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Last night.

All of Ricky Gervais’ gags as host of the Golden Globes including the following:

“You say you’re woke but the companies you work for, unbelievable, Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you would call your agent, wouldn’t you?

So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?

You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god, and fuck off.”

In fairness.

Ricky Gervais’s best jokes and other highlights (BBC)

Pic: getty

Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien

Yesterday evening.

Sinn Féin announced that Cork North Central TD Jonathan O’Brien will not contest the next general election.

In a statement, Mr O’Brien said:

“I am announcing today that I will not be contesting the next General Election.

“This has been a difficult decision for me to make and it is one that I have made after several months of consideration.

“I have had the great privilege and honour to serve the people of Cork for twenty years as a Sinn Féin elected representative, first as a member of Cork City Council for 11 years and the last 9 years as a TD.

“In that time I have contested seven elections on behalf of Sinn Féin and I want to thank the voters for giving me the opportunity to represent them. I have always served in public office to the best of my ability as a proud member of Sinn Féin, as an Irish Republican and a socialist.

“After two decades, I feel the time is right to pursue new personal challenges and opportunities, and to step down knowing I have played a part over many years in ensuring Sinn Féin is in a very strong position in Cork North Central.

“I believe it is crucial that the people of Cork North Central continue to be represented by a Sinn Féin TD and I will play my part in making sure that we retain this seat by remaining an active member of Sinn Féin, and assisting the party in whatever way I can into the future.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family first and foremost; as well as my fellow party members in Cork and throughout the country for their years of comradeship and support.

“I will see out the remainder of my term in the Dáil and I will continue to serve the people of Cork North Central as a TD as best I can until a general election is held.”

Statement by Jonathan O’Brien TD in relation to the next General Election (Sinn Féin)

Marian Finucane and Rachael English

This afternoon.

Following the death of broadcaster Marian Finucane.

Via RTÉ:

The Marian Finucane Show will be presented by Rachael English on Saturday morning [at 11am]. The two hour programme will feature tributes from Ireland and around the world from colleagues and friends and we’ll be reflecting upon some of her best moments in broadcasting. Brendan O’Connor will present on Sunday morning…..

Yesterday: Marian Finucane Dies At 69

Ah here.

Stephanie writes:

Bono described as a ‘prophet’, alongside Gandhi, and this is being taught in Catholic schools as part of the religious curriculum.

I was so incandescent with rage, I kept the homework handout and wrote a letter of complaint.

A tax avoiding hypocritical bellend in Cuban heels??

Gulp.





This afternoon.

Swan centre, Rathmines, Dublin 6.

The shuttered entrance to the ‘loss-making’ Fallon & Byrne store after the outlet was suddenly closed yesterday. Some staff claim they were told the store was being closed for ‘maintenance’.

The location was the company’s largest one, but it remains trading from two other outlets in Dublin city centre and Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.

We are back, aren’t we?

Yesterday: Fallon Gone

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

On Cork’s 96FM Opinion Line with PJ Coogan.

Deirdre O’Shaughnessy spoke to Catherine Sutton-Brady, originally from Winter’s Hill in Cork about the rescue from the Australian bush fires of her son Oisin (arrowed in green hat above in a photo taken during the mission by the Australian Navy yesterday).

96FM

Yesterday: With A Slack Jaw And Not Much To Say

Thanks Fergal Barry

Pic: Mary O’Malley and Ryley Gray

This morning/afternoon

The Government has given the go-ahead to the the development of a Grand Canal Innovation District (GCID) at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.

The €1bn plan will ‘encompass’ some of the biggest companies operating here including Google, Facebook, Stripe, Twitter, LinkedIn and Huawei. The district will be developed over a 10-year time span with €150 million state investment.

Via TCD:

Trinity College Dublin plans to create a Grand Canal Innovation District in Dublin, involving a collaboration of business, Government and the university sector.

At the heart of the planned innovation district is a planned €1bn campus which will be built and financed by Trinity in collaboration with industry, debt funding entities and other sources of funding.

The development is an exciting opportunity to build a world-class innovation district where companies, researchers and entrepreneurs link up, to identify new products or services and discuss how they might be brought to market.

The development of the District will also offer opportunities for the local community with open spaces, new retail spaces and services as well as creating educational and employment opportunities for all those living in close proximity to the district.

FIGHT!

Grand Canal Innovation District for Dublin gets green light (Jack Quann, Newstalk)