What’s your favourite holiday song?
This can be your favourite song about being on holidays or to play/sing along with while you’re on holiday. But do explain why.
Here’s mine.
The winner, chosen by me, gets a sun-kissed €25 Golden Discs voucher.
Please include video link if possible.
Lines MUST close at 10pm EXTENDED until 10am [Saturday].
Nick says: Good luck!
Last week’s booze-fueled winner here.
Finally
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THEY'RE BACK!
Leeds United will be playing Premier League football next season for the first time in 16 years 👏 pic.twitter.com/ptg6wpIARw
— ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) July 17, 2020
This evening.
Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!
Took your blummin’ time.
This afternoon.
Houseboats moored on The Grand Canal at Robertstown, County Kildare.
Meanwhile…
A petition to allow a number of people to live permanently on their houseboats along the Grand Canal in Dublin has amassed almost 6,000 signatures.
Waterways Ireland had asked the owners to move their boats, as they had overstayed their allocated time and were breaking the rules.
The owners were told that their boats would be lifted out of the water, stored and could be later sold at auction, if they did not comply.
A bill for the cost of lifting the boats would also be sent to the owners.
However, after a meeting with Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan last week, Waterways Ireland agreed not to remove any liveaboard boats, for now.
Houseboat owners in limbo over lack of full-time permits (RTÉ)
This afternoon
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney (above) has said the United States and probably the Britain will not be on a list of safe-travel countries due to be published Monday.
Via RTÉ
Mr Coveney said the list was not compiled based on politics, but on the “epidemiological data and numbers”.
He said countries that are included in the list “represent no higher risk than Ireland represents”.
“So in other words, travelling to one of these countries wouldn’t be any different than travelling to Kerry, Connemara or Donegal,” he said.
The minister said there is “no question” that the US will not be on the list, and added that it is “very unlikely” that Britain will make the cut either.
It’s “really unfortunate”, he said, because of the integration between Ireland’s economy and the US and UK.
….Mr Coveney added that they are looking at increasing safety measures in airports, including having testing available there.
US, Britain not expected to be on travel Green List (RTÉ)
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IMLÉ featuring Roisin Seoighe – Do Chuid Jeans
Fancy a cupla focal?
IMLÉ scriobh:
“During lockdown, IMLÉ shared their new song Do Chuid Jeans with friends, family and fans, asking them to film themselves reacting to it in whatever way they saw fit. Here is the finished result.
It features contributions from throughout Ireland and from the United States to Japan. “Do Chuid Jeans is the first single on the second album from IMLÉ. It features a guest performance from the incandescent Róisín Seoighe.
Do Chuid Jeans is a song about celebrating the small beautiful things, the everyday and a shared life. It seeks to capture a sense of deep gratitude and the significance of love in life.”
Stream it here.
The video is edited by Shane Callan.
Nick says: Jeans genie.
Solicitor Simon McGarr
This afternoon.
The European Court of Justice yesterday ruled that Privacy Shield, the EU-US data protection agreement, is invalid.
The case was referred by the Irish High Court after a 2015 complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner made by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems.
Solicitor Simon McGarr, who represented Digital Rights Ireland in the early parts of Schrems case, writes:
The case resulted in a decision on two different legal mechanisms for sending personal data from the EU to the US – the EU-US Privacy Shield and the general-usage Standard Contractual Clauses.
Privacy Shield was always basically farcical and it’s an embarrassment that it was allowed to linger as long as it did.
But the Standard Contractual Clauses element of the case is where the long-term consequences are going to come into play.
Basically, now you can’t just sign a contract and have both sides promise to be good. Now, you have to look at the legal systems the parties live under to see if that contract can really be held to.
This is particularly significant for transfers of personal data to the US, which hasn’t followed the EU and a good chunk of the world in accepting that data protection is a human right, and whose hunger for mass-surveillance data from its tech companies was revealed by the Snowden revelations.
As the Irish DPC said after the ruling, utilising much of the nation’s store of understatement as they spoke, “it is clear that, in practice, the application of the SCCs transfer mechanism to transfers of personal data to the United States is now questionable.”
All of the bromides and reassurance statements coming from the US and the EU Commission during the day was the sound of losers, who had lost, not wanting to admit just how bad their loss was. [more at link below]
What is this Schrems judgment about? (Simon McGarr)
Yesterday: ‘This Is A Total Blow To The Irish DPC And Facebook’
Gulp.
Yesterday.
Two machine pistols and a cache of ‘slugs’ seized by officers of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau during a search in a house in Dublin as part of investigations related to organised and serious crime.
Name those ‘pieces’, anyone?