Niamh Geoghegan and Shirley Fitzpatrick decided to build a mobile sauna and travel around Ireland.

The Bosca Beatha left the Hill of Tara on the Summer Soltice (June 21).

Sez Niamh:

We both understand the complete randomness of this adventure but feel that it is the perfect time to remind people about the endless possibilities of their own imaginations. I am tired of all the constant stream of negative news and look forward to discovering the hidden gems, humour, music and sceals of this special island.

Among its many other gifts, I envisage the Bosca Beatha to be bringer of good news stories and I will endeavour to share these with you as we move along. Keep your eyes open and towels at hand, the Bosca Beatha is on its way.

 

AND they met some literally hot and sweaty surf dudes in Easky, Co Sligo.

Bosca Beatha

 Thanks Myriam

They only know how to take off.

Hang on.

Student pilots (and a pilot mother top) on Kildare Street, Dublin this afternoon. Eighty students (paying up to €80,000) were left stranded in Florida after their training was suspended.

Their course was run by the Enterprise Ireland-backed Pilot Training Centre in Waterford and accredited by the Irish Aviation Authority.

(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)


A half-scale, 152,455 brick model of the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 jet engine (which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner) commissioned by Rolls Royce and built by Bright Bricks for last weekend’s Farnborough Air Show.

Build time: eight weeks, guided by four Rolls Royce engineers.

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The unfinished Gleann Riada estate, Longford, where an apartment block is being demolished by Nama,

It wasn’t meant to be this way

A flood of other [planning] applications were made between 2000 and 2005, most of which were applied for in the name of Flancare Clonmel Distribution Ltd. They included a four-storey 110 bedroom hotel with leisure centre and swimming pool (approved), drive-through restaurant (approved), car showrooms (approved), 11 industrial units (approved), crèche (approved), service station (approved) neighbourhood centre with six retail units (refused) and a 15,000 m2 gross anchor unit retail space with adjoining shops (refused).

And

One of the major issues with Gleann Riada is its location on marshy land, that was historically a flood plain.

Demolishing More Than A Building – The Gleann Riada Folly (Longford News)

But.

“L’ asks:

I have a lovely pic of Michael Lowry TD and Justin Greene MCD outside Bruxelles [off Grafton Street, Dublin]. Of any interest for the week that’s in it for both people?

 

Should we publish the Lowry/MCD-just-two-smashing-gentlemen-having-the-chat-sure-where-would-you-get-it-at-all-at-all photo.

Or just post it on Boards.ie Or not.

YOU decide.

Lines close at 4pm.

UPDATE: photo taken in Spring.

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