This afternoon.
La Palma, Canaries, Spain.
Via El Pais:
‘Locals evacuated from their homes following the eruption on the Canary Island do not know yet know whether the lava has destroyed their houses, nor when they will be able to return.’
Distress and uncertainty take hold in La Palma: ‘We’ve lost our whole life’ (El Pais in English)
Top pic: Samuel Sánchez
Via the Health Protection Surveillance Centre
This afternoon.
Latest figures on COVID-19 deaths reported in Ireland from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) show ‘underlying conditions’ (an existing chronic or long-term illness which weakens the immune system) reported in 86.85 per cent of fatalities.
Report here
Meanwhile…
More deaths per month in the previous three months this year than the same three months last year.
But yeah, the vaccine.
— Paulius (@Paulius152) September 23, 2021
The European Commission has announced plans to force electronics companies to adopt USB-C as a “universal charger” on all devices – meaning Apple would have to abandon its Lightning chargers. https://t.co/1CWzrtzR6I pic.twitter.com/4zAlaOsm6J
— IGN (@IGN) September 23, 2021
This afternoon.
Via IGN:
The directive would also force manufacturers to sell devices without bundled chargers, allowing consumers to keep using their existing USB-C cables. Fast charging would also become standard, meaning manufacturers couldn’t artifically limit the speed of USB-C charging, presumably in the hope of making proprietary chargers more attractive.
The EU Plans to Force Apple to Include USB-C Ports on Phones (IGN)
USI is NOW demonstrating outside the Dáil and we will sleep out overnight to DEMAND urgent action on the student crisis accommodation❗️❗️❗️
USI and SUs across Ireland are demanding 👇#NoKeysNoDegrees 🔑📜 #SéanadhTíSéanadhOideachais pic.twitter.com/g6nQzcfbyG
— Union of Students in Ireland (@TheUSI) September 23, 2021
This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Members of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) – protesting outside the dáil (Leinster House) over funding for purpose built student housing.
Speaking at the UN Security Council climate talks, Taoiseach Micheál Martin says “Climate Change is the defining challenge of our generation” and adds it is essential that we act now to prevent further warming | More: https://t.co/XWsQe2vdUi pic.twitter.com/XweENCyYVC
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 23, 2021
We must move past theoretical debates and respond to the reality that #climatechange is exacerbating conflict globally.
This Council can and must do more. It has the mandate and it has the tools.
A failure to use them is an abdication of our responsibility. #SecurityCouncil pic.twitter.com/lHVU53J746
— Micheál Martin (@MichealMartinTD) September 23, 2021
This afternoon.
United Nations, New York, New York, USA.
Top of the globalists, Ma.
LIVE: Taoiseach chairs UN Security Council climate talks (RTÉ)
Earlier: The Frog Chorus
This morning.
Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny pays tribute to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is stepping down as Chancellor of Germany, a role she has held since 2005.
German election 2021: Who’s who in the race to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor? (EuroNews)
Staff had to cope with leaks from the roof of ‘The Dead Zoo’ during the pandemic
After the flood.
National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Merrion Street, Dublin 2.
Paolo Viscardi, Curator of Zoology, writes:
At the Dead Zoo in Dublin the pandemic has thrown up different challenges. With a leaking roof threatening the national collections, a project to safeguard them by undertaking a roof refurbishment was considered a priority and categorised as essential work.
The first stage of this project was to remove two whales suspended from supports within the roofspace, which in turn required a substantial amount of preparation, given the crowded Victorian gallery space
In an ideal world we would have been able to empty the building of specimens and cases, but as we’re all well aware, the world is seldom ideal.
Instead, large taxidermy and skeletal mounts had to be shunted around to make way for access and scaffolding, while historic cases full of objects and the largest free-standing specimens had to be boxed in to protect against dust and falling debris from the work.
People from Maurice Ward Art Handling and William Tracey & Sons to assist with moving somewhere in the region of 20,000 objects and historic cases from the First Floor and Balcony spaces. All of this was to get the building ready for the first phase of roof work – the installation of a crash deck beneath the glass ceiling, which is due to begin in the next few weeks….[More at link below]
Persevering Through The Pandemic (The Natural Sciences Collections Association Blog)
Pics via Paolo Viscardi
#Oran is that friend who doesn’t get the hint that this is a #date 😉 #Eli & #Eli getting to dine at allée d’herbe (the grassy lane 😜) sounds better in French #whengrassrunsout pic.twitter.com/oYLNtLde4Y
— Hilltop Sanctuary, Ireland (@catlowry54) September 23, 2021
‘sup?
This morning.
Hilltop Sanctuary, county Clare.
Arf.
This morning.
Lower Grangegorman, Dublin 7
Murals blanket hoarding around the Grangegorman TU Campus under the tagline #RevealingGrangegorman. Some local residents have reportedly complained about the artwork.
Name those artists, anyone?
