Um.

Meanwhile…

Yesterday: I’m No Clown, I Won’t Back Down

Titiana McGrath?

Thom Southern – Shivers

Power pop, anyone?

Influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Beck, Belfast’s Thom Southern (top) recalls the heyday of 1990s indie rock with his debut single.

Thom says:

“Shivers is the concept of love feeling like a drug, a sensation of being outside one’s own body, floating and observing oneself from a different perspective. I wanted to embody this meaning within a dense sounding track, to mainly focus on one swollen guitar sound which never stops throughout and accompany that with repetitive beatnotic drums.”

Nick says: Southern comfort.

Thom Southern

This afternoon.

Activist Izzy Kamikaze says she will not speak to gardai investigating an incident on Saturday on the outskirts of a rally against covid restrictions outside Dail Eireann until she sees a garda ‘Investigation actually exist” or when an “arrest has been made”.

Saturday: We Will Not Be Muzzled

Update:

From left: Tánaiste Leo Varadkar; Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly and Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Dublin Castle this morning

This afternoon.

Responding to the Government’s ‘Plan for Covid Resilience and National Recovery’, Róisín Shortall, TD and co-leader for the Social Democrats, told the Dail:

“The Government’s message today was confused and it’s confusing for the public. The new plan was supposed to provide clarity about the five different levels of risk, yet on the first day of the announcement this was muddied by having Dublin at ‘level two and a bit.’

“For the Dublin area, where the rates of Covid19 are growing rapidly, there was little clarity provided by the Government in respect of additional restrictions necessary and people are largely left to scramble for basic information.

This is unforgiveable at a time when people are seriously worried and need strong political leadership in respect of the steps they should now take to reduce the risk in the Dublin area.

“There is some detail provided about restrictions at different risk levels, but this is all subject to change within those levels by NPHET.

“No criteria have been set down for categorising counties by risk level and for moving between risk levels. How can the public anticipate restrictions and modify their behaviour in the absence of any information?“

Earlier:  What’s Your Risk-Rate?

Rollingnews

A nostalgic short with the distinctly 1970s aesthetic from New York animation studio Dress Code in which legendary Arsenal goalie Bob Wilson reflects on his gruelling and often surreal experience as the “only individual in the team game”.

shortoftheweek

This afternoon.

Just ‘dropped’

The first trailer for Pixie, which sees Olivia Cook on the run in Ireland with Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack being chased by ‘deadly gangster priests’.

We’ve all been there, in fairness.

Uplifting cameo from Dylan Moran.

Name that jammer, anyone?

Thanks Jack Jones.

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