This afternoon.

Unidentified photo studio, Dublin.

The launch of the Social Democrats’ General Election2020 campaign…

Models – above from left: Maria, Akira, Laura and Thalia – unveil  the Spring/Summer 2020 International Designer Collections available  Brown Thomas

Spring Summer 2020 “explores a romantic season that merges tropical themes, minimal tones and a nostalgic flashback to the 70s and 80s” with brands including Khaite, Mugler, Totême, Rhode, Oscar de la Renta, Retrofête, Solace London, Nanushka and Faithfull The Brand.

And Hammer pants (pic 2).

Finally.

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar being interviewed in RTÉ on Sunday; *Sam, a five-year-old homeless boy who was photographed eating from a piece of cardboard in Dublin last October

This afternoon.

Further to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s interview on RTÉ’s This Week at the weekend, in which he was asked about the picture of the homeless five-year-old boy Sam (not real name) who was photographed eating from a sheet of cardboard on a street by volunteer group The Homeless Street Café…

And the Fine Gael leader replying:

“…we tried to find out who that child was, because we wanted to make sure that he was looked after, that perhaps he could be moved into a family hub or perhaps we could make sure there were no child protection issues. We still haven’t been able to find that child unfortunately…

Saoirse McGarrigle, in The Irish Mirror, reports that Denise Carroll, from the Homeless Street Cafe, has said the boy is “very easy to find”.

Further to this…

Independents 4 Change general election candidate Seánie O’Shea, from Wexford, tweetz:

Varadkar to @rtenews This Week: “…shocking, shocking photograph and one I found very upsetting. We still haven’t been able to find that child, unfortunately”

Homeless Street Cafe: “We speak to his mother and him every week.. They also have our contact details and we have hers”

Homeless Street Cafe: “The majority of the soup run would know who this family are … Claire Byrne did a piece and she was in town and he was in the film so he is very easy to find.”

Also Varadkar on his “attempts” to find the child known as Sam: “perhaps we could make sure there were no child protection issues” The children of this country need to be protected from the lies and inhumanity of this Government.

Also, where is the follow up from RTE News or David McCullagh after being blatantly misled?”

Leo Varadkar could’ve found homeless boy Sam, 5, activist insists (Saoirse McGarrigle, The Irish Mirror)

Previously: You Had Nine Years

Sam

This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2.

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald (top centre) talking to the media on the start of General Election 2020.

Meanwhile….

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

Labour Party HQ, Aungier Street, Dublin 2

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin (centre) and Director of Elections Ivana Bacik (left) speaking to the about the forthcoming General Election.

  Sam Boal/RollingNews





This morning/afternoon.

Moatview Gardens, Coolock, Dublin

Scenes at the estate where human remains were discovered in a sports bag by local residents just after 10pm last night.

The body has not been identified but detectives are “investigating information they received in one case of a teenager involved in the drugs business”.

Human remains found in bag in Dublin estate (RTÉ)

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

 

 

 

In a world of paywalls and monetised content, fourteen Parisian museums including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks by Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others freely available to the public via its collections portal. To wit:

Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and citing the sources of the image. Making this data available guarantees that our digital files can be freely accessed and reused by anyone or everyone, without any technical, legal or financial restraints, whether for commercial use or not,

Allez les musées!

Above (from top): Claude Monet’s “Soleil couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt, effet d’hiver” (1880); Pierre Bonnard’s “Nu dans le bain” (1936); Paul Cézanne’s “Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard” (1899) and Eugène Atget’s “Coin des rues de Seine et de l’Echaudé, 6ème arrondissement, Paris” (1911).

hypoallergenic

This morning [8.35].

Hueston Heuston Station, Dublin 8.

Via Eye on Dublin

Meanwhile…

In fairness.

Tracy Bruen – Dream Away

Listen up, folks.

Galway singer/songwriter Tracy Bruen (top) has written an uplifting ode to the new Ireland.

She says:

“Dream Away is an anthem for love. Inspired by the feminist marches and protests for the rights of minorities across the island of Ireland, the song speaks to all in our society who have been marginalised and oppressed by a system which has left them in the cold.

“The song is a call for inclusion, solidarity and love. It appeals to the power of people to heal through kindness and effect change for all together.”

The video was shot by AMW Visual, on location in Galway and features many well known Galweigans, members of Tracy’s own family, her bandmates and closest friends.

Nick says: Sweet dream.

Tracy Bruen

Village Magazine tweetz:

“Here is the illustration by Faye Larkin for Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan’s interesting analysis of Apple’s tax arrangements with Ireland. Read the piece on our website.”

Rotten fruit: has anybody actually read the EU Commission’s Apple decision? (Edmund Honohan, Village Magazine)

Previously: Edmund Honohan on Broadsheet

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