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Aldi, Germany.
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“Black the Ripper, a wee bit of rap in the morning wakes you up.”
Yesterday.
Kincasslagh Parish church, Donegal.
Father Pat was taking part in a live-stream at the empty church when he accidentally started playing a track by late British rapper Black the Ripper over the sound system.
Thanks John Gallen
Last night.
CBS.
The most ‘shocking’ moments in last night’s interview between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey.
Following the interview, Graham Smith, of Anti-monarchy group Republic said:
“The monarchy has just been hit by its worst crisis since the abdication in 1936. Whether for the sake of Britain or for the sake of the younger royals this rotten institution needs to go.
“Some people will say ‘well you would say that’, but this interview has only served to highlight what a lot of people have known for years: the monarchy is rotten to the core and does not reflect British values.
“Most people in the UK don’t give a second thought to the royals, they’re just not that interested. The monarchy is tolerated because of a carefully managed but dishonest image that’s been created over the past few decades.
“Now people are getting a much clearer picture of what the monarchy is really like. And it doesn’t look good.”
Meanwhile..
This is a stain on the royals that will endure. No amount of palace spin will erase. #OprahMeghanHarry pic.twitter.com/l9jtAK4llk
— Peter Hunt (@_PeterHunt) March 8, 2021
Meghan and Harry Oprah interview live: couple claim palace failed to protect them (The Guardian)
This evening.
Portobello Harbour, Dublin 8.
Thanks Harry Warren
Irish busker singing you’ve got a friend in me to an autistic child on the Luas (Tram) ♥ from r/HumansBeingBros
Maccers writes:
Spotted this on Reddit and just thought it was nice for a Friday, I don’t know any of the people in it or who posted it. The little squeals of delight out of the boy make it lovely. That is the Luas Green line, just pulling out of Broombridge. And the comments say the busker is called Mick McLoughin.
Blustery
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Today I am announcing €430 million in funding for eight regeneration projects in Dublin.
The projects are being funded under ‘Call 2’ of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) and include: pic.twitter.com/8VcykAJaT6
— Darragh O’Brien (@DarraghOBrienTD) March 5, 2021
This morning.
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien goes for a stroll on Ballbriggan Beach before he announced the Dublin projects to be funded under ‘Call 2’ of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF).
To wit:
✅ Dunsink Feasibility Study (@Fingalcoco) – €41,250
✅ Balbriggan Rejuvenation (@Fingalcoco) – €25.4m
✅Clonburris – supplementary strategic infrastructure for SDZ (@sdublincoco) – €176.6m
✅ Adamstown – supplementary strategic infrastructure for SDZ (@sdublincoco) – €9.7m— Darragh O’Brien (@DarraghOBrienTD) March 5, 2021
Meanwhile…
All of the South west inner city projects listed bar 2 are not new, they have been in the pipeline for years. Precinct & lighting improvements.
Finally getting confirmation of this funding is welcome but for the level of need in the wider area this is tip of the iceberg stuff.
— Cllr. Tina MacVeigh PBP (@TinaMacVeigh) March 5, 2021
FIGHT!
The Divide
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This afternoon.
Clarendon Street, Dublin 2.
Meanwhile…
Lovely benches but I DO NOT APPROVE of the anti-homeless measures in the centre of the benches.
We cannot pretend that Dublin city does not have a homeless problem.— Ita O’Kelly (@ItaOKelly) March 4, 2021
Anyone?
Earlier: Come On Ireland
This afternoon.
KC writes:
I see the Davy logo has disappeared….
Cancel culture gone mad.
FIGHT!
The Irish Times view on €4.1m Davy fine: Answers and actions needed (irish Times)
Davy On Board For Irish Times Podcasts (Business Plus, April 24, 2020)
This afternoon.
South William Street, Dublin 2.
Meanwhile…
This morning.
Moore Street, Dublin 1.
Fr Binoy Mathew, co-Parish Priest of Mountview and Blakestown Parish in Dublin, said that since November parishioners were visiting the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Huntstown, Clonsilla to get communion after watching mass online on Sundays
This morning/afternoon.
The Archdiocese of Dublin has advised parishes and priests not to organise events to give communion to parishioners after mass, either inside or outside of churches.
The advice came as a parish in west Dublin stopped handing out communion to 130 parishioners on Sundays, after gardaí advised it should not be doing so.
“Under current restrictions all religious services continue to take place online. In the interest of health and safety priests and parishes ought not to distribute Holy Communion before or after mass, in or outside churches,” the Archdiocese said in a statement.
Pic: KFC Architects