France last year, according to estimates, it paid just over €5 million in corporate tax to the French exchequer.

Awkward.

Google files seized in Paris police raids (Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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