REMINDER: Beckett bridge is closed to traffic between 9-10pm. 5.8k tons will lift & rotate 90 degrees as part of scheduled maintenance (1/2) — Dublin City Council (@DubCityCouncil) July 22, 2014
We’d like you to come down and take some photos at 9pm. You can submit them to http://t.co/7zzmhK0Q4I and we’ll credit you/link back. (2/2) — Dublin City Council (@DubCityCouncil) July 22, 2014
Update:
The bridge open tonight.
Thanks Halfahead
From Sandymount Strand, Sandymount, Dublin at lunchtime.
The girth is thickening.
Earlier: Foggy Foggy Foggy
Thanks John Murtagh
Mick Wallace and Clare Daly arrested at Shannon Airport http://t.co/TXGbXTdKZQ
— Irish Times News (@IrishTimesNews) July 22, 2014
You pair.
Scamps be scampin’.
Free The Shannon Two.
UPDATE here.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
Trying to think who Mick Wallace and Clare Daly reminded me of- and then suddenly pic.twitter.com/brKKAkSRdg
— Annie West (@anniewestdotcom) July 22, 2014
The former Crowley’s Music Store on Cork’s MacCurtain St today (top) looking neglected and up for sale.
Rory Gallagher purchased his 1961 Fender Stratocaster (centre) in Crowley’s Merchants Quay shop and changed Irish music FOREVER.
In the clip (above) from his 1974 Irish tour documentary Rory is seen sampling the goods in both shops and talking with proprietor Michael Crowley.
Previously: Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fender
This morning.
Controversial self-help tech messiah Niall Harbison’s controversial, rude-named ‘Get Sh*t Done buke at number one in Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin.
FIGHT!
*continues reading The Silkworm*
Pic via Michael McLoughlin
The prototype QUANT e-sportslimousine debuted at the Geneva motor show last March – a four-seat roadster with four electric motors (one per wheel) drawing power from redox flowcell technology developed by NASA in the 1970s.
912bhp, 900km range, 0-100km/h in 2.8s, 380km/h – approved this month for use on European roads, so no mere concept.
All generated by nothing more than salt water.
Police tractor unveiled http://t.co/1Mu6EMemFI Latest marked vehicle in force’s fleet even has blue flashing lights pic.twitter.com/HhUzRVeBss
— BBC Wales News (@BBCWalesNews) July 22, 2014
Release the tractor beam.
Etc.
Sir Nigel Rodley, UN Human Rights Committee chairman and, right, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald in Geneva last Tuesday.
Youu may recall how 16 civil society organisations from Ireland gave brief speeches to the UN Human Rights Committee last week, as part of the committee’s monitoring of states’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which Ireland signed in October 1973 and ratified in December 1989). The committee also questioned Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and certain civil servants.
The UN committee will officially respond to these discussions on Thursday.
And, following chairman Sir Nigel Rodley’s saying how the very idea of symphysiotomy kept him awake at night during his damning closing remarks, it’s expected that Ireland won’t be getting much positive feedback.
The civil groups will respond to the UN committee’s findings on Thursday at 2pm in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8.
Previously: What Ties Them Together
Drawings by Malaysian artist Monica Lee – a former digital artist who has turned to hand-drawn photorealism. Each of the spectacularly rendered still lifes and portraits takes up to a month to complete.
More here.
