A 1967 ad for ‘The Golden Disc’ (open until 10pm!) at the Stillorgan Shopping Centre, Co Dublin, the first shopping centre in Ireland (Opened a year earlier by Dickie Rock).

Via Brand New Retro

From Cedar Lounge:

Would you believe that Electronicvoting.ie is still online. Don’t know how much extra keeping the site alive cost but it hardly would have been free. You can even download a little demo app.

 

The Government’s Electronic Voting Site Is Still Online (Cedar Lounge)

E-Voting Election Leaflets (Irish Election Literature)

Thanks Eoin

 

 

Set of three for €38 from Etsy shop GoingUnderground.

Sorcha (blogger ‘Moteach’) writes:

Based in New York I’m guessing they [Goingunderground] don’t realise our two Luas lines are not connected.

The poster on the left features Red Line stations only (though in random order), while the middle and right have a mixture of both Green and Red Line stations.
Much as I’d like to get to Dundrum via James as per the poster on the right, I don’t think that this will be an option for a very many number of years (the Luas BXD line is due to begin construction in 2015).
And as someone who uses the Red Line, I don’t think I have any particular sentimental reason for wanting to be reminded of my local stops such as Suir Road, or indeed Balally on the Green Line.

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Anthony Fortune writes:

“Ulster bank on the quays [Dublin] just now. Offices are empty and staff out on the street.”

 

Up to 900 Face The Axe In Ulster Bank Jobs Bloodbath (Anne-Marie Walsh and Siobhan Creaton, Irish Independent)

 

THE IRISH lack self-esteem despite a veneer of “garrulous sociability and self-deprecating twaddle”, according to the latest edition of the Lonely Planet which has just been published

The best-selling guide book says Irish people’s reputation for having an “easygoing, affable nature is justified”, but our reputation for friendliness is mostly a manifestation of our desire to chat – and our lack of self-esteem is our “dark secret”.

And it doesn’t end there:

Larne: ‘lacking in the charm department’
Letterkenny: ‘ruined by the excesses of the Celtic Tiger era’
Galway: “a very rainy city, even by Irish standards”
Derry: ‘not pretty”

Cork: “everything good about Ireland can be found in County Cork”.

Mmf.

Fatalistic, pessimistic Irish still worth a visit, says guide book (Irish Times)

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