Gaza is not just about them, it’s about us, too: Leaving Israel and beleaguered Gaza far below me, I lay back in my BA seat headed for London. I donned my headphones and listened to Bach’s heavenly violin concerto in E major, and wept, as I rarely have as an adult. I wept for two […]
Advice for teenagers from 1959. pic.twitter.com/0OPjP6T6MC — Suzanne Alexander (@SuzzanAlexander) July 1, 2014
I’m not a big soccer fan, but I’ve been watching some of the World Cup matches. I didn’t think Brazil were up to much, but I really didn’t expect them to be utterly destroyed by Germany (who had beaten Algeria 2-1 and France 1-0 previously. Algeria really put it up to Germany, I thought). Brazil […]
And on, and on it goes. This is a bit of a bike shed issue, even An Taoiseach Enda Kenny is wading in. TheJournal.ie has learned that Enda Kenny has asked the Chief Executive of the Labour Relations Commission, Kieran Mulvey to arrange a meeting between City Manager Owen Keegan and Lord Mayor Christy Burke. […]
I was browsing through some old books this evening and I came across these two lovely old posters for Cie. des Wagon-lits in a copy of ‘Supertrains’ by Aaron E. Klein, published 1985 (is that old? it’s almost 30!). The first looks very much of ‘La Belle Epoque’, the second is from the 1920/1930s((alas, there’s […]
Phil Plait over on Bad Astronomer has a lovely selection of the best pictures from Cassini’s 10 years at Saturn. By far my favourite is the, well, frankly bizarre moon Hyperion. It looks like a well-used oasis sponge. It also has a chaotic rotation, and is the only moon in the system that isn’t tidally […]
Best one yet: "I think I'll have to write to the Pope, Joe" – woman on #Liveline just now about the Garth Brooks gigs being cancelled. — Christine Bohan (@ChristineBohan) July 3, 2014 Earlier: “More than 160,000 Garth Brooks fans are in limbo after Dublin City Council … announced that it was granting a licence […]
Ruairi Quinn resigns: The Minister for Education and Skills made a statement outside Leinster House this afternoon, outlining his plans for the future. The move comes ahead of a Cabinet reshuffle, planned for next week. He said that he will leave Cabinet on the day of the reshuffle. He also confirmed that he will not […]
