The new Poolbeg Chimneys cycleway will link up with the proposed Sandymount cycleway through Irishtown Nature Reserve.#PoolbegChimneys #Sandymountcycleway #cycletrack #Dublin@deric_tv @LovinDublin @PhotosOfDublin pic.twitter.com/YNwV9Kbo5U
— David Costello Photography (@DavidCostelloDC) April 1, 2021
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Over our dead bod…
*checks calendar*
Phew.
Save Poolbeg.
The votes are in
Last week, with a Suez-choking €20 voucher redeemable at any Currys PC World store on offer, I asked you for your favourite song about ships or whose lyrics reference ships.
You answered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
The Ship Song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Capernosity & Function writes:
“No competition. This was the first dance at my wedding. I don’t normally go for ballads, but this was, and is, exceptional.”
Joint Third:
Widow’s Walk by The Stars Of Heaven
Otis Blue writes:
‘Watching the Mail Boat and the harbour Madonna glow, I thought of the times I was glad to go…’
“Bonus points for featuring on the Holyhead EP which also featured the instrumental song Before Holyhead….”
Runner-up:
The Lonesome Boatman by Finbar Furey
Papi writes:
“One of the most amazing, hauntingly beautiful songs ever. Hairs-on-your-neck time.”
Winner:
Into The Mystic by Van Morrison
Unreal writes:
‘And when that foghorn blows
You know I will be coming home.’“One of the greatest songs ever written.”
Nick says: Thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s PC Voucher
A judge has given the Belgian State 30 days to provide a sound legal basis for covid restrictions
This afternoon.
The Belgian State has been ordered to lift “all coronavirus measures” within 30 days, as the legal basis for them is insufficient, a Brussels court ruled.
Via The Brussels Times:
The League for Human Rights had filed the lawsuit several weeks ago and challenged Belgium’s system of implementing the measures using Ministerial Decrees, which means it is done without any input from parliament.
The judge gave the Belgian State 30 days to provide a sound legal basis, or face a penalty of €5,000 per day that this period is exceeded, with a maximum limit of €200,000, reports Le Soir.
The current coronavirus measures are based on the Civil Safety Act of 2007, which enable the State to react quickly in “exceptional circumstances,” but the judge has now ruled that these laws cannot serve as a basis for the Ministerial Decrees.
Belgium must lift ‘all Covid-19 measures’ within 30 days, Brussels court rules (The Brussels Times)
Meanwhile…
Yes, it looks like an Austrian judge has ruled that the PCR test cannot be used to determine infection. So after a similar ruling from Portugal, Austria now follows. If governments are simply corrupt they will ignore this. If we are living in a democracy they will adjust policy. https://t.co/uwUwjANfpj
— Howard Steen (@HowardSteen4) March 31, 2021
Gulp.
My Bloody Valentine have brought their full back catalog to streaming services worldwide. What’s more, Kevin Shields says two new albums are on the way: https://t.co/OEwiZ5BGMF pic.twitter.com/zS48ai3R3E
— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) March 31, 2021
This afternoon.
Finally.
*steps on guitar pedal*
My Bloody Valentine’s Full Catalog Finally Available on Streaming Services (COS)
John Sudworth (left) and Yvonne Murray
6/ A foreign journalist visa’s normal duration in China is 12 months. Sudworth’s wife, Yvonne Murray, the China correspondent of RTE, the Irish broadcaster, left with him.
— Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (@fccchina) March 31, 2021
This afternoon.
The BBC’s Beijing correspondent John Sudworth has left China and moved to Taiwan following pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities.
Via BBC:
He and his family were followed to the airport and into the check-in area by plainclothes police officers. His wife, Yvonne Murray, is the China correspondent for the Irish public broadcaster RTE.
Sudworth, who has won awards for his reporting on the treatment of the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region, left Beijing with his family.
The BBC says it is proud of his reporting and he remains its China correspondent.
Meanwhile, Ms Murray said:
“Two of our children were born in China, they all speak fluent Chinese, so for them it is home and it’s particularly distressing for them facing the reality that they might never be able to go back, as long as the Chinese state is so determined to target and punish journalists for simply doing their job.
“But we will try to hold on to the memories we’ve made. China is an extraordinarily colourful, culturally rich country. Friendships we forged with Chinese people over the years can’t be taken from us.
“The secret police who followed us as we left – while a sad departing memory – can’t erase all the other happy memories.”
BBC China correspondent John Sudworth moves to Taiwan after threats (BBC)
Irish reporter leaves China after rise in surveillance (RTÉ)
Pics: BBC/RTÉ
Grand day for it pic.twitter.com/rK1Dx7VKyt
— Photos of Dublin (@PhotosOfDublin) March 30, 2021
1995.
O’Connell; Street, Dublin 1.
Rare vintage mature/young bus porn.
Name the year, those buses and that jammer, anyone?
Daoiri Farrell – If Ever You Go To Dublin Town
Poetic champions compose.
Keeping the flame of traditional Irish music burning bright, Daoiri Farrell (top) and his trusty bouzouki serenade Patrick Kavanagh by Dublin’s Grand Canal.
The song is an old Kavanagh poem and evokes ye olde Baggotonia.
Nick says: Where old ghosts meet.
This afternoon.
Academy, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
Pic by Nick
New Pagans – Harbour
Daydream nation believer.
Belfast post-punk indie darlings New Pagans will have old Sonic Youth fans rejoicing with the latest single from their new album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All out now on the Big Scary Monsters label.
The artful video comes courtesy of the band’s Claire and Lyndsey.
Nick says: Finding my religion.
Then Minister for Health Micheál Martin (second left) in Maguires, Baggot Street, Dublin 2 on March 29, 2004
This day 17 years ago – 29 March 2004 – Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in all workplaces.
The ban was introduced by Minister for Health, Micheál Martin.
Prof Luke Clancy of anti-smoking body ASH called it “the health initiative of the century.” pic.twitter.com/QCiba5ACur
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 29, 2021
Where are your masks?
G’wan the nanny state.
*wheeze*
