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To commemorate the end of the First World War, a small oratory was built at St Mary’s Convent, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin. Dominican Sister Mary Concepta decorated the walls and Harry Clarke designed the stained-glass windows
Carlosfandango writes:
During the course of my work this morning I happened to be in this little gem (above). I recommend going to look at it if you get a chance. Who Knew? Not me.
Dominican Sisters Dun Laoghaire
Pic: Carlosfandango
Pinhole – Better Than One
How do you like your avant garde alt.pop?
Pinhole are one of those bands who defy easy categorisation. Strident and intense with a socially aware message, the band’s new single Better Than One concerns the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway.
Singer Ciara O’Flynn reflects:
“At the time, I was hit again and again by how our publicly elected representatives seemed to have no spines. In frustration, I was lamenting the lack of strong leaders guided by their own moral compasses.”
Pinhole’s debut album Come Curious is out on March 20.
Nick says: One love.
Behold: a wide field view of the busy celestial neighbourhood of Monocerous – the Unicorn Constellation – containing the Cone Nebula, the Christmas Tree Cluster, and more besides. To wit:
Pictured as a star forming region and cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. Where the otherwise obscuring dust clouds lie close to the hot, young stars they also reflect starlight, forming blue reflection nebulae. The featured wide-field image spans over three times the diameter of a full moon, covering over 100 light-years at the distance of NGC 2264. Its cast of cosmic characters includes the Fox Fur Nebula, whose convoluted pelt lies just to the lower right of the image center, bright variable star S Mon visible just above the Fox Fur, and the Cone Nebula just to the left. Given their distribution, the stars of NGC 2264 are also known as the Christmas Tree star cluster.
(Image: Greg Gurdak)
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar last night
Claire Byrne Live, RTE One, March 9
Brasserie 66, South Great George’s Street, March 8
Oh.
Pics: Leo Varadkar/Alan Hughes
The mighty William Shatner talking to Newstalk’s Tom Dunne (following a screening of ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan’ as part of his European tour) at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre Dublin last night.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
Was it for this?
Sam at Come Here To Me writes:
A History of Royal British Legion social clubs in Dublin & Wicklow is here. Structures in Killester, Inchicore & Enniskerry still stand….
…Has anyone more information about Legion Halls (long gone) in Balbriggan, Shankill, Harold’s Cross & possibly Swords and Donatabe?
Anyone?
Ministers for Finance and Business calling on employers to do their bit of the “national response” to #Covid19 – including their need to allow employees remain secure if they suspect they have symptoms. Measures being put in place to address employers’ financial issues pic.twitter.com/wVfEztE9HP
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) March 11, 2020
This morning.
Meanwhile…
Ireland’s central bank may face pressure to allow lenders release capital set aside to counter economic downturns, as the coronavirus crisis escalates https://t.co/5JS49MSgRY via @pfmflan pic.twitter.com/8yJ3MSUZbe
— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) March 11, 2020
Earlier: Reach Out And Touch
Irish Central Bank Faces Capital Buffer Dilemma as Virus Spreads (Bloomberg)
This morning.
Killiney, County Dublin.
Just after 9pm [last night], three men believed to be armed with a knife, entered the Centra shop on Barnhill Road in Dalkey.
They threatened staff and made off with the contents of the till.
While making their escape, they drove the car on to the footpath at the junction of Ballinclea and Avondale roads in Killiney, hitting the two women.
Both victims were taken to St Vincent’s University Hospital, where one of the women died early this morning. The other woman, 51, remains in hospital for treatment. Her injures are not believed to be life-threatening.
Gardaí are still searching for the three raiders.
Few can master the ‘Bobby Charlton’.
Free this afternoon?
Fred Murray (top and above left) is fashioning a classic 1970s comb over for cancer research.
The project will take two years with €2 raised for each lonely strand.
Fred writes:
All going well, I’ll be on the Ray Darcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 today at 4pm
Hopefully, I can convince Ray to join me on my Combover quest.
