Blink and you’ll miss him.

Dermot Lambert, erstwhile frontman of Dublin perfect pop practitioners Blink, steps out of the shadows to play a very rare solo show headlining the Alternative Sunday Social Club in The Wild Duck on Dublin’s Sycamore St at 4.30pm.

The only place to be…

Dermot says:

This Sunday afternoon I’ll be playing, joined by a few friends, in the afternoon. If you know the chords or the singalong bits of any Blink songs I won’t be offended, and there’ll be some new masterpiece exclusives.

I’m working on some Rex & Dino and Empty Shell stuff too, but not sure where I’m at with that yet, and I can’t play Cello on acoustic guitar, but again if anyone wants to roll in with an actual cello we’ll find a job for you!

Young kids are free (not like in the 1970’s, just free admission) – Super Special Guests on the day are Six Above Ground and Novatone – Peace out

Dermot Lambert

Behold: M45 – the lovely reflection nebulae of the Pleiades star cluster, 400 light years away. To wit:

It lies in the night sky toward the constellation Taurus and the Orion Arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. The sister stars and cosmic dust cloud are not related though, they just happen to be passing through the same region of space. Known since antiquity as a compact grouping of stars, Galileo first sketched the star cluster viewed through his telescope with stars too faint to be seen by eye. Charles Messier recorded the position of the cluster as the 45th entry in his famous catalog of things which are not comets. In Greek myth, the Pleiades were seven daughters of the astronomical Titan Atlas and sea-nymph Pleione. Their parents names are included in the cluster’s nine brightest stars. This deep and wide telescopic image spans over 20 light-years across the Pleides star cluster.

(Image: Adam Block, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)

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The Doctor will see you now.

That’s Dr Millar aka Dublin singer/songwriter Seán Millar who’s playing a rare solo show this evening in the DC Club on Camden Row, Dublin.

Expect to hear songs from his extensive back catalogue stretching back to the 1990s and he’ll be taking requests from the audience too.

Sean will be on stage at 9pm.

The atmospheric black-and-white video above, which was directed by Susan Gleeson, features Sean cavorting with actress Pom Boyd on what looks like Dollymount Strand.

Nick says: It’s Millar time.

On Thursday, November 21, at 3.30pm.

The 101st anniversary of women’s suffrage…

There will be special guided tour celebrating the role of women in Irish history over the past 100 years at the GPO Witness History Museum located within the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin.

The special tour is limited to 15 places.

Tickets can be booked here

GPO Witness History

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy (second from right) turning the sod on an upgrade to the Lee Road Water Treatment in Cork City

This afternoon.

Eoin English, in The Irish Examiner, reports that the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy responded to criticism of the Government’s response to the housing crisis by Fr Peter McVerry.

Mr English reported:

Eoghan Murphy warned that the State can’t just “throw up houses” overnight and must consider how to build communities too.

…“When we build a home today, we want it to last for 100-years,” he said.

“So we have to think, are we building it in the right place, to the right standards and specifications?”

Housing Minister defends the government’s Rebuilding Ireland plan during Cork visit (Eoin English, The Irish Examiner)

Pic: Cork City Council

I BIKE Dublin tweetz:

“People who have participated this week or supported from afar: this is your achievement. TDs and councillors are writing to the Minister for Transport demanding action. We are being heard.”

In fairness.

Catherine Martin

Earlier: Final Call

Blood On The Tracks

The launch of an Antares rocket (packed with three and a half tonnes of supplies for the International Space Station) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia captured earlier this month in all its fiery glory by photographer John Kraus.

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Camden Rotisserie on Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2 which is appealing a closure order 

Today.

The Food Safety Authority has announced that, during October, it served 14 closure orders on food businesses for breaches of food safety legislation, one improvement order and two prohibition orders.

On its website, the FSAI explained some of the general reasons for the orders.

They include:

Rodent paw marks on dusty shelves; gnaw marks on coffee bean bags; two dead rats found in the dry goods storeroom; rusted and dirty interior of a mincing machine; an absence of staff food hygiene training records for all food handlers; and one business did not have the facilities to sell and supply fresh fish and crustaceans as there was no dedicated area for handling the fresh fish and crustaceans.

The reasons also included a food worker handling raw frozen burger meat and not changing gloves when dressing cooked burgers; and when management were asked about two complaints regarding maggots in fish they could provide no information with regard to traceability of the product or to where the remainder of implicated fish had been disposed of.

Ew.

The 14 closure orders were served on:

NKD Pizza (Take Away), 9 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6

The Whole Hoggs (Small Meat Manufacturing Plant), Rathmaiden, Slane, Meath

Euro Corner (Retailer), (Closed area: all of the business except [from 10 October 2019] the grocery in the front of the ground floor, for sales of pre-packed ambient foods only) 13 Broad Street, Waterford City, Waterford

Instanbel Buffet House, 90-91 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1

Glyde Fries Takeaway, Main Street, Tallanstown, Louth

Wisla (Retailer), Unit 2, Park Road Business Park, Park Road, Waterford

Celtic Pure (Packaged Water), Corcreagh, Shercock PO, Monaghan

Cloncat Service Station (Retailer), (Closed Activity: Using water sourced from the private well supplying the business for 1. drinking; 2. making hot/cold drinks or ice; 3. food preparation i.e. washing, 4. as an ingredient in any food prepared on premises) Fordstown, Navan, Meath

Hot & Tasty Foodstall (Take Away), Main Road, Ballyforan, Roscommon

Indian Moon (Take Away), 3A West Douglas, Douglas, Cork

C&E (Retailer), (Closed activity: the sale and supply of fresh fish and crustaceans), 19 Catherine Street, Limerick

U Pick Store (Retailer) Unit 6, Westside Business Centre, Seamus Quirke Road, Galway

Gabriela’s Tea Room (Restaurant), (Closed activity: the manufacture of cakes and confectionery on the premises) Cavan Street, Oldcastle, Meath

Camden Rotisserie (under appeal) (Restaurant – Café), 37 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2

Dr Pamela Byrne, CEO of FSAI, said: “Seventeen Enforcement Orders in one month is the highest in a month to date this year and this is an unacceptable number.”

Seventeen Enforcement Orders Served on Food Businesses in October (FSAI)

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