By Ciara Rapple.

This is a photograph of a 3d paper design of Dublin City I made. I mainly wanted to do something about the man who saved his rabbit from the Liffey last year, because it’s lovely. So I have him diving into the Liffey to save the rabbit and then again on the bridge giving him a kiss.

Then I just wanted to frame that with different little things from around Dublin.

 

Le Cool Dublin

When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of iPad cases a day.

Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt. As the injured were rushed into ambulances, one in particular stood out. His features had been smeared by the blast, scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose.

…Tuesday, Apple reported one of the most lucrative quarters of any corporation in history, with $13.06 billion in profits on $46.3 billion in sales. Its sales would have been even higher, executives said, if overseas factories had been able to produce more.

 

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, new York Times)

Thanks Shane O’Brien

2.2 on the Richter scale.

2.2.

Donegal Experiences Minor Earthquake (World Irish)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5aEhGuBYk&sns=em

Occupy Chicken.

What the cluck?

A video to mark the reopening of Joe Macken’s pop-up hipster eaterie Crackbird today at 60 Dame Street, Dublin (formerly Fan’s).

Hen-believable.

Etc.

No chicken, money or favours were given for this post


These photos show John Walker Lindh at age 17, touring Ireland with his [Irish-American] father Frank. It was 1998 on the week that the Good Friday Agreement was passed. By that time John was accustomed to wearing traditional Islamic garb and despite the unusual appearance, Frank said he found Irish people to be open and accepting.
Three months after visiting Ireland, John headed for the Yemeni capital Sana’a. He learned Arabic and began reading the original text of the Koran, committing large passages to memory and immersing himself in Islamic culture. The following spring he wrote to say he was moving to the mountains [of Pakistan] and for several months his concerned parents heard nothing from him.

What he had not told them in his letter was that he intended to cross the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan to volunteer for the Afghan army.

John Walker Lindh (Eoin Reynolds, Duckspeak)

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