An ad for Clanna Gael Fontenoy GAA Club on a toilet door in The Bankers Pub, Trinity Street, Dublin.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Vm09M4USc
Fifty years ago.
An 8mm cine camera strapped to the bonnet of a VW Beetle and driven around Galley Head, outside Rosscarbery, County Cork.
Previously: Driving In Dublin In 1976 In Colour
He’s just a very hairy boy.
The Irish Squatters Taking On Empty Homes And A Bankrupt System (Henry McDonald, Guardian)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M6cBx60uIo&feature=player_embedded
The Keadeen Hotel, Newbridge, Co Kildare.
New Year’s Eve.
Just do it.
Tesco, Sligo today.
Via @MagnumLady
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQOdJdmv684&feature=player_embedded
RTE’s US correspondent Richard Downes gets doorstepped by slightly biased campaigners for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in Iowa yesterday.
He does us proud.
Ron Paul Revolution Reaches Republic Of Ireland (Ron Paul 2012)
No, seriously.
From Vertu, Nokia’s ‘Tim Nice-But-Dim’ luxury subsidiary.
Boing Boing’s Bob Beschizza sums it up with admirable restraint:
As the European cellular industry’s supernumerary nipple, Vertu has long specialized in calculator-display brickphones that look like dragon poo rolled in gemstones. It lumbers along the dried slugtrail of progress, having just announced its first touchscreen Symbian handset – sure to be an LG Prada-killer!
“Everything. All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.”
The Apple icon as rendered by Dublin-based Igloo Animations, the people behind that lovely Stephen Fry cartoon.