“Ms Halloran! Ms Halloran! I want 12 months,” Michael Whelan (above) had shouted at the judge before he had to be restrained by gardai and removed from the courtroom.”
Fair play though, in fairness.
Shoplifter Wanted Longer Sentence To Get Dental Treatment In Prison (Mike Dwane, Limerick Leader)
Thanks Niall O’M
(Pic via Limerick Leader)
Someone’s been watching ‘Into The West’ (go to 23.30)
Limerick man tried to ‘jump’ patrol car on horse (David Hurley, (Limerick Leader)
Thanks Niall O’M
Oh.
Garret Ledwith writes:
On RTE 1 last night, an archive film on the Boherbuoy Band in Limerick as part of RTE’s 50 year celebrations. What sort of shot selection criteria were that film crew using?
The Clinton ‘rick off has ended.
Winner
His rhetoric sparkles and fizzes
So fast they forget where his jizz is.
He captures their hearts,
Then he spurts and departs,
While they’re still ascertaining what “is” is.
Pedanto
Runner-Up
[To be read in the voice of Gerry Adams]
‘Tis a rule, no, some say a corollary
Espoused by folk wise, sage and scholarly:
Though his policy’s thin
Obama could win,
But not without Bolly and Holary.
Gary Flood
For the health of all our beaux esprits,
Should K. Taylor come top of the tree,
Though the nation rejoice,
We’ll have no other choice
Than to execute Jimmy Magee.
Gary Flood
O subs of the world, grab your guns
And dust off those Leprechaun puns.
There’s a Celt in the news:
Blah potatoes, blah booze
Blah car-bombs, blah schooled by the nuns.
Pedanto
Did you ever go boxing with Katie?
She’d knock the eye off a potaty
If the Olympics weren’t shite
I’d be watching the fight
Instead I’ll have tea and a pastry.
Nigel
Gary Flood wins a A3 print of the digital painting above by Gianni Clifford.
Selected from these entries (see comments). Judges have adhered to the definition of a Limerick contained here. Thanks all.
A Limerick photographer is continuing his mission to track down a young boy he photographed in the city some 40 years ago, as the image will be used on the front cover of his forthcoming book.
Gerry Andrews, whose exhibition ‘Shaped by History – Limerick in the 1970s’ – continues to run in the Hunt Museum, has identified virtually all the people he photographed decades ago in this iconic display. However, the identity of the young boy still eludes him.
“A lot of people have said to me there’s a look of sadness in his eyes, but I like to think that it’s a look of hope. Life was all ahead of him and I’d love to know what happened him. His eyes would just capture your heart.”
Search Continues For Limerick Boy Photographed In 1970s (Anne Sheridan, Limerick Leader)
Dutch print of “a man-eating half human/half camel that was brought from Constantinople” & captured in Limerick in 1690 twitter.com/Limerick1912/s…
— Limerick1912 (@Limerick1912) July 18, 2012
He was yer man who ran the brothel. With the brother.
Thanks John Moynes
Judge Eugene O’Kelly (above) said he was “appalled” at video footage he had seen of the incident, which showed Garda Niall O’Connor “make a lunge” at Gary Daly and “drag him in a violent manner to the squad car” after the accused started recording the arrest of his friend on his phone.
…Recording a video was “not an offence”, said Judge O’Kelly, who added that he found it “extraordinary” that the case should follow so soon after the death of Rodney King, whose beating at the hands of the Los Angeles police in 1991 might never have come to light had it not been recorded by a third party.
Judge ‘Appalled’ By Video Footage After Man Says Garda Broke His Arm (Mike Dwayne, Limerick Leader)
(Pic: Limerick Leader)
Magdalena Kakol on O’Connell Street/Ulica, Limerick
“IN A bid to make non-Irish nationals feel more at home, Mayor Gerry McLoughlin wants to see the city’s street signs in Polish – and “African”.”
African?
Mayor Of Limerick Wants Polish Street Signs (Nick Rabbits, Limerick Leader)
(Pic: Adrian Butler)
Thanks Niall O’M
