The main photo was taken tonight at the Life House on Capel St. in Dublin. It features pages from this evening’s Evening Herald which carries the leaked report on the death of Savita Halappanavar. The Life House is situated on possibly the most contradictory corner in any European capital. The Life House itself on the corner of Capel and Parnell St in distinctive red and white represents numerous, supposedly different … Read More
When It’s Okay To Hate.
I’ve the alarm clock radio rather masochistically set to RTE One. I find the smug self-satisfied world of our nation’s greatest propaganda machine enough to jolt me out of bed on even these grim mornings. So imagine my mood as I woke up to a story about a home ear-marked for Traveller accommodation being burnt out in darkest Donegal. Discrimination to the Traveller community isn’t new. It has a long, ugly history in Ireland. … Read More
Savita and the real ‘culture of death’
The draft report into the death of Savita Halappanaavar has been issued to all parties involved. James Reilly the hugely controversial minister for health says he hasn’t seen it yet. Someone should get him a copy of the Evening Herald. According to the report the infection that contributed to Savita’s death went undiagnosed for three days at Galway University Hospital. It adds that by the time she was admitted to … Read More
Walking Dead
Civil Authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and are attacking the living. Follow the messages onscreen that will be updated as information becomes available. Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered extremely dangerous. This was the message that viewers of channel KRTC in Great Falls Montana listened to following a klaxon sound that interrupted … Read More
Raining Spiders
Well this surely won’t send the tingles up and down your body. It’s raining spiders in the southern Brazilian town of Santo Antonio da Platina. Captured on video the social spiders create massive interlinked webs from trees, telephone wires and anything they come across in order to hunt prey in great numbers. Can you feel that itch yet? Did you check under the loo seat for arachnids? Sleep well rabble.
The Last Pope
According to St.Malachy’s prophecy, Pope Benedict XVI’s successor will be Peter the Roman”, whose pontificate will end in the destruction of the city of Rome. The prophecy was first published in 1595 by Arnold de Wyon, a Benedictine historian, as part of his book Lignum Vitæ. Wyon attributed the list to Saint Malachy, the 12th‑century bishop of Armagh in Ireland. According to the traditional account, in 1139, Malachy was summoned to Rome by Pope Innocent II. While in Rome, Malachy purportedly … Read More
Political Policing.
So the Gardaí get to pick who marches? Scenes from yesterday’s ICTU ‘protest’ as guards rough up protestors.
An Italo Sunday Session!
Feeling like a bop to some thrashy italo on a Sunday? You could fare worse than trundling down to this. The Odessa Club might smack of Celtic Tiger z-celebrity excess, but they’ve downplayed their game in recent years. So, don’t be put off by whatever memories might linger from those horrible days, the place has a class drinking terrace and seems to tolerate more belligerence than before. The cocktails were damn cheap … Read More
ICTU March Live Blog
Tens of thousands are expected on the streets of Dublin, as well as thousands more around the country for an ICTU prompter ‘March against Austerity’ As is often the case there are so many divergent views it has become almost impossible to explain to the neutral what the hell the march signifies or what, if anything, it hopes to achieve. The cynical, they would say realist, amongst us point to … Read More
Junk Mail.
WTF? Either someone has a stalker, or ran out of phone credit last night. We came across unusual piece of junk mail in Grangegorman.