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Wishbone on Montague Street, Dublin 2

Anthony Flynn, of Inner City Helping Homeless, tweetz:

Big shout out to the guys Wishbone who have come onboard this year to donate a day’s takings to Inner City Helping Homeless in the run-up to Christmas. This is much appreciated guys, you are amazing!

Just like last year, too.

In fairness.

Wishbone

Previously: I Feel Like Virtuous Chicken Tonight

UPDATE:

Via Will St Leger

UPDATE:

Dublin Rental Watch tweetz:

‘You will share the studio (room, kitchen, EVERYTHING TOGETHER) with 2 Male’. It’s €370pm/€1,100pm for studio. Photos suggest opening the fridge/wardrobe is blocked by a bed. There are only hard chairs. The fire blanket looks inaccessible.

The ad is now no longer available on Daft.

This afternoon.

Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin 2

Fashion designer, Roland Mouret, and Irish-based visual Irish artist, Dragana Jurisic, at the launch of their immersive installation for the first annual RHA X  a “ground-breaking international art experience, which will evolve year on year.” at a an event benefiting the Royal Hibernian Academy, a registered charity for The Arts in Ireland.

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Free next Saturday, November 23?

The Square Tallaght will welcome Santa with a day of celebrations.

Lia Stokes writes:

There is a slew of entertainment lined up throughout the day at The Square, including a giant ferris wheel, carousel, DJ and face painting, before Santa touches down at 5pm, to officially switch on the Centre’s Christmas lights and launch a spectacular firework display that will light up the Dublin skyline.

This Christmas, The Square Tallaght is excited to launch a spectacular Frozen 2 themed mall in association with Disney.

Main attractions will include luminescent Frozen 2 projections on the Centre’s huge sails, and the much loved selfie screen featuring Frozen 2’s favourite characters. Disney’s Frozen 2 opens in Irish Cinemas on November 22….

The Square’s Santa Grotto officially open its doors on November 23 until December 24.

The Square Tallaght

This afternoon.

Police rush to Buckingham Palace ‘after a suspicious car was abandoned outside the gates’ (MailOnline)

Martin and Shirlie Kemp’s album ‘In The Swing of It’

On The Ray D’Arcy Show

Rayna Connery writes:

They’re indestructible and they’re pop gold! 80’s icons Martin Kemp from Spandau Ballet and his wife Shirlie from Pepsi and Shirlie and Wham! join Ray to look back on their pop lives and why, after 31 years of marriage, they’ve finally recorded an album together….

Fair City cast members Wes Doyle, George McMahon, Adam Traynor and Johnny Ward, as well as members of Baldoyle United Football Club, will chat to Ray about their upcoming charity football match.

NASA datanaut and Miss Universe Ireland Fionnghuala O’ Reilly joins Ray to talk about girls who code, and the upcoming Miss Universe competition in Atlanta.

13 year old Anna Kearney who’ll be representing Ireland in Junior Eurovision joins Ray for a special performance ahead of the competition in Gliwice, Poland next week.

GP and mental health expert Doctor Harry Barry talks to Ray about the negative effects of social media and what measures people can take to safeguard their mental health.

The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ One at 9.40pm.

This afternoon.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has insisted that Maria Bailey was removed from the Fine Gael election ticket in a ‘democratic manner’.

Councillor Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been added to the ticket in Dun Laoghaire after Fine Gael HQ accepted a local motion asking for changes.

Via The Irish Examiner:

Asked about any potential action Ms Bailey may now take to contest the decision, Mr Donohoe said: “It’s a very much a much a matter for Deputy Bailey regarding the response to what happened last night. Last night was a democratic decision that was made by the Executive Council.”

Speaking in Dublin’s north inner city, Mr Donohoe said the controversy had caused public debate but had also been very difficult for Ms Bailey herself.

Maria Bailey was removed from FG ticket in a ‘democratic’ process, Donohoe insists (irish Examiner)

Last night: Font Farewell

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Via Michael Clifford in The Irish Examiner:

Later that day, she had a missed call from an unknown phone number and when she rang it back, the judge identified himself by his first name and being “from the court”. She says that he told her “you looked very beautiful today”.

She claims that he texted her while she was on a sun holiday with her children and when she came back, she received a phonecall from the judge where he told her that “her skin must look nice now”.

She claims that the judge repeatedly expressed an interest in meeting her and they eventually met for a coffee. She appeared before him again in relation to her case at a hearing, where she became very emotional.

She said she was afraid to tell her solicitor and barrister about the contacts with the judge, as he had asked her not to. When she was granted a temporary barring order instead of a permanent order, she became very upset.

Garda Ombudsman to probe judge’s ‘texts to woman’ in family law case (Michael Clifford, Irish Examiner)

Pic via The Irish Examiner

Independent TD Noel Grealish (above) has been accused of “racism” for asking whether the Government is satisfied billions of euro being sent abroad from Ireland are not the proceeds of crime

Alternative Uses For Noel Grealish

(after György Petri)

Having spent most of this century saying so little
the Collected Speeches of Noel Grealish TD
could be transcribed on the back of a parking ticket
a friendly Sergeant expunged from the system,
you’ve now appointed yourself leader
of the Blame-The-Black-Guy-Party –
so when one of your constituents finds
wife (or husband) impaled on their
personal trainer or a crisp bag blows
into their garden from next door’s bin,
they’ll know whose fault it is,
even though it isn’t the black dude doing either
their bank account or spouse,
and it definitely wasn’t him who blew that Tayto bag
into number fifty seven’s azaleas.

In light of this, scientists suggest
you be pureed into a paste
which, with water added,
could be served in tiny droplets
as a protein drink to malnourished baby hedgehogs;
or that society employ
a butcher’s apprentice to detach
your suddenly wagging tongue and hand it over
to a witchdoctor flown in
from the Congo Republic
by the Department of Social Protection
to do with as he sees fit;
or that we have a visiting Polish granny
dice you into a traditional Cracow stew
wasting not so much as an eyelash
and feed you to the pike in the Corrib
to see if they can stomach you.

Kevin Higgins

Previously: “It’s Up To Him To Clarify His Intentions”

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