A glance at the week that was
We now know
Diddley-Eye, the Spinning Wheel, Capital Eye, Rotha Mór an tSaol, the Big Shpoke and Dublin Whale are possible names for the Dublin wheelsuggested by letter-writers to The Irish Times.
Florence Rose Endellion Cameron, daughter of British prime minister David and wife Samantha, was apparently named after David's favourite singer, Florence Welchof Florence and the Machine.
A three-bed house for sale in Inchicore has a full-sized 747 flight simulatorin the back garden.
Bulletproof
A 35-year-old Polish man survived for five years without noticing that he had a .22 calibre bullet in the back of his head. Doctors in Germany discovered it when removing a suspected cyst. Asked for an explanation, the man told police that he remembered having a sore head after a New Year’s party in “2004 or 2005”, but wasn’t one for going to the doctor. The wound later healed around the metal bullet, and it wasn’t until the man developed bad headaches that he bit the bullet and went to hospital
"Not an invention of the media"
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin talking in Rome about the Irish Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandals
Dirty lady
Limerick is no lady when it comes to littering. Warned last year by An Taisce that she was a “litter black spot”, she was labelled “again the most littered” of cities, but no longer a black spot. That title went to Tallaght and Portlaoise, while Wexford topped the list of 27 towns and cities “clean to European norms”. An Taisce has launched a Twitter campaign encouraging people to send photographs of littered eyesores in their communities to litterspotter2010@twitpic.com
The numbers
500 million
The required rise in annual third level funding, as recommended by the National Strategy Group.
€1,200
The annual cost of sending one child to school.
€40
Cost per subject of Leaving Cert student Cillian Fahy’s notes, for sale on eBay as the seven-A student raises money for university.
