1964 Fab 73 million as The Beatles make record-breaking, mania-making first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in the USA
10.10
The word 'alphabet' comes from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet, "alpha" and "beta".
10:22
The radio is as bad as the violence. Ten minutes of injokes and texts followed by Amy Whinehouse and a bunch of ads. Puerile puritanical humour (No fart gags allowed!) The incoherent co-presenters giggle amongst themselves about something. It's not even proper adult laughter.
12:35
Crisp day strong sun casting stark shadows on the off-white walls of the city and floors of grey mud.
12:40
A number of Dublin 4 (southside, well-heeled) pubs are offering free drink to rugby supporters who dash back across the Liffey straight after the rugby game held for the first time in Croke Pork (on Dublin's northside, goat-hoofed). Northsiders are going to burn stolen vans on the bridges to stop them getting home, for spite and for having a laugh.
12:42
JOE PROMO: That was Liam speaking movily about his sister who was in a car crash.
12:43
There was an attempted raid on a post office in Clontarf this morning.
12:54
Only When I Laugh:
PATIENTS on trolleys who had been admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and were waiting for beds were yesterday asked to give up their trolleys for other patients.13:17
The lady from the actuarial society is finding the going hard with the radio reporter as he seems a little - thick - with his questions.
13:40
SPORTS DORK: From the Irish camp, here's Brendan O'Shea. (Buttons clip, flicker, twitter, twitch.)
"We'll just hear from Brendan in a minute." Pause. Button sounds. Silence's deadly whisper. Then, relief when, "Here at the Irish football training ground in San Marino..."
13:05
The bus ran out of control at a busy central Dublin bus-stop. Bodies everywhere. Quays bathed in blood. Driver having a nervous break down. Warm corpses under the bus still bleeding. Stricken passengers lay broken and in agony. A man from the Congo with a broken leg who was hit by the runaway bus pleaded with an old lady, to call for an ambulance. She told him to go back to his own country.
13:17
The womb whip-outer backer-uppers are black-balled by their coven:
The Medical Council has upheld the decision of the Fitness to Practice inquiry which found three obstetricians guilty of professional misconduct. In 1998 the three obstetricians cleared Dr Michael Neary of any wrongdoing after reviewing nine of his caesarean hysterectomy cases.13:29
The bus was going so fast, she said, she thought it had been hijacked. It only slowed down when the bodies were under it.
13:30
A Garda came along to an asylum-seeker from Angola and said "Shift it, or you'll be arrested." He didn't want to move because his leg was injured. Eventually, the ambulance came and lifted him out of the cauldron.
13:45
Watership Down, here we come:
A search is underway for a prisoner who escaped from custody while being treated in a Dublin hospital yesterday evening.14:01
CALLER: Yeaw, it'll be great to get back to Croke Park. It's a vury hystorik occashun, yew knooow? I know Briii-an would love to be there on the big day.
14:05
CALLER (Re Rugby and soccer a-playing in the hallowed home of Gaelic games, Croke Park): It doesn't pay to sell your soul.
14:08
I swear I heard a truck backing up the hill and turning back around the corner. Heard the peeps and all.
14:11
I can hear Joeradio scratching the back of his neck as a woman rings in to complain about the price of soft drinks to a vintner.
I have to heat the premises. I can't give it away for nothing.
- Non drinkers are subsidising the people who are drinking alcohol.
They're not. They're not.
- How much is a bottle of Club Orange? 40c.
14:21
JOE: That page is meant to be light hearted.
CALLER (old crone): No! I DO NOT think the president should be presented in this way.
JOE: There's a caption here saying here's a bunch of people who like to play with balls.
CALLER: I think it's an insult to our President. I have met her, and her husband and they're both very nice people.
JOE: Stay there, Rose.
ADS: Buy some white bread.
14:09
"Boys came to my room. I certainly had sex with some of them, yes yes yes. My door was open. I wasn't coercing them."
(Quote from an Irish-language poet - a cultural made-guy - who has been caught granting aid and much more to the "young men" of Nepal (sixteen and up, allegedly). He gets a boysary from the Arts Council for his scribble subsidy scrabble.
14:32
CALLER: We've all played games in those matches where things go wrong and when it goes wrong it goes wronger again.
14:53
Ambareeeeeeeeeee!
(Pause)
Yew dee doo deee fucking dee blew.
- Fuck Oooff!
Please come dowin to me plea-yiz.
- Ffuck Off!
15:13
Durn got rabbit in his blood boy:
Gardai in Cork are hunting a prisoner who escaped while in police custody.15:33
Gardai in Blanchardstown say criminal gangs are now sourcing illegal firearms on the Internet and having them delivered through the post.
22:38
ENQUIRY LAWYER: I think you called him, ehh, a "Soft ol' shite". Is that correct?
COP ON THE STAND: Yes.
22:40
COP ON THE STAND: The suspect being interviewed was on the floor. I told him to watch it. I can be heard on the video saying, "Mind your feet, Frank." And then the door closed back on his legs.
22:58
The post office is the fabric of every town and village in Northern Ireland. When they collect their money, they go down the road to the beauty salon and the local supermarket.
23:00
Beauty salons are taking the place of pubs at the heart of rural Ireland since the drink-drive crackdown. (Many problems addressed by this development.)
