Needs moar moderation.
Bobby Kerr, one of the owners of Bang on Merrion Row, Dublin (opposite the Department of Finance), following a fire at the restaurant earlier this afternoon.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Oh
atDisaster for Ireland and Munster. Paul O’Connell out for 3-6 weeks with knee injury. Conor Murray out for 3-4 weeks @Limerick_Leader #Rugby
— Steven Miller (@steven_miller12) March 5, 2012
Fag cigarette break during the Bishops’ Conference this afternoon.
From top: Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor Anthony Farquhar and Bishop of Meath Michael Smith; Cardinal Sean Brady with Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Colm O’Reilly; Bishop of Killala John Fleming and Bishop of Cashel and Emly Dermot Clifford; Bishop of Raphoe Philip Boyce and Bishop of Dublin Eamonn Walsh.
Meanwhile: Cardinal Dolan Urges Catholics to Become More Active in Politics (New York Times)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Leo Curbelo (who made this) sez:
I recreated the Avengers Trailer from February 2012 with animation clips from 1960′s Marvel TV cartoons. The only cheat was Nick Fury, but the clips are from his first appearance in an “Iron Man” episode from 1995. I also borrowed a Paramount logo from the same era to fit with the look. Black Widow was a tough find since she was a shadow character and appeared very rarely.
Taken literally minutes ago at Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
What are these people promoting?
Lines close at 4.45pm
4.57pm Update: The answer is the launch of Metro Express (a new service which “combines 30mb of broadband and phone for €30” hence the big ’30’) with Colm Piercy, CEO of Digiweb Group and model Tara O’Farrell.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Fair enough.
Via David Caldwell
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Jim Fitzpatrick who created the genuinely iconic Che Guevara poster (above) in 1968 (based on a photo by Alberto Korda) has written to today’s Irish Times to take Declan Ganley to task over his opposition to a memorial to the revolutionary in Galway.
It was ever thus.
From Jim’s website:
“But Ireland was the weirdest: Every shop that stocked the poster was threatened or harassed: in the very fashionable Brown Thomas of Grafton Street, which sold cards and posters in those faraway days, a well-turned out lady bought the entire stock, tore them all to pieces in front of the astonished staff and walked out! I remember the late Ms O’Flaherty and Ms King of Parsons Bookshop on Baggot Street bridge [Dublin], who were great supporters of my art – as they were of every artist and writer in Dublin – getting really upset at the hostility directed towards the poster, which hung proudly in their front window. Despite threats to break their windows they refused to take it down and I was so proud every time I passed that little shop run by two most educated, kind and most educated, kind and charming Dubliners who devoted their lives to the artists and writers of this city. “
Previously and previously.
Also: You’re Havana Laugh
Think that’s bard?
Methinks this may make a clenchpoop of thine codpiece:
Verily.
Thanks N
Other than ‘sickening’.
Simon Coveney has become the sixth Cabinet member to breach the Government’s own rules in securing a staggering pay deal for his special adviser.
It has emerged today that the Agriculture Minister fought to award an extraordinary €110,000 salary to qualified dental surgeon Ross Mac Mathuna.
Six senior ministers [Howlin, Burton, Bruton, Varadkar, Rabbitte, and Coveney] have now broken the rules and awarded salaries above the €92,600 Government-imposed limit.
Fury As Coveney Flouts Rules To Pay Spin Doctor €110k (Niall O’Connor, Evening Herald
Also: Not the first time.
Meanwhile, remember this?
(Photocall Ireland)