Neil Curran (him off the telly) writes:
Family and friends in Canada are claiming that An Post aren’t accepting Canadian packages at present (according to Canada Post. Can anyone verify this?
Anyone?
Author Archives: Bodger
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US President Donald Trump
This afternoon.
YouTube announced that it will begin removing any content alleging widespread voter fraud influenced the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election.
Via YouTube:
“Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect.
Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.
For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors.
We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come. As always, news coverage and commentary on these issues can remain on our site if there’s sufficient education, documentary, scientific or artistic context.”
Lol.
FIGHT!
YouTube will now remove videos disputing Joe Biden’s election victor (The Verge)
AP
Author Celia Montes (above) in her north Dublin home with copies of her We Were Born An Ocean Apart (top) written while Celia and her partner James Gabriel Martin were separated by covid
James Gabriel Martin writes:
My partner Celia and myself spent several months this year separated in different countries due to COVID. She was in Spain and I was in Ireland and it was impossible for us to see each other.
She had travelled there to work on a book. She turned our struggle into art, writing We Were Born an Ocean Apart, about a mermaid who swims from the warm Mediterranean to the cold Atlantic Ocean, and who embraces a new life. We worked together on the translation and got it printed, unsure of what would happen.
We were finally reunited and had over 200 copies of the book crammed into our little cottage in North Dublin. But over the past week, the book “went viral” after I shared it online, and it has now sold out.
We rang the publisher and hundreds more are being printed in the next two weeks. We’re so delighted that it has struck a chord with people who are enjoying a story inspired by Irish folklore and legends, something Celia was captivated by.
It has Irish fishermen, banshees and the Cliffs of Moher. It’s suitable for all ages too.
Purchase We Were Born An Ocean Apart here
Looking for post-work, grape-based fun (with nibbles)?
Plonk yourself down.
Lia Stokes writes:
Winedown, a brand new wine bar located on Montague Street in heart of Dublin City, is the latest brainchild of entrepreneur Maeve O’Malley, the woman behind Dublin’s favourite cheesy café, Meltdown.
Winedown, which officially opened its doors last Friday December 4, is Meltdown’s night-time sister. It’s a wine bar but so much more.
Winedown offers food and wine with relaxed service in a space filled with contemporary Irish art. Think sharing plates and set menus with interesting wine pairings and exceptional cheese…
Aside from an inevitably excellent cheese plate, Winedown’s menu is small but perfectly formed. Nibbles start at €4 and include Smoked Almonds and Gougeré with Smoked Mackerel Pâte.
Wine is available by the glass from €11 while bottles of red white and sparkling wines are available from €26…
Meanwhile…
Chef Maeve Walsh curated the Winedown menu…Nadine Savage carried out the interior design…DJ Tara Stewart created the playlist and Meltdown stalwart Sarah Maloney designed the branding. Nichola Hughes created the wine list, Fattiburke painted an original mural that greets you as you enter the space, and Kate Dillon is keeping loyal fans up to date sharing sneak peeks on social media…
Also: spot the photographer, anyone?
Above from left: Joanne Grant, Managing Director, JCDecaux; Michael Forry, Head of NOW TV; The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu; Sarah Jennings, Marketing Director of NOW TV and John Flanagan, Assistant Chief Executive & City Engineer, Dublin City Council
This morning.
Water Channel Square, Portobello, Dublin 8.
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu helps celebrate the launch of the NOW TV‘s sponsorship of dublinbikes.
NOW TV dublinbikes will be on the streets of Dublin from January 19, 2021. Docking station screens, service vehicles, staff uniforms and associated inventory will all also be rebranded under the three year contract.
In fairness.
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
From top: Sinn Féin’s chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Brian Stanley TD; Solicitor Simon McGarr
This morning/afternoon.
Further to controversy caused by tweets from a Sinn Féin TD celebrating a 1979 IRA attack and poking fun at Tanaiste Leo Varadkar’s sexuality…
…Solicitor Simon McGarr writes:
Twitter is a reflection of real life- just as a golf clubhouse, a GAA clubhouse and a nightclub are each different reflections of real life. They give expression to an aspect of public opinion. But Twitter has also become a broadcast system for official actors.
Politicians are used to broadcast media- that’s what most of them have trained to use for decades.
But a broadcast medium that is also an archive of all the dumb things we’ve ever said in passing and a two-way communications system? As [Sinn Féin TD and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee] Brian Stanley realised as he deleted his account, “we’re not as good at it.”
Meanwhile, the Government moves forward on laws to regulate citizen’s use of the internet and creating a crime of making an internet post that “causes alarm or distress to the other person”.
This points to a crunch happening from the middle of next year, when people who are self-confessedly bad at understanding and using the communication elements of social media will try to draw up rules that will restrict a good chunk of the world’s usage of it.
Ireland’s biggest Twitter-storm is yet to land.’ [More at link below]
Project Beer
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Following a break this year…
…The Fidelity Beer Festival will return in 2021 to the Round Room in Dublin’s Mansion House on July 16-17.
Leah Kilcullen writes:
Fidelity will once again bring world-class breweries to the city, many for the first time, for two evening tasting sessions over two days
Tickets cost €62.50 plus fees, which includes all your beer samples (no messing around with tokens!) and your tasting glass, and will be on sale here from tomorrow at 9am…
*burp*
Last night.
In case you missed it.
TV hotshot Helen O’Rahilly, author of covid bestseller The Stirlift Ascends (O’Brien) about cocooning with her 91-year-old aunt Monica, took to the piping hot ‘stool of doom’ to answer YOUR questions.
Last night: Driven Happily Up The Wall
Warning Shot
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Deputy charge nurse Katie McIntosh administers the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs, to Vivien McKay Clinical Nurse Manager at the Western General Hospital, in Edinburgh, Scotland yesterday
This afternoon.
UK regulators have issued a warning that people who have a history of “significant” allergic reactions should not currently receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two people who had the jab yesterday had allergic reactions.
Via RTÉ:
Two NHS staff members who received the vaccine on the first day of the mass vaccination programme suffered an allergic reaction, the NHS in England has confirmed.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has given precautionary advice to NHS trusts that anyone who has a history of “significant” allergic reactions to medicines, food or vaccines should not receive the vaccine.
UK regulator issues allergy warning over Covid vaccine (RTÉ)
Reuters
From top: Mary Robinson and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth; Artist Robert Ballagh with his painting of Noel Browne; Nuala O’Faoloin; Kate Moss outside Bad Bob’s, Dublin; Cillian Murphy
Looking for a special print for someone special?
For more than 40 years, Eamonn Farrell’s photographic agency has captured on camera some of the most famous and era-defining images of Irish life.
Off The Wall Irish Photos is a new, curated selection from the hundreds of thousands of photographs in the Photocall Ireland/RollingNews archive stretching back to 1980.
Eamonn says:
“This is not a site offering pretty up to date images of either personalities, celebrities or locations. There are hundreds of such sites around and we do not and could not wish to compete with them.
.“We have painstakingly curated a selection, which we feel will appeal to people either for a historical or Irish heritage reason, an association with the event or persons involved or an appreciation of the photographic aesthetic of the image.
“Many of the news images of people and events either appeared the next day in print or did not appear at all, never to be seen again, unless perhaps sourced at someone’s death or an event’s anniversary. They are unique in this sense.”
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’.