who did this? 😂 pic.twitter.com/TzJZdbq0Xc
— Al Green (@algreen) September 2, 2020
Ah here.
This Summer.
At the watersports and activity centre Oysterhaven in Kinsale, Co Cork.
Safe Haven Ireland and Welcome Wave launched the first year of their five-year instructor incubator project for children living in direct provision.
Today, Safe Haven Ireland writez:
“A few snaps of our trainees (taken and shared with permission) in full swing in their sailing courses.”
The aim is that some of the initial group of young sailors will progress to instructor level.
In fairness.
Children leave direct provision behind to make waves sailing (Liz Dunphy, Irish Examiner)
Previously: All Aboard
Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue (top right) with Micheal Martin and former Minister for Agriculture Barry Cowen in 2016; McConalogue is the third person to take on the role of Minister for Agriculture since the Government came to power in June.
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ News:
Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue has been nominated as the new Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the Dáil this afternoon. James Browne will succeed Mr McConalogue as Minister of State at the Department of Justice….
Charlie McConawhonow?
McConalogue was born in October 1977 and is from Gleneely in Co Donegal.
From a farming background, he was educated at Carndonagh Community School before going on to study at UCD where he studied Economics, Politics and History.
Mr McConalogue became involved in politics in UCD.
After working in Fianna Fáil’s headquarters for a number of years, as well as working abroad in Australia, he returned home to work on the family farm in Donegal.
In 2009, he ran for political office when he was elected to Donegal County Council. He was elected a TD for Donegal North East in 2011.
McConalogue to succeed Calleary in agriculture post (RTÉ)
Meanwhile….
This afternoon.
The Dáil at the Convention Centre, Dublin returns.
From top: Taoiseach Michael Martin; Green Party ministers Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin; Fianna Fáil TD Damine English; RISE TD Paul Murphy and Sinn Fein’s Louise O Reilly TD.
Meanwhile…
Don’t mind us.
Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins
Flip flopper.
Behold: Messier 42, the Orion Nebula, or rather a visualisation of it based on astronomical data and movie rendering techniques. To wit:
Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled frame transitions from a visible light representation based on Hubble data on the left to infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope on the right. The perspective at the center looks along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region’s giant molecular cloud. Orion’s valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster. The single frame (top) is part of a multiwavelength, three-dimensional video that lets the viewer experience an immersive, three minute flight through the Great Nebula of Orion.
(Visualization: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Frattare, M. Robberto, M. Gennaro (STScI) and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)
Lucky Day
at
Protobaby – Twisted Words
Up, up and away.
Limerick hopefuls Protobaby (top) reach the heights with the title track from their new album thanks to Colm McGuinness’s stately baritone and Tony Monahan’s sterling guitar wizardry.
Dominic Kosicki‘s video was shot in Limerick Dock.
The album is out on vinyl and at bandcamp.
Nick says: Baby love.
Update:
Hey folks, Thanks for the share, but just one thing. The prison moves north of the river to around St Michan’s Park Smithfield in the later 18th Century, so the main pic in your story is not the medieval building.
This is the only image of know of for the medieval building: pic.twitter.com/htn2gV1e1i— Dr Coleman A Dennehy (@ColemanDennehy) September 3, 2020
Newgate Gaol, near Christchurch, Dublin 8 operated as a detention centre from the Middle Ages until its closure in 1863
Gulp.
And you thought masks were restrictive…….
…UCD’s Dr Coleman Dennehy writes:
Inventory for chains, manacles, locks, etc for the relatively small Newgate Gaol, Dublin – approximaely around where High Street hits Cornmarket and Lambe Alley. 1525… Including a bolt and two shackles for ‘chylder’….
Firm but fair?
Or barbaric?
Impossible to tell without knowing the chylder’s offence, but feel free to comment below.
Meanwhile…
Newgate Prison memorial.
St Mitcham’s Park, Little Britain Street. Dublin 8.
Thanks Stephen Stewart
Supreme Court Justice Séamus Woulfe, who as Attorney General, signed off on regulations that prohibited gatherings like the golf outing he would attend a few weeks later
Susan Denham is said to be wedded to the Bangalore (UN) principles on judicial conduct. We will be hearing more of these. They provide the following. And they are not good for Seamus Woulfe. pic.twitter.com/arWNwVSQda
— Village Magazine (@VillageMagIRE) September 2, 2020
Oh dear.
Any excuse.
Previously: Meet Me In Chambers
Golf dinner: Woulfe review to be shaped by international guidelines (Irish Times)
The impact of the rona on the third level sector. Across both years, of the total income loss of €348 million, 46% (or €160 million) is due to a loss in fee income from international students.
Income of Irish universities may fall by around €250 million in 2020/21, according to the PBO. Fewer international students the main reason. https://t.co/9PG5E65aGi pic.twitter.com/EwI0MIg9Cl
— John O’Brien (@jlpobrien) September 2, 2020
FIGHT!
Financial implications of COVID-19 for Ireland’s university sector (Oireachtas.ie)
Meanwhile…
“So I can tell you that university heads are as challenged about paying their bills today arising from cutbacks as anybody else” https://t.co/zbvZZjzUNn
— Joe Haslam ☘ (@joehas) September 2, 2020
Ah here.