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One month-old endangered Bornean Orang Utan clings on to his mother named Miri in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
HERE ARE ALL the things we learned, loved and shared today.
THINGS WE LEARNED
#SHOOTING A man was shot dead outside The Huntsman pub in Gormanston, county Meath this afternoon. It is understood the victim had links to dissident Republican activity. Gardaí are investigating.
#IRISH EXAMINER The Irish Examiner and a number of regional papers have been sold as part of a complex internal restructuring after Thomas Crosbie Holdings went into receivership. The Sunday Business Post, which is also published by TCH, is to apply to the High Court to enter examinership, while Thomas Crosbie Printers Ltd is to apply to be put into liquidation.
#HORSEMEAT Wiener sausages that were withdrawn from sale in IKEA while tests for horsemeat DNA were carried out are now back on sale. The company said that DNA analysis didn’t show any indications of horse meat.
#ROAD DEATHS A woman (39) has died after being struck by a van in Bunnahowen, Glencastle, Co Mayo this morning. This brings to eight the number of pedestrians who sadly lost their lives on Irish roads so far this year.
#RECOVERY Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore held a press conference this afternoon to mark the coalition’s second anniversary. They said the government is making “serious progress” but more work is needed in some areas. Kenny said that exiting the IMF/EU bailout programme is the “main goal” looking ahead.
THINGS WE LOVED
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THINGS WE SHARED
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Aoife the National Library of Ireland have a great page on Flickr where they post old images for identification purposes. It started slowly a few years ago and now they have garnered a great crew of historians, photo nerds and genuine amateur investigators who go to all lengths to ID people, places etc etc. Can’t remember the admins name but she is great, I think this angle may help Age Action!
The Flickr page is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/
They are great and I’m sure they or the people who comment on their posts could help or will know people who can.
That is not military.. It is St John Ambulance
Exactly what I was thinking!
Love the Third photo. Welcome to Sister Immaculate Airlines.
Those were the days when a slab of toffee was 2 6′ and a litre of milk was a pint.
The term sky pilot springs to mind at photo #3, but does it refer to priests only? Curious. They look like Loreto nuns.
I have to agree with an earlier comment which said that the sister on the far right looks like aongus mac anally!
Lovely to see the compositors at work in photo 1……all done by computer now. In relation to this photo I would suggest Age Action contact The National Print Museum, Beggar’s Bush. Plenty people there to help with identifying the photo – they may have related material in their archives. Good luck with it.
Jaysus…..the women at work in photos 1 and 2 weren’t up to much….wonder what the chat was at the water cooler….while the “brides of Christ ” was a major career high versus the ” trolley dollies” of the airlines.
“The favourite daughter would become an air hostess and then the idiot brother would be sent off to the priesthood.”
They’re fantastic photos though, in fairness. It would be some savage blasht from the pasht if somebody recognised their grandparents in these!
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