Members of Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) highlighting the “gruesome reality of buying a dog or puppy this Christmas; which ultimately leads to the deaths of thousands of healthy dogs and puppies in pounds across the country”.
In 2010, 5,267 healthy dogs were put down in Irish pounds. However, ARAN believes that figure is far higher and say that “buying an animal from a breeder adds up to killing a homeless animal in an animal shelter”.
A tribute to Sir David Attenborough’s final appearance on the BBC made by UK ad agency RKCR/Y&R.
That voice, the sentiment, the breathtaking wildlife footage drawn from Attenborough’s vast collection.
You may find yourself welling up.
Dermot O’ Leary Interview (Mr Porter)
A ‘surreal meditation on the quirky but rejuvenating nature of friendship’ written, directed and animated by Stephen P Neary, who sez:
One day at breakfast, a man’s soul bursts out of his eyeball. While the soul roams the earth eating everything in sight, two wild deer bathe and dress the man’s catatonic body.
See, now that is a goddamn synopsis right there.
The cables from US diplomatic missions around the world – dumped in their thousands by Wikileaks – included a number from the Irish Embassy in Ballsbridge.
The cables contained records of meetings with diplomats, politicians and civil servants in an effort by the US to discover what was really happening in Ireland during the unfolding economic crisis of 2008/2009.
One regular visitor to Dublin 4 was Kevin Cardiff. The cables that feature Mr Cardiff show that not only was he often very wrong about virtually everything but that he was willing to go along with efforts to mislead the EU and Irish voters to push through government policy.
January 2008: ‘Housing Market Remains Healthy’
May, 2008: ‘Moving Jobs To Northern Ireland Instead Of EU Partners’
June 2008: Telling The Farmers One Thing…
July, 2008: Economy Fundamentally Sound
October 2008: Stop A Herd Mentality ‘Based Mostly On Rumour And Innuendo’
April 2009: Nama Has ‘A Decade Or More’ To Sell Off Assets
MEPS To Approve Cardiff Nomination (Irish Times)
Previously: Kevin’s Gate: The Back To Back Loans
Kevin Cardiff: The De Rossa Defence
The subtle art of buck-leppin’ about the place on spring loaded pipes filmed over the course of a few months with six GoPro minicams.
