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FIGHT!

Fantasy Rugby/irish Times

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For your consideration.

Seventeenth Century Irish/Hibernian map porn.

Via HeritageMaps:

Four maps depicting Ireland in very different shapes – all from the 1690s – by, from top:  Visscher, Nolin, Coronelli and Rossi and published in Amsterdam, Paris, Venetia and Roma.

The Nicolaes Visscher map’s short title is ‘Regnum Hiberniae’ and appears courtesy of [David] Rumsey Maps – hi-res available here.

The Vincenzo Coronelli map’s title is ‘Composite: Parte settentrionale dell’Irlanda. Parte settentrionale dell’Irlanda’. Via Rumsey. Full res here.

The 1690 Jean-Baptiste Nolin map is called ‘Le Royaume D’Irlande Divise en Provinces subivisees en Compte et en Baronies selon les Memoires du Sr. Petty . . . ‘ and appears courtesy of Raremaps. Full version here.

And 1699’s Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi map is called ‘L’Irlanda o vero Hibernia’ in short. Also via Rumsey. Hi-res version here.

HeritageMaps

This morning.

Malahide Castle. Malahide, County Dublin

Petrolheaded ‘revellers’, including ‘US President Donald Trump’, at the launch of Cannonball 2019, the largest organised road trip in Europe which has raised €1,016,000 for Irish charities.

Name those jammers, anyone?

Any excuse

Cannonball 2019

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

Sea Fishing Ireland writes:

That’s decades of fish life gone. This is disgusting. Good work IFI.

Note:The majority of bass anglers practice catch and release.

29 bass and angling rods seized by Inland Fisheries Ireland on the south east coast (Inland Fisheries ireland)

This afternoon.

Via RTE News:

The EU will take a gradual approach to the question of how Ireland will have to comply with checks and controls along the Irish border in the event of a no-deal Brexit, RTÉ News understands.

Sources have portrayed a scenario where on day one of a no-deal Brexit, it will be acknowledged that Ireland is not fully in compliance with the obligations that come when a member state shares a border with a third country.

It is understood that for a period afterwards, the EU will assume a “partnership” role, allowing the Irish Government to apply the rules of the single market and customs union as best it can, while providing advice and support, whether technical or financial, over time.

EU ‘gradual approach’ to border checks in no-deal Brexit – sources (Tony Connolly, RTÉ)

Rollingnews

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This morning/afternoon.

More as we get it.

Body found near train tracks in Drumcondra, Co Dublin (The Irish Mirror)

Pic via Hannah Murphy

Um.

Yesterday.

Unspecified forest, County Wicklow.

A comfy high chair shooting platform used to kill wild deer.

According to the Irish Times last year: ‘Wicklow accounts for over a third of all deer shot by licensed hunters in Ireland in the last hunting season, and a high concentration of deer in certain areas has been linked to outbreaks of TB.’

The deer hunting season began on September 1.

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

Previously: Deer culling programme in Wicklow to intensify

This morning.

The Boiler House, Ballymun Road., Ballymun, Dublin 9.

The Social Democrats’ pre-Dáil Think-In at the Rediscovery Centre with, above, from left Catherine Murphy‎ ‎TD‎, Cllr Nuala Killeen (Leixlip) and Róisín Shortall TD.

More as they think it.

Soc Dems: Gov needs to ensure ordinary people don’t pay price of Brexit (Irish Examiner)

RollingNews

Peter Reynolds and For Ava by Vera Twomey

‘An extraordinary book. Vera’s achievement as a novice author matches her achievement as a novice campaigner.

I’ve worked with people who use cannabis as medicine for 40 years and I thought I was pretty hardened to the tragic and distressing stories but the tears were running down my face as I read this.

I was concerned it might be a rather turgid list of events but far from it, it is a riveting read. It is almost like a thriller, beautifully structured, it grabs you and won’t let you put it down as you have to turn to the next page.

The central message is of the inhumanity of bureaucracy and self-serving politicians who are not interested in an issue unless it can bring them easy and positive media coverage.

They are impotent in the face of lobbying from vested interests such as the pharma industry and the medical establishment and prefer to do nothing rather than risk controversy, even while children suffer needlessly.

A magnificent achievement and SHAME on Simon Harris, Fine Gael and the Irish government.

They will face judgement at the highest level for their inaction, cowardice and feeble conduct.’

Peter Reynolds President of CLEAR (Cannabis Law Reform) on For Ava By Vera Twomey (Mercier Press).

Review. ‘For Ava’. For the Shame of Simon Harris, Fine Gael and the Irish Government (Peter Reynolds)

Previously: Vera Twomey on Broadsheet