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Derek Kelly, Dublin City Council; Daire Enright, Failte Ireland; Barry Rodgers, Waterways Ireland; Catherine McGovern, Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane; Aileesh Carew, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum; Edel Currie, Dublin Port; Mary O’Sullivan, iHubbs; Luke Smith, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Today.

Outside EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum.

Dublin City Council and business owners launched a marketing campaign to inform residents and visitors that Dublin Docklands has open for business.

Where’s yer masks?

Meanwhile…

Dublin City Council writes:

Dublin City Council has begun rolling out an uplifting new lamp post banner campaign called ‘Words for our Time’ to welcome people back to the city.

From today, a series of colourful banners will be displayed across the city featuring quotes from some of the great writers of the past whose words still have resonance in 2020.

Some of the writers quoted include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Bram Stoker, and Jonathan Swift.

As restrictions ease, the feel-good banners are designed to make people smile, and encourage the continuation of the great community spirit seen all over the city during the Covid-19 crisis.

The new campaign will feature on lamp post banners, bus shelters, and digipanels.

Meanwhile…

Jaykers.

Anyone?

Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews

UPDATE:

From top: Thomas Byrne on The Tonight Show; Tweet from Meath Fianna Fáil member Ken McFadden following the show

Last night.

On The Tonight Show on VMT.

Asked if there’s a witchunt in Fianna Fáil to find the person who revealed Barry Cowen’s drink driving conviction, Thomas Byrne told host Matt Cooper:

“I doubt very much that anyone in Fianna Fáil had the information that is described in the newspapers in relation to that.”

Asked if it would have happened at a local level, he said:

“I’m not familiar with what’s going on in Offaly but certainly that is not a concern of mine.”

Watch back here.

Meanwhile…

Earlier:

Taoiseach Micheál Martin (right) with Minister of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne in government buildings last week

This morning.

Last night: Who Spilled?

Meanwhile….

The Taoiseach’s office has been forced to apologise to Northern Ireland’s First Minister after just 10 days in office.

The apology came after a government source had “over zealously” briefed a media outlet that the first meeting between Micheál Martin as Taoiseach, First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill was to take place today, despite no meeting being organised

Micheál Martin’s office has to apologise to Arlene Foster for ‘cock-up’ (Irish Examiner)

Meanwhile…

All in all, a sure-footed start from Fianna Fáil.

FIGHT!

One day, we’ll plant that flag on that moon and watch it flutter.

Believe.

David Creedon

Meanwhile…

Damn you, Smugface.

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Meanwhile…

This morning/afternoon.

Some reaction to yesterday’s open letter from prominent liberals decrying ‘cancel culture’.

Yesterday: Hello, Yes, I’d Like To Cancel My Subscription To Harper’s

Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

The unveiling in 1967 of The WB Yeats Memorial featuring abstract artist Henry Moore‘s Standing Figure: Knife Edge‘ sculpture.

Meanwhile…

Via RTÉ News:

Conservation works to a long-overlooked part of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin are nearing completion.

The €300,000 project on the WB Yeats Memorial began last November.

Commissioned and managed by the Office of Public Works, the project has taken in the conservation of Henry Moore’s iconic ‘Knife Edge’ sculpture, as well as the restoration of surrounding paths, steps and terraces.

“The whole plaza was overgrown and the sculpture was very much hidden. So you couldn’t really see that there was even a Henry Moore in this part of the park. A lot of people never knew it was here,” said conservator Jason Ellis (top).

‘Hidden gem’ restored in Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green (RTÉ)

This morning.

Connaught House, Burlington Road, Dublin 2.

A group from The Workers’ Party protest outside the grounds of  M & B Conversions, an Israeli state-owned aeronautic/military equipment company, in protest at what they claim is the proposed unilateral annexation of the West Bank.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Last night.

Bray, County Wicklow.

Drug Squad officers seized a ‘growhouse’ situated in the attic of a normal-looking residential home flagrantly cultivating ‘illegal plants’.

The streets of Bray are a little bit safer this morning.

Thanks, Guards.

Rollingnews

“10 of the 14 mother and baby homes were run by Catholic orders. In this film we investigate evidence that between 4,000-6,000 babies and infants died in their care.”

Journalist Laurence Lee.

‘Ireland’s Mother And Baby Scandal’.

A short but excellent documentary broadcast on AlJazeera last night exploring the scandal of Tuam and beyond.

Thanks Bebe