Yesterday.
Gavin Nugent tweetz:
A pre-film Brown Thomas ad literally just got laughed out of the cinema. People openly howling in derision at it…
In fairness.
Author Archives: Bodger
Yesterday’s Sunday Independent LIFE magazine
“One day I stopped under the nest and I was looking at the debris of eggshell on the ground. I said to myself, ‘You’re just useless, you’re day-dreaming here, go home and do something’. I was giving out to myself about my pace, even though I was in nature.
“Then something extraordinary happened on my way out of the [Phoenix] park. It was February, a very cold day and there was trouble in the water. There was this man and a baby boy had fallen into the pond.
“The water was quite deep, up to the man’s chest. He was an older grandfather. The buggy had tumbled in, and the grandfather was trying to save the boy.
“I clocked them, then legged it down the hill, and helped them out of the water. There was fierce panic but they were all right in the end.”
“…That day I realised there was nothing wrong with my pace.”
Cavan singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill in yesterday’s LIFE magazine.
Clinging On
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Tanaiste Simon Coveney outside EU headquarters after a meeting with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
This afternoon.
Brussels, Belgium.
The Tanaiste has said that even if a Brexit deal is agreed, Britain will have to remain part of the EU’s single market and customs union for up to four years to allow time to negotiate a free trade agreement.
Simon Coveney said there had been no “serious proposal” from Britain to break the Brexit deadlock over the Irish backstop and that “significant gaps” remained between the two sides after meeting with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, in Brussels.
Mr Coveney said that if there was a deal, a transition period of two to four years would be needed to negotiate a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU….
Good luck with that.
Ireland says Britain could have to stay part of EU for 4 years after Brexit deal agreed (Telegraph)
Earlier: Good Friday?
Pic: AP
Free next Wednesday?
Dr Joe Byrne, of the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway, writes:
I’m co-organising an event on October 2 that might interest your Galwegian readers.
We’re celebrating 100 years since republican-revolutionary-turned-chemistry-professor Tom Dillon (top) joined the staff at NUI Galway (or UCG, as was) with an evening of science, history and dance…
He was a member of the Irish Volunteers and acted as Chemical Advisor in the 1916 Rising….
Professor Dillon, was appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1919. A century later, and the scientific topics he started exploring, such as the study of carbohydrates and sugars, as well as research into Ireland’s seaweeds, are still relevant…
Last night.
Zozimus, South Anne Street, Dublin 2.
This just gin.
Emily Cox writes:
The great and the good of the Irish Drinks world were out in force to celebrate the first-ever Best Gin ‘Oscar’ Win for an Irish Gin in Dublin last night.
Dublin’s renowned Zozimus bar & cocktail venue threw a gala party in honour of Leitrim brand, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, winning the Best Gin Award 2019 at the Flaviar Spirit Awards in New York.
The win has boosted the gin’s popularity across the world resulting in the brand landing in ten new countries in just 6 months, with Finland becoming the 50thinternational market to list the much-loved Irish Gin…
From top: group shot; Laura Pasquale and Kevin Flanagan; John and Agneta Crean; Alice Brophy and Marianne Healy; Clare Campbell and Keifa Murray; Pat Rigney and John Crean.
Hic.
Pics: Karen Morgan
This morning.
St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule, County Dublin.
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral in Dublin of an Irish man who died in England without any known family.
Joseph Tuohy, who was originally from Co Tipperary, died on 11 July aged 83 in London.
His friend of many years Brian Boylan, whom he met in the 1970s in London in a homeless hostel, and local parishioner Margaret Browne, founder of Friends of the Forgotten Irish, led the mourners.
A lone piper led people into St Joseph’s Church in Glasthule, Co Dublin.
Inside the church there was standing room only at the Requiem Mass.
Hundreds pay respect to Irish man who died in London (RTÉ)
Previously: For Joseph
Pic: Tim Ryan
Writer Michael Harding
On The Ray D’Arcy Show
Rayna Connery writes:
EastEnders icon Pasty Palmer joins Ray to chat about her recent return to Albert Square, far from her glamorous life in Malibu.
Kodaline frontman Steve Garrigan and author Diana Bunici join Ray in their first joint TV appearance to discuss their role as ambassadors for mental health initiative ‘Walk In My Shoes.’
Award winning author Michael Harding talks to Ray about his latest memoir ‘Chest Pain’ and how his heart attack last year gave him a new perspective on life.
Ray’s joined by two teenage climate ambassadors, Alicia O’Sullivan and Jack O’Neill, who represented Ireland at the UN Youth Climate Summit in New York this week.
Ray meets the Australian woman Michelle Bourke, who’s making international headlines by flatpacking a cutout of her late husband and bringing it on her travels around the world to fulfil his dying wish.
Former Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics legend Paul Carrack will perform a special arrangement of ‘The Living Years’, accompanied by Cór Linn.
*begins hunger strike*
The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ One at 9.50pm..
The Beetles
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1957.
College Green, Dublin 2.
Spaghetti Hoop writes:
Is that a Thomas Cook office in the centre?
Anyone?
Earlier: Something In The Way He Moves
Good Friday?
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
This morning.
The Court of Appeal in Belfast rejected an appeal by a Northern Irish rights campaigner against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy.
Lawyers for Raymond McCord had said that a no-deal Brexit on October 31 would breach the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of violence on the island of Ireland.
However, Declan Morgan, chief justice of Northern Ireland, dismissed the case today, saying “it is not appropriate for this court to examine the possible outcome of the [Brexit] negotiation on the basis of political rhetoric.”
Northern Ireland court dismisses no-deal Brexit challenge (Politco. eu)