httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ec_5WplS0

“He was Martin McHugh’s son starting out. And then he had to make a name. Now he’s..I’m, you know, like.. I’m Mark McHugh’s dad now.”

Martin McHugh,1992 All-Ireland medal winner, tells Des Cahill [on RTE’s The Sunday Game] on his son Mark, who helped Donegal win the Sam Maguire cup on Sunday.

Mmmf.

Full show here


In this polished 3D short from students at the Bellacour art school, an average Joe wakes up, has breakfast, then attempts to cope with multiple doppelgängers while negotiating a recursive space-time continuum.

Hey, we’ve all been there.

shortoftheweek

Ah now.

Can we please stop doing the umbrella thing?

President Higgins (centre) with his aide de camp Colonel Brendan McAndrews and plougher Sean Tracey in New Ross, Wexford, earlier.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)


http://vimeo.com/44356991
http://vimeo.com/40333422

Mysteries Of Vernacular is a series of clever animations by NYC-based Myriapod Productions, what sez:

In its final form, Mysteries of Vernacular will contain 26 etymological installments, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each episode takes more than 80 hours to create between the research, construction of the book, and animation.

colossal/flavorwire

This or this.

Or, at €44.95 a pop, could it possibly be this?

And are any of these garments suitable for a grown up?

YOU decide.

Leo Varadkar, Tourism Minister, arriving at government buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin, earlier.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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