Geoff Hamilton writes:
Purchased the kid’s new uniform yesterday, to be greeted with the attached brand. The inside label reveals – ‘Trampass Sports – Styled in Ireland’. Hmmm.
Careon asks:
Enda in a few years or Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Adkins?
We may never know.
Gianni Clifford writes:
This is a little A3 poster I created of Ireland’s toughest gal to excite the troops. I hope this poster can bring a tiny amount of the happiness Katie has brought to this country.
Fred Johnston writes:
Bernard Carroll rightly laments the replacement of a King George-era post-box at Lower George’s Street, Dublin, with a new one. With respect, I can go one better. At the junction of Galway’s High Street and Shop Street, there stood an ancient hexagonal-pillar postbox with a decorative top, dating from the early Victorian era and surely of historic interest. It was damaged a few years ago and never replaced; the pillar was sheared fairly cleanly at the base. The whereabouts of this artefact, which I am certain could be reinstalled and kept in service, is seemingly unknown.So where is it? And why hasn’t it been repaired?
Anyone?
Dispatching Old Post Boxes (Fred Johnston, Irish Times Letters)
Previously: Post-Modern Vandalism
“We Are Proud Of Our Old-Style Post Boxes”
Pic via Buildingsofireland.ie
Constructed from PVC pipe, lumber embedded in concrete and incorporating a 12 foot drop.
Mmf.
Carnie dads are the best dads.
@broadsheet_ie Found these in my local Oxfam in rathmines. yfrog.com/kj20855777j— Linda Kavanagh (@Bubblenoma) August 7, 2012
Official garda figures provided to RTÉ News show that between the start of January and the end of July, 5,989 phones were stolen. That compares to 5,002 in the same period last year and represents a 20% increase year on year.
The average value of the phones taken was approximately €250, nearly double the average value of the handsets taken during the same period last year, reflecting the increasing popularity and cost of smart phones.
According to gardaí, around 20% of mobile phones that are stolen are snatched from the owners. More than 30% are stolen from a vehicle, while one in every six is stolen in restaurants, shops or pubs.
The first official publicity still from Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic. Scotching rumours that Day-Lewis went ‘full-Abe’ in his preparation for the role:
There are numerous reports about Day-Lewis attempting to fully immerse himself in the mindset of someone who lived during the mid-1860s by avoiding the trappings of 21st — not to mention 20th — century life during the shoot, but Spielberg says his star never delved so deeply into character that he refused to acknowledge the modern world. “Daniel was always conscious of his contemporary surroundings,” Spielberg says. “Daniel never went into a fugue state. He did not channel Lincoln. All that stuff is just more about gossip than it is about technique.”