In the castle’s gardens (known as Dubh Linn gardens) this afternoon.
Thanks Andy Sheridan
Falls mainly on the 99 per cent.
The woman, 33, said that she had once worked at the post office but that her unemployment benefits had run out and she was living now on 400 euros a month, about $520. She was squatting with some friends in a building that still had water and electricity, while collecting “a little of everything” from the garbage after stores closed and the streets were dark and quiet.
Such survival tactics are becoming increasingly commonplace here, with an unemployment rate over 50 percent among young people and more and more households having adults without jobs. So pervasive is the problem of scavenging that one Spanish city has resorted to installing locks on supermarket trash bins as a public health precaution.
Austerity, que?
Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal (Suzanne Daley, New York Times)
(Samuel Aranda/NYT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnkwXYmq-4
Dr Roy Lowry of Plymouth University demonstrates the deeply satisfying explosive power of liquid nitrogen returning to its gaseous state.
Wait for it.
(We posted this the other day but the YouTube link disappeared. A replacement has appeared. We felt it worth reposting.)
Jim Chimney tweets:
Those Arthur’s Day ads get on my t*ts. This what I see each time i look at one!
It won’t hurt a bit.
Honestly.
Look at Bo (after giving half a pint)!
UCD Veterinary Hospital (Facebook)
Thanks Bibi
Stephen K writes:
Just looking at your ‘Dublin to Cork Return: €81′ post. I can beat that.
After missing my flight back home to Kerry on Sunday evening (secretly a calculated decision involving alcohol, Donegal fans and an inability to even consider facing work after a week on holiday) I decided to get the train down first thing on Monday morning.
The cost of a one way ticket was €62. One way. To Kerry. The train was fifteen minutes late to leave Heuston, we had to wait an extra five minutes in two different stations and a cup of tea was €3.35.
The flights I had booked were €68 return. A bus journey is €25.65 and if I was to drive back it would have cost in the region of €35. all of these significantly cheaper and significantly better service.
I can honestly say that I will never again use the services of Iaronrod Eireann and it was no surprise that the train was virtually empty.
And now they’re raising the prices. Figure that one out.
Human anatomy rendered in Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books by artist Lisa Nilsson.
Mmf.
Above: face, cerebellum, thorax and butt.
An Aids poster from 1992 by Kieran O’Connor produced by the Southern Health Board.
Includes angry dad/authoritarian figure, skinhead and garden gnome.
Blogger Leo Traynor recounts his terrifying online experience at the hands of a particularly nasty troll, how he tracked the bridge-dweller down to an Irish IP address and the shock that lay in store when he did.
A story that will make your skin crawl, told well.
People kept asking me ‘Why you? Why would these guys want to have a go at you?’ I couldn’t answer them other than it was a couple of random nutters who didn’t appreciate my political views or ethnic origins. Or even someone who couldn’t solve my cryptic crosswords!
The whole thing escalated in June, July and August this year. I received more and more abuse on the timeline and via DMs. A crossword clue account I’d started (@Leo’sClue) was inundated with abuse too.
Then one day something happened that truly frightened me. I don’t scare easily but this was vile.I received a parcel at my home address. Nothing unusual there – I get a lots of post. I ripped it open and there was a tupperware lunchbox inside full of ashes. There was a note included ‘Say hello to your relatives from Auschwitz’ I was physically sick.
READ ON: Meeting A Troll (Traynor’s Eye)
(+ Hat tip: Tom Lowe)