by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 28, 2014 | Looks Like Beirut
Thanks to Wisam for bring this to my attention. Let’s head over to Cork, Ireland where 76-year-old, Maurice Phelan, has a problem. Here is a photo of him with the problem visible. Can you see it (he does look quite grumpy, doesn’t he)? It’s the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 12, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Dublin, Ireland A scaffolding accident at a Dublin construction site has the foreman in charge describing the scene as ‘Beirut’: Scaffolding foreman Michael Dolan, of Dolan Scaffolding, Raphoe, Co Donegal, which was subcontracted to provide and maintain...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 23, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
I wonder if the people of Turlough, County Mayo, Ireland who come up with these comments actually think to themselves and say, “now I know what people in Beirut go through”: Turlough locals, anxious for an update on a local road closure, attended last...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 29, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
First Australia compared a traffic accident to Beirut, and now it seems, Ireland has followed suit: The area immediately outside Cregmore National School in Co Galway resembled a scene from war-torn Beirut after a truck yesterday crashed into a car, jack-knifed,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 23, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
I got this link from the friendly people at SkyscraperCity.com who also have a discussion board to track the use of Beirut as an adjective. Here’ s one from Ireland: The new link road from the M9 motorway to Athy, now called the new N78, was heavily criticised...