This afternoon.
Portobello, Dublin 8.
Gardai and forensics responding to an incidentat Richmond Row by La Touche Bridge. No further details.
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Douglas, East Cork Ireland c 1910 pic.twitter.com/IS5A9SPwa4
— Historygirl (@janeyellene) March 3, 2022
c1910.
Hatted hoodlums on the tracks.
Nothing changes.
Fyodor Dostoevsky in happier times
This morning.
Milan, Italy.
The University of Milano-Bicocca has reversed a decision to postpone a course by writer Paolo Nori about the work of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky following a backlash.
Via Newsweek:
Last night, the university released a statement on its social media accounts confirming the course would go ahead.
“The University of Milano-Bicocca is a university open to dialogue and listening even in this very difficult period that sees us dismayed at the escalation of the conflict,” the statement said.
“The course of the writer Paolo Nori is part of the writing course aimed at students and citizens who aim to develop transversal skills through forms of writing. The university confirms that this course will take place in the established groups and will deal with the contents already agreed with the writer. In addition, the rector of the university will meet Paolo Nori next week for a moment of reflection,” it said.
College Backtracks on Banning Teaching Dostoevsky Because He’s Russian (Newsweek)
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This morning.
Cosplaying bees Cooper Jones (top) and Maisie McLeod launching the Save The Bees Campaign in partnership with the All-Ireland Pollinator plan and SuperValu TidyTowns.
All 3,241 primary schools in Ireland will be sent a SuperValu Save the Bees Pollinator Pack so they can create their own bee-friendly garden.
In our day we had to make our own bee pollinator packs.
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
This afternoon.
Government Buildings. Dublin 2.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin launching Census 2022 which will take place on Sunday evening, April 3, after it was postponed last year due to the rona.
There is a ‘legal requirement’ for everyone in the country on the night of April 3 to have their information recorded on a census form.
*theatrical wink*
Meanwhile…
When people are asked about their religious beliefs, ‘no religion‘ will be the first choice on the form followed by Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Islam, Orthodox Christian, Presbyterian and Other.
In 2016, no religion was last on that list.
On the question of people’s ethnic group or background, there is now a separate box for the Roma Community in Ireland to identify themselves.
For the first time, the form will include a “Time Capsule”, enabling members of the public to write a voluntary and confidential message of their choice which will be securely stored for 100 years.
I wonder what Joe O’Shea thinks of the calls for Ireland to take in 20,000 mostly unvaccinated Ukrainians… https://t.co/emmzkwwDXZ
— Dr Jane Holland 🌸 MD PhD (@drjaneholland) March 3, 2022
Gulp.
Only 34.4% of Ukrainians are fully vaccinated, 1.7% received a third dose and 1% have one dose, according to Our World in Data.
Now you don’t know what to do.
Previously: Insight To Hatred
Meanwhile..
“Every week, it gets harder for a general public that overwhelmingly understands the need for vaccination to stay patient with those who don’t or won’t. People are dying, not just from Covid, but because the unvaccinated are taking up scarce capacity in our already overstretched hospitals.
But rage, however justified, is self-defeating. It merely drives misguided people towards those who want to turn a biological pandemic into a political plague. It adds to the chances that those who won’t get a shot in the arm end up raising that arm in stiff salute.”
Fintan O’Toole, December, 2021
Awkward, in fairness.
Previously: We Don’t Know Ourselves
And please don’t ask what I’m “going to do with myself”. Why can’t I just be retired.
— Pat Mattimoe (@figures21) March 2, 2022
An Post Pat (retired).
42 years.
In fairness.
Mewling cat (out of picture).
This afternoon.
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Via Paddy Power:
The first 100 punters each day entering Paddy Power’s Cheltenham Fanzone a flagship fanzone in The Camden on Camden Street on March 17and 18 will receive a flexi ticket to the Punchestown Festival next month as well as…
….a pair of PP lucky pants (above), made (in)famous over the years by sports stars as diverse as Floyd Mayweather and Nicklas Bendtner, to give those punters in The Camden that extra, eh, rub of the green?
Splutter!
Paddy Power continues:
To help punters in Paddy Power’s Cheltenham Fanzone there will be a panel of racing expertson handincluding Paul Carberry who found himself 14 times in the winning enclosure. Tickets via Ticketmasterhere or Universe hereat a cost of €20per day
We have TWO (yes, two) Free tickets to give away! To enter, just tell us how many Irish-trained horses won at Cheltenham last year. First out of the hat wins.
Lines MUST close at 5.55pm.
Over-18s only.
Alan Kelly resigns as Labour Party leader last night
This morning.
Further to last night’s surprise resignation of Alan Kelly as leader of the Labour Party.
Via Irish Times:
Kelly’s two-year term as leader of the party was brought to an abrupt end on Tuesday, when a delegation of three members visited him to deliver a blunt message: your time is up.
The knife was ultimately twisted by three members of the parliamentary party seen as particularly close to him: Dublin Fingal TD Duncan Smith, who Kelly made director of elections for the successful Dublin Bay South byelection, and the party’s health spokesman; Cork East TD Seán Sherlock, who backed him for the leadership over Aodhán Ó Ríordáin in 2020; and Senator Mark Wall, a staunch backer of Kelly through and through.
but the immediate trigger, sources said, was unhappiness among members over the manner of an appointment made to a backroom position within the party.
Sources said the decision was made to approach Kelly on Monday, and deliver the verdict of his colleagues to him. However, it wasn’t until Tuesday that Smith, Wall and Sherlock went to him.
Hmm.
Anyone?
Meanwhile.
Above from left: Duncan Smith, Ivana Bacik, Ged Nash, Alan Kelly and Aodhan O Riordan in Buswells, Dublin, for the launch of Labour’s Alternative Budget in January
This afternoon.
Paddy Power odds on the next Labour leader:
Ivana Bacik. 1/10
Ged Nash 9/1
Duncan Smith 10/1
Sean Sherlock. 16/1
Aodhan O Riordain. 20/1
Brendan Howlin. 20/1
Kelly lost the support of party colleagues (Jack Horgan Jones, irish Times)
Last night: The Power Wears Off