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Jonathan Corrie was one of my best friends when I was a boy – A letter by Luke Murphy

December 8, 2014 No Comments

Nobody is just one dimension, just one thing. A man who was homeless died on the streets of Dublin, just a few hundred metres from the Dail. Luke Murphy knew him well when they were younger, “Jonathan Corrie was one of my best friends when I was a boy“: Don’t scorn him for having chosen […]

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Jason ‘Political Blogger’ O’Mahony on the Inspireland Podcast

September 2, 2014 No Comments

This is a very listen-able interview with Jason O’Mahoney. Sample: The thing that attracted me to the PDs [Progressive Democrats] was that they were the first non-socialist party to talk about a secular Ireland, the idea that you didn’t have to be Catholic to be Irish. I’m old enough to remember the Guards raiding the […]

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Cycling Life

The Man Behind Copenhagenization – YouTube

August 19, 2014June 7, 2015 No Comments

City design for Cycling – The Man Behind Copenhagenization – YouTube.

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Bits & Bobs Life

Advice for teenagers, 1959 style

July 23, 2014July 23, 2014 No Comments

Advice for teenagers from 1959. pic.twitter.com/0OPjP6T6MC — Suzanne Alexander (@SuzzanAlexander) July 1, 2014

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Life Oddities Popcorn Time

Garth Brooks: The Saga Continues…

July 9, 2014July 10, 2014 No Comments

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. […]

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stephenfry: “Beautiful, sad & true. …”

June 11, 2014June 12, 2014 No Comments

Via Twitter / stephenfry: Beautiful, sad & true. ….

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Bits & Bobs Life

Reader | Broadsheet.ie

May 26, 2014 No Comments

Should be more ‘read’, but yeah, possibly not far wrong. 🙂 Via Reader | Broadsheet.ie.

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Arts Life Photography

Weapon of Choice – An illustration of verbal abuse

May 19, 2014 No Comments

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can cut like knives. Photographer Rich Johnson has created a series of images that try to visualise the wounds that verbal abuse can leave. Called Weapon of Choice — to represent the abuser’s choice to use these words to harm — this project was a collaboration […]

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History Life Society

To the coffee-house!

May 13, 2014 No Comments

This is delightful – “The distractions of social media, 1673 style” by Tom Standage: You know how you can easily lose track of time while checking Twitter and Facebook? And how people worry that social media is distracting people from doing real work (aka “social notworking”)? The same thing happened in the 17th century with […]

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Life Society

Why can’t toys just be toys?

April 25, 2014 No Comments

Kira Cochrane has a great piece in the Guardian summarizing the issues with gendered toys. Do all girls really want to play with dolls and tea sets? Do all boys want guns and trucks? Of course not. Then why are toymakers so aggressive in marketing these stereotypes? Money, it seems is the answer. A segmented […]

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Jonathan Corrie was one of my best friends when I was a boy – A letter by Luke Murphy

Jason ‘Political Blogger’ O’Mahony on the Inspireland Podcast

The Man Behind Copenhagenization – YouTube

Advice for teenagers, 1959 style

Garth Brooks: The Saga Continues…

stephenfry: “Beautiful, sad & true. …”

Reader | Broadsheet.ie

Weapon of Choice – An illustration of verbal abuse

To the coffee-house!

Why can’t toys just be toys?

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