Behold: the BST Hypertek – an electric motorcycle from carbon fibre wheel maker Blackstone Tek (their first).
The vision of former Ducati designer Pierre Terblanche, the 107bhp Hypertek (fully charged and good for 300km in just 30 minutes) has a fairly minimal carbon fibre and aluminium frame with a single-sided swingarm and a futuristic head-up display inside the driver’s helmet.
Production will be limited, prices and release dates as yet unannounced
Via Michael Clifford in The Irish Examiner:
Later that day, she had a missed call from an unknown phone number and when she rang it back, the judge identified himself by his first name and being “from the court”. She says that he told her “you looked very beautiful today”.
She claims that he texted her while she was on a sun holiday with her children and when she came back, she received a phonecall from the judge where he told her that “her skin must look nice now”.
She claims that the judge repeatedly expressed an interest in meeting her and they eventually met for a coffee. She appeared before him again in relation to her case at a hearing, where she became very emotional.
She said she was afraid to tell her solicitor and barrister about the contacts with the judge, as he had asked her not to. When she was granted a temporary barring order instead of a permanent order, she became very upset.
Pic via The Irish Examiner
Independent TD Noel Grealish (above) has been accused of “racism” for asking whether the Government is satisfied billions of euro being sent abroad from Ireland are not the proceeds of crime
Alternative Uses For Noel Grealish
(after György Petri)
Having spent most of this century saying so little
the Collected Speeches of Noel Grealish TD
could be transcribed on the back of a parking ticket
a friendly Sergeant expunged from the system,
you’ve now appointed yourself leader
of the Blame-The-Black-Guy-Party –
so when one of your constituents finds
wife (or husband) impaled on their
personal trainer or a crisp bag blows
into their garden from next door’s bin,
they’ll know whose fault it is,
even though it isn’t the black dude doing either
their bank account or spouse,
and it definitely wasn’t him who blew that Tayto bag
into number fifty seven’s azaleas.
In light of this, scientists suggest
you be pureed into a paste
which, with water added,
could be served in tiny droplets
as a protein drink to malnourished baby hedgehogs;
or that society employ
a butcher’s apprentice to detach
your suddenly wagging tongue and hand it over
to a witchdoctor flown in
from the Congo Republic
by the Department of Social Protection
to do with as he sees fit;
or that we have a visiting Polish granny
dice you into a traditional Cracow stew
wasting not so much as an eyelash
and feed you to the pike in the Corrib
to see if they can stomach you.
Previously: “It’s Up To Him To Clarify His Intentions”
EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager (above a`nd Minister for Communications Richard Bruton (top)
This morning.
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, €2.6 billion of public support for the controversial National Broadband Plan.
Communications Minister Richard Bruton said:
“I welcome today’s decision by the European Commission to grant state aid approval to the National Broadband Plan.
The National Broadband Plan will deliver high speed broadband to 1.1 million people, almost one quarter of our country. Without high speed broadband it will be significantly more difficult to attract new jobs to rural areas and develop new enterprise opportunities and it will be more difficult to retain the jobs that currently exist in these areas. H
igh speed broadband will allow remote working, which can ease congestion and reduce emissions. It will ensure that the digital revolution happening in education, healthcare, farming and tourism does not bypass rural Ireland. We will make sure that rural Ireland is not left behind.”
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of EC competition policy said:
“The National Broadband Plan in Ireland is expected to address the significant digital divide between urban and rural areas in Ireland, enabling Irish consumers and businesses to benefit from the full potential of digital growth. This will help households and businesses in areas of Ireland where private investment is insufficient.”
Hmm.
Previously: National Broadband Plan on Broadsheet
Avalon House, Aungier Street, Dublin 2
Olivia Kelly, in The Irish Times, reports:
Businesses on Aungier Street, Dublin, are to take legal action to stop the opening of the State’s largest homeless hostel for rough sleepers at Avalon House.
The Peter McVerry Trust and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive intend to take over the backpackers’ hostel, above a branch of Starbucks cafe, and use it to provide emergency accommodation for 155 homeless adults.
A lease on the building has been signed by the trust, and the facility is due to open in January. However, local businesses say they will seek a High Court injunction to stop it going ahead.
Dublin businesses seek to stop 155-bed homeless hostel (Olivia Kelly, The Irish Times)
Pearl Kelly looking at four of Banksy’s works on exhibit and for sale at the opening of Art Source
This morning.
RDS Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Via Art Source
The largest collection of Banksy’s work exhibited on public show in Ireland opened today at Ireland’s premier art fair Art Source, which runs until Sunday at the RDS.
Gormleys Fine Art are showing screen prints by the anonymous British-based artist and political activist whose original piece Devolved Parliament recently sold for €10.9m.
Twelve Banksy pieces will be on display ranging from €10,850 for I Fought The Law to an unsigned print of Girl With A Balloon valued at €120,000, along with works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.
Pic: Robbie Reynolds
Brendan McNeely writes:
Too early for stocking filler ideas? Well my 11-year-old son Harry has self-published his second book “The Comedy Spy” which is now available on Amazon.
It’s a story about bad jokes, chicken hats and aliens trying to destroy the Earth. What more could you want!
In fairness.
The Comedy Spy can be bought here
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.
This is a bicycle.
This morning.
Upper Baggott Street, Dublin 4.
Thanks Carlosfandango
Today and tomorrow.
Trinity College Dublin’s history department is hosting its HistoryCon conference and this year’s theme is ‘humanising history’.
To wit:
The Trinity HistoryCon conference, now in its second year, provides an opportunity for members of the public, entertainment professionals, academics, and cosplayers to explore the influences of film, television, comics, music, and other forms of popular media, on how we imagine our past and present worlds.
Popular media such as Game of Thrones, X-Men, Star Wars, and The Avengers have captivated audiences and opened new lines of enquiry across the arts and humanities.
Each of these outlets has succeeded in large part due to their ability to contextualise and elucidate the experience of the individual in extraordinary circumstances. Trinity HistoryCon – the amalgam of an academic conference and comic-con – celebrates the nexus of popular media and the study of history.
The conference provides a stimulating and exemplary opportunity for engagement between academic research and popular culture and media.
Full details here
Pics: Trinity Long Room Hub
‘The fact that we are sitting in [TDs’] seats today should serve as a massive embarrassment to them … as they have embarrassed this country on an international level when it comes to climate action.’ | https://t.co/R7I13q4fRb | #RTÉOnClimate #YouthAssembly pic.twitter.com/s9zEXmL40j
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) November 15, 2019
Today.
In the Dáil.
Ireland’s first Youth Assembly on climate change is taking place involving 157 delegates, ranging in age from 10 to 17, from across Ireland.
Watch live here
Youth Assembly on climate change takes place in Dáil (RTÉ)
UPDATE:
Meanwhile, on Today with Seán O’Rourke, presented by Miriam O’Callaghan…
A boy called Paddy, aged 10, who’s taking part in the assembly and who will be talking about the use of single-use plastic bottles, told Miriam:
“Well, it’s kind of, it’s like, you see this on TV. I’ve watched some of the Oireachtas TV before. And you think, like, you’re in there and it’s like a basin of politics squashed up and made into a stew.
“The chairs are all really, like, comfy and, really old, parliament-ish.
“I feel extremely excited. One because it’s the Dáil and two, because this is a chance to make a change in our civilisation.
“And we have to do it, unless you want to move to another planet. I quite like this planet.”
