Hi Gavin, Leslie here. Got your text message. Really what we are talking about is there somebody who can be down there, I know there are other reporters, really kind of writing pretty positive situations. There was one good story last week carried – I can’t remember who, but by and large, it’s generally negative stuff. Someone with our friend down there I think really trying to ensure that a good balanced story comes out. That would be much appreciated. Give me a bell as I’d like to try to resolve this.
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The fact that Cork is built into a V–shape means you’re never far from a beautiful sight.
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They didn’t mean for it to sound like a threatening chain letter. As one commenter noted, ‘I know what you didn’t do last summer’.
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Alabama implemented statewide prohibition in 1915, four years before the entire nation went dry.
After national Prohibition ended in 1933, an “unholy alliance between the lawbreakers and the preachers” kept many of Alabama’s 67 counties dry, according to Hardy Jackson, Jacksonville State University’s Eminent Scholar in History. Today, only one county remains completely dry.
Many counties, however, held out for years because the bootleggers wanted to keep their money out of the tax-collectors hands. The preachers wanted to keep alcohol out of the mainstream.
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I think when you’re disrespectful to people as individuals, you go over the edge. I’m not saying RTÉ, I think anywhere that it happens. I dealt with it all my life as a teacher in the school playground, that when people are (being) disrespectful to each other, it’s nasty. It’s wrong. But to be nasty and to be abusive and to use language to associate certain counties with the Taliban. That’s dangerous. The most dangerous force in the world today are the Taliban. To be associating anyone in Gaelic football with that type of mentality, that’s a type of mentality that builds and it becomes easy to say anything after that.
GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail, who hasn’t heard of ISIS, ISIL, Boko Haram, North Korea or America.
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Today in ‘Things I Was Not Invited To’
https://twitter.com/DrinksPRAgency/status/606135844760657920
In fact, I didn’t even know about this until some journos in Scotland told me about it. The message is clear: I am not important. Or, I might be important if I posted fewer Grim Escort Reviews and more noodling about hard liquor.
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“The typography highlights this ‘handmade’ feeling which is maximized by some handwritten indications. A tyre track is shown on the neck of the bottle — a humoristic touch depicting the often terrible destiny of hedgehogs — an invitation not to take the wheel after drinking!”
Triple Distilled Communications 