rugby weekend

Woohoo, Italy are leading France. At France's home ground. Only half time yet, but still, impressive.

update: I guess it couldn't last. Final score: France 37, Italy 12.

rioting in Dublin

RTÉ, BBC. Mildly disappointed to note that the BBC reports it as a "Republican riot"; it's no more a Republican riot than the annual May Day fracas is a socialist riot. Per the Irish Times coverage, which I'm not linking because they're a registration-requiring shower of suckweasels:

The violence that swept O'Connell St in Dublin is spreading to Kildare St as a protest against the Love Ulster Parade appears to have been hijacked by rioting youths and a lesser number of republican demonstrators.

(my emphasis).

continued odd rugby first halves

Scotland 3, England 3. Scotland actually took the first score, too.

update: WOOHOO! Scotland 18, England 12! Fabulous game, and more fools England for constantly giving away penalties to such a gifted kicker.