St Patrick's Day has been celebrated since at least the 1600s. It's a holy day in the Catholic Church. It wasn't "made up" by Guiness. (They obviously take advantage of it, but they didn't invent it.)

The liffey? We've all been there :-(

Beside the point of the story, but Ireland isn't part of the Commonwealth either. Regardless, it seems ridiculous that there aren't exceptions in diplomatic immunity for rape/ murder.

I never saw that movie, but you can add my mom to your list of people who hated that movie. Between that, The Men Who Stare At Goats and Up In The Air, you can't even MENTION George Clooney in my house. I think she must be the only middle aged woman on the planet who doesn't love him.

Try boi-ing by Benefit! It's definitely the best concealer I've ever tried.

Does it look like Labour will win a majority in the next election, or will they likely have to enter a coalition? If so, with who? Could it end up being UKIP, or would it just be Labour + independents? (I live in Ireland so I have a semi-functioning knowledge of British gov but I haven't heard anyone talk about this!)

If it's present day, it means a lot of her perspective on Tyrion and Margaery so far wouldn't have made sense. And realistically, they can't keep up this no flashback policy forever - we're gonna have to get some info about the Tower of Joy sooner or later. It'd be a bit dull to just hear Howland Reed talk about it.

Ireland actually totally avoided this trend of voting in huge numbers for a far-right party - in fact, we don't even have a far-right party! Even though I don't like most of my constituencies MEPs, I'm pretty proud that none of them are like, conservative and racist.

Whaaaat? I go to a uni with pretty similar traditions to Cambridge but from the graduation pics I've seen... We definitely have no rules about excessive makeup! That reminds me of secondary school.

I'd say next season really will be all Dorne (yay!) and Iron Islands (boo). All of the kings landing story lines are Cersei's inner monologue and I remember nothing about Jon's chapters in ADWD except for that really good last chapter of his. And Sansa and Brienne and Theon are fairly close to being up to date.

I'm sure I saw an interview in which the person who will play LS hints at the fact that they will be coming back... Can't find a link but I swear I saw it!

Tell me about it, I'd sell my soul to see the Tower of Joy fight scene acted out! I don't have much hope for it though :-(

Oh wow, they do look alike and he is... Quite the looker.

I remember hearing D&D said they aren't doing any flashbacks, unfortunately.

Isn't that... Alex Pettyfer?

I agree there's no way of deterring someone from being a monster - and trust me, I do not feel bad for this guy, whatsoever.

That, and the fact that it doesn't seem to work as a deterrent at all.

They had their own main page article, but it wasn't great. I'm pretty sure they never mainpaged the io9 one, which they should really do!

io9 did a good article on it the other day - they've amended it several times with context and comments from people who live in the region. It's pretty informative, you can find it here http://space.io9.com/harsh-reality-… . Jezebel's coverage of it seemed kind of lazy, but what was more saddening to me was that the…

I added that to my reading list when you posted it here last week, and I just finished it. It was so fucking good. I mean, I cried at the end? And I think I've cried at about 3 BOOKS in my life.