Ah now.
Is this the image we want to project to visiting Americans?
YE$!
Thanks Erin
Meanwhile, via Brian O’Connor, The Notre Dame Marching Band in the ‘Bar a little earlier:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb13HjZ1avM
Finally
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The inventor of Thalidomide, the Grunenthal Group, has apologised 50 years after side effects of the drug became known. It concludes a lengthy campaign for accountability spearheaded by The Sunday Times (above). Victims continue to seek compensation from the drug’s manufacturer, Distiller’s (now Diageo). Thalidomide was used primarily to treat morning sickness.
In 2010, Scientists at the University of Aberdeen discovered a component of the drug “prevents the growth of new blood vessels in developing embryos and stunting limb growth”.
Thalidomide Manufacturer Finally Apologises (Sky)
Gruenenthal’s Thalidomide Apology ‘Insulting’ (BBC)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q34z5dCmC4M
Henri, winner of Best In Show at the Internet Cat Video Festival.
If anything, there is now a greater void in his life.
Thanks Nikkeboentje
Nailed It
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The defiantly-manicured Bethany Firth, from Seaford, Co Down, winning gold last night in the women’s 100m backstroke at the London Paralympics, 2012.
She’s 15.
Fifteen.
(Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)
Meanwhile, on the track:
The “Fastest Paralympian on Earth” just got a little bit faster.
Jason Smyth Sets New World Record In 100m T13 heats (RTE)
And Saturday’s Irish interest:
Go the Eilish.
Picnic Stop
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On The N7 Naas Road en route to the Electric Picnic within the last hour.
Thanks Paudie Prendergast
Meanwhile, in Stradbally, Co Laois, Right NOW:
(Pics: Tony Kinlan and Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmAd-0lzwc4
In March1980, Sean Clancy and Sean Walsh converted a conventional car to an electric car from the basement of a house in Moycullen, Co Galway.
Clancy declared: “We think it’s the car of the future.”
The car attracted no investors and the project was abandoned.
This week, Sean Clancy {Walsh has since passed on] was appointed an ESB Electric-Car Ambassador and will be given the free use of an electric car for a year.
Previously: In Which The Irish Invent Twitter, 1984
An 18 minute gore-spattered short film in which adorable dogs battle zombies?
A zombie apocalypse unites a ragtag pack of dogs in the ruined streets of Miami. Immune to the epidemic, they must stick together to survive in the midst of ferocious undead and human survivors in this unauthorized sequel to “Homeward Bound.” Sit. Stay. Play dead…
Oh dear me, yes.
(NSFW: language, gore)
Gortanore, Brighton Road, Foxrock.
Was €31m.
Yours for €5m.
The plans was met by 52 local objections Despite this, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council granted permission to demolish the house and outbuildings and build 37 apartments in three blocks with a gym and conference room, shops and commercial space at street level, and 90 car-parking spaces, 84 of which are at basement level. The apartments, on the edge of Foxrock village, are 1,800-3,000sq ft in size and are designed to have a full-time concierge. A development of apartments with similar aspirations was built close-by by Sean Dunne at Hollybrook, also on Brighton Road. Industry sources suggest the existing plans are unbuildable in the current climate, and that the permission will, in any event, presumably expire next year.
Top price Celtic Tiger Residence Comes Onto The Market With 85% Discount (NamaWineLake)
A bearded Jim Larkin (in a dress coat borrowed from Count Markevicz).
From University College Cork:
He entered William Martin Murphy’s Imperial Hotel in disguise and appeared on the balcony to the crowds below, before being arrested. What used to be the hotel, now forms part of Clerys Department store.