To celebrate Irish Life staff raising €140,000 for two charities – ‘Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children’ in Crumlin and ‘The Cyril Duncan Siam Children’s Foundation’ which supports projects for vulnerable children in Bangkok, Thailand – (from left) Caoimhe Fitzsimons, Jonah Huitema, Laoise Duffy, and Tomas McGovern donned some nativity gear in Dublin earlier. No biggie.
Nick Craig sez:
Taken minutes ago at lunch in Frankfurt cafe. My colleague assured me “you wouldn’t believe it but they taste so good!”
POWDER!
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Taken literally a little earlier.
The first snow of Winter 2011/2012 on the mountains of the West Wicklow countryside including Leinster’s highest Lugnaquilla, known as ‘Lug’ (bottom pic).
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Spotted this morning at the Londis in the Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin.
Thanks Sarah McCrann
Orla Grant sez:
This cupcake stand was bought by my friend at the €2 shop on St. Stephen’s Green. I wouldn’t mind it so much if they hadn’t spelt it correctly elsewhere! Be consistent in your atrocious spelling!
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Time Person Of The Year 2011: The Protestor (Time)
Cover by Shepard Fairey
Meanwhile, over at Mad
Thanks Barry H
Short answer: ‘inkblots’ in the sky.
A spectacular computer-sequenced black powder “explosion event” by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang in Qatar last week.
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They totally get it though.
David O’Toole, nephew of Fran O’Toole, of the Miami Showband, at the launch of the HET Report into the killings at Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin this morning.
The families of three men shot dead in the Miami showband massacre have said a report into the killings indicates an RUC Special Branch agent was involved.
Three members of the band were shot dead in July 1975 after their minibus was stopped by a fake army patrol.
The HET report found that UVF man Robin Jackson had been linked to one of the murder weapons by fingerprints.
Jackson claimed in police interviews he had been tipped off by a senior RUC officer to lie low after the killings.
Police headquarters was told about that, but nothing was done.
Miami Showband massacre: HET raises collusion concerns (BBC)