Dublin Airport departures at Terminal 2 last month

This evening.

Anyone?

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Behold:  NGC 7027 – one of the smallest, brightest and unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. They say it looks a bit like a Jewel Bug.To wit:

Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of its history, the planetary nebula has been expelling shells, as seen in blue in the featured image. In modern times, though, for reasons unknown, it began ejecting gas and dust (seen in red) in specific directions that created a new pattern that seems to have four corners. These shells and patterns have been mapped in impressive detail by recent images from the Wide Field Camera 3 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. What lies at the nebula’s centre is unknown, with one hypothesis holding it to be a close binary star system where one star sheds gas onto an erratic disk orbiting the other star. NGC 7027, about 3,000 light years away, was first discovered in 1878 and can be seen with a standard backyard telescope toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus).

(Image: NASA, ESA, Joel Kastner (RIT) et al.; Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI))

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You mean like work cubicles with non-concealed hooch.

Hic.

This afternoon.

Fade Street, Dublin 2

The formerly open-plan Market Bar re-opens following a €60,000 boxed off partitioning job to help kill the buzz  flatten the curve.

The makeover has reduced the bar’s capacity from 800 to 350 and their accountant from fairly calm to a quivering mess.

Monday: The Snugs Don’t Work

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

Stop that!

Irish Women in Harmony – Dreams (Cranberries cover)

This afternoon.

Yay!

Update:

Ah now.

I look like me Da.

Update:

Phew.

G’wan the homegrown.

Artists comprise: Ailbhe Reddy, Aimée, Áine Cahill, Allie Sherlock, Caroline Corr, Elaine Mai, Emma Langford, Erica Cody, Eve Belle, Faye O’Rourke, Fia Moon, Imelda May, Laoise, Lilla Vargen, Lisa Hannigan, Loah, Lyra, Melina Malone, Moya Brennan, Niamh Farrell, Orla Gartland, Pillow Queens, Roe, Róisín O, RuthAnne, Saint Sister, Sibéal, Soulé, Stephanie Rainey, Tolü Makay, Una Healy, the trio that constitutes Wyvern Lingo, Aoife Dennedy, Louize Carroll, Lucia McPartlin, Maria O’Connor, Maria Ryan, Sarah Lynch and Theodora Byrne.

Irish Women In Harmony (Facebook)

Horn-based prank by rival ‘Pol Corr’?

Elaborate Sinn Féin trip switch device.

Wedgie guy?

Fake news klaxon?

We may never know.


This morning.

In a two-year-old tweet (above) being shared again online, newly-appointed Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration Roderic O’Gorman (above left), of the Green Party, poses with veteran British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell (in green shirt) at the 2018 Dublin pride.

In a letter to The Guardian in 1997 (above), Mr Tatchell stated that friends as young as nine had sexual experiences with adults which gave them “great joy”.

Mr Tatchell, who has called for the age of consent to be 14 in the UK, claimed that not all sex involving children was “unwanted, abusive or harmful”.

He later said the letter had been edited and issued a ‘Statement Of Clarification’.

Mr Tatchell said:

“The printed version [of the letter]  did not include my point that I oppose adults having sex with children. I empathise with victims of child sex abuse and agree for the vast majority of children, sex with adults is neither wanted nor joyful.”

Peter Tatchell: Statement Of Clarification

Roderic O’Gorman (Gov.ie)

Update:

Tonight.

This afternoon.

Eddie Rocket’s, Stillorgan,

Eddie Rockets staff David Fortune and Aoife Fox, celebrate the return of over 500 staff to work as Eddie Rocket’s re-opens 30 restaurants.

PLUS the launch of world famous New York hot dog (above) in time for this Saturday’s 4th July at ‘1916 prices’.

Eddie Rocket’s

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland.

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