This afternoon,
Terry Jones (top right) directing The Sermon on the Mount scene in ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) and acting in same (above), has died after a long illness.
RIP.
Palin and Cleese remember ‘strange and silly moments’ with Terry Jones (BBC)
Thanks John Gallen
This afternoon.
RTÉ’s Vincent Kearney tweetz:
No B word: Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar is keen to talk about Brexit but so far travelling across counties Dublin, Longford, Louth, Offaly, Tipperary, Cork and Limerick with David Goldsmith to cover the general election for RTÉ News I’ve yet to hear a single person mention it.
Meanwhile…
For what it’s worth #BREXIT is being raised with me every day of this campaign. It’s far from the only issue but it is on people’s minds.
— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) January 22, 2020
Behold: the Hyades or Caldwell 41 – the closest star cluster to our own sun. To wit:
The Hyades open cluster is bright enough to have been remarked on even thousands of years ago, yet is not as bright or compact as the nearby Pleiades (M45) star cluster. Pictured here is a particularly deep image of the Hyades which has brings out vivid star colours and faint coincidental nebulas. The brightest star in the field is yellow Aldebaran, the eye of the bull toward the constellation of Taurus. Aldebaran, at 65 light-years away, is now known to be unrelated to the Hyades cluster, which lies 153 light-years away. The central Hyades stars are spread out over about 15 light-years. Formed about 625 million years ago, the Hyades likely shares a common origin with the Beehive cluster (M44), a naked-eye open star cluster toward the constellation of Cancer, based on M44‘s motion through space and remarkably similar age.
(Image: Jose Mtanous)
RTÉ’s Claire Byrne
Next Monday night.
On RTÉ One, at 9.35pm.
Claire Byrne Live Leaders’ Debate.
Laura Fitzgerald writes:
“Next Monday night (27th January) Claire Byrne will host the biggest Election 2020 leaders debate of the campaign so far.
“For the very first time RTÉ will broadcast a special leaders’ debate live from Galway.
“The seven political parties leaders joining Claire on stage for the major two-hour live debate will be: Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin), Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael), Brendan Howlin (Labour), Micheál Martin (Fianna Fáil), Richard Boyd Barrett (Solidarity/People Before Profit), Eamon Ryan (Green Party) and Roísín Shortall (Social Democrats).
“The leaders will also face questions from an audience of over 300 people independently selected by RED C Research polling company.”
Two HOURS?
Thanks Laura
This afternoon.
Online news and social media monitoring company Olytico tweetz:
69,814 tweets, from 14,434 accounts and a potential audience of over 13m. Olytico analysed how Ireland talked about the general election during the first week of campaigning (14th-20th Jan 2020). Here’s what we found.
25% of content during week 1 was original (17,644 tweets), the remaining 75% of content was retweets. #GE2020 is the most popular hashtag (39,513 tweets), followed by #GE20 (9,762) and #GeneralElection2020 (1,219).
Fine Gael were the most talked about political party (8,697 tweets), followed by Fianna Fail (5,749), Sinn Fein (3,036), Labour (2,042) and Green Party (2,005).
Leo Varadkar was the most talked about party leader (4,318 tweets), followed by Michael Martin (748), Mary Lou McDonald (692), Eamon Ryan (378), and Brendan Howlin (222).
Homelessness was the most mentioned non-political term (4,451), followed by Housing (2,783), Health (2,186), and Climate (1,551).
Week 2 data will be released on Tuesday January 28th. Questions or suggestions? Reply or drop us a DM.
Anyone?
A powerful short about perception and realisation by Sandralee Zinzen and Nicolas Nivesse of the PÔLE 3D School at Roubaix, northern France. To wit:
A teenage girl is staring at herself in a mirror. She doesn’t like what she sees; fat, skinny, ugly, she looks like a monster. Maybe she should just take a step back and realize she’s not that monstrous.
💥ANNOUNCING: #WhereWeLive2020💥
A thrilling 10-day building takeover of @projectarts that investigates and celebrates how it feels to live right here in Dublin city, right now.10 days | 22 events | 80+ Artists
All tix on sale 11am Friday 24 Jan:https://t.co/VmHrlPzXZL pic.twitter.com/nkFG1Ky36b
— thisispopbaby (@thisispopbaby) January 22, 2020
Where We Live.
From March 11 until 21 at the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
From THISISPOPBABY who sez:
“From 11-21 March, as part of St Patrick’s Festival, we’re taking over and transforming Project Arts Centre in a red-hot building occupation of new theatre, exhilarating music collaborations, rapid-response performance, playful and evocative visual art installations, an iconic one-off record fair, a town hall of ideas, and of course, a little bit of dancing to top it all off.
“Building on the success of the inaugural 2018 edition of the festival, this year is an even deeper investigation into some of the critical matters of the day.
“We’re talking about the evolving city, homelessness, migration, connection, inclusivity, the climate crisis, active citizenship and the power of community.”
