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For the week that’s in it.

We have one – yes, ONE! – Expedition Emerald watch from Huguenot Horology, a ‘fully-Irish’ watch company founded by cousins Jack Daly and Henry Roe offering vintage and classic designs and using over 15% of recycled materials, to give away.

Inspired by the aviator chronographs of the 1950s, the Expedition Emerald is “unapologetically vintage in aesthetic yet modern in construction”. Each Expedition uses the “premium Citizen-Miyota OS21 movement” and features dual 24-hour/60-minute sub dials and “the classic 38 mm case has 50 meters water resistance and protected by a domed hardlex mineral crystal”.

To enter, please tell us how long you will wait for someone for a date or appointment before assuming you have been stood up.

Lines must close at 4.45pm sharp.

Hugenot Horology

Previously: Tick Tock Stars

Thanks Alan Bracken

 

An Irish Air Corps Airbus Maritime Patrol Aircraft inside Ireland’s exclusion zone off the south coast last month

“Ireland must reassess its military power.”

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney

Redefining Ireland

In the absence of Seamus Heaney,
if Ireland is to be renowned for anything other
than bog water, cabbage and
our negligible corporate tax rate,
we must invest in at least one
intercontinental ballistic missile
which until the necessary
Plutonium – 239 gets here
we’ll fill with hydrogen sulphide
reinforced regularly
courtesy of our world famous piggeries
and drag it to every St. Patrick’s Day parade
from Castlerea to Bantry
because people need something to celebrate.

Instead of the perfect simile
we’ll offer annihilation
for somewhere roughly the size of Iceland.
Instead of metaphors we’ll give you death
immediate or lingering
(terms and conditions will be applied
no liability admitted).
Instead of the occasional Haiku
we’ll build a leprechaun Hiroshima
put it in a box
then skulk the Earth
looking for someone to drop it on.

Kevin Higgins

RollingNews

Saturday.

Orwell Road, Rathegar, Dublin 6.

Labour Party TD Ivana Bacik addresses protesters from the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement who joined with members of the Ukraine Solidarity to mark the 11th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution with a protest vigil outside the embassy of the Russian Federation in Ireland.

Meanwhile…

Proposals to rename Orwell Road in Dublin as Independent Ukraine Road look set to be dropped, with Dublin city councillors reversing plans to pursue the name change.

Changing the name of the road, where the Russian embassy is located, was unanimously supported by a sub-committee of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council last week.

….The city council’s southeast area committee was expected to consider the renaming proposal on Monday, but the motion has been dropped.

Labour councillor Dermot Lacey who chairs the committee had initially put forward a motion to change the name to Volodymyr Zelenskiy Road, and later amended it to match the Dún Laoghaire motion. However, he said, he would not be tabling either motion.

Proposal to change name of Orwell Road to Independent Ukraine Road to be dropped (Irish Times)

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Pfizer’s CEO says fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be needed (ABC7)

Meanwhile…

Um.

Albert Bourla did not kill himself.

A litter of crossbreed puppies were found in a cardboard box in a garden at just five-days old in Finglas, Dublin

‘sup?

This morning.

Via Dogs Trust:

We are appealing for public support after seeing an influx of surrendered and abandoned dogs, including a box of five-day-old puppies that was recently handed into their rehoming centre in Dublin.

A member of the public discovered the abandoned litter of four crossbreed pups in his garden in Finglas, in a cardboard box. The man immediately brought the tiny siblings to Dogs Trust where it was established by the charity’s Veterinary team that they were no more than five days old.

Niamh Curran-Kelly, Veterinary and Welfare Manager at Dogs Trust Ireland said::

“Puppies of this age are completely and utterly dependant on their mum. Their eyes and ears are closed and they’re unable to toilet themselves or regulate their body temperature, so they wouldn’t have survived much longer their own.

“Thankfully, they got to us in time so we could give them the care they needed, including bottle feeding and toileting them every two hours. Sadly, the smallest of the litter passed away, despite veterinary intervention but unfortunately this is quite common with orphaned puppies.”

Dogs Trust

This afternoon.

Further to rising fuel prices…

…via RTE News:

The Government has agreed a temporary emergency support measures to assist haulierss.

Under the scheme, €100 per week will be paid for every heavy goods vehicle listed on a road haulage operator’s licence.

The payment will be made over a period of eight weeks, at which point a review will take place.

The total cost of the scheme to the exchequer will be €18m.

Hauliers to get €100 per truck in new emergency measure.

What about the rest of us?

Not fair.

*slams car door loudly*

Hauliers to get €100 per truck in new emergency measure (RTE)

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