Michael Carney from Delgany Co. Wicklow..

He’s spent the last three years developing a vitamin drink. With a difference.

It’s ready.

See?

Now you’re impressed.

Via The Happy Pear (Facebook)

Available in Spars, Euro Spars, Centra, Super Valu and MACE.

Thanks Kevin Whitty


THIS is clever viral marketing:

The crowd at TED got a glimpse into the upcoming Ridley Scott sci-fi film Prometheus on Tuesday, in the form of a video of a TEDTalk that takes place in 2023.

Although not a clip from the movie itself, the futuristic talk is given by Guy Pearce, who stars in the film, and offers some clues to the plotline. At one point, Pearce, who plays CEO of the fictitious Weyland Corporation in Prometheus, says, “At this moment in our civilization, we can create cybernetic individuals, who in just a few short years will be completely indistinguishable from us.”

There’s even an accompanying Weyland Industries website.

Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ teased in TEDtalk from the future (mashable)

ikono

 

 

Cough. Splutter.

And, furthermore, yikes.

Outside European Union House on Dawson Street, Dublin.

Fianna Fail TD for Galway Eamon O Cuiv (the Long Fella’s now-lookalike grandson) this afternoon flanked by Independent TD for Tipperary Mattie McGrath (left) and Fianna Fail TD for Cork Michael McGrath addressing anti-austerity protesters who had marched from O’Connell Street to Leinster House.

Hmm.

Something‘s brewing.

Also:

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

From The public accounts committee meeting on the “Debt Discrepancy In The National Accounts”, November 3, 2011.

Shane Ross: “I will ask just a final question before I depart. Mr. Cardiff is due to head for the European Court of Auditors shortly.”

Kevin Cardiff: “Yes.”

Ross: “Will Mr. Cardiff assure the committee that he will see this matter sorted before he departs? As he stated, it is his responsibility.”

Cardiff: “Yes. Accounting Officers must take responsibility for issues such as this and see them through. It was to allow this to happen that I stated that I would hope to have the external report on this by the end of the year.”

Ross: “Mr. Cardiff will not depart until this matter has been resolved satisfactorily.”

Cardiff: “My departure is not entirely in my own hands, but I will press hard—–”

Ross: “Mr. Cardiff cannot depart without his own consent.”

Cardiff: I am not sure about how true that is.”

Ross: “Does Mr. Cardiff have something to tell us?”

Cardiff: “No. In a technical legal sense, I am not sure that the Deputy is 100% correct. I will try hard to get this done before I go. Sometimes, a fresh pair of eyes can see things that the existing person cannot.”

Ross: “Mr. Cardiff has responsibility. He is one of the two principal players. It would be wrong if he left the Department of Finance in a shambles, where its systems were not satisfactory and where something such as this could recur. It happened on his watch and he should not go to Europe until this committee, the Department and the Minister are satisfied that this problem has been resolved. Will Mr. Cardiff give us that guarantee?”

Cardiff: “No, I will not.”

Ross: “Mr. Cardiff will just float off and leave the problem here…”

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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