Rarely-seen archive images released for RTE’s 50th anniversary including, from top: Thelma Mansfield (April 1969); Bláithín Ní Chnáimhín (Let’s Draw, September 1967) and participants in the station’s ‘Eurofashion ’68’ contest.

RTE 50 Image Gallery (RTE)

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The Luminari De Cagna – an eye-candifying 28 metre high colonnade fitted with 55,000 LEDs that stole the show at last week’s 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

The whole thing consumed just 20kW/h of electricity.

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“Is it any wonder photographs [Joe Higgins said] have appeared in the media around the world today showing President Sarkozy patting the Taoiseach on the head? I noticed in some of the television shots that a number of other prime ministers also patted him on the head as they passed him by.”

Kenny Angered By Claim He Acted Like ‘Eejit’ With Sarkozy (Michael O’Regan, Irish Times)

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