BECAH – Forget
Breaking up is hard to do.
That’s the message of the new single by BECAH, a promising young singer/songwriter from Lurgan, County Armagh.
BECAH says:
“Forget’ tells the story of a messy break-up. It reflects on how one person in the relationship can be left still loving the other, whilst having to accept its bitter end and making that difficult return back to the strangers you once were.”
Nick says: A Northern star is born.
This day 35 years ago – 8 July 1985 – Ryanair began operations with an inaugural flight between Waterford and London Gatwick on a 15-seater turboprop plane.
Today, it is the largest airline in Europe, and the fifth largest globally, carrying 138.9 million passengers in 2018. pic.twitter.com/IyrmDc7aYu
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 8, 2020
More leg room then.
FIGHT!
Also: Name that aircraft, anyone?
‘Therapy’ by Joe Caslin
Montague Lane, Dublin 2
Stephen Moloney writes:
Speaking from experience, Joe Caslin is someone who inevitably has a profound effect on anyone lucky enough to enter his orbit or encounter his work.
He’s at it again with this newly installed piece, Therapy. Catch it on Montague Lane before this unruly weather claims it.
Previously: Joe Caslin on Broadsheet
The CIE Ticket office at Nelson Pillar on O’Connell Street early 1960s#LoveDublin #OldDublinTown@VisitDublin @irishrailways @EPICMuseumCHQ @irishradioca @IrishRail @dubcivictrust @DublinHTAI @dublinbusnews @Failte_Ireland @FMLocalHistory @donsdublin @quirkyirishicon pic.twitter.com/5BtgB7idJk
— Old DublinTown. com (@OldDublinTown) July 7, 2020
That’s the torture room.
Ticket office, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 in the early Sixties.
A literal vintage Dublin Bus porn hub.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly shows of the HSE/Department of Health Covid-19 tracing app on his phone yesterday
This morning?
The CovidTracker Ireland app, which has been in development since late March at a cost of €850,000, went live on Monday night.
However…
….it is the need for GPS location services to be enabled on phones using Google’s Android operating system in order for the app to work, a fact which only emerged after the application went live on Monday evening, that drew the most ire from privacy campaigners.
Android users currently represent roughly 39% of the Irish smartphone market, making it by some distance the dominant operating system here.
The HSE has stressed for two months that the app does not track location, with all elements of contact tracing operating under bluetooth ‘handshake’ functionality.
However, in order for the app’s exposure notification protocol to function on Android phones location services must be enabled so that a device’s bluetooth radio ‘beacons’ can be activated, with the app rendered useless without them.
Privacy concern over Covid tracing system (irish Examiner)
Meanwhile…
Anon writes:
The new app. has two Dublin locations: “North Country Dublin” and “South Country Dublin“. UK designers?
What a country.
Anyone?
Previously: Tracing App Report Card
Rotherham United winger Chiedozie Ogbene
This morning.
Via RTÉ Sport:
The FAI have begun the paperwork on the eligibility process for 23-year-old Ogbene who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, but moved to Cork aged seven with his family in 2005.
He played schoolboy football in Cork with College Corinthians, Kilreen Celtic, Tramore Athletic and Everton before he was signed by Cork City in 2015 and then moved to Limerick in January 2017.
After a move to England and Brentford in 2018, Ogbene spent a season on loan with Exeter City before a transfer to Rotherham in August 2019.
Frederic Douglass spent four months in Ireland at the end of 1845 that proved to be, in his own words, ‘transformative.
The monument to Douglass (above), one of several in Rochester, New York, was found ripped from its base and disposed in a gorge over the weekend. Countless statues have fallen in recent weeks, but unlike Douglass’s, they were all of men on the opposite side of history.
The Rochester police said they had not found anything to confirm or debunk a link to “anarchists,”
…The police also do not have enough evidence to affirm or negate an alternate theory proposed by some people, including Cornell William Brooks, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P.: that the vandalism had been carried out by white supremacists seeking vengeance for destructive acts against Confederate monuments.
Who Tore Down This Frederick Douglass Statue? (New York Times)
Frederick Douglass was quickly captivated by Daniel O’Connell in 1845 Ireland (Irish Central)
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The Rubber Bandits.
Immortalised in action figure form.
Contains plastic wrapping.
One of a kind custom set of rubber bandits figures (Etsy)
Thanks Alan Nolan
A new exploration of relative scale by Reigarw Comparisons – this time, numbers of things in video games -from the weapons count in Call of Duty to the vast quantity of blocks it would take to fill the Minecraft universe.
Previously: Superpowers: What Are The Chances?
