New weblog Ireland in Beta took these photos of the Grafton Street stores selling the iPhone this morning:

Unsurprisingly there wasn’t much fanfare or people! There was no one at The Carphone Warhouse, 2 people at The O2 Store and 8 at The O2 Experience. The Carphone Warehouse was like a ghost town besides all the staff milling about, it looked like they were expecting to be quite busy but obviously most people were buying straight from O2 as there were no discounts to be found!

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More: [Irish Independent] New iPhone fails to create buzz at launch in capital.

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• The 15 Second Film Festival @ The Chancer.
• AOL are buying Bebo for $850 million in cash. That’s about €11.
• One day until the iPhone launch. And people are still posting about how much of a rip off it is. O2, clever chickens, will sucker the suckers at that price point, and then drop it to sucker the slightly less suckerish.
• Rick O’Shea says today is Ask ‘em Out day, where you’re supposed to approach that person you’ve had a crush on and just bite the bullet and ask them out. He has a four step guide up to take you through the whole process.

This youtuber is redubbing lost as if all the characters on the plane had come from Northern Ireland. Here’s the first one, go visit his user profile for more.

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O2 are launching the iphone in Ireland at why-don’t-you-just-rape-me prices. Smart move. They’re targeting the sucker generation with the ultimate sucker device. It’s a device designed for suckers. The iPhone relies on people being blinded by first-mover technology and uses that as an excuse for a business model that is the phone-contract equivelant of going around to the users mothers house and giving her a bit of a beating.

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