• Another new blog from The Irish Times: The Irish Times Politics blog. On the record has the news.
• Take a tour, help Barretstown.
• Our very own super Oil giants Tullow Oil are doing well, unlike the majority - €2 billion wiped off the value of Irish shares this morning.
• Millionaire boyz:
  
  I thought that was shite, but then, I’m not with it. Or maybe they’re not with it? Una Rocks informs us their album is out now and they’re playing The Ambassador on July 11th.
• New comic being launched tomorrow in Thomas Reads on Dame street in Dublin. Scamp has the details.
• Galway Film Fleadh starts today. Peter O’Toole will be honoured, probably for his role in Supergirl.

Shane Hegarty’s column in last Saturday’s Irish Times Weekend Review was fantastic stuff. We can link to it, despite the Irish Times ridiculous pay-wall, thanks to the fact that Shane reproduces his Saturday column on his blag. A snip:

IF YOU picked up a copy of Metro or Herald AM on your way to work on Wednesday morning, you would have learned this stunning statistic: almost half of women love doing the washing-up.

What’s more, 70 per cent dream of a pampering experience, such as a spa break or a manicure, as they are doing the washing-up.

And who brought you this vital research? Fairy washing-up liquid.

Read it: The Percentage Game.

As if to make his point for him, he also points to more survey results that arrived in today: Dumb survey of the day.

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