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Yesterday’s Irish Times

This afternoon.

Richard Oakley, editor of The Times Irish edition and RTÉ journalist John Burke trade ‘jabs’.

Mmm. Toxic.

Catholic bishop claims cervical cancer vaccine ‘only 70% safe’ (Irish Times)

Unmoved by the current Ferrari lineup?

Behold: the Kode57 by Ken Okuyama (who designed the Ferrari Enzo) – a speedboat-like, open-topped, F1-nosed roadster based on the Ferrari 599 (with echoes of the 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa) of which (for now) only five will be built.

Previously: Hot Wheels: Kode 0

uncrate

And how its done.

Bray rapper Leigh Michael writes:

I’m delighted to share with you episode 16 of ‘A Capella Archive’ – ‘Biro-technics’. In this episode I return to my word play ground to have fun with writing metaphors, expressing my technique with an inter-changeable flow. Hope you like it.

Leigh Michael

Nat King Coleslaw writes:

Come for the bizarrely-timed tweet, stay for the replies…

FLIGHT!
https://twitter.com/natkingcoleslaw/status/913518588937502725

January 12

September 28

Crikey.

Paramedics refuse to drive ambulance over fungus (Pat Flynn, The Clare Herald)

Fungus-infested ambulance removed from service (Pat Flynn, The Clare Herald)

Alternatively

Thanks TM

Yesterday’s Irish News

Colm Dore writes:

A perspective on the politics of AnaG in the north which might interest a southern audience…

Troid!

Cadogan Enright?

Newton Emerson: There is a way to address concerns over Irish language jobs discrimination (Newton Emerson, Irish news, behind paywall)

Nighttime shots of the bizarre ‘earth pyramids’ of the South Tyrolean Alps by photographer Killian Schönberger.

Each of the clay columns, eroded from earlier structures left by retreating glaciers after the last Ice Age, is protected by a large boulder resting on top. Eventually, the columns lose the structural cohesion required to support the boulder and collapse – a sad day indeed for natural weirdness.

colossal

Covanta incinerator at Poolbeg

Ciaran D’Arcy, in The Irish Times, reports:

“The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is carrying out a criminal investigation into a lime leak at the Poolbeg incinerator, in June, which resulted in 11 workers being hospitalised.”

“In correspondence provided to Dublin City Council’s Environment Strategic Policy Committee, HSA assistant chief executive Brian Higgison advised that a criminal investigation under the Health, Safety and Welfare at Work Act is under way regarding the incident.”

“The HSA refused an invitation to provide an interim report on its investigation to the committee, saying it cannot pre-empt the outcome prior to its conclusion.”

“The committee heard Covanta has reported 12 non-compliances at the incinerator to the EPA as well as 16 incidents of note.”

“Committee member Joe McCarthy of An Taisce suggested that six non-compliances are now arising from the Waste-to-Energy plant every month given it was not operational for one of the three months in question.“

There you go now.

Criminal investigation under way into incinerator lime leak (The Irish Times)

Save Poolbeg.

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