@skynews Screw the Irish. More French live in England than Irish & the French don’t bomb us.#justsaying— Stephen Gash (@Stephen_Gash) August 13, 2012
Fail to prepare.
Prepare to stand in Dawson Street for three hours watching this:.
While the format of the event has yet to be finalised, it is expected that they will be interviewed on stage by a master of ceremonies, who is expected to be from RTÉ. There will also be “some light entertainment,” the city council said, although no acts have been confirmed. Footage from Ireland’s participation in the Games will be shown on a big screen. The lord mayor will bring the event to a close at 2pm, the council said. “The council is planning a lively and exciting public event,” a spokesman said.
Ah here.
Reception For Athletes To Be Held At Mansion House (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Helen writes:
We want to get an electric car. This is the closest charger to our work in Dundalk. How can we charge it when people park in the space (top)? Also Louth County Council only allow a one hour parking rule (above) so how can you charge a car in their car park? It takes longer than that! Plonkers.
Marsupial sez;
Just spotted this in a shop window in Wexford town.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQDN1luLL4
A teaser from Anglo: The Musical.
Rip roaring, boil-lancing satire.
Or broad-based comedy from puppet that looks like Postman Pat gone to seed.
YOU decide.
You may want to sit down for this.
From a Catholic perspective, it was most gratifying to observe that Maeve Binchy died with the great satisfaction of a Catholic requiem mass.
Maeve frequently and enthusiastically, not least in her interviews with Gay Byrne, declared her lack of interest in religion, and Catholicism in particular.
Indeed, perhaps the best known practitioner of a ‘double life’ was the anti-Catholic philosopher, Voltaire.
While excoriating the Catholic Church in public, in private Voltaire sought the comfort of his pastor, and of the Catholic sacraments, with gusto.
The good news is that a death-bed conversion is as good as any. So welcome home Maeve, and may you rest in peace.
Eric Conway
Navan
Co Meath
Maeve Binchy Is ‘Home’ (Irish Examiner Letters)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
As government plans face the axe,
Their logic starts showing its cracks,
Now they pray that rich,
Will all make the switch,
To paying a voluntary tax.
John Moynes
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)
High Noon
at
During his mid-life Twitter breakdown ‘brianformerff’ [Chris} got down and dirty with peace-loving Rovers fan Buzz O’Neill. With potentially unhilarious legal consequences.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
This morning.
Nick Moran writes:
Orgiastic celebratio
ns in Bray yesterday then.