This afternoon.
Dublin city centre.
Scenes from The Take back The City Rally highlighting the housing and homeless crisis, which included a sit-down protest which closed traffic on O’Connell Bridge.
Yesterday: Masking The Reality
Meanwhile…
THESE ROTTEN ENGLISH TOURISTS JUST ROARED ABUSE AT US THEN THREW A PIGEON’S HEAD AT US!!! WHAT THE FUCK ! pic.twitter.com/iyEhfLacwB
— butch babe in LA (@bitnch) September 22, 2018
Was it for this?
Financial Times writes:
‘Jacob Rees-Mogg you’re right. You don’t need to visit the border… you need to have lived here.’ Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the real impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dwyer Hogg.
May says Brexit talks at stand off, demands new proposals from EU (RTE)
I have signed the polling day order for the proposal on the 37th Amendment of the Constitution – Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter.
Polling day is the 26 October – the same day as polling day in the Presidential election.
— Eoghan Murphy (@MurphyEoghan) September 21, 2018
There you go now.
Read the bill in full here
Previously: “We Believed That We Would Never See A Prosecution For It”
…unless you say so.
This afternoon.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar gets to grips with a plough at the Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly.
Earlier: Who Knew?
Pics: Paula Nolan via Offaly Tourism
Leigh Michael – A Cappella Archive Ep 22
Bray-based rapper Leigh writes:
Here are some more of my lyrical philosophical musings inspired by the wisdom of the east , meditation, nature and observation. Enjoy!
The Q47 writes:
Cynical advertising at its best. This ad appeared in my Facebook chat today, so I looked to see why I would be shown it. The reason provided was quite something!
Anyone?
This morning.
Ireland’s first driverless public transport vehicle, the EZ10 Driverless Shuttle, takes a trip along Dublin’s Docklands.
Taking the shuttle were the head of Dublin City Council’s Smart City Programme Jamie Cudden, CEO of Civic Group Neil Cunningham, and CEO of Dublin City Council Owen Keegan (middle pic) and Gianna Goforth, aged four, from Dublin, Green Party councillor Ciarán Cuffe and Jamie Green, from Ashbourne (above).
Previously: EZ Come, EZ Go
This afternoon.
At the Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly.
Via Offaly Tourism
It happened in Dublin.
A raw slice of cycle hate.
Currently doing the rounds on Twitter.
You won’t believe your eyes.
Watch here.
Thanks Dhod
What to do with the site of the last remaining Magdalene laundry in State ownership is proving bitterly divisive | https://t.co/A4MOypUeVu pic.twitter.com/jGeypcaJmR
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 20, 2018
Last night.
An RTÉ News report by Sharon Ní Bheoláin on the last remaining magdalene laundry on Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1.
It followed the decision made last week by Dublin City Council to preserve the site based on a motion put forward by Social Democrats Cllr Gary Gannon, for Dublin’s North Inner City, to stop the sale of the site to a Japanese hotel chain.
Hmmm.
In response, Mr Gannon tweeted:
Previously: A Constant Reminder
