Gummi Bear anatomy toys by NYC based artist Jason Freeny. They’re just for looking. You can’t eat them or anything.
Available (unsigned) for around $40 each.
An editorial in The Western People
Ten years ago this summer An Bord Pleanála issued a preliminary judgement on the Corrib gas project. In a letter to the then developers, Enterprise Energy Ireland (later Shell E&P Ireland), the planning appeals board claimed that the proposed terminal at Ballinaboy in North Mayo might be prejudicial to the health and safety of local residents and urged the applicant to investigate alternative locations. Among the possible sites mooted was the then vacant Asahi plant on the outskirts of Killala.
A few weeks after receiving the letter from An Bord Pleanála, Shell E&P Ireland engaged in excavation work at Glengad Beach, the proposed site of the pipeline landfall. Later that summer, this newspaper published remarks from Fianna Fáil Junior Minister Frank Fahey who claimed that a failure to grant planning permission for the Ballinaboy terminal would be “a most detrimental blow to the economic development of the north-west and Co Mayo in particular”.
A year earlier, Fahey, in his capacity as Minister for Marine and Natural Resources, had contacted Mayo Co Council to insist he be informed of the local authority’s decision on the Corrib project before it was made public. Many people perceived the minister as exercising undue influence on a planning process that was supposed to be independent.
James Laffey,
Editor,
Western People
Hmm.
Via Shell To Sea
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
On North Wall Quay by Samuel Beckett Bridge.
(Thanks Courtney Flynn)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3pzhbCh9Y
They’re back
Donal Fallon writes;
You might enjoy this. Great stuff from the Thai Tims. These youngsters are being looked after by the Good Child Foundation, who care for children with Down Syndrome. They’ve been to Celtic Park before and are hugely popular with the Celtic supporters, as they were introduced to
them by Reamonn Gormley, a young man who was murdered last year. Here they are singing a tribute to Katie Taylor, made me smile anyway.
Goodbye you.
Coolbawn, Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge.
Authorities To Evict Bankrupt McFeely Today (irish Examiner)
Support The Priory Hall Residents (Facebook)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Today’s Guardian (Nicola Adams) and Irish Times (Katie Taylor).
Women’s boxing, eh?
Who’d have thunk it?
Not too many of the commenters on this thread from December last year, it must be said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjtwWpRHOto
Horse and rider in perfect harmony, there. Just wonderful.
(Thanks Wodanaz Odin)
Stop moaning.
No.
You stop moaning.
Etc.
Barbara McCarthy (above) writes:
We’ve all been there – stuck listening to someone’s problems, repetitively, while thinking. ‘You have it so easy. If that was all that was wrong in my life, I’d be laughing the head of myself.’ The people who are having a fantastic time of it are few and far between at the moment, so the rest of us are so consumed by our daily financial struggles and day in day out woes, we just cant hold them in any more and will use any opportunity to tell people how bad we have it.
Pub talk has gone from ‘My wonderful wife (who’s just underwent a €20,000 butt lift and bingo wing removal procedure) and I are just ruminating on our next property move, we were thinking Provence or Estonia…’ to ‘We’re so broke, we can’t put petrol in the car, our 8 mortgages haven’t been paid in six months, the credit card was declined in a German grocery store.’
The next person will then interject; ‘Well my phone’s been cut off, my husband is up in court for tax evasion next week, the car which was on the way to being repossessed broke down because I forgot to put petrol in it, we’ve eaten nothing but porridge for the last six months.’ After that it sounds like a clip from Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen. ‘You think that’s bad, we’re living in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank and sitting round a wish bone for the last year with nothing else to eat.’
Our predicaments are terrible without doubt and I’m not discrediting anyone’s problems, but because we’re all screwed, we’ve become completely self obsessed and can’t think any further than ourselves.
And by English we do mean…
Maidhci writes:
I know things have moved on and all that but is this a bit much? English Queens Market, Corcaigh.
LEGO builder Peer Kreuger created these wonderful remote controlled vehicles from The Dark Knight Rises.
You can vote for both The Bat and Tumbler to be made into official sets.