The trailer was originally owned by Howarth Bros haulage company and its name is still emblazoned on the truck. When Howarth Bros was contacted yesterday, a spokeswoman said “every man and his dog from Ireland” had been calling to see if she could lead them to the “naive wife” but she had “no idea what the story is behind the ad” as the company had sold the trailer to a haulage firm six years ago.

Mystery ‘Wife’ Warns Of Dangers Of Golfing Trips (Conor Pope, Irish Times)

Previously: Wake Up, Girls

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgthmCrvYMk&feature=player_embedded

Dublin’s Lethal Dialect with ‘Keep it Real’ an elegiac, spliff-infused rap about friendship, death and emigration.

Via Rap Ireland

PB writes:

You might remember the powerful RISE! lobby group came out to back Fine Gael before the last election because Phil Hogan promised that upon election they would revoke the ban on stag hunting (just affecting the one: Ward Union Stag Hunt). Here they are urging members to go out and support FG before the election
Anyway, you have seen the story in the past couple of days. But Enda Kenny has just said on the Order of Business [in the Dail] that this overturn of the ban will NOT be happening. Delighted!

Guess Johnny Ronan will just have to hunt for Irish models around Krystle instead.

@bryansixone

Berlusconi To Resign After EU Reforms Adopted (RTE)

The Priory Hall apartment complex in Dublin this afternoon.

Work on the property deemed a fire hazard has ceased since Thomas McFeely, the developer behind the block, was ordered off the site

More than 240 residents were moved out of their homes in October.

There is now no agreement on who should carry out the work.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council and the Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

Just us then.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered a huge humiliation in parliament in a vote that indicated he no longer had a majority and ratcheted up pressure for him to resign.

Berlusconi’s government won a key budget vote after the opposition abstained but obtained only 308 votes compared with an absolute majority in the lower house of 316 votes

Berlusconi On Ropes After Vote Humiliation (Reuters)

Taken yesterday afternoon.

Yes, it’s Ireland.

But where?

Lines close at 4.30pm.
4.48 Update: Yes, it’s Clonakilty, Co Cork by Blayntron