Category Archives: Misc

This afternoon.

Talksport.

KN writes:

You think they might mention vaccines as a possible cause of [Bareclona FC player] Sergio Aguuero’s current stay in hospital? You would be wrong.

Meanwhile.

The striker promoting the vaccine for 12-year-olds and older in September

This afternoon.

For the day that’s in it

Via historian Donal Fallon:

In Belvedere, Barry played rugby, the games of cricket and rugby being synonymous then with Dublin’s private schools, and the middle classes. It is an image of Barry in his striped Belvedere jersey which has become immortal. Barry is still commemorated in the school with an annual rugby match today.

While still a school student, Barry had joined the Republican movement – his sister later recounted that ‘I learned afterwards that, when he joined the Volunteers, everybody thought his Belvedere cap a great joke and they decided it was a flash in the pan and they would keep him until he got tired of it. When he proved regular and punctual in attendance, the officers began to think he might be serious and decided to try him out.’

Remembering Kevin Barry (Donal Fallon, Tribune)

Kevin Barry?

This morning.

Via CNN:

American Airlines has canceled another 250 flights on Monday, continuing a days-long chain reaction of cancellations that started last week.

American says it canceled 1,058 flights on Sunday, or roughly one in every five of its originally scheduled flights. That was on top of the 548 flights it canceled on Saturday and 343 flights on Friday. Overall about 10% of its mainline flights have been canceled over the four-day period. The canceled flights have stranded tens of thousands of passengers.

In a memo, American COO David Seymour said the airline is “proactively canceling” flights to provide “scheduling certainty for our crews” after high winds and bad weather hit major hubs including Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, leaving flight crews out of position.

Seems legit.

American Airlines cancels 250 more flights (CNN Business)

Previously: Southwest Airlines grounded all planes because of a glitch in weather data (Business Insider,June 15)

Pic: NPR

Telly’s Richard Madeley (left) and seagulls on a waste dump

Kevin, writes:

A short poem inspired/provoked by this story and this story…

When I Come To Power

Spiking women’s drinks
or bums with a syringe
will be an offence punishable
by having one’s body placed
in an industrial crusher
and turned into an easily
spreadable paste.

But it will be perfectly legal –
compulsory, even –
to, at least once in your life,
drug a daytime TV presenter of the male variety,
preferably Richard Madeley,
and deposit his twitching body
on the town rubbish dump
for the gulls to peck.

Kevin Higgins

This afternoon.

Further to the passing of former 2FM DJ Simon Young.

Andy Pipkin writes:

On the RTÉ News and Entertainment News page there’s no mention of the death of Simon Young?

Anyone?

Earlier: Forever Young

Update:

This afternoon.

Finally.

Tributes paid to presenter Simon Young (RTÉ)

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald at the party’s Ard Fheis in the Helix Theatre, Dublin on Saturday

This morning.

Via Irish Examiner:

As part of its projection as a responsible democratic movement with a legitimate claim to power it produced a stunning coup de theatre by committing to the option of non-jury courts in “exceptional” circumstances, a long-standing point of opposition among core republican supporters.

The change of policy coincides with polls which reveal Sinn Féin to be the most popular party among voters in the country. A sharp fall in support for Fine Gael has opened up a 10-point lead for Sinn Féin over its nearest rival. An Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll taken at the start of this month shows that Sinn Féin has the support of almost a third of voters at 32%, far ahead of Fine Gael (22%) and Fianna Fáil (20%).

In June, eight of the party’s TDs staged a walk-out of the Dáil before an annual vote on the retention of the court. In 2020, the party abstained, having always voted against the legislation previously.

That last time Sinn Féin made such an historic decision in defiance of traditional republican orthodoxy was at its 1986 Ard Fheis when it pledged that its elected representatives would take their seats in the Dáil. This decision ran counter to the history of the previous 65 years. It still refuses to take its seats in the House of Commons.

Irish Examiner View: Upbeat Sinn Féin breaks with the past (Irish Examiner)

Ah, Ned.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Thanks ESB

Anyone?

Friday: Hail Santa

Somefinn – Contact

Falling for a dancer.

Alt.rock hopefuls Somefinn team up with choreographer Arlene Caffrey for this panoramic video directed by Darren Finn to accompany their third single.

Singer Paul Finn (ex-The Flaws) says:

“Contact is about seeking connection with someone. With another person. It came from an old song idea, which has been through many iterations – the one thing that was consistent, no matter how many times the song was rewritten, was this cry: ‘CONTACT’. That was the thing, then, to build the song around.”

Nick says: Somefinn in the way she moves.

Somefinn