Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with Mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism.
Needless to say, the locals were not pleased. (short video)

There were nasty scenes in North Mayo early this morning, when the Gardaí (Irish Police) baton-charged local residents and supporters when they tried to block a convoy of Shell construction workers building a gas pipeline near their homes.
It seems extraordinary that the Irish police would baton-charge its own people to allow a multinational company [...]

Dedalus and Pat Boran are on a roll at the moment, what with the Glen Dimplex Poetry Award won by Dedalus poet Iggy McGovern for his debut collection The King of Suburbia; and now this evening, three books launched; and then a Dedalus anthology coming on Monday November 20, to mark 21 [...]

There’s a superb time-lapse video of the demolition of the Ballymun flats over on the Dublin Community blog

Robert Fisk gives an object lesson in the contemporary history of Iraq as he reflects on the death sentence of Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti .
The suffering of Iraq beggars belief. All because of the curse of oil.
Robert Fisk in The Independent (London)

The Glen Dimplex New Writer Awards are for the best book published in the last year in Ireland and the United Kingdom by a first-time author. Each category winner receives €5,000.
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a native of Co Waterford who lives in Bucharest, won the fiction award for his short story collection Notes From a [...]