From today’s Metro Herald:

David Norris is the most popular Presidential Election candidate among Urbanites, according to Metro-Herald’s latest Urban Life poll [Urban Life is an online community of Metro-Herald readers].

The survey of 18-to-44-year-old full-time workers and students living in the Greater Dublin area also found 39 per cent of those polled would like to see the Independent Senator succeed Mary McAleese in Aras an Uachtarain.

 

Norris Still Ahead Among Urbanites (Joanne Ahern, Metro-Herald)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

An incredible story featuring the founder of Viz magazine, an ‘unbelieveable prat’ of an ex-TV producer and the ongoing trademark battle over the rights to one of the most popular and lucrative design legacies in modern popculture.

In 2000, Stuart Manley, the owner of Barter Books of Alnwick, Northumberland, found a folded poster at the bottom of a box of random books he’d bought at auction. (Barter Books is a very famous and beautiful bookstore housed in an old train station. Many features of the original station have been left intact, and there are model trains running around the shop on a high track above the bookshelves.) Mary Manley, Stuart’s wife and partner in the shop, took a liking to the poster. It was framed and displayed behind the till. Right away people started trying to buy it off them: Not For Sale, they were told. But the demand wore the Manleys down, and eventually they ordered 500 reproductions through a local print shop. This was in 2001.

READ ON: The Vicious Trademark Battle Over “Keep Calm And Carry On’ (The Awl)

(Hat tip: Steven McBride)

Uncanny.

Matt Cooper is Jesus.

Today FM’s presidential debate.

Taken within the last hour at the Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin.

Also, some of the candidates.

From top: Mary Davis, Martin McGuinness, Michael Squee, Dana, Sean Gallagher and Gay Mitchell.
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

 

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