The Star Wars charity day at HMV, Grafton Street. in aid of the Marie Keating Foundation on Grafton Street, Dublin, this afternoon.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVJJfny4I

Monday’s release of the new Blu-Ray box-set of the Star Wars saga, gave George Lucas yet another opportunity to tweak the original films. Here he’s added a new layer of meaning to the final redemptive act of Darth Vader. A heartfelt ‘Nooooooooo!’ that was never there before.

See? Now you’ll have to destroy your stupid old-ass box-set and buy this one.

via

(Ruth Medjber)

Rathgar Road this morning.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3EElObwNE

A taster of the new U2 documentary (premiered yesterday at the Toronto Film Festival) by Davis Guggenheim (above with The Edge) which brings the band back to the Hansa studios in Berlin, birthplace of (arguably) their best album, Achtung Baby, and their best-known song, One.

U2 Close To Irrelevance, Says Bono (Brian Boyd, Irish Times)

Yes.

Via Francesca Burns

Wait until you see their dirty protest.

Via @iwhitten

Martin McGuinness Hailed ‘A Great Leader’ By Presbyterian Minister (Liam Clarke, Belfast Telegraph)

Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins

Hello you!

The former taoiseach crouches in the back seat of a Range Rover as he arrives for his 60th birthday celebrations in Croke Park last night.

Other guests were less coy.

Nicky Byrne, Georgina Ahern and Cecilia Ahern

Miriam Ahern and Terry McCoy

Charlie and Noleen McCreevy

Des and Fran Richardson.

Paddy ‘The Plasterer’ Reilly.

Joe Burke

Charlie and Bernice Chawke.

Cecilia Ahern and Georgina Ahern

Partygoers Keep A Very Low Profile At Fortress Croker (Mark Hilliard And Lise Hand, Irish Independent)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Sc6P-ft8I&feature=player_embedded

Like, If You Think Cork…(Facebook)

But for tax purposes he will remain Dutch.

Bono Says he’ll be A Proud American On 9/11 (Telegraph)

From Neil McCormick in the Daily Telegraph:

 A documentary on Irish rock band U2’s rise to stardom opened the Canadian event and comes two day’s before the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. Bono said: “It’s just too big a moment in all our lives. Even if you’re not American, everyone became an American that day.”

 

When Did Bono become American? (Neil McCormick, Telegraph)

(Daily Telegraph)

Thanks Colm King