Only you can decide.
Last night.
Turin, Italy.
BBC
Meanwhile….
Beyond proud of this experience, thank you to my wonderful team. I will never forget @eurovision.
Onto the next 👉🏼 pic.twitter.com/RRahlp6OGK
— Brooke (@Brooke_Scullion) May 12, 2022
Yesterday: Derry Girl
SJ Talbot – Millisecond
Pop in the name of love.
A graduate of the BIMM Dublin music college, Clontarf’s SJ Talbot (top) has worked as a session singer and keyboardist for various acts over the last four years. In 2017, she began producing her own music, and developing her individual sound.
Her latest single is a heart-tugging break-up song with pristine pop production values.
The lyric video is by MotionGraphic.
Nick says: Talbot street chronicles.
Handmaid’s Tale is at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home. pic.twitter.com/EoUPopAtDz
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) May 12, 2022
Yesterday.
Falls Church, Virginia, Washington DC, USA
Pro-choice protesters dressed as characters from telly’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” marched outside Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s surburban home in response to a leaked draft opinion which indicates that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Fight!
Bono, you’re just as amazing a philanthropist as you are a friend. Working and learning together has been one of my greatest joys. pic.twitter.com/5qQJVcIkV4
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) May 11, 2022
Yesterday.
Get a room.
Previously: Needless To Say, I had The Last Laugh
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1967.
Ely Place, Dublin 2.
A rare visit to the home of the Knights of Columbanus.
A normally secretive fraternal order of prosperous, conservative Catholic laymen just doing God’s work, with smiley skull patches sewn onto their cloaks.
Gulp.
The 39th Amendment to the Constitution.
Proposed by People Before Profit TDs Richard Boyd Barrett; Paul Murphy; Mick Barry; Bríd Smith, and Gino Kenny.
KN writes:
Who’s for full blown communism? Anyone?
Fight!
Good Morning America.
ABC News’ Dr. Jen Ashton on why antibodies ‘surge’ after taking the fourth covid jab.
Meanwhile…
— TheQuestioningMind (@TQuestMind) May 11, 2022
Oh.
Meanwhile…
Thanks @mtapscott for leading the way on coverage of NIH’s secret royalties.
Dr. #Fauci, Frances Collins and 1700 scientists collected $134M in just 5 years, but gov’t still trying to hide the details – read below… ⬇️ https://t.co/rteUPFkPnO
— OpenTheBooks (@open_the_books) May 11, 2022
Gulp.
Model Ruta with a disco ball significantly smaller than the one currently being built for The Biggest 90’s-00’s Disco Festival in Punchestown this Summer
This afternoon.
Lora Doyle writes:
The Biggest 90’s-00’s Disco Festival which takes place on June 25th 2022 at Punchestown will attempt to break a world record by building the biggest disco ball in the world. I
Irish company Spectrum Productions has been tasked by the event organisers to build the disco ball that will measure greater than 10.33 metres which is the current world record size that was lifted into the air and rotated at the Bestival Festival in 2014.
So – how big is this disco ball going to be? Think the height of a telephone pole or putting one giraffe on top of another and you are close! Yep, it’s going to be that big and it is currently being built in a warehouse in Dublin.
The festival is back and bigger than ever before, with 15,000 disco fans set to dance across three stages in Kildare this summer.
Pic: Dave Cullen
Meanwhile…
The results are in.
Last week, with two free tickets to the Biggest 90’s-00’s Disco Festival on offer, we asked you to name your favourite DJ from that era.
Yoke-loving reader Micko wins the tickets with this choice:
‘Has to be the late Robert Miles. His track ‘Children’ pretty much shaped my first year in college in ’95. Was everywhere at the time, couldn’t help be hooked by it.’
Well done, Micko and thanks all.
The Whileaways – Toss The Bobbin
This women’s work.
Galway neo-folk trio The Whileaways (Noelie McDonnell, Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce) enchant with the new single from their forthcoming album, due next month.
To quote the press blurb:
“This evocative song tells the story of the 18th Century lacemaking women of Headford in County Galway, where The Whileaways are based and where Nicola grew up.
“Toss the Bobbin imagines the story of four of these women, who survived poverty and famine through bobbin lacemaking, and pieces together the little detail that exists of their lives. It tells of their resilience and the sisterhood that existed between them in the toughest of times as they turned their hands to this intricate work: lace made by the poor and worn only by the rich.”
Their nationwide tour begins in Tuam, County Galway, on June 4.
Nick says: Where angels fear to thread.
This afternoon.
Bono’s 40-chapter (!) memoir called Surrenderis due out on November 1.
Bono sez:
“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me.
“Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress. . . With a fair amount of fun along the way.”
