The Petit Cafe on Kildare Street, Dublin, this morning
Taking advantage of the farNOMNOMNOM
Thousands Of Farmers To Demonstrate in Dublin Over Funding Concerns (RTE)
Thanks Ruairi Carroll
Youtuber Denis Psotsky reverses the original video demo of JWC Environmental’s terrifying Muffin Monster NOMNOMNOMachine – to rather satisfying effect.
Jaysus.
The one they call Ireland’s Toughest 10km
Hell & Back 2012 on the Kilruddery Estate, Co Wicklow.
Frank Cronin, of Glowpunk writes:
1500 people did this on Sunday.
Fifteen hundred.
The next Hell & Back is in January
Angry Lights
at
*tremble*
At the junction next to the Beacon Hotel, Sandyford, Co Dublin.
Thanks Julie Davis
Pathetic
at
Pat Hickey.
Eejit.
“I will say to Rory [McIlroy] that if he declares for Ireland, then he will automatically put himself in pole position to carry the Tricolour into the stadium in Rio,” said Mr [Pat] Hickey (above), who is also a board member on the International Olympic Committee.
Previously: Ireland And Me By Rory McIlroy
Unlike Ireland…
In a response to a Maori affairs select committee inquiry into the tobacco industry and Maori smoking rates, tabled in Parliament today, the Government agreed to develop targets for reducing smoking rates with the goal of becoming a smokefree nation.
It will also consider law changes around the promotion, packaging and display of tobacco products as part of the Smokefree Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Bill currently before Parliament. Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia said the Government’s response was “a landmark moment” for New Zealand.
“It is about us asserting our own identity as a nation and defining for ourselves the role tobacco is allowed to play in the life of this country. This is not something we are just going to leave in the hands of the tobacco industry.”
(Hat tip: Mark Geary)
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A Boards.ie thread from February 2005.
A year after Mark Zuckerberg registered the domain name TheFacebook.com.
And four months before he changed it to Facebook.com.
Also: we’re pretty sure this guy (below) was studying economics:
Uh Oh … TCD gets added to “The Facebook” (Boards.ie, February 2005)
(Thanks Gilleechi)
The John Waters Personal Faith Tour – next stop: The Mallow Year Of Faith.
Let his test yours.
(Pic: DamienMulley)
(Thanks Lars Biscuits)
DISABILITY ALLOWANCE payments to under-18s will be ended in the budget if the Government adopts a proposal from the expert group that recommended reducing the rate of child benefit.
The Coalition was forced into a U-turn after last December’s budget when its plan to stop the practice of paying disability allowance directly to 16- and 17-year-olds met strong opposition from the parents of severely disabled children and Opposition parties.
The contentious proposal to increase the minimum qualifying age for the allowance from 16 to 18, while providing a compensatory payment for the teenager’s parent or guardian, is back on the agenda as Budget 2013 approaches.
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said the EU-European Central Bank-International Monetary Fund troika has raised concerns about social welfare payments going straight to under-18s and said she was worried about young people losing the incentive to stay in education.
A u-turn on an earlier u-turn.
It’ll be as if nothing had ever happened.
Dail protest in 3…2…
Advisers tell Burton to axe disability allowance for under-18s (Mary Minihan, Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
