MORE to follow.
This morning/afternoon.
Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Mourners, including RTÉ broadcasters Joe Duffy (third pic) and Ryan Tubridy (fourth pic) and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin (fifth pic) arrive to sign the book of condolence for Gay Byrne which will remain open until 5pm and from 11am-5pm tomorrow.
The Dublin flag above the Mansion House is also being flown at half mast as he was a Freeman of Dublin.
Earlier: Gay Times
Yesterday: To Whom It Concerns
Update:
Via RTÉ:
RTÉ will air live coverage on television and online of the funeral of Broadcaster Gay Byrne, which takes place at 12 noon on Friday 8th November 2019.
Beginning at 11.30am on RTÉ One and RTÉ News Now, Bryan Dobson will present a special programme featuring coverage of the funeral mass from St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Church, Dublin. John Bowman and Mary Kennedy will provide commentary of the ceremony.
Television coverage will be streamed live on the RTÉ Player and on RTÉ.ie available to audiences worldwide.
Connections
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‘Sweet Curious’ – a cleverly edited visual travelogue by filmmaker Patrick Pearson, made possible by his replication of the same set of camera moves wherever he went.
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This afternoon’s RTÉ website
Ah here.
Gay Byrne ‘allowed people to exist’, says Graham Norton (RTÉ)
Gayballs to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Gayballs’
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This afternoon.
RTÉ, Montrose, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Incredibly detailed architectures by artist Benjamin Sack – surreal geometries and labyrinths rendered in pencil and pen, many inspired by cosmological symbols and what the artist describes as his own ‘fear of blank spaces’.
Sack’s work ‘Labyrinths’ exhibits at the Direktorenhaus Museum in Berlin until next January, if you’re passing.
Quiet Rising
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This day 73 years ago – 5 November 1946 – the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) began its Rural Electrification Scheme to bring electricity to remote parts of Ireland.
It became known as “the Quiet Revolution.” The first electricity pole was erected at Kilsallaghan in County. Dublin…
Uncanny, in fairness.
Meanwhile…
EirGrid has published Tomorrow’s Energy Scenarios 2019, an analysis of Ireland’s electricity sector over the next 20 years. One of its key findings is that electricity demand will increase by a range of 28% to 55% by 2030 compared to 2018. Read more: https://t.co/egTFgKyPVF pic.twitter.com/VBkbJqUodY
— EirGrid Plc (@EirGrid) November 4, 2019
This morning.
Bettystown, County Meath.
RTE correspondent for the North East Sinead Hussey (above) talking to camera at the scene of a fatal shooting incident which occurred at Castlemartin Drive, at approximately 11.40pm last night.
A 39 year old man received a number of gunshot wounds, he was removed by Ambulance to Our lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda but was pronounced dead shortly before 1am this morning
Speaking at a garda press conference, Superintendent Fergus Dwyer, (secondpic) of Ashbourne Garda Station, confirmed the man had been warned his life was in danger and an attempt had been made on his life last March.
Man shot dead in Co Meath attack linked to Drogheda feud (RTÉ)
Elaine Mai – Heartbeat
Good times never seemed so good.
Irish indie-tronica artist Elaine Mai returns with a new single that celebrates her nuptials in a truly innovative way.
This is how she explains it in her own words.
“I wrote ‘Heartbeat’ for my wife Roisín after we got married in the summer of 2018. It was three years after Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage and it felt amazing to celebrate with our friends and family after canvassing for a ‘yes’ vote together.
“One of my friends recorded our wedding video so I was able to take some of the ambient noise from our wedding day and layer it into the track. I wanted to write a song that captured how I feel about her and to remember that time in our lives.”
The quirky video animation is by Bronagh Lee.
Elaine plays the Bello Bar, Dublin, on December 12.
Nick says: Aorta be a big hit.
Behold: M8, the Lagoon Nebula – a vast interstellar cloud where the stars battle to be seen amid the dust and gas. To wit:
…this photogenic nebula is visible even without binoculars towards the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colours but the chaos. The glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen gas and trace amounts of sulphur, and oxygen gases. The dark dust filaments that lace M8 were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernovae explosions. The light from M8 we see today left about 5,000 years ago. Light takes about 50 years to cross this section of M8.
(Image: Zhuoqun Wu, Chilescope)
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Tomorrow.
From 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
Members of the LGBT+ community and their supporters will gather outside Leinster House to call for hate crime legislation.
Oisin Kenny, in Gay Community News, reports:
“The community will come together in Kildare Street to kiss as a declaration that action must be taken against homophobic violence.”
‘Shift the Hate Away’ to be held in protest of Irish Government’s response to hate crime law (GCN)
Previously: ‘A Premeditated, Homophobic Attack’
Thanks Daniel