Darragh Kerins’ mother Noleen (centre) is congratulated by friends and family after her son’s first round at the FEI Nations Cup (the Aga Khan) at the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS.

Jane Gallagher writes:

Please give the Irish team a mention for winning the Aga Khan today. No other outlet seems to be!

 

From left: Darragh Kerins, Richie Moloney, Robert Splaine [Chef d’Equip], Cian O’Connor and Clem McMahon.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Also: lovely.

Mayo’s only female TD, Michelle Mulherin [FG], has wished the best of luck to Mayo Rose, Dervla Kenny [Enda’s niece], and Perth Rose, Knockmore native, Lorna Gallagher, in this year’s Rose of Tralee Festival – an event which Deputy Mulherin says is “rooted in the family and Irish culture

“It is more than a beauty contest. It is rooted in the family and Irish culture, and in every little girl’s dream: to be appreciated, chosen and ultimately loved.”

 

Roses Will Do Us Proud, Says Mulherin (MayoToday)

Previously: She So Forni

Thanks David M

OK, it is.

But

Kevin Whitty writes:

George Dalton, my mechanic, had his car (above) stolen last night from Bray, Co Wicklow. He is a VW/Audi specialist and is known throughout Ireland for the work he does on his customers’ cars and also on Irish car forums for the expert knowledge he dishes out to peeps who wish to know more. He has received massive support already from the interweb with people posting it on their FB and also on the forums. Details here.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29

Two years each in a “prison colony”.

Two.

The three stared ahead defiantly from inside a glass cage, their wrists shackled in handcuffs, as the verdict was read. Supporters and opposition activists blamed the case against the women – and the tough sentence – on Vladimir Putin.

“Whatever Putin wants, Putin gets. That is the only thing to say,” Tolokonnikova’s husband, Pyotr Verzilov, said on leaving the court.

 

Pussy Riot Sentenced To Two Years Of Hard Labour (Guardian)

Meanwhile:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY98sZWxt-w


A new nature programme from America’s Finest News Source:

Christ almighty, spiders were designed to disgust and terrorize the other living creatures on this planet with those spindly f**king legs…ah f**k that’s the worst! Spiders are the f**king f**king worst.

Hilarity. Horror. Highly NSFW audio.

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A supercut of Bill Paxton as gobby Colonial marine Private Hudson by pmiglio.

Private Hudson. He never did secure that sh*t.

Mmf.

(We, like Lt. Gorman in the film, originally referred to Private Hudson as ‘Hicks’ in this post. Kudos to commenter Cool Hand Lucan for the rather brilliantly contextual ‘I’m Hudson, he’s Hicks’…)

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Johnson lived to dominate, and he used crass behavior to bend people to his will. At 6-ft., 3-in. tall and 210 lbs., he liked to lean over people, spitting, swearing, belching, or laughing in their faces. Once, he even relieved himself on a Secret Serviceman who was shielding him from public view.

When the man looked horrified, Johnson simply said, “That’s all right, son. It’s my prerogative.” His favorite power ploy, however, seemed to be dragging people into the bathroom with him—forcing them to continue their conversations with the president as he used the toilet.

LBJ: The President Who Marked His Territory (Mental Floss)

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(Pic: National Archives)

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