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  • The Official switch-on of the Christmas lights on Patrick Street. www.glowcork.ie. 

    The countdown to Christmas has officially begun in Cork as thousands of Christmas Lights were lit on Patrick Street, Cork City recently. Cork City Council has invested heavily in new  lights for the city this year, so Cork is set to ‘Glow’ brighter than ever before this Christmas season. The turning on of the Christmas Lights officially marks the first day of Christmas in Cork and saw thousands of visitors flock into Cork City to get seasonal celebrations under way with the official switch-on of the Christmas lights on Patrick Street. www.glowcork.ie

    Pictures by the fantastic Clare Keogh.

  • asylum-art: Gerrel Saunders: Anywhere but Here 

  • Ireland, most people view in retrospect, was stupid to guarantee all their banks. They couldn’t afford it. They were eight times the size of their economy. Now it’s easy for us to say that.

    Former US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Well, duh. 

  • Youghal: Cannot catch a break

    Oh Youghal. You make the rest of east Cork look like a utopian paradise. 

  • asylum-art: The writer of Sunshine and 28 Days Later, Alex Garland, is making his directorial debut with sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. Footage after the jump:

    gifs by randomghost & surrogateself

    Starring Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson, the film follows two young programmers who have been chosen by an “Internet search giant” to work on a secret breakthrough product – a robot with artificial intelligence like nothing seen before. Release is due for 23 January, 2015 in the UK and 10 April, 2015, in the US

  • nubbsgalore: photos by julie fletcher from lake eyre, a remote salt flat in the south of australia; the usually dried out lake is more than one hundred kilometres from a tiny mining town, which can be seen as a yellow light on the horizon in the second and fourth photos. 

    though the area gets little in the way of rain, what does fall fills the salt flat with a few centimetres of water, which leaves a mirror before quickly evaporating. reflected in these pictures is not only the milky way, but venus, mercury and jupiter as well. 

  • Another good reason to bring in water charges

    PÁIRCLIFE.