Festival Feet – plastic bags that look like Converse sneakers. £5 a pair.
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MINISTER FOR Education Ruairí Quinn is set to review the impact of the new Leaving Certificate bonus points system amid increasing concerns it could have a distorting impact on college entry points.
Career experts are predicting a dramatic increase in points for many courses when the CAO publishes its first round of college offers next Monday.
The scramble for college places on many courses has intensified this year because of the strong results of so many students in higher level maths. The record number of students who passed the higher level paper (over 11,000) face into next week’s points race with an additional 25 CAO points.
Minister To Review Bonus Policy For Maths After Points Surge (Séan Flynn, Irish Times)
Yikes!
Australia’s highest court has upheld a new government law on mandatory packaging for cigarettes that removes brand colours and logos from packaging. The law requires cigarettes to be sold in olive green packets, with graphic images warning of the consequences of smoking.
The new packaging rules are scheduled to be implemented from 1 December 2012.
Expect it here real soon.
Australia cigarette plain packaging law upheld by court (BBC News)
Woot! Get the communion wines in, geezer.
(Thanks Evelyn Leen)
Simon Kingston writes:
The view from my office [Thomas Street, Dublin] now.
To salute ‘our’ heroes.
And you couldn’t even bother watching it on the telly.
Shame on us you.
Today on Dawson Street, Dublin, for the ‘Homecoming’.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Moscow not Kiev.
An “Urgent Clarification” from TV3 this afternoon.
Thanks Bibi
Michael Conlon, Katie Taylor, Enda Kenny, John Joe Nevin and Paddy Barnes.
And they still couldn’t lay a punch on his ‘inner eejit’
Irish Olympic boxers and Enda at Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin this afternoon,
(Lauras Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
LEGO LOTR
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A simple tale of a wayward soul, awash in an ocean of tragedy and regret.
Yes indeed. A dark, strange, rather compelling, slightly NSFW 2011 short by animator Nick Cross, a former art director at John Kricfalusi’s Spumco Inc., hence the Ren and Stimpy stylings.
It’s quite the trip. Cross sheds a bit more light on it here.