Dublin (top) and Castlewellan, Co. Down yesterday afternoon)
(Thanks Snowbie and Colette Kelleher)
MORE to follow.
Luke Bloom
His name is Luka.
Guess you’ve never streamed him before?
Via Hot Press:
‘The presentation of my appeal as some sort of political statement against streaming is nonsense.
I had no desire to make a stand against anyone.
My appeal was clear. If people wish to experience my record, all I ask is that they actually buy it from actually me; because I actually generated the songs and the momentum, and paid all the people who helped get the record done, over a period of 2 years.
My only motivation in this appeal was clear and simple. I need the money.
And my experience of streaming of music through my working life is that it contributes literally nothing to my work. And then takes the streamed income and pockets it. I have no problem with that at all. it’s just that I have no desire to avail of this ‘service’.
But respect those who do.’
FIGHT!
A few witch trial facts: 20 people were executed in Salem. An estimate of 200,000 were tortured, burnt, or hanged in Western Europe. The last witch trial in Ireland took place in Islandmagee in 1710-11. pic.twitter.com/NSQAF2lJ8r
— Ash Clarke (@AislinnClarke) July 27, 2020
Um.
Meanwhile…
Mathew Hopkins was 22 ish when he set himself up as Witchfinder General. To find ‘Devil’s marks’ – a painless mark left on a witch by the devil, he poked women with a spike. They would feel no pain because his blade would retract into a spring-loaded handle ‘proving’ their guilt. pic.twitter.com/qQD1MNevGU
— Ash Clarke (@AislinnClarke) July 27, 2020
He had a point.
Pause.
I’ll get my cape.
This afternoon.
Dublin Airport.
Swarm of sun-seeking, beer-swilling pandemic payment dolehead ingrates (out of picture).
Meanwhile…
The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection has said people who are in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment should be actively seeking work if their job has been lost permanently.
Heather Humphreys told RTÉ’s News at One in the case of some sectors, like in hospitality, where a person’s job is temporarily paused due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Government is not expecting such people to be looking for another job.
She was speaking after the Department of Social Protection confirmed that 104 people have had their Pandemic Unemployment Payment stopped as a result of checks carried out at airports.
Earlier: Selling A PUP
Tricky
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Leo Varadkar’s spin-masters getting to work on the Covid guidelines website pic.twitter.com/FvcjC3feYK
— Aidan Fitzmaurice (@FancyVegasPro) July 27, 2020
When truth requires a mask.
Call Hugh.
Music: High Voltage by Frank Popp from Swordfish (2001)
Earlier: Deny The Passenger
Contrailer
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Builder Steve Jones (you may have seen him on Channel 4’s ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’) and the caravan ‘pod’ he created from the jet nacelle of a Royal Air Force Vickers VC10.
He details the full project here.
New Normal
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A young women has been found dead in Dublin Homeless services accommodation it has been confirmed this evening.
This brings the number of confirmed deaths within homeless services to FIVE this week.
We need the @LordMayorDublin Homeless Forum re enacted as matter of urgency! pic.twitter.com/rVoHiSmIkq
— Cllr. Anthony Flynn (@AnthonyICHH) July 26, 2020
Last night.
‘Black cloud over homeless services’ in Dublin as five people die in a week (Irish Examiner)