Yearly Archives: 2019

The votes are in.

Last night with two free tickets to see The Delines (above) at Whelan’s on offer, I asked you to name your favourite gig at the Wexford Street venue.

You answered in tastefully low numbers with some spoiled ballot papers

Runners-up:

Bertie Blenkinsop: ‘Best gig in Whelan’s Shack with my musical hero Mick Head around 2003 I’d guess…’

Tarfton Clax: ‘Best gig in Whelans? Wolves In The Throne Room in 2013 or so, ably supported by the sinuous Wolvserpent. Sexy Cascadian Black Metal. Awesome.’

Winner:

Catherine Vaughan:‘Robert Forster (May 2016). First Irish show for what felt like a million years (it was only eight…) Chatting to the band afterwards, they commented that I knew every word of every song…’

Thanks all.

Last night: Win Nick’s Free Tix

What’s that eerie glow down the highway? A still from ‘Stranger Things’? No, it’s dust orbiting the sun. To wit:

At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from the inner Solar System appears prominently just after sunset — or just before sunrise — and is called zodiacal light. Although the origin of this dust is still being researched, a leading hypothesis holds that zodiacal dust originates mostly from faint Jupiter-family comets and slowly spirals into the Sun. Recent analysis of dust emitted by Comet 67P, visited by ESA’s roboticRosetta spacecraft, bolster this hypothesis. Pictured when climbing a road up to Teide National Park in the Canary Islands of Spain, a bright triangle of zodiacal light appeared in the distance soon after sunset. Captured on June 21, the scene includes bright Regulus, alpha star of Leo, standing above center toward the left. The Beehive Star Cluster (M44) can be spotted below center, closer to the horizon and also immersed in the zodiacal glow.

(Image: Ruslan Merzlyakov (RMS Photography)

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This morning.

An official inspection has found that almost one fifth of Health Service Executive residences for people with enduring mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities “were in such poor condition that they showed disrespect for the dignity of the people living in them“.

According to the report’s author Dr Susan Finnerty, Inspector of Mental Health Services::

There are continuing breaches of human rights:

The right to privacy

The right to a clean well maintained accommodation

The rights of service users to choose where they would like to live

The right to independent living with appropriate supports

And the right to access appropriate care and treatment through access to rehabilitation and recovery services.

Dr Finnerty concluded:

There are over 1,200 vulnerable people living in 24-hour supervised residences. I cannot stress enough the need for these residences to be regulated to protect the safety of people who live in them.

Regulation would allow the Mental Health Commission to enforce changes where deficits and risks are found, protect the human rights of people living in these residences and help mental health services to provide care and treatment in accordance with best practice standards.

Full report here 

Report finds lack of privacy, dignity in many mental health centres (RTÉ)

Phwaoar!

This morning.

Lord Edward Street, Dublin 2.

Leah writes:

A billboard for a new boutique hotel, in place of the old Parliament Hotel reflects the style (but with a little more clothing) of advertising used to promote the Belmayne development on the Malahide Road, during the height of the Celtic Tiger excess.

That development is now subject to the same poor building issues which affects so many of the homes built during that period….

Previously: Gorgeous Living Has A Price

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Oh.

The Drumcondra Grand Cinema – known as ‘The Drummer’- was the first cinema in Ireland to be specifically designed for sound films.

Now a Tesco Metro.

That’s showbiz.

Thanks Mick O’Farrell

This morning.

The Convention Centre, Dublin

Former President Mary Robinson opensthe  INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) conference.

Good times.

Previously: Latifa, Haya And Rescuing Mary

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