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

Youtuber superultra5000 sez:

…albeit way back on Boxing Day 1994, when Savile was still very much alive. Morris was forced to make an apology for this brief fake news report (on the Chris Morris Music Show on BBC Radio1). At the time many listening at home would not have fully understood the meaning of this sketch…

At The time, Savile sued the BBC, saying the sketch had ‘ruined his Christmas’.

@GilesBrody

(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits)

He [Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, above] doesn’t have the charisma, he hasn’t connected with the people,” said Pat Nolan as he strolled passed the 13th century stone church in the village of Graiguenamanagh [Co Kilkenny] (above) where Ryan’s great-great grandparents were married.

“It doesn’t matter what his name is, it’s Obama that has made the effort,” said Nolan, 62, a retired physiotherapist.

…Despite the Ryan connection, few locals are hoping for a Republican victory across the ocean.

“It would give a boost to a nice small town like this, but I would forgo it. I wouldn’t want to inflict him on the American people,” said Margaret, a 64-year-old cashier.

A straw poll of 20 people on a recent afternoon found 12 Obama supporters and none for Ryan and running mate Mitt Romney.

 

Paul Ryan’s Charms Fall flat In Irish Homeland (Reuters)

(Getty/Wikipedia)

Thanks Cathal O’Rourke

Did you go to a Christian Brothers school?

Unhappiest days of your life?

You may not like this so:

Next Saturday Mary McAleese will join Christian Brothers and survivors past-pupils in the Convention Centre, Dublin, to mark the [250th] anniversary year [of the birth of the order’s founder Edmund Ignatius Rice.

All are welcome.

Jim Bradley, who went to CBS Westland Row, writes:

Just as there can be no denial that some who purported to follow the teachings of Edmund Rice lost their way and besmirched his legacy, others, the silent majority, upheld his philosophy in a true Christian tradition and their legacy should not be forgotten. It must be acknowledged, however, that there are past pupils who did not have the same good experience that most of us did. We are all brought together, however, by our common bond of being past pupils. They have a very special and equal place in the Edmund Rice community.

Recognising The Achievements Of Edmund Rice’s Order, And Its Failures (Jim Bradley, Irish Times)

Alternatively:

Some Catholic orders, the Christian Brothers in particular, imparted a potent mixture of muscular Christianity, an often rabid patriotism and an authoritarian and puritan lifestyle. A particular political style combining a bullying style of argument with holier-than-thou postures characterised some of the the products of their schools.

 

From Preventing The Future By Tom Garvin (Gill & Macmillan)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)



City Band by portrait artist Chris LaPorte from Michigan is a 4m x 8m hand-drawn piece created over 1200 hours using more than a hundred 2H pencils.

Despite how it appears, this is no mere photo realistic copy of a photograph. The 1:540 scale means that the quality of the original image was so low-res in relation to the canvas that LaPorte had to invent or extrapolate the vast majority of the detail.

Filmmaker Mary Matthews sez:

City Band took a year to create and is inspired by a photograph of Chris’ grandfather’s 1926 high school marching band in Bay City, Michigan. City Band is not a copy of a photograph but an original composition, with an original environment and original figure postures and positions. Drawn in a series of panels on the wall, no projection of any kind was used in its creation.

colossal

Oh my.

Fine Gael TD, Dr Liam Twomey preparing for a Barnardo’s photoshoot outside Leinster House earlier.

He is running the Dublin marathon in aid of the children’s charity with FG colleague Damien English (top in green).

Also: Badly-arranged baggy short/underpant containment (coupled with unfortunate shadows) or large majority?

YOU decide.

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