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And you’re not on it.

Last night.

The list for candidates in the Dublin University By-Election – caused by the Dail election of Ivana Bacik last year – has been sent to voters.

Only those  who have received a degree from Trinity College Dublin are eligible to vote.

ESB writes:

The rotten borough brigade is at it again. Democracy for all college grads in Ireland, please.

Fight!

Dublin University By-Election

This afternoon.

Kiev, Ukraine.

Ukrainian state telly gets hit as the Russian military said it would strike ‘strategically important targets’ used by Ukraine’s military and intelligence, including ‘comms installations’.

Earlier: Let Us In

Meanwhile…

Ah now.

This afternoon.

Earlier…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (centre) with Ukraine’s EU membership application

Last night/this morning.

“Our goal is to be with all Europeans and, most importantly, to be equal. I’m sure that’s fair. I am sure we deserve it.

“Europeans are witnessing how our soldiers are fighting not only for our country, but for all of Europe, for peace, for peace for all, for all the countries of the European Union.

“Ukrainians have shown to the world who we are, while Russia has showed what it has turned into…. Every crime, every shelling by the occupier only unites us more,”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy seeking a fast track entry for Ukraine into the European Union., Bloc officials quickly played down the likelihood of any such move for a number of reasons, including the fact that no such fast-track procedure exists.

Zelenskiy Calls For Ukraine’s Immediate EU Membership But Bloc Cool On Idea (RFE)

Meanwhile…

This morning.

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This morning.

Dublin Castle. Dublin 2.

Fine Gael Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris and Fine Gael Minister for Justice Helen McEntee arrive for a cabinet meeting. Both are front-runners to replace Leo Varadkar among Fine Gael members in a poll conducted by the Irish Examiner.

The future’s bright.

Coveney’s FG leadership hopes fade — McEntee or Harris to replace Varadkar (Irish Examiner)

This afternoon.

Dublin Castle, Dublin

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien (above) and John O’Connor, Chair of The Housing Commission, after this morning’s meeting of the Housing Commission, which was launched in January and tasked with ‘bringing forward proposals for a referendum on housing’.

Advising the commission ‘with expertise in this area’ are Frank Clarke, Former Chief Justice, Professor Gerry Whyte, Professor of Law Trinity College Dublin, Professor Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law University of New South Wales and Madeleine MacKenzie, Parliamentary Counsel in the Scottish Government’s Parliamentary Counsel Office.

None of whom is a landlord.

We assume.

Fight!

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage welcomes establishment of Working Group on Referendum on Housing (Gov.ie)

Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews

From top: Tanaiste Leo Varadkar, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and Taoiseach Micheal Martin

This afternoon.

Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.

The Taoiseach and ministers leave a cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

Meanwhile…

Well.

As long as you don’t mind sharing the couch with Nick. It’s a pull-out so plenty of room. Bring milk.

RollingNews

‘sup?

This morning.

Unidentified locations.

Shane O’Reilly, Angling Advisor at Inland Fisheries Ireland, launching a new historical picture book containing traditional Irish salmon flies commissioned 120 years ago for the Cork International Exhibition.

Fly tying involves the ‘dressing’ of a fishing hook to create an artificial fly, which is then used by anglers at the end of a rod and line to catch fish.

Described as the “long-lost treasure” of Irish angling, the ‘1902 Cork Collection of Salmon Flies’ book is published online this week by Inland Fisheries Ireland, ‘making it freely available to new generations around the world’.

The book can be viewed here.

Any excuse

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland