This afternoon.
Tolka Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3
Local residents came out in protest outside the Tolka branch of one of the Hyde and Seek crèches featured in the RTÉ Investigates programme which found breaches in fire safety and child protection within the childcare facility.
Previously: Nowhere To Hyde
Behold: the Cliff Concept Boutique Hotel – a vertiginous five-tiered vision on the upper face of Preikestolen (‘Pulpit Rock’) 600 meters above Norway’s Lysefjord.
Every year, 200,000 visitors flock to Preikestolen to take in the spectacular view. Architectural design studio Hayriatak envisages an exclusive vantage where guests can take in the sights from rounded balconies and the glass walls of an infinity pool cantilevered over the fjord.
This afternoon.
Centre Parcs Longford.
Invited slebs, including telly’s Baz Ashmawy and Karen Koster, help launch “Ireland’s largest waterpark”, the Subtropical Swimming Paradise, at the official launch of Center Parcs Longford Forest.
The pair were among 2,000 guests (but not us, sad face) on hand to preview the resort before it welcomes its first cash-paying ‘Billy Bunters’ this coming Monday.
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Behold: the painterly tableau of the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) picked out at the northern end of the Great Rift in swirling strokes of interstellar dust and glowing hydrogen gas. To wit:
Composed with three different telescopes and about 90 hours of image data the widefield mosaic spans an impressive 24 degrees across the sky. Alpha star of Cygnus, bright, hot, supergiant Deneb lies near top centre. Crowded with stars and luminous gas clouds Cygnus is also home to the dark, obscuring Northern Coal Sack Nebula, extending from Deneb toward the centre of the view. The reddish glow of star forming regions NGC 7000, the North America Nebula and IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula, are just left of Deneb. The Veil Nebula is a standout below and left of centre. A supernova remnant, the Veil is some 1,400 light years away, but many other nebulae and star clusters are identifiable throughout the cosmic scene. Of course, Deneb itself is also known to northern hemisphere skygazers for its place in two asterisms — marking the top of the Northern Cross and a vertex of the Summer Triangle.
(Image: Alistair Symon)
This afternoon.
Clontarf, Dublin 3.
Members of the DART Access for All group including top pic from left Sean O’ Kelly with Saoirse Smyth and Sophia Mulvaney (above centre) hold a protest outside Clontarf DART Station where there is no access for wheelchairs only stairs at the entrance.
Laoise – Seriously?
If you like your pop with a capital P then you’re going to love Laoise’s new single.
The 22-year-old Galwegian singer brings an infectious enthusiasm and charisma to this come hither ditty.
The video is also an hallucinogenic magic carpet ride.
Nick says: Laoise has a seriously bright future ahead of her.
From top: Sergeant Martin O’Meara; Manager Army Heritage Australia Neil Dailey (top left) and Major Henry Fijolek of the Austrailian Army and Army Museum of Western Australia
This morning.
The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin 4.
The Installation of Martin O’Meara’s Victoria Cross, the highest award for ‘gallantry in the face of the enemy’ that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Sergeant O’Meara – who was born in Terryglass, County Tipperary in 1885- was given the award to recognise his acts of bravery at Pozieres in France in August 1916.
This Loan will be for approximately 12 months and marks the first time an Australian Government owned Victoria Cross will have left Australian Shores.
Irish Australian soldier’s Victoria Cross medal loaned to National Museum (RTE)
Uncanny.
Chris Somers writes:
I have a housemate who cuts his own hair (he’s a filmmaker). However he has taken to disposing of it by simply throwing it out his bedroom window which another housemate, to his horror, discovered when retrieving some kale from our back garden this week.
The initial confusion and outrage was quelled by its Ireland-like shape and some thorough rinsing.
Mmf.
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland
A lighthearted video tutorial by Imaginary Ambition in which, with the right kit and a few tips, you too can be better, stronger, faster – just like those crazy French robo-scamps.
