Last night.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
A carousel in the courtyard as ‘Christmas at The Castle’ opens to the public, until December 22. Admission to the market is free from 12pm-8pm daily.
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Before and after: Proposed changes to Kildare Street Hotel, 47-49 Kildare Street, Dublin 2; letter of objection to the plans by Frank McDonald
Further to the lodgement of a planning application to Dublin City Council – by Ternary Ltd, controlled by the family of businessman Larry Goodman – to demolish a terrace of Georgian houses on Kildare Street, Dublin 2…
Journalist and author Frank McDonald has written to the council (above) setting out his objection to the plan.
Previously: Some Front
Via Frank McDonald
This morning.
British Liberal Democrat party leader Jo Swinson loses her East Dunbartonshire seat after 12 years of being the serving MP.
Under Liberal Democrat party rules, its leader must have a seat in the House of Commons.
Election results 2019: Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson to step down (BBC)
A lo-fi short by Mattias Pilhede and Sai Cheung featuring the philosophical ponderings of a spaceship’s door control system (something first considered by Douglas Adams) To wit:
In the far distant future, ships have Swedish accents because they are bought at IKEA.
Ah here.
Last night.
Bryan Dobson presenting RTE One’s coverage of the British General Election in London behind what may be a remodelled snooker table. We may never know.
Via Eamon Keating
Sitar Indian Restaurant at Carlingford Marina in Carlingford, Co Louth
Yesterday.
Ricky, of Sitar Indian Restaurant at Carlingford Marina in Carlingford, Co Louth, wrote on the restaurant’s Facebook page:
Hello everyone, kindly share this if you can..
If you are struggling financially to put a dinner on the table on Christmas Day or if you live alone and don’t have someone to spend the day with, Sitar Indian Restaurant Carlingford will be serving free dinner to anyone who walks through our doors from 1pm – 4pm.
We need your support in this matter, spread the word so we can make sure no one will miss out on this. If we can make Christmas just a little bit better for even one person by opening our doors and providing a warm and friendly meal, well that’s enough for us. You can eat in the restaurant or take away.
You can have a lunch with us or simply take food home.
No questions will be asked!
Much appreciated,
Ricky
In fairness.
This morning.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a victory speech after his Conservative party yielded the best election result since 1987.
He said:
“Thank you all, thank you very much for coming. Well my friends, good morning everybody, my friends.
“Well, we did it, we did it. We pulled it off didn’t we?
“We pulled it off.
“We broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock.
“And in this glorious, glorious pre-breakfast moment, before a new dawn rises on a new day and a new government, I want to first of all pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own in the election just gone by.
“And I, of course, want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest conservative majority, since the 1980s…which was, literally, literally, as I look around, literally before many of you were born.
“And with this mandate, and this majority, we will at last be able do…what?”
The crowds respond in chorus: “Get Brexit done.”
Mr Johnson then carried on:
“You’re paying attention.
“This election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people…”
Last night: “A Thumping Tory Majority”
Boris Johnson waits for the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency count declaration at Brunel University in Uxbridge, London, this morning
I’ve tried and I’ve tried and I’ve tried
But I just can’t look on the bright side
One glance at the news
Filled me with the blues
The Tories have won a landslide
John Moynes
AP
MORE to follow.