Yearly Archives: 2017

John Tobin – Hometown

Piano Man Tom writes:

“Hometown was produced over a 5 month period with some of the top musicians in the Irish music industry (Van Morrison’s guitarist and Chris Rea’s bass guitarist helped out).

John Tobin, the 20 year old singer on the track, was a contestant on UK X Factor in 2016 and is a very promising new Irish talent….

Name the town on the cover, anyone?

Pope Francis

“The Pope hasn’t a notion of coming to Galway next year, if this is the craic we’re at. You might laugh at this but it’s true – the Catholic hierarchy sees these things and they will look at where Pope Francis is going to visit and they will see that the City Council voted to scrap the prayer before meetings and they’ll decide to go somewhere else….”

Fianna Fail Galway CCity Councillor Ollie Crowe

Prayer ban could see Pope drop Galway visit (Dara Bradley, The Connacht Tribune)

Also: Spot the subliminal message in this url?

Thanks Ted

This morning.

Leeson Street, Dublin 2

Brendan writes:

Normally where the Grand Canal bike path crosses Leeson St. is a choke point, but this was unusual!

An elderly driver on his way to the Eye & Ear hospital became confused and drove 230m along a dedicated bike path. Miraculously no-one was injured.

The woman driving in the photo (above) is a bystander who extricated the car safely from the situation…

In fairness.

Dan O’Brien

Dan O’Brien.

The seer of the Indo.

His prophecies are legendary.

 Jeremy Corbyn’s election [to leader of the UK Labour Party] matters much less than the hoopla would suggest: he won’t be leader for very long and will never become prime minister. As he will never get to implement the policies he espouses, he is much less relevant than the British media’s blanket coverage of his every utterance would suggest…

There are many reasons why he will quit or be ousted within a few years. Among the most important is that he will not be able to win over even a decent sized minority of his parliamentary Labour party…

….All this will quickly lead to chaos. Conflicting signals will confuse and frighten voters. Infighting and ineffectiveness will alienate others. Labour’s poll ratings will tank: later if Corbyn gets a novelty-factor bounce; sooner if he doesn’t…

How does he do it?

Corbyn will never win power, but he could still be disastrous for Ireland (Dan O’Brien, Irish Independent, September 17, 2015)

Previously: Calling It

Dan’s Inferno

Pic via Irish Independent

In the UK general election.

Further to the performance of the Labour party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, top.

It’s a hung parliament – as the Conservatives gained enough seats to be the largest party but not enough to be able to win a majority.

Election results live (The Guardian)

Graphic: BBC

Meanwhile…

Early morning editions of the British newspapers.

Via Neil Henderson