2004 Garda Donal Corcoran cleared of assualting protestors at 2002 May Day Reclaim the Streets protest as police violently react to student demo
After about a year inside its mother's womb, a baby blue whale emerges weighing up to 3 tons (2.7 metric tonnes) and stretching to 25 feet (8 meters). It gorges on nothing but mother's milk and gains about 200 pounds (91 kilograms) every day for its first year.
17:13
Wordmess.
18:16
The superintendent of police, the most senior operational officer who happened to be in charge of the road safety enforcement in the west was so utterly pissed he couldn't blow into the bag when they pulled him over at the weekend. Four attempts he made at it, so they took the keys off him and arrested him.
18:19
Man shot dead in Dublin's north inner city.
18:20
The Irish Times Breaking News: 18:18 Government science adviser removed from post after qualification controversy.
- He bought a web-form PHd from the University of Springfield, California. He was picked as the government's leading light to guide us through the emergent revolutions of nano-technology, genetic engineering and quantum computing. The only qualification he actually had for the job was, he knew how to send email. That made him qualified for science task force supervisor in this man's Republic. Richard Feynman it ain't.
18:24
Murder enquiry in Omagh. The death of seven in a housefire is statistically unusual. Plus, they found petrol cans around the scene.
18:28
They bought second hand hard drives in Ireland, half of which had illegal porn. Ireland?
18:32
Khaled Slab Mohammed.
18:37
The news reporter has exactly repeated herself two times. Oh wait, she's going for it again. Then a Luas nearly cuts her in half. The case is about the Garda who went deaf from madra (canine) Gardai barking in the back of the van. Is she padding it out?
19:10
Six One News on RTE 1 TV are saying the Omagh fire is possibly suspicious. Channel 4 News at seven says the prime suspect is the father found dead with his family. There's a different quality to the latter information, even as I transcribe it.
19:17
An Anglo saying embryos are smaller than the head of a pin. And isn't there room for ten thousand angels on the head of a pin? You'll not inject your cloned babies into monkeys!
19:47
Hilary Clinton has peaked. Too soon and for the first time in thirty years.
19:51
Virginity repair. Virgins on demand.
19:55
The ever rising danger of climate change.
19:58
How to look good naked. Sponsored by Specsavers.
22:22
As reported in the Irish Independent:
AMERICANS are the target buyers of chocolate scale-models of revolutionary Corkman Michael Collins.
The project, www.michaelcollinsgiftshop.com, is the brainchild of John Murray, a Fine Gael supporter from Cork city, who was outside the Ard Fheis selling Michael Collins calendars.
"I've always loved Michael Collins," he explained. "I think the Americans will too."
INT, WYNNES HOTEL, NIGHT
The lounge is thronging with elderly tourists seeking refreshments. A bartender collects glasses and takes orders on the floor. He attends to a pair of Elderly American tourists.
YANKS
Do you have a Michael Chocolate Coll-ins, please young man?
BARKEEP
(Glances over his shoulder, nervously looking towards the bar)
A chocolate Collins? Eh, I have indeed.
YANKS
Gee, could I get two of those?
BARKEEP
(Hesitates)
Are ye sure ye wouldn't like a toasted sandwich?
YANKS
Oh no, that's ok. Do the Chocolate Collins taste good?
BARKEEP
(Nervously)
Eh, they're a bit odd, now. I have some nuts there?
YANKS
(Laughs, crinkles a fresh ten euro note in his hand)
Ha, ha. Give us a couple of chocolate Collins anyway.
BARKEEP
(Turns, mumbles, gurns, looks troubled, sotto voce)
They're a bit odd, now.
23:21
No man should have to live with the fear like I did. Nobody who didn't go through it knows what it's like.
