“I WILL NOT WITHDRAW IT!!!” Danny Healy-Rae and @BGriffinTD clash on @kerrytodayrk over claim that Griffin sought to prevent @michaelhealy getting a Cabinet position in 2016 https://t.co/nkoZsxXvnN
— Jerry O’Sullivan (@jerosullivanRK) January 24, 2020
Oh.
A cabinet seat for Michael?
Anyone?
Thanks Jerry
This morning/afternoon.
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
Fianna Fáil Party Leader Micheál Martin launching the Fianna Fáil General Election 2020 manifesto
Among the pledges:
FF would lengthen maternity benefit to 30 weeks and bring in new childcare tax credits.
It would also double child benefit payments for the first month after the birth of a child.
Fianna Fáil also promises to reduce classroom sizes to a class size of 20 to 1 if in the next government.
The party will also reduce income taxes and cut capital gains tax to 25%.
On housing, the party will introduce a first-time buyers top SSIA-type scheme, capped at €10,000, and expand the current help to buy grant measures.
It also promises to build 50,000 affordable homes for prices below €250,000.
This afternoon.
You may recall Matt Fitzpatrick’s stolen orange Cotic Soul frameset with X Fusion sweep forks, Shimano SLX groupset and Fulcrum Red Power wheels which he had put together himself.
Well.
Matt writes:
I’m delighted to say the Gardaí have found her safe and well! Thanks for your help and thanks to all who got the word out.
YAY!
Previously: ‘I Put Her Together Myself’
This afternoon.
Richard Chambers, of Virgin Media One, tweetz:
Taoiseach arrives on Stephen’s Green.
A homeless man looks away.
Familiar sight.
Update…
Um.
Mr Varadkar on Grafton Street.
Previously: Picture Desk! I Need The IMF Guy In Dublin Walking PAST An Old Irish Homeless Man
UPDATE:
💬“I don’t see any politicians reaching out to homeless people. Do you care about their vote?”#WATCH – Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tackled over homelessness while on the #GE2020 trail in #Dublin city centre@NewsChambers will have more on #VMNews at 5:30 & 8⤵️ pic.twitter.com/vVmh7EeRo9
— Virgin Media News (@VirginMediaNews) January 24, 2020
Just over a year ago, on January 21, 2019, there was a total lunar eclipse. This horizontal composite tracks the Moon as it crossed into Earth’s dark umbral shadow in 35 consecutive frames. To wit:
Taken 3 minutes apart, they almost melt together in a continuous screen that captures the dark colours within the shadow itself and the northern curve of the shadow’s edge. Sunlight scattered by the atmosphere into the shadow causes the lunar surface to appear reddened during totality (left), but close to the umbra’s edge, the limb of the eclipsed Moon shows a remarkable blue hue. The blue eclipsed moonlight originates as rays of sunlight pass through layers high in Earth’s upper stratosphere, colored by ozone that scatters red light and transmits blue. The Moon’s next crossing into Earth’s umbral shadow, will be on May 26, 2021.
(Image: Laszlo Francsics)
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during their one-to-one General Election 2020 debate hosted by Pat Kenny on Virgin One Media on Tuesday
Watching the “big” debate on Wednesday between Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin, it’s still very obvious there is no great difference between them.
They have always been “two halves” of a great party.
Let’s not waste time. We are very tired of all this point-scoring, this posturing, and this making of promises that cannot be kept.
This is a time of national crisis.
The best way to “commemorate” the Civil War (whose wounds still fester) is for the two parties to unite and get us back in line with the caring, unselfish spirit of the first Dáil.
John Johnston,
Waterford.
FIGHT!
Televised debate – take us to our leader (Irish Times letters page)
“Piccalilli Moths” by Australian/Finnish illustrator and Graphic designer Vlad Stankovic – twinkling fluttering scenes of moths, larvae and flora commissioned as artworks for a restaurant in Culver City, California.
Rendered here as gifs, each piece was created in watercolour and pencil, transferred to Photoshop, then printed using a lenticular process that confers the illusion of depth and movement when viewed from different angles.
Previously: A Probing Expression
This Sunday at 11am
Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2.
A protest cycle will take place to highlight the ongoing delays in developing the proposed Liffey Cycle Route.
Dublin Cycling Campaign writes:
We are calling for the immediate implementation of temporary measures to trial a segregated cycle route along the Liffey Quays.
A dedicated cycle route along the Liffey Quays, linking Heuston Station to the Point Village, was first proposed in 2011, but it has been dogged by planning & design issues, as well as strong opposition from some city centre businesses – primarily the operators of private car parks.
Another public consultation on the route was conducted in 2019, but the earliest possible date for the project to be completed is predicted to be 2024
This is not soon enough, want to see trial measures put in place, using temporary bollards, to test out the route and see how it will work in practice.
The Liffey Cycle protest is due to begin in Grand Canal Square on Sunday morning at 11am, with a large group setting off to cycle a loop of the Liffey Quays, before finishing up back at Grand Canal Square.
This is a family-friendly affair and that everyone is welcome to join in, especially those who don’t cycle regularly in Dublin but would like to.…
