A glance at the week that was
Jocks shock
People are often shocked by the sight of drinkers urinating on the streets over the weekends, but offenders will be literally shocked if they pee against Custy’s traditional Irish music shop in Ennis. Owner John O’Connor has installed a device that delivers an electric shock to anyone who relieves themselves on it. A sign warns: “Electric Current in Operation – Urinate at your Own Peril!” What’s the bets that some will try it anyway, just for bravado.
Reefer rating
A US paper is advertising for a marijuana critic. An alternative Colorado newspaper, Westword, is looking to reflect the many options now available in a state that allows marijuana to be bought for medical reasons. There have been 100 applicants for the position, some offering to work for free. The successful candidate will need to have a medical ailment allowing them to purchase the drug, although the critic will judge the establishments, not the weed. "We can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time, says the paper's editor.
We now know
Sunday night’s U2 concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, California, will be broadcast live on YouTube
A German discount store is selling trips to space for €210,000. They won’t start, though, until 2011.
Imports are at their lowest level in a decade
"A lovers' tiff"
How Harry Crosbie described a €5 million legal row with fellow developers Treasury Holdings
The numbers
621
number of Leaving Cert students who were given an upgrade in their Higher Biology exam after a review
8,000
number of tickets allocated to Irish supporters for the away leg of the World Cup Play-Off against France
8
number of marathons being run in eight days by fundraiser Gerard Fay