This morning.
Drogheda Garda Station.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan TD visit Drogheda Garda Station today as part of campaigning in counties Louth and Offaly on Day 3 of the General Election 2020.
Mr Varadkar and Mr Flanagan are speaking to gardaí who are investigating the feud between two criminal gangs, which is believed to be linked to the murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods earlier this week.
Yesterday: Meanwhile, In Drogheda
FF leader Micheál Martin says he’s never taken recreational drugs, admits he probably didn’t have “the same access as young people today have”. pic.twitter.com/NfIzlRYVBb
— Niall Colbert (@NiallColbert1) January 17, 2020
This morning.
There was nothing to inhale.
In Cork.
In the 1970s.
Not a nodge.
President of Greece Prokopios Pavlopoulos and Vlassia Pavlopoulou with President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin
Yesterday
Minister of State Finian McGrath represented the Government during the State visit of the President of Greece to Áras an Uachtaráin as all senior Ministers were unavailable.
Jack Power, in The Irish Times, reports:
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was due to meet Mr Pavlopoulos at Government Buildings on Thursday afternoon, but the meeting was cancelled earlier that morning, with Mr Varadkar attending events on the Fine Gael campaign trail instead.
…Mr McGrath is the only TD who sits at Cabinet who is not standing in the upcoming general election.
One senior Áras source said there was a sense of disappointment that the Government had not sent a senior Minister to attend the welcome ceremony.
Pics: Irish Foreign Ministry
This morning.
Ferg writes:
Punching height…
Meanwhile...
‘sup?
Last night.
Con Kennedy tweetz:
Hey Emer Currie, this visual eyesore poses a danger to pedestrians & motorists. It’s too low & blocks the view of traffic. Remove it now. This is 200m from a school & crossing. RSA Ireland
specifically warned about creating this danger. Shih Tzu placed for scale.
Meanwhile…
Hi there , thanks for getting in touch. Where is it and I’ll get it now?
— Cllr. Emer Currie (@emer_currie1) January 16, 2020
UPDATE
Hey @FineGael your posters are obstructing the path on Newtown Avenue in BlackRock. Someone visually impaired could walk straight in to these and not great for cyclists either. You could probably take these down since you postered every.single. lampost on the road. #GE2020 pic.twitter.com/RX1aCkaO8w
— Trí (@Triona_C) January 17, 2020
In fairness.
At top: Christian Slater (left) in Interview With The Vampire, River Phoenix (right)
The Department of Culture and the Gaeltacht writes:
Above is a letter from Christian Slater to Neil Jordan.
River Phoenix was to play Daniel Molloy in Interview With The Vampire (1994). After his death the role went to Christian Slater (who donated his salary to Phoenix’s favourite charities).
Documents such as this were donated by Neil Jordan to the National Library of Ireland…
Previously: Heir Jordan
This morning.
Milltown, Dublin 14.
Carlosfandango writes:
I’m constantly impressed and pleased to see the efforts that people go to, to return lost items. Good for the soul.
In fairness.
A film noir style CGI graduation short by students of Supinfocom Valenciennes in France. To wit:
After a heist that goes wrong, a frail robot who was the driver of a robot mafia ends up being in possession of some loot he shouldn’t have, a human heart. Tempted by the opportunity of being like his bosses, he grafts the heart to himself and discovers the feeling of being alive. But those brief instants of life have a price.
The moustache of US Ambassador Harry Harris, who is Japanese-American, reminds many South Koreans of Japan’s colonial rule
A US ambassador chose
To grow a ‘tache under his nose
But Koreans don’t care
For his facial hair
Which seems an imperialist pose
John Moynes
Getty
