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‘The Volunteers’ by Joe Caslin
Darragh Doyle writes
You may have seen some tweets or posts about the new artwork being put up this weekend in Dublin’s Trinity College Front Square.
It’s by artist Joe Caslin and when finished – which should be shortly, it will look like this…
The installation, called The Volunteers, is backed by Senator Lynn Ruane and Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin to coincide with their Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017 currently being debated in the Seanad.
Last week: Just Say Yes
Previously: Joe Caslin on Broadsheet.
Elektrisch
at
Kraftwerk 3D – the German electro pioneers doing their thing* at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre this weekend.
(*mainly standing still.)
Here’s some close-up live action from the same show in Amsterdam last year.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
Leoseach
at
This afternoon.
Mansion House, Dublin 2
Counting well underway for the Fine Gael Leadership ballot.
More as they tabulate them.
Earlier; Countdown
Rollingnews
Update:
Coveney camp expecting to take members voted 60:40… They’re still counting #FGleadership pic.twitter.com/qDbFbxdsj4
— Christina Finn (@christinafinn8) June 2, 2017
#FGleadership first 10 boxes open. Tally call 69 – 31 membership votes to Simon😀 pic.twitter.com/jWP5OmX4M3
— Gabrielle McFadden (@gabmcfadden) June 2, 2017
Around half of party member boxes open. Early tallies suggest Coveney has two thirds of vote. #FGLeadership #FGLE17 pic.twitter.com/ioXaLKNrii
— Laura Colgan (@Laura_Colgan) June 2, 2017
Meanwhile…
We now await the elected members’ vote…The Broadsheet Live Tracker will return after a quick cig….
UPDATE:
At the Mansion House.
Fine Gael’s Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (and Leo Varadkar supporter) Heather Humphreys spoke to Bryan Dobson on RTE News Now.
During the interview:
Dobson: “I mean Nora Owen [former Fine Gael justice minister and Simon Coveney supporter] was saying just a few moments ago that the rush of endorsements, by people like yourself, of Leo Varadkar, at an early stage in all of this, was resented by the membership. They felt that they were being denied their chance to have a say in this campaign. Would you accept that that was perhaps a mistake by the Varadkar camp in those early stages?”
Humphreys: “No, I don’t accept it was a mistake but of course this is a new process and this is the first time that Fine Gael has elected a leader in this way. But I was very clear at the early stages and I absolutely supported Leo as leader of Fine Gael and as our new Taoiseach. And I think I did the right thing because people would be wondering, well what is she, what way is she going to vote? And my members deserve to know exactly where I stood on it and I have consulted with many members before I made my final decision.”
From the Mansion House via RTE
Simon Coveney arrives just before the FG membership vote is announced.
Gerry O’Connell, chairman of the Fine Gael National Executive (above) announces the following tally for the Fine Gael membership, the first electoral college.
Simon Coveney: 7,051
Leo Varadkar: 3,772
UPDATE:
Latest vote in at #FGLE17 is the Cllr’s pic.twitter.com/yufxdIsCjv
— Frankie Mulqueen (@FrankMulqueen) June 2, 2017
UPDATE:
. @campaignforleo arriving at @FineGael count centre #iestaff #FGLE17 pic.twitter.com/nQSwiq3GAB
— Elaine Loughlin (@Elaine_Loughlin) June 2, 2017
UPDATE:
#FGLE17 pic.twitter.com/YIfMrM8YIb
— Barry Ward (@cllrbarryward) June 2, 2017
UPDATE:
Final result: Varadkar 60% Coveney 40%. @campaignforleo is the 11th FG leader and is on course to be the country’s 14th Taoiseach @rtenews pic.twitter.com/hlPmo3A1d5
— Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) June 2, 2017
UPDATE:
Ireland’s next Taoiseach and the 11th leader of Fine Gael #FGLE17 pic.twitter.com/yslYTNPtdW
— James Ward (@newswardie) June 2, 2017
Varadkar got 3946 votes. Coveney got 7173.
Yeah. Can’t imagine this having any negative consequences.
— John Handelaar (@handelaar) June 2, 2017
FIGHT!
Rollingnews
A wonderful, surreal, bonkers short by Kieran Sugrue featuring James – a boy brought back from the dead to fight ‘demon ghosts’.
Back of the net, in fairness.
Bohemian FC Vs Drogheda United.
At Dalymount Park, at 7.45pm tonight.
Via Richie McCormack
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This week’s theme: Beatles covers
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s, what original song from John, Paul, George and Ringo was significantly improved upon by another artist/band?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘The best example of a Beatles cover sounding better than the original would have to be_________________________by___________________________’
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