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GUILTY OPTICS – “Downstroke wizardry”

What you may need to know…

01. Last time we checked in with GUILTY OPTICS (their all-caps, not your writer’s), they’d just released their first single in a while, ahead of completing work on their debut album.

02. While we await more news/noise on this topic, the band are currently planning more national touring in 2017.

03. Streaming above is And So It Goes, the follow-up to last year’s streaming single The Kayapo Ghosts, premiered last week at The Thin Air after a prolonged wait, judging by the given upload date on the band’s Soundcloud.

04. Headlining a gig at the Tivoli Backstage tomorrow night at 8pm. We covered the other two veteran bands on the bill this week, also – Ten Past Seven and Elk supporting.

Thoughts: Punky, angular noises, delivered with earnestness and aplomb. Grand.

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26/1/2017. Adult TV Performers Visit Westport. L to R. Vicky Nami, Priya Young, and Alexa Brooke, the Babestation TV adult models, got a taste of west of Ireland weather, when they visited Westport today, along with company representatives, to offer apologies to the towns residents for the telephone calls they received in mistake from callers to the adult site. Photo shows them being interviewed by Colm Flynn, of the Today Show on RTE. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

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Above from left Vicky Nami, Priya Young, and Alexa Brooke, of the Babestation interviewed by Colm Flynn, of the Today Show on RTÉ

This afternoon.

Westport, County Mayo

Models from the UK-based Babestation TV station apologise for “any misunderstandings” concerning their  phone sex line number, which –  if  callers didn’t enter the +44 suffix – dialled straight through to a Westport number.

And the calls, while much cheaper, proved an unsatisfactory substitute. Apparently.

Babestation TV will change x-rated chatline number after complaints from Westport residents (iriIndependent.ie)

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This morning. Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

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This morning.

Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

The launch by the Justice Committee of Reports on Traveller Ethnicity. To wit:

Traveller representatives have expressed confidence of a “historic” announcement in the coming weeks….Committee Chairperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has recommended that the Government should then conduct a review, in consultation with Traveller representative groups, of any legislative or policy changes required on foot of the recognition of Traveller ethnicity.

Pic 2 from left: Independent TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace with Singer and Senator Frances Black and Sinn Fein’s Justice Committee  Chairman Caoimhghín Ó Caoláinin the AV room at Leinster house.

Oireachtas committee calls for recognition of Traveller ethnicity (RTÉ)

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Louis is back.

Dam.

Louis le Fronde writes:

I refer you to this very interesting article in The Guardian about Amsterdam benefitng from Brexit…and it begs the question, why would any firm move to Dublin when there is Amsterdam?

Anyone?

People Before Profit/Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Richard Boyd Barrett picks apart the government’s vulture fund housing policy to the visible chagrin of Housing Minister Simon Coveney during today’s leaders’ questions.

Earlier: Anything Good In The Dublin Economic Monitor?

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Free in Cork tonight?

Darragh writes:

After the misery of Christmas which saw overcrowding in Irish hospitals on a ridiculous scale, an event will be taking place in UCC [College Road, Cork] this evening [details at link below] looking at what can be done to avoid such situations in the future.

Roisin Shortall TD from the Social Democrats, will be joined by Tom O’Connor, lecturer in economics, public policy and health/social care, and Patricia O’Dwyer, public health nursing consultant, to not only identify problems, but also propose solutions, to the current nightmare of healthcare in Ireland

Building An Irish NHS, Boole 1, UCC