Wednesday 24 April: Each bunny is expected to do their duty as Ireland strikes for the right to enslave her own people

08:36
Seamus, u organiz d van n guns? We strike at the heart of the Rialtas tnite', I tuxt.
Seamus tuxt back: T'ignition is a problem. Is a Ford. My mechano says he can fix. 150 e/rising.'
Reply, Fuck. Fucking ripoff.
“Everything to do with cars and vans means money.”
Send, We'll end up with a new van at this rate.
09:00
1916 Easter Rising to win independence begins as IRB and Citizen's Army rebel against British in Dublin 

Bank holiday Monday blues, 1916

10:10
A single 500 megawatt coal-fired power station produces the same amount of greenhouse gases as 600,000 cars.
 10:59
Today is the actual 90th anniversary of the subjugation of the working classes by the middle class 'rebels' in 1916. Each bunny is expected to do their duty as Ireland strikes for the right to enslave her own people.
11:09
Classic letter in the Irish Times:

Madam
My viewing of televised coverage of the parade to commemorate the start of Ireland winning its independence was not inconvenienced by the glare of bright sunshine outside, as this was blocked by the British army barracks five metres from my window.
Sorry to be a bore,
Yours etc
SIOBHAN O'NEILL
Ballymurphy
Belfast

11:12
Serial-killer strangulation:

Ms Hanafin told the annual conference of the Irish National Teachers Organisation today that a team of 30 language experts would be appointed to help teachers improve their Irish.

15:56
There ye go, more evidence that the Easter Rising happened in Dublin (describing the scene on the ground in O'Connell St that day):

The bomb that exploded in the tram smashed Noblett's window, and the crowd started to take out the sweets. They then started to break the other windows and general looting started.

[Village Magazine]
17:02
This is the second or third election Bertie has managed to kick all tribunal queries into touch. We the people, they who decide who rules, have no platform to challenge the validity of the current regime which is under question right now, as the quasi-legal platform has been hanging up for 10 years or more, merely enriching a select few legal professionals while the putative bribees blithely carry on regardless.
17:15
The scourge of emigration is over. Full employment. Only ten years. We're making more projects. We're reforming the services.
17:16
People would do well to retain this successful government. We're loaded. You don't want to stop having us.
17:18
Battlewagons are drawn. They're rolling out the lines.
19:54
COUNTESS: Them Brits are never happy are they?
- Oh yeah like "Siobhan O'Neill" is the name of a Planter.
COUNTESS: Well she buys her spuds with pounds sterling, ergo a Brit!