Tag Archives: Australia

 

A top tip from Fianna Fail Cork City councillor Ken O’Flynn.

Thanks Denis O’Regan

The market’s performance has slipped slightly compared with the past four weeks, defying hopes the big interest rate cut early in the month would deliver improved conditions for vendors.

”While the clearance rate hovers around 60 per cent, it’s clear that the market continues to be impacted by low levels of consumer confidence,” REIV spokesman Robert Larocca said.

Buyers go missing (The Age)

Thanks Mark Geary

Typesetter Luke Benge of Beat Magazine, one of the premier ‘street press’ magazines in Australia. was about to leave the title and go to New York this week.

“On his last day of work, he takes the Kaiser Chiefs off the cover of Beat Magazine and puts a caricature of himself naked. Sends it off to the publishers hoping that they won’t pick it up and they’ll run it on the 40,000 copies of Beat Mag’ all around Melbourne and sure enough he’s pulled it off.”

 

Beat Magazine Cover Replaced With A Naked Caricature Of Former Employee (TripleM)

Thanks Owen Kane

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEWk7QgOo0

“The most extraordinary modern day football story we have.”

Australia’s 7News’ report on the funeral of Dubliner Jim Stynes.

Earlier: Jim Stynes’ State Funeral In Melbourne

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziWDjt68eP0

Ms Grumley said. She thought it was an automatic recording when the voice down the line asked if she would like $10,000. The phone dropped out after she swore and she had to check the TV to see if it was real

 

Via Bookfaked

Thanks Phil Jones

Dave writes:

After seeing the little video this morning on the Norn Iron hipsters I thought you may be interested in a video I shot during me (Dave) and the girlfriend’s (Dee) trip to Oz over Christmas. See, not all us Paddies build human pyramids on Bondi – as utterly hilarious as they are :)