Ouch.
This afternoon.
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Dublin 2.
Shane Ross – announcing a bailout of the FAI – ‘sports’ bandages on his left hand worn after he broke two fingers while knocking on doors ‘marshalling‘ a ‘running event’ at at the weekend.
Earlier: Some People Are On The Pitch
What is this? The Milky Way evaporating from the surface of a lake? No. What are you, insane? To wit:
The pool of vivid blue water, about 10 meters across, is known as Silex Spring and is located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Steam rises off the spring, heated by a magma chamber deep underneath known as the Yellowstone hotspot. The steam blurs the image of Jupiter, making it seem unusually large. Unrelated and far in the distance, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars. The featured picture is a 3-image panorama taken last August.
(Image: Lori Jacobs)
Excerpts from the Instagram account Royalty Now created by graphic designer Becca Saladi.
To wit: historical figures digitally reimagined as if they were modern folk.
From top: Alexander The Great, Nefertiti, Napoleon, Mary Queen Of Scots, Louis XV, Agrippa, Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Caligula and Anne Boleyn.
Previously: The Absolute Spit
This afternoon.
Channel 4 writez:
Ben Kavanagh, [from Kildare] the Irish teacher quarantined in Wuhan, gives an update on his evacuation plans, shows us around his flat – and enjoys a game of football over breakfast.
Meanwhile…
The Irish Sun reports:
“A Dublin hospital may have a case of the coronavirus, a doctor has told the High Court.
“High Court president Mr Justice Peter Kelly was told by a doctor during a hearing that he had just received a text to say that a Dublin hospital, arising from a patient having attended its accident and emergency department, “potentially” has a case of the virus.”
Earlier: Meanwhile In Wuhan
I was feeling good about myself till I realised this wasn’t in Millimetres..
Damn you France and the metric system! 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/6OiCSxwMJT— Jim Sheridan (@Jim_Sheridan) January 29, 2020
Oh.
Thanks Danny Dudek
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone
This afternoon.
Further to public outcry, Katherine Zappone has revised her decision to not pay childcare providers who close their service in order to attend a protest next Wednesday.
That initial decision, Ms Zappone said on Tuesday, was based on “legal advice”.
This afternoon, a press release from the Department for Children and Youth Affairs states:
Having considered the concerns and circumstances of the Childcare sector, Minister Zappone has instructed the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Pobal to authorise payments to childcare services who close during the day of protest on February 5th.
Payments will be made on condition that Childcare Providers find an alternative, suitable date for parents to avail of childcare services in lieu of the day that the Service is closed.
Earlier: And Your Little Dog Too
Ah hair.
This afternoon.
Groom barber, Lower Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Thanks Barry H
‘Bombs’ – a limited edition offset lithograph print by Ai Weiwei featuring ’50 conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction developed by a number of countries’.
Yours for about €680 (+P&P).
The votes are in.
Last week, with a ravishing €25 Golden Discs voucher on offer, I asked YOU to name your favourite B-side and why?
You answered in your tens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Dun Laoghaire by The Boomtown Rats
Ringsend Incinerator writes:
“There’s only one way out of Dun Laoghaire, you know what it is? Off the mail boat piery”
B-side to Like Clockwork. Love the Irish accents done by the band in this song (it’s only on the Irish pressing of the single).
Runner up:
Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers
F_lawless writes:
By the 1950s and 60s, the African-American musical styles of rhythm and blues and gospel had become absorbed into mainstream American culture – and there’s a case to be made that the white artists who adopted those expressive styles didn’t have quite the same authenticity as their counterparts.
However, I would say that’s definitely not the case with ‘Unchained Melody’ (the B-side to “Hung on You” by the Righteous Brothers) which is a soul classic up there with the best of them – in my opinion!
Winner:
Green Onions by Booker T & The MGs
Scottser writes:
Booker T & the MGs released Behave Yourself with Green Onions on the B side and six months later it became their defining hit. If you’re looking for B-sides that completely outclass their As, then this has to be it. As a pervy aside, this song more than any is responsible for my fascination with watching women’s bums while they dance.
Thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Voucher
