By Fuchsia Macaree who sez
This is Billy in the Bowl. It’s one of my favourite stories about Dublin – a handsome beggar in the 18th century who was born without legs wheeled himself in a bowl around Stoneybatter, strangled people and eventually got caught. This is his ghost, which I definitely heard go by on several occasions when I lived on Prussia St.
25 years since Arnie and the Predator met and duked it out in the blood-streaked jungles of Central America, the fires of hatred finally subside at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts.
Casting about for consumer feedback (and a PR boost) in China with its People’s Car Project, Volkswagen bring one girl’s concept to life, digitally.
Snapped yesterday evening at Merchant’s Arch, Dublin.
(Thanks Michael O’Riordan)
Ronan Costello at The University Times writes:
To assist students with procrastination during the exam period we decided to run a photo competition. Here are their submissions.
Above: Flowers Blossom at the Heart by Timmy Crowley; I know, I can read
by Mohd Amir Anwar; That Finished Exams Feeling by Alice Bentley and The Freshman Decline by Maurice Casey.
View the current full set here.
Angela Merkel has been forced to postpone German ratification of the eurozone’s “fiskalpakt” until after an Irish referendum on May 31 by a gathering domestic and European backlash against austerity.
Now this is getting interesting.
Eurozone Crisis: Angela Merkel Forced To Postpone ‘Fiskalpakt’ Ratification (Telegraph)
@broadsheet_ie Good job they didn’t get Mickey and Minnie the wrong way around in Tesco lockerz.com/s/207691706
— Stephen Bond (@StephenBond9) May 9, 2012
The intro of The Walking Dead mashed up with the theme tune of Growing Pains. Better than the sum of its parts.
Wait for Well Zombie – he’s so cute.
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