The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows defines:
vemödalen – n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.
Rosetta.
A computer rendering of a comet the European Space Agency wish to land a probe on that looks a bit like Ireland.
Comet’s Rugged Landscape Makes Landing A Roll Of The Dice (NPR)
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (New Island €5)
Thanks Darragh O Tuathail
Supporters of former Irish Independent journalist Gemma O’Doherty outside the newspaper’s office on Talbot Street, Dublin 1, on August 27, 2013 – including Limerick-based Catherine Costelloe, a former officer with the London Metropolitan Police, far left, and former Garda John Wilson, far right
Families for Justice write:
Tomorrow, a delegation of families seeking justice for their deceased relatives will visit Stormont Castle to meet senior politicians. The families, who live in the Republic of Ireland, have lost loved ones in violent circumstances – in two cases, their own children. They believe An Garda Síochána failed to investigate the deaths properly. They have also been unable to get a meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
The families will be accompanied by Garda whistleblower John Wilson and journalist Gemma O’Doherty. This is the first phase in a new international awareness-raising campaign about cases of alleged Garda wrongdoing which will be taken to the European Parliament and the United Nations, among other institutions, in 2015.
The families who will visit Stormont include Lucia O’Farrell, mother of Shane who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Co Monaghan in 2011; Anne and Eamonn Tuohey, parents of Shane who died in Clara, Co Offaly in 2002; Cyril Goonan, brother of Jim who was killed in Birr, Co Offaly in 2002; and Ann Doherty, twin sister of Mary Boyle (6) who went missing in Donegal in 1977.
Also joining the delegation is Limerick-based Catherine Costelloe, a former officer with the London Metropolitan Police who, since returning to Ireland, has spent many years searching for people who have been murdered but whose remains are missing.
Brian Sheridan, a former Director of Elections for Fine Gael in Laois/Offaly, who has been at the forefront of the justice campaign for Fr Niall Molloy, will also attend. The delegation will meet senior politicians from each of the political parties in Northern Ireland including the DUP, Sinn Féin, the UUP, the SDLP and the Alliance Party. The delegation will arrive at Stormont on Thursday at 11am.
Previously: Going North
Niall James writes:
This is my buddy, James Nunan, from Blackrock, who’s been volunteering with King’s College Hospital in London to help with the ebola crisis. This is a video of him outside a hospital in Sierra Leone. It’s pretty interesting/worrying…particularly the reality of the hospital screening tent. I asked what happens in the screening tent. He said, “They just die in the tent. They just get water and that’s it. If they get in the isolation unit they get drugs and a bed.”
Last night
John Gallen was taking part in the Winter Rough Sleeper Count 2014 and numbering the homeless around the environs of government buildings.
UPDATE:
Due to sensitivities around the Winter 2014 Rough Sleeper Count it has been requested that I request the post ‘While You Were Sleeping’ be removed. At the same time, I’d encourage anyone with an interest in helping out the Dublin Region Homeless Executive to join them in volunteering in next year’s count. Many thanks to the overwhelmingly positive comments to the piece and the brilliant work on the night by Dublin Region Homeless Executive. Until next year, yours sincerely, John Gallen :)
The Gardaí are having a laugh,
When they say that they solve almost half,
Of this country’s crimes,
At the best of times,
They do half that, it says on this graph.
John Moynes
(Garda Inspectorate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOd0K0wKNnE&app=desktop
Site of the former Volta Cinema, where Penneys is now located on 47, Mary Street, Dublin 1, and its nameplate, top
Indeed.
Paul Butler Lennox writes:
A short retrospective documentary on the forgotten picture houses from the perspective of patrons of Ireland’s capital.
Mmmf.
A possibly bogus encounter in Clonmel yesterday.
Charming.
