Neil Young posted this message (top) on his archives website.
The duet he sung with Bob Dylan at Nowlan Park [Kilkenny] last Sunday was a tribute to his late manager Elliot Roberts who died earlier this month.
The song ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken?‘ is an old American spiritual popularised by The Carter Family and was recorded by Dylan in 1961.
Monday: Nowlan In The Wind
🚨New Podcast Alert🚨
A 400-year-old mystery wrapped inside a riddle with a large measure of adventure on top! 🗺 Treasure Island: The Hunt for The Falcon Blanco ep 1 airs at 6:30pm on @drivetimerte & is available to stream wherever you get your podcasts 📲 #FalconBlanco pic.twitter.com/zSQAfy4pDd— RTÉ Radio 1 (@RTERadio1) July 17, 2019
Via RTÉ:
A mystery wrapped inside a riddle with a large measure of adventure on top…Journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes has spent a year investigating if the wreck of a Spanish Armada galleon lies off the coast of Inishbofin for a new original podcast series for RTÉ.
Over six episodes, Philip brings listeners with him as he investigates claims that a dive expedition 50 years ago located the wreck of the Falcon Blanco off Inishbofin.
The divers were commissioned by an enigmatic civil servant who had made a life’s study of the location of the Falcon Blanco, believing it to be a pay-ship of the Armada, with untold wealth on board. But their accounts of what they did or didn’t find on the sea bed are at odds with the accounts of other witnesses.
The first episode of Treasure Island: The Hunt for the Falcon Blanco will be broadcast on Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1 tonight at 6.30pm.
The first four episodes of the podcast are available now wherever you get your podcasts and the final two episodes “will be released at a later date”.
This morning.
Outside Portrush, County Antrim.
Bookmaker Paddy Power writes:
We have marked the arrival of Tiger Woods to Ireland for The Open at Royal Portrush with a cheeky reminder of how far he’s come, 10 years on from the worst drive of his life… after he hit rock bottom when an unsuspecting fire hydrant proved no match for his black Cadillac Escalade back in 2009.
…The initial billboard (top), which is the equivalent in size to a double decker bus, features a SUV shaped hole ripped through it.
While the second has a 3 tonne Cadillac Escalade plunged into it.
Pics: Karen Morgan
Newly elected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and (very) outgoing President Jean-Claude Juncker.
I like this emerging tradition that the EU Commissioner must have a name that would make a good villain in a Die Hard movie. The new EU Supremo’s name Ursula von der Leyen isn’t quite as good as the last one, the all-time classic Jean-Claude Juncker, but the custom is carried on. https://t.co/TuNLWekZdV
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) July 17, 2019
But Jean-Claude Juncker had the best “Die Hard” Euro-villain name because he’s sounds like a cross between a supercilious French skier and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder’s sternest uncle.
That he was a handsy Joe Biden on a bender only made it all better. https://t.co/EbmilU43p2
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) July 17, 2019
In fairness.
Yesterday: Shane Heneghan: Electing Ursula
Yesterday.
The Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The former army munitions store earmarked for mindless redevelopment under the Phoenix Park Visitor Experience Master Plan and Detailed Scheme Design for a New Visitor Hub.
Yeah. You and whose army?
FIGHT!
Top pic: Wikipedia
Minister for Health Simon Harris
This morning.
It has emerged that 52 of the 800 women impacted by the reported IT problems in the Quest Diagnostics laboratory have contracted the HPV virus.
Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall has called on the Minister for Health Simon Harris to “provide immediate answers” to the following:
1. Have all 52 women who tested positive for HPV on the Quest retest been notified of their results?
2. Have they all been referred for appropriate follow-up?
3. Have the other 750 women and their GPs been notified of their retest results?
4. What is the level of clinical risk for the 52 women who tested positive?
5. What action was taken by the HSE in February when they became aware of these problems with Quest?
6. Why were the Patient Advocates not informed of these issues at the Steering Group meeting on 26th June?
7. What action does the Minister intend to take to restore public confidence in CervicalCheck?
8. Does the Minister intend to review the Quest contract in light of these quality control failures?”
Anyone?
52 more positive for HPV in test scandal (Irish Examiner)
Yesterday: When Did he Know?
Meanwhile…
52 women who took retests have now tested positive. There are 800 women in Ireland today who are wondering if they are positive.
All Simon Harris can do is say its "good news" and only a "small number"
How insensitive to these women and their families! 😢😠#cervicalcheck pic.twitter.com/H8chtJTWy5
— Luke Silke (@luke_silke) July 17, 2019
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan
This morning.
EU member states must inform the European Commission this year if they would like to choose permanent summer or winter time and end the twice-yearly clock changes.
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan will ask the Government [today][ to reject this proposal on two grounds.
The first is that it cannot agree to any move that could result in different time zones on the island of Ireland.
The second centres on a fear that this change could lead to a ‘patchwork’ of time zones across the EU.
This morning.
The ‘Big Gig’ at Semple Stadium is back.
Via MCD:
The town of Thurles, as well as the original promoters MCD, and the organisers of last year’s sell out FÉILE Classical concerts, are delighted to announce that this year’s festival will now be named FÉILE 19.
Previously titled Tipp Classical, the legendary music event which runs September 20 – 22 has revived its original moniker and with a host of new events and acts added…
Those making the Trip to Tipp this September will feast their ears on music curated by Tom Dunne of Something Happens, who performed at FÉILE ’90, ’91 and ’93, and will this year also be returning to the stage alongside some of the most legendary names in Irish rock and roll, including the one and only Sinead O’Connor.
Tickets here
From @FineGael themselves
“forces at work” with “agendas”
“deeply concerned at other agendas, they may be European…I don’t know where they are coming from…” – “real reason to be concerned” about #IrishWater being privatised #todaysor #right2water #not1pipe @Fergusodowd pic.twitter.com/KjPQsBKFfb
— Mick Caul (@caulmick) July 16, 2019
Yesterday.
Former Fine Gael junior minister Fergus O’Dowd describes efforts to privatise Irish Water by unseen forces.
Anyone?
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone
This morning.
Conall Ó Fátharta of The Irish Examiner has obtained a copy of a report by the Collaborative Forum on Mother and Baby Homes, set up last year by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone.
The forum presented its report to Ms Zappone last December but she has declined to publish it citing advice from the Attorney General.
Via The Irish Examiner:
In a lengthy section on information and identity rights, the report states that Tusla representatives informed it that it assesses the likelihood of harm being caused to wider birth families by the release of personal information to an applicant.
In exchanges with the forum, Tusla representatives indicated that identity and personal information applications are assessed in part by reference to the level of harm acceding to such requests may cause,” states the report. “Neither the statutory basis for such a criterion, nor the nature of how harm is determined, was clear to forum members.”
The forum states its belief that since Tusla began taking ownership of the files of former adoption agencies in 2014, it has been pursuing “a practice of withholding identity and personal information from applicants detained as children across various institutions on the basis that to release this information, could cause harm to the wider family members of the applicant”.
In a statement, Tusla said that in the absence of any specific legislation to regulate information and tracing services, it can only “lawfully release information relating to other persons [e.g. birth parents] with their expressed consent.”
Tusla considers damage release of personal information can cause (Irish Examiner)
