Saturday.
Holles Street, Dublin 2.
Members of Our Lady of Lourdes Protectors anti-abortion protest group kneel in prayer against the provision of termination facilities at the National Maternity Hospital.
Yearly Archives: 2019
Saturday.
The Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin.
Scenes from the Green Party Convention with participants including Ciaran Cuffe (pic 1); Catherine Martin TD (pic 3); Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan TD (pic 4); pic 7, from left: Councillor Hazel Chu, Janet Horner, Cllr Neasa Hourigan and Cllr Pauline O’Reilly.
In his keynote speech to the party’s national convention in Dublin, Mr Ryan has argued that entering government was the most effective way to address the climate emergency.
Referring back to the Green’s first experience in coalition, which saw the party losing all its seats in 2011, Mr Ryan said: “I know from experience how hard that can be but also what can be achieved. To prepare properly it is important to set out the principles that we would approach any programme for government negotiations.”
He said the party should be willing to talk to any party who shared its core belief in constitutional, democratic and peaceful politics.
Green Party must be ‘open’ to coalition with major parties – Ryan (Irish Times)
Paiste Gong master Sven Meier coaxes out the doomy timbre of a 2 meter wide nickel/silver gong.
Headphones recommended.
Eagle Aurora
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Five days before this image was captured over Norway in 2012, a large coronal mass ejection occurred on the sun, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. To wit:
Although most of this cloud passed above the Earth, some of it impacted our Earth’s magnetosphere and resulted in spectacular auroras being seen at high northern latitudes. Featured here is a particularly photogenic auroral corona captured above Grotfjord, Norway. To some, this shimmering green glow of recombining atmospheric oxygen might appear as a large eagle, but feel free to share what it looks like to you. Although the Sun is near Solar Minimum, streams of the solar wind continue to impact the Earth and create impressive auroras visible even last week.
(Image: Bjørn Jørgensen)
The Elephant Room – Juniper And Pine
If you’ve ever wanted to see a tutorial on beard-trimming spliced with footage from outer space and vintage film clips soundtracked by melodic 90s-style indie slacker rock then you need to see The Elephant Room’s current video (above).
The Dublin-based trio of Frank Shortle, Shane Martin and Ian Hand will appeal to fans of Pavement and Grandaddy.
It’s time to shed that facial hair.
Nick says: A Shortle back and sides, please.
The yet-to-be-titled 25th Bond film will reveal Lashana Lynch as the new 007
There’s many a thespian guy
Who has played Fleming’s fictional spy
But now his code name
Has gone to a dame
Which may leave leave some fans asking why
John Moynes
Architecture/construction channel OUROBOROS ARQ applies the full scale construction methods of housebuilding – foundations, bricklaying, beams and rebar – to a miniature dwelling.
