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France’s top tennis player Gael Monfils (left) and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in 2020

This morning.

Writing on Twitter, Monfils said:

“Hello everyone, I wanted to give you some news following my recent withdrawals from tournaments. I suffered a small health glitch (probably following my third dose of vaccine).

“On the advice of my doctor, I decided to take some time to rest. So unfortunately I will not be able to play the Davis Cup next week. I hope to be able to return in the United States.”

Meanwhile…

He is the second French player to be forced off court after a suspected adverse reaction to a coronavirus vaccine. Jeremy Chardy, now ranked 138, has not played a match since the U.S. Open last summer.

Novak Djokovic, who is playing his first tournament of the season in Dubai this week, is the only unvaccinated player in the men’s top 100.

French No 1 Tennis Player Blames Covid Booster For Withdrawal From Davis Cup (Daily Sceptic)

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Last night

Zero Covid enthusiast Paul Murphy declares the pandemic is not over.

Meanwhile….

Ah here.

Meanwhile…

Fight!

1950s.

The Capital Girls.

Grandad’s ruin.

Last night.

Mark Lanegan, the singer for grunge pioneers Screaming Trees and frequent vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age, died yesterday Morning at his home in Killarney, county Kerry. He was 57. A cause of death was not disclosed.

This (above) was one of his last performances for Other Voices in Dingle, county Kerry.

Via Irish Times:

Shortly after the publication of his 2020 memoir Sing Backwards and Weep, a raw, harrowing saga of addiction, destitution and grief, Lanegan and his wife Shelley Brien moved from California to Killarney, a place they’d first visited when they appeared on Other Voices in 2004.

“A friend of mine had a house here. When I became reacquainted with the physical beauty of the place and made some really good friends right off the bat, the warmth of those people made it an easy place to stay. Sometimes I have trouble with the high voice accent, but I’m learning…”

Mark Lanegan, the self-destructive musical underdog who came ‘home’ to Killarney (Irish Times)

Pic via Other Voices

2018

Yesterday.

St Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8.

Liberties Dublin writes:

Delighted to get a bird’s eye view of the magnificent roof restoration [More than 14,000 roof slates hand cut individually from the same quarry in Wales as those used for the last major roofing project, undertaken under the stewardship of Sir Benjamin Guinness in the 1860s]…

Completion of Roof Restoration Works (St Patrick’s Cathedral, September 2021)

The Department of Health struggled to know how to spend €800m a week after Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly (above) secured its largest ever budget, a whistleblower has claimed

I’m sorry to say Ireland’s still
Not the best place to get ill
The Department of Health
Clearly doesn’t lack wealth
What’s absent, it seems, is the will

John Moynes

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