httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUferyKCww&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1
Max McQuillan writes:
My dad just got a video he took, while driving in Dublin in 1974, digitized. We put it on YouTube and its a really enjoyable watch.
Having just linked it on my Facebook it got a lot of reaction and a few of my friends said I should email it to Broadsheet.
Music: Canned Heat – ‘On The Road Again’ (1968)
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Previously: Driving From Dun Laoghaire To Dublin City In 1982 In Colour
Mike McG writes:
Kids are cracking down on Thomas under orders from the fat (1%) controller. Thomas is the 99%.
Spotted in Smyths toy store by an uncle who is desperately seeking Simpsons monopoly for his godson. No one has it!
From ‘Gaelick’:
And people thought the BBC’s Sports Person of the Year shortlist was bad?
Katie Taylor has been shortlisted for the Irish Sports Council/RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Awards in 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007.
This morning the 2011 winner was announced, and once again Taylor – undisputedly Ireland’s greatest athlete ever – has been overlooked. This is not a first for RTÉ, which seems to pride itself on almost invariably ignoring Taylor.
The only woman to ever have won the award was Sonia O’Sullivan in 2000.
These are just some – some – of Katie Taylor’s achievements:
- She has won every European Amateur Championship title since 2005.
- She has won every EU Amateur Championship title since 2008.
- She has won every World Amateur Championship title (held biennially) since 2006.
- In 2009, she had won 60 out of 61 bouts.
- In 2010, with her third successive world title at the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships, she saw her 100th career win.
Katie Taylor has probably had more wins in her sporting career than each of the previous RTÉ Sports Persons of the Year combined.
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Flo Leavy, somewhere in Dublin, writes:
“Yes I did inflate a 7ft snowman at my colleague’s desk when he went for coffee.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AdaZoWW6uc
Royseven – ‘We Should Be Lovers’
…which came in at number 4 in the international airplay chart behind (1) Jessie J – ‘Price Tag’, (2) Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’ and (3) Maroon 5 featuring Christine Aguilera – ‘Move Like Jagger’.
Via ucanparemsan
