MORE to follow.
Thank Huw it’s Friday.
That means another magnificent music competition.
With St David’s Day being celebrated earlier this week by our Celtic cousins, now is the time to ask: What’s your favourite song by a Welsh musician or band?
Here’s mine.
Reply below to be in with a chance of winning a tafftacular €20 voucher redeemable at any Currys PC World branch.
The winner will be chosen by my alter ego.
Lines close at Saturday 11am.
Nick says: Pob lwc! (Good luck!)
Last week’s winner here.
Tonight.
View from the Hapenny Bridge, Dublin.
Pic by Nick
Meanwhile…
Tonight.
River Liffey, Dublin.
By Colum Cronin
Irish busker singing you’ve got a friend in me to an autistic child on the Luas (Tram) ♥ from r/HumansBeingBros
Maccers writes:
Spotted this on Reddit and just thought it was nice for a Friday, I don’t know any of the people in it or who posted it. The little squeals of delight out of the boy make it lovely. That is the Luas Green line, just pulling out of Broombridge. And the comments say the busker is called Mick McLoughin.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1972 Ferrari Dino 246/GT – this one formerly owned by Williams F1 Team founder Sir Frank Williams.
Though it didn’t wear the Cavallino Rampante badge, the Dino was pure Ferrari with a mighty 192bhp 2.4l V6 mid-mounted engine capable of a more-than-respectable 0-100km/h in 7.1 seconds.
This immaculately preserved survivor can be yours for a mere €395,000.
Blustery
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Today I am announcing €430 million in funding for eight regeneration projects in Dublin.
The projects are being funded under ‘Call 2’ of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) and include: pic.twitter.com/8VcykAJaT6
— Darragh O’Brien (@DarraghOBrienTD) March 5, 2021
This morning.
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien goes for a stroll on Ballbriggan Beach before he announced the Dublin projects to be funded under ‘Call 2’ of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF).
To wit:
✅ Dunsink Feasibility Study (@Fingalcoco) – €41,250
✅ Balbriggan Rejuvenation (@Fingalcoco) – €25.4m
✅Clonburris – supplementary strategic infrastructure for SDZ (@sdublincoco) – €176.6m
✅ Adamstown – supplementary strategic infrastructure for SDZ (@sdublincoco) – €9.7m— Darragh O’Brien (@DarraghOBrienTD) March 5, 2021
Meanwhile…
All of the South west inner city projects listed bar 2 are not new, they have been in the pipeline for years. Precinct & lighting improvements.
Finally getting confirmation of this funding is welcome but for the level of need in the wider area this is tip of the iceberg stuff.
— Cllr. Tina MacVeigh PBP (@TinaMacVeigh) March 5, 2021
FIGHT!
The Divide
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This afternoon.
Clarendon Street, Dublin 2.
Meanwhile…
Lovely benches but I DO NOT APPROVE of the anti-homeless measures in the centre of the benches.
We cannot pretend that Dublin city does not have a homeless problem.— Ita O’Kelly (@ItaOKelly) March 4, 2021
Anyone?
Earlier: Come On Ireland
This afternoon.
KC writes:
I see the Davy logo has disappeared….
Cancel culture gone mad.
FIGHT!
The Irish Times view on €4.1m Davy fine: Answers and actions needed (irish Times)
Davy On Board For Irish Times Podcasts (Business Plus, April 24, 2020)
TikTok
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A 1985 ad for General Electric rightly identified by We Are The Mutants as having the most amount of 80s any ad from the 80s could possibly have. Imagine the film Krull starring Jon Bon Jovi in suede lace-up boots. You’re not even close. To wit:
Only in a decade as contradictory as the 1980s would one of America’s most respectable and historic companies spend nearly a million dollars on a commercial depicting new wave “adventurers” in a post-apocalyptic “third millennium” wasteland as part of a last ditch campaign to save its fatally outmatched consumer electronics line. The company was General Electric, and the commercial was aimed squarely, even obnoxiously, at the nascent MTV generation.