Yearly Archives: 2019

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This afternoon.

Mount Usher Garden, Avoca Cafe, Ashford, County Wicklow.

Models Corina Coughlan (top left) and Aine Dwan (above) launch the bovine-heavy ‘Eoin O’Connor at Tipperary Crystal Collection’.

Eoin is known for his brightly-painted cows. which will now feature on cups, place mats and whatnot from Tipperary Crystal, who say:

From concept to reality, the collection was over a year in development and required extensive input and collaboration between Eoin and our internal design team.’

Dresses  by Synan O’Mahony.

Update:

All better.

Leon Farrell /Photocall Ireland

Dubh Lee – Virtue

The debut single from the Dublin-based, Tullamore, County Offaly native is a smart fusion of folk and pop packed with words of wisdom.

The video by Declan Dooley is also a work of art, and follows Dubh Lee as she goes on an Offaly fraught adventure in the Slieve Bloom mountains with her mannequin paramour… but there’s a twist in the tale.

Dubh Lee writes:

‘The song details the mental battle between love for another person and one’s self-respect.’

Nick says: Never trust a mannequin.

Dubh Lee

Ah now.

This afternoon.

Assistant Garda Commissioner David Sheahan with Moyagh Murdock, Chief Executive of the Road Safety Authority (RSA)  unveiling a road safety progress review, covering the period January 1 – July 29, 2019… with the visual aid of a Northern-Ireland-may-not-even-exist-for-all-we-care map.

*shakes fist*

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Meanwhile…

National Road Policing unit Garda Mark Murphy and actor Conor Creaby this afternoon

This afternoon.

Store Street, Dublin.

The “Mobility App” will also allow individual gardaí to process fixed charge notices, cutting down on back office paperwork and allowing gardaí to spend more time in the community…

…The app can also add Eircodes to addresses using secure web services. Some 2,000 individual gardaí are to be designated to use the app by the end of this year.

What could possibly go wrong?

New Garda mobile app ‘will revolutionise roads policing’ (Irish Times)

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The result of an attempt by Canadian animator Yves Paradis to create one unscripted, improvised scene every week over the course of a year.

Pleasingly rendered in modern minimal style, the simple concept of a character pushing a big cube through the desert transforms into an increasingly complex sci-fi adventure.

shortoftheweek

This afternoon.

Ballybrit Racecourse, County Galway.

Extravagantly-hatted ‘revellers’ – including former Miss World Rosanna Davidson (above right) – attend Ladies Day at the Galway Races.

A winner will be announced at 3pm.

All pics via Teresa Mannion

Pics: See ALL the style from Ladies Day at the Galway Races (Evoke)

Meanwhile…

Fight!


This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2

Students from the National Learning Network, including top from left: Melissa Harrington and Megan Collins, affected by the axing of an allowance which enables people with disabilities to attend training courses and access employment gathered outside the Dáil to appeal to the Minister for Health to reverse the decision.

They say the value of the allowance is €31.80 per student per week “so the overall saving to Government would be minimal and yet it is a vital lifeline to those who need specialist supports to access further education or to enter the workforce”.

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Trolley Gar (Department of Health)

Thanks Johnny Green