Dude, your pants.

During the Notre Dame College Football team’s parade down Dawson Street, Dublin, within the last 30 minutes.

Thanks Cormac McCann

Where it all began (St Stephen’s Green 5.15pm)…

(Pix: Oisín)

Meanwhile: bringing up the rear.

Thanks Donncha

And their pro-life punishers.

From surviving records it appears women in the colony worked as spies as they were easily able to move between the Gaelic Irish territory and the colony. Between 1302 and 1311 several women were convicted of spying or aiding rebels and the punishments were varied and harsh.

…The price for such activities were heavy. Grace le Deveyns, Fynyna Octouthy were hanged, Isabel Ocouthy was pregnant when found guilty and was given a stay of execution until the child was born after which she was also hanged.

 

And wasn’t it well for them.

Female Spies In 14th century Ireland…..(IrishHistoryPodcast)

Electric boogaloo.

Or the Somme with music.

YOU decide.

In the meantime:

Barbara McCarthy (every Picnic since 2004) writes:

The good

Weather: Say what you want, but a sunny day is what makes or breaks a festival so if it’s going to be the way it was in 2004 and 2005, it will rock. The weather has gone downhill year on year ever since and last year was my least favourite Picnic, because I was hypothermic. According to most weather reports its going be 22 or more degrees in the shade. The miserable summer of discontent and pure crap still has a chance of a U-turn.

The Line Up: It is good as ever. I’ve never left saying the music was terrible, simply because I’ve never got a chance to see everything. I usually just go with the flow, so as long as I get to catch Donal Dineen, James Murphy and Pat Mahoney in Body & Soul, Orbital and the The Cure at the main stage I’m happy. You also can’t beat the Dublin Gospel Choir on a sunny Sunday Morning.

The Bacardi Bar played far and away the best tunes last year

The general craic. You can’t beat it. It always takes a few hours to adapt, but once you’re in full swing…It’s best just to go down without a plan. Just bring a toothbrush in your handbag, throat-spray, loads of electrolytes and Alka-Seltzer and loads of other stuff that you end up losing..

The Bad

Thieves: Last year there just seemed to be an air of scumbaggedness around the place. I know lots of people who were robbed and I generally didn’t feel as safe there as I did before. That’s crap and can ruin a festival. The trick is for the security to focus on the potential scumbags, and not wreck the entire event for everyone else by imposing strict rules on us and treating us like 14 year olds. The people who stabbed people at The Swedish House Mafia are c***ts, but they are the minority.

Security: Don’t operate zero tolerance just because of the above! Last year we were sitting together in a nice cosy big tent thing on the Sunday and then about 30 cops dragged people out into the freezing cold for no reason. We know how to behave. Thanks. I hope this year they won’t just shut everything down at 2am or something, due to bullshit elsewhere.

Which leads me to the next issue. Is it the End of All night raves? Remember them? They were fun. Clearly restrictions have been put in place and in recent years when there’s word of a rave somewhere, you get there only to find four people sitting over a cigarette in the cold, who much to my chagrin last year, didn’t have anything funny to say for themselves.

Teens: They’re loud and generally end up in a field covered in fake tan and vomit with their legs over their heads. I know we were all young once, but we wore more clothes. No? I think it would be nice for the young kids aged 17 to 18 or whatever to do something else and start going to the Picnic at a later age, when they’ve experienced life. The more kids you have at an event the more policed it is and that’s no fun. By the way I’m not too big a fan of young kids at festivals either. I’m always afraid they’ll pick up something of the ground or injure themselves or something, just cos their trendy parents want to have them on their shoulders at a festival. No one cares if you’re a trendy parent. They just want you to remove the child from your shoulders so they can see the band you are blocking their view from.

The buses: I got a bus one-way last year because I only went down on the day.  Cost €30 quid. Rip off.Continue reading →


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWjgt9PzYEM

This 1930 interview, in which he talks about his inspiration, Sherlock Holmes and spiritualism, is believed to be the only filmed interview with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Now for yeh.

bookofjoe

Remember Noah Horak from Minnesota who had his motorbike nicked in Dublin city centre just a few hours into the Irish leg of his round the world tour?

Well the bike is back and in one piece, missing some fairings but apparently mechanically sound on first inspection. Currently in the care of Peter Bookey at Aaron Rider Training.

Having been obliged to buy another bike to continue his tour, Noah is currently in the UK.

(Thanks Oisin)

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