Hostels In Ireland tweetz:
This beautiful little guy was recently spotted near our @KillarneyIntHos
Name that owl.
inb4u with ‘Barney’.
MORE to follow
Stunning video shows explosions just minutes ago at Beirut port pic.twitter.com/ZjltF0VcTr
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) August 4, 2020
This afternoon.
Beirut, Lebanon.
‘Firecrackers’ are stored in the area where the blast occurred, local TV reported.
Not your Moore Street bangers.
Strongest signal yet that pubs won’t reopen. Tanaiste @LeoVaradkar says NPHET is advising Gov take a “cautious approach” Says: “I know what will come as a further blow to some of the sectors that can’t be reopened. But we just cant risk moving backward or risk schools reopening.” pic.twitter.com/5CFzyoWFNu
— Mary Regan (@MaryERegan) August 4, 2020
Looks like the former Taoiseach has scooped his successor to more or less confirm the pubs aren’t reopening next week https://t.co/OfJ82OFE1f
— Hugh O'Connell (@oconnellhugh) August 4, 2020
Oh.
This evening.
UPDATE:
BREAKING – Phase 4 Ireland: Pubs will not reopen next Monday
https://t.co/OF7ECOVDGN— Kevin Doyle (@KevDoyle_Indo) August 4, 2020
No scoops for you.
Excuse my laungage but as you can tell I’m fuming. This needs to stop. We need to do more. The government needs to wake up and wake up fast to what’s happening in this country or we are going to have an avalanche more down the tracks. #mentalhealth #notgoodenough pic.twitter.com/czi0FoPxW4
— Gary Dempsey (@Dempz8) August 4, 2020
This afternoon.
Former footballer Gary Dempsey makes a plea for improved mental health services and for people to reach out to those who they feel may be in trouble amid reports of depression and suicides during lockdown.
This afternoon.
Above Dublin city centre.
Cloudy writes:
Quite unusual, gauzy clouds overhead …Do any of your readers know what they are called and how they are caused?
Anyone?
Wicklow Street racing outside the International Bar – circa 1930.#PhotosOfDublin #WicklowSt pic.twitter.com/Rq9MuhUpOE
— Photos of Dublin (@PhotosOfDublin) August 4, 2020
Flat caps for helmets.
Good times.
Name that jammer, anyone?
Sunset: as seen from Earth and from Mars. To wit:
For comparison, two images of our common star were taken at sunset, one from Earth and one from Mars. These images were scaled to have same angular width and featured here side-by-side. A quick inspection will reveal that the Sun appears slightly smaller from Mars than from Earth. This makes sense since Mars is 50% further from the Sun than Earth. More striking, perhaps, is that the Martian sunset is noticeably bluer near the Sun than the typically orange colours near the setting Sun from Earth. The reason for the blue hues from Mars is not fully understood, but thought to be related to forward scattering properties of Martian dust. The terrestrial sunset was taken in 2012 March from Marseille, France, while the Martian sunset was captured in 2015 by NASA‘s robotic Curiosity rover from Gale crater on Mars. Last week a new rover and a helicopter — onboard Mars 2020 — launched for Mars.
(Top left Image: Damia Bouic; Top right Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS; Digital processing: Damia Bouic)
Ex-King Juan Carlos of Spain and his son, King Felipe VI
“Return the money and do prison time.”
Locals react to Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I announcing plans to leave the country amid allegations of wrongdoing.
More via @bloomberg: https://t.co/9ZBXor5oC9 pic.twitter.com/Cp6kPINxY8
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) August 4, 2020
El rey esta muerto….
#BREAKING Spanish president Pedro Sánchez gives his support to the monarchy, saying king Felipe VI has “distanced himself” from Juan Carlos I, and stresses that the courts are looking into “a person, not an institution”
Photo: EFE
Learn more at https://t.co/Wmntp8ICvC pic.twitter.com/mCUMZgC10I
— Catalan News (@catalannews) August 4, 2020
…larga vida al rey.
Lucha!!
Spain puzzles over ex-King Juan Carlos’s whereabouts (BBC)
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