Yearly Archives: 2016
MORE to folly.
Page five of The Cork Examiner on January 5, 1916.
*Squints*
*Click to enlarge
Thanks Andrew Martin
Inchicore Road, Dublin 8 yesterday
New look cycle friendly Dublin?
Not so fast.
Via Cian Ginty at IrishCycling.com:
The Kilmainham Civic Space project, led by [Dublin City Council] City Architects Division, redesigned the street space in front of Kilmainham Gaol and the offices, cafe, homes and hotel across from it…
…The project team ignored feedback requesting dedicated space for cycling in the project and ignored years of complaints to the council from people using the cycle route that taxis waiting and vans loading was common place on the previous two-way cycle lane outside the hotel and offices.
The new design includes mixing walking and cycling on footpaths and crossings; an unprotected contra-flow cycle lane already prone to parking and loading on it; car parking spaces inside the contra-flow cycle lane which motorists must cross to use the spaces; and mixing bicycles with tourist buses in a shared traffic lane.
A call from the NCBI, the national sight loss charity, not to mix walking and cycling on a section of the project were also ignored.
Cycle Lanes Concerns Ignored By Dublin City Council Leads To Predictable Results (IrishCycle.com)
The entirety of The Wizard Of Oz (1939) (that is to say, every word and non verbal utterance plus opening titles) re-edited into alphabetised form by Matt Busey.
A work of such pointless brilliance that one Vimeo commenter ventures:
Anyone Floyd has Pink sychned this up with yet?
The ‘dead’ sequence, starting around 19:40, is especially good.
Friday, January 8: Therapy Sessions: We Cut Corners, Saint Sister, Jennifer Evans @ The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 (€5)
Nialler9 writes:
As part of First Fortnight, the mental health-focused festival that happens in the first two weeks of January every year, a night of music, poetry and performance under the name Therapy Sessions has been lined up this Friday. Curated by Dublin duo We Cut Corners, it will feature music from rising “atmosfolk” band Saint Sister (Gemma Doherty and Morgan MacIntyre, top and performing ‘Virtual Hate’ on the Two Tube above), singer-songwriter Jennifer Evans along with poetry from Dee Campbell, South London spoken word artist Molly Case and Ryan Mangan.
From left: Cabinet members Alex White, Simon Coveney, Enda Kenny, Joan Burton, Alan Kelly and Simon Harris this lunchtime
Relax.
Help is on its way (should this kind of thing happen again).
The set up of a Flood Management Co-Ordination and Implementation Group is among the matters discussed at a crisis summit at Government Buildings this afternoon
The new group would co-ordinate the local flood management plans for 66 different towns and settlements along the Shannon which are vulnerable to flooding.
Junior minister Simon Harris says other measures being discussed today include funding for a long-term weather forecasting system.
Glug.
#hometofloat
Earlier: I Love Rain
Ignored
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Ann Doherty with a picture of, from left, her twin Mary Boyle, brother Patrick and Ann
Gemma O’Doherty reported last month that Ann Doherty believed she had identified a new location in Donegal where she suspects her twin sister Mary Boyle – who vanished in 1977 – may have been buried.
Ms Doherty wrote to Garda Commissoner Noirin O’Sullivan requesting the area to be examined, on foot of new evidence she received last month.
Further to this…
Gardai have ignored Anne Doherty’s lawyers’ request to search a location where they believe the body of her twin Mary Boyle may have been
— Gemma O’Doherty (@gemmaod1) January 5, 2016
Previously: Mary Boyle case on Broadsheet
Fitzwilliam Square East, Dublin 2 this afternoon.
Conor Hunt tweetz:
“Protest opposite Saudi Arabia embassy in Dublin over execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.”
Related: Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Shia cleric was a thorn in Saudi regime’s side (The Guardian)
Top pic: BHC