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John McKeon, from Swords, Dublin, writes:

This is the time-lapse of processed images leading to the impact on Jupiter March 17. The original purpose of the imaging session was to get this time-lapse, with a happy coincidence of the impact in the second last capture of the night.

Each of the images in the time lapse are clear because they have been processed from 55 seconds of video. the impact itself however only lasts less than two seconds, so I have shown this part without processing.

The time lapse was made using an 11″ SCT with an ASI120mm camera and Ir-pass 742nm filter.

Related: Jupiter Just Got Hit by a Comet or Asteroid … Again (Space.com)

Thanks Barry Higgins

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Further to last week’s documentary fronted by actor John Connors, I Am Traveller…

I Am Immigrant.

Tomorrow night, on RTÉ Two at 9.30pm.

Melanie O’Connor writes:

Following a number of Irish immigrants, I Am Immigrant documents the daily challenges, as they see them, through their eyes.

Ricardo, a member of the marginalised Roma community who is on a quest to become a member of an Garda Síochána; Elham, a young Muslim woman who was physically assaulted on public transport for wearing a hijab and Nigerian-born, Tallaght-raised Boni Odoemene who is running in the hope of becoming the first black Student Union President.

The documentary also follows Peter O’Loughlin, founder of Identity Ireland and Chaiman of Pegida, as he tells of his motivation for stricter border controls and captures the moment when he is assaulted on his way to launch the Irish branch of Pegida outside the GPO.

Previously: ‘I Prefer An Ireland Where The Overwhelming Population Is Of Ethnic Irish Origin’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuH3tJPiP-U

What you may need to know:

1. It’s the first season not based on George RR Martin’s books, so fans have no idea what will go down.

2. But Jon Snow (who knows nothing) is dead. Probably.

3. To be honest I could never get into Game of Thrones, so I have no idea what’s going on here.

4. I do know that it’s about Lannisters and Starks and dragons. And goblins, maybe?

5. And rape. Loads of rape. It’s not the sort of thing that the beardy pig-loving bloke off the Vodafone ad would stick on to woo his lady friend.

6. While I’m killing sacred cows… The Wire wasn’t all that either.

7. Broadsheet prognosis: Is it too late for a Leeroy Jenkins cameo?

Release Date: April 25 (Sky Atlantic).

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Tristan Cahalane

Ireland’s Colarado-bound diaspora.

Not all looking to get high.

Maureen Meehan, in High Times, writes:

Another Irish immigration to the US is taking place, but this time it is not because of the potato famine or the economic deprivation it caused in Ireland for decades.

This is the story of Irish people who regard themselves as the first “international medical cannabis refugees” seeking treatment in Colorado.

Yvonne Cahalane left her small community in Cork, southern Ireland, for Colorado with her 2-year-old son Tristan who suffers from Dravet syndrome and has up to 20 seizures every day.

Growing desperate, Yvonne launched a crowdfunding page and raised enough money for herself and Tristan to travel to Colorado last December. Tristan is being treated with CBD oil and THCA, and has regained the ability to speak and his seizures have subsided.

Since that time, another Cork mother, Vera Twomey, has thought of doing the same with her 6-year-old daughter who also has Dravet syndrome, a rare and catastrophic form of intractable epilepsy that begins during infancy.

With around five cases of Dravet syndrome in Ireland and 8,000 Multiple Sclerosis patients, it is becoming more and more common for families to be forced to decide between their home and their health.

Irish Are Emigrating in Search of Medical Marijuana (High Times)

Related: Cannabis drug would help my daughter (Joe Leogue, Irish Examiner, March 7, 2016)

Thanks The Hemp Company

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Inside The GPO.

Tonight on RTÉ One at 7pm.

Gareth Naughton writes:

Mick Keane, pictured above, has slept under the portico of the GPO every night for a year, since returning from the UK. He refuses to move, preferring to sleep close to the Proclamation and he believes that the signatories of that document would turn in their graves if they could see the Ireland of today.

 

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