MORE to follow.
State Lights – Let You Go
Size matters.
That’s why this big emotional synth-rock anthem works so well. It reaches for the sky.
Singer Shobsy (second left) gives it socks and is ably assisted by, from left: Joe Regan (guitar), Paul Ridgeway (drums) and Noel Perry (bass).
The song is released as a double ‘A’-side alongside their cover of The Blue Nile’s Tinseltown In The Rain (great choice, lads).
The video by Paul Barnes was shot partly on Sandymount Strand, Dublin 4.
The band, who met at the BIMM music college, play the Button Factory, Dublin, on April 25.
Nick says: State of the art.
Taking Shape
at
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Scenes from today’s talks on the formation of a new coalition.
TD Paul Murphy said the two sides discussed how to form a left-leaning government. Solidarity-PBP want Sinn Féin to lead one-but without Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael.
They want the two big parties to abstain for a Dáil vote on Taoiseach and “get out of the way”.
TD Richard Boyd Barrett said the minority left wing government, involving them, would then implement change, including reversing the pension age to 65 and freezing rents and increasing the minimum wage.
The TDs said they and the left-wing administration involving Sinn Féin would then “defy” either of the two big parties to bring that coalition down and trigger a fresh general election.
From top: Social Democrats co-leaders Roisin Shortall and Catherine Murphy; Solidarity/People Before Profit/Rise’s Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd Barrett and Mick Barry; Sinn Féin’s Eoin O Broin, Pearse Doherty and Louise O’Reilly.
Healy-Raes Ask How Sinn Fein’s Promises Will Be Funded (irish Examiner)
Earlier: Room For Small Ones
Oh.
O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
Michael Smith writes:
Clery’s, a robust nineteenth-century building, is being demolished behind facade, as is revealed by daylight coming through the front. All that embodied energy junked. Why?
Previously: Behind The Clock
A Royal College Of Art, London graduation short by Natasza Cetner inspired by the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who fell hopelessly in love with a concrete statue.
His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love.
Mmf.
Dublin’s Q102 writez:
Tayto Beef Stew vs Tayto Bacon & Cabbage: Which would you choose?
Ehm.
What the actual fNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
Sud’s Law
at
Architect Dermot Bannon and gardener Diarmuid Gavin On RTÉ’s Room To Improve last month
This afternoon.
Madeleine Lyons, in The Irish Times, reports:
Celebrity architect Dermot Bannon has come a cropper with Dublin City Council over his own high-profile extension, which was the subject of a recent RTÉ series.
The target of the council’s ire is the rear garden structure under which Bannon famously shared an outdoor bath with celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin.
While a bumper Sunday night viewing audience watched the two chat in the (unfilled) bath under a moonlit sky, eagle-eyed council staff were drawn instead to the structure that Bannon fashioned at the end of his Drumcondra garden…
Planners probe Dermot Bannon’s garden bath den (Madeleine Lyons, The Irish Times)
Previously: Stop That
Crown Jewels
at
Earlier…
Irish Rugby coach Andy Farrell announced the Irish squad (top pic) when Ireland faces England this Sunday in Twickenham for the Six Nations.
Ireland name unchanged side as Caelan Doris starts from the bench (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
At your service, Sir… and always at the service of a truly great Irish team…! Bono @JohnnySexton @IrishRugby pic.twitter.com/lhv2T4oKQg
— U2 (@U2) February 19, 2020
Anyone?
RUCK!