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In front of the Central Bank literally earlier.
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The first National Newspaper Of ireland Awards. Presented next Thursday.
Par-tay.
At lunchtime. .
Oh.
National Journalist of the Year: Noel Baker, Irish Examiner ; Simon Carswell, The Irish Times; Irish Independent Wikileaks team; Michael O’Farrell, Irish Mail on Sunday ; Jason O’Toole, Irish Daily Mail ; Mary Raftery, The Irish Times.
Regional Journalist of the Year: Colette Browne, Wexford Echo ; Alison Comyn, Drogheda Independent ; Kieran Dineen, Evening Echo ; Maria Pepper, Wexford People .
Feature Writer of the Year: Rosita Boland, The Irish Times ; David Diebold, Evening Herald ; Patrice Harrington, Irish Daily Mail ; Donal MacIntyre, Sunday World ; Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times ; Kathy Sheridan,The Irish Times .
Columnist/Commentator of the Year: Martina Devlin, Irish Independent ; Paul Drury, Irish Daily Mail; Paul Howard, The Irish Times; Declan Lynch, Sunday Independent.
Critic of the Year: Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times ; Peter Crawley, The Irish Times ; Liam Fay, Sunday Times; Patrick Freyne, Evening Herald/Sunday Tribune.
Scoop of the Year: Jim Gallagher, Sunday World ; Rachel Kane, Irish Daily Star ; Senan Molony, Irish Daily Mail; Nicola Tallant, Sunday World.
Young Journalist of the Year : Fiach Kelly, Irish Independent; Niall O’Connor, Evening Herald ; Eithne Shortall, Sunday Times ; Orla Tinsley, The Irish Times .
Political Journalist of the Year : Niamh Connolly, Sunday Business Post ; Shaun Connolly, Irish Examiner ; Miriam Lord, The Irish Times ; Anne Marie Walsh, Irish Independent.
NNI Business and Economics Journalist of the Year: Kathleen Barrington, Sunday Business Post ; Richard Curran, Sunday Business Post; Tom Lyons and Brian Carey, Sunday Times ; Dan White, Evening Herald.
Sports Journalist of the Year : Miguel Delaney, Sunday Tribune ; Neil Francis, Evening Herald ; Kieran Shannon, Irish Examiner/Sunday Tribune ; Eamonn Sweeney, Sunday Independent .
Showbiz Story of the Year: Samuel Hamilton, Irish Daily Mirror; Eugene Masterson, Sunday World ; Gary Meneely, Irish Sun ; Jennifer O’Brien, Irish Sun.
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The Human Slingshot, invented and operated by The Pope family of Hobble Creek Canyon, Utah.
The obligatory Angry Birds references have all been made.
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From Letters Of Note:
In 1909, an embarrassed, angry young man named Okhil Chandra Sen sent an unintentionally amusing letter of complaint to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in West Bengal. According to the Railway Museum in New Delhi, the subsequent investigation into the affair by the British Raj resulted in the introduction of toilets to all trains in the country; something that had been absent since the formation of Indian Railways in 1857.
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This is Jazz Robot from Italian electronics company Teotronica. It plays Mozart and mimes Mercury at the piano with two hands and 19 fingers.
Later, it unleashes a deadly 20th finger and kills all humans.
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The very, very graffiti strewn Rutledge Lane In Melbourne.
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From ‘Miss Magazine’ (1966).
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