Category Archives: Misc

EMMO – Still

Enduring love.

Cork newcomer EMMO (top) turns heads with a rousing anthem celebrating a certain four-letter word.

EMMO writes:

“The same exhausted tropes are always in love songs – be it new, lost, unrequited love etc. But what about Love that is resolute? My aim was to credit the actuality of persistent and unfaltering love between couples who have been together for a long time despite the odds. Funnily enough, the song started as a slow moving piece but became this anthem like ballad after my guitar was knocked into a strange tuning from being loose in the back of my car. After some experimenting, the lyrics sprang to life with the new energetic sound from the accidental tuning.”

Recorded in Camden Studios, Dublin, produced by Cian Boylan & mixed by Conor Brady with Darren Beckett (from the Killers) on drums, Dave Redmond on double bass and Kealan Kenny on lap steel guitar.

Nick says: A Corker.

EMMO

This afternoon.

Stormont, Northern Ireland.

“Today we, as representatives of the state, say that we are sorry We are sorry that the state’s systems failed to protect you from abuse.”

Michelle McIlveen (top), Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) education minister

Northern Ireland: Victims of historical abuse to receive long-awaited public apology (Sky News)

Russian President Vladimir Putin and billionaire, businessman Oleg Deripaska, owner of the Aughinish Alumina refinery in Limerick

This morning.

Translation:

‘I have just been informed informally that the Russian oligarch, Wolf partner and Strabag major shareholder Oleg Deripaska has been REMOVED FROM THE EU sanctions list at the request of Austrian Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, among others.’

Anyone?

Yesterday: Billionaire Oleg Deripaska, owner of Aughinish Alumina in Limerick, hit with sanctions (Irish Examiner)

Oleg Deripaska: Putin ‘favourite’ with strong ties to UK politics (The Guardian)

Careful.

You’ll lose a finger.

Dave Allen?

Dave Allen and The Beatles (Beatle Bible)

This morning.

Capel Street, Dublin 1.

Traffic free by May?

Only YOU can decide.

Capel Street Traffic Proposal Consulation (DCC)

Last night.

Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Via NPR

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail after he was convicted in 2021 on five felony counts of lying to the police.

In January 2019, Smollett, who is Black and gay, said he had been a victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago, though evidence presented in court revealed he staged the attack and then told a false story to law enforcement.

Smollett is sentenced to a total of 30 months of felony probation, in which he will be allowed to travel. He also must pay a fine of $25,000 and more than $120,000 in retribution to the city of Chicago.

“I’m not suicidal, I am innocent. I did not do it, your honor,” Smollett said after the sentence was handed down by Judge James Linn.

Jussie Smollett will serve 150 days in jail for lying about an attack on him (NPR)

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