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A further 53 rare birds are to be released in Co Down and Co Wicklow this week as part of the phased reintroduction of the Red Kite in Ireland.

• More Red Kites to be released into the wild. John Gormley’s red kite army. It grows.
• Seriously. There is nothing happening in Ireland. Sure, We may have just found out that Coldplay will be the first gig at the new O2 but that’s not really that exciting.
• I enjoyed this story about Anarchy at Off the meatrack.
• You are now entering the northside. Christ.
• Anyone need to release some doves? There’s a company that doves it: www.heavenlydoves.ie. Doves it! I’m a genius!
• Didn’t take on board what Ricky Gervais said at the end of the Extras Christmas Special when he was in the Big Brother house? Well then, Movieextras.ie are doing the whole get your mug shot taken and pay some cash and we might call you annual routine.
• Dublin wants to be the EU city of science 2012.
• Castleblayney dressed up as smurfs and broke a Guinness World Record:
  
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Smurfs? Red kites? Jesus. Sarkozy’s visit went off too well. RTE news are reduced to carrying news reports about bees. It’s too quiet.

Back before it shut down, group blog The Community At Large posted quite a bit on Steorn, an Irish company who claimed to have built a free energy device that created more energy than it used. (Steorn official website, wikipedia entry.)

Well now, maybe they’ve been beaten to the punch by an American?

Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It’s Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he’ll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn’t dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.

Full news article here. Steorn is mentioned in the article. They both mention magnets and electromagnetism and all that so is it possible that our very own physics-ignoring country men are about to be trumped? Or maybe they’ve all discovered the same thing in different ways?

There’s videos of the device, called Perepiteia, on youtube.

Found at giant American super-blag Boing Boing.