From the Exploring Direct Provision project by UCD law lecturer Liam Thornton; at a direct provision protest; Liam Thornton

Law lecturer at University College Dublin Liam Thornton has today published 2,000-plus pages of material that he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act pertaining to direct provision.

It includes correspondence between the Department of Justice, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, the Department of Housing and the HSE, between 1997 and 2018.

It follows months of work by Mr Thornton.

In fairness.

The Direct Provision Files

Liam Thornton

Previously: Preventing Social Amnesia (2013)

Glimmermen – It’s Nice

Chart-rigging in the Irish music industry?

Shurely some mishtake?

That’s the devious plot hatched by Dublin band Glimmermen in their new video which sees them transported back to the good old days when showbands stalked the ballrooms of Eireann.

Shot by Trevor Murphy, it’s a humorous and nostalgic take on a bygone era.

The album Here I Stand is released next week on vinyl and it contains a digital download code.

Glimmermen are Gav Cowley (guitar and vocals); J Basseti (bass); Phil Murray (drums); Dave Prendergast (trumpet); and Orlaith Gilcreest (sax and vocals).

They launch the album on Thursday at The Bello Bar, Dublin 6 and on Saturday at Tower Records, Dublin at 1pm.

Nick says: Naughty but Nice.

Glimmermen

Martin and Mary McAleese

Gavan Reilly tweetz:

Former president Mary McAleese is to become the Chancellor of the University of Dublin.

Her husband Martin is the chancellor of Dublin City University – there can’t be many examples, anywhere in the world, of a married couple both being chancellors of separate universities.

Previously: The Magdalene Report: A Conclusion

Rollingnews

Hairy Baby T-shirts tweetz:

Hairy Baby don’t do time-travel T-shirts but if we did!😉

Related: Michael Healy-Rae logged into Dáil on day he was in Kerry for a funeral (Independent.ie)

Yesterday: Mug’s Game



Stop!

It’s Vintage Sewing Pattern Time!

Over 83,500 downloadable designs from Summer frocks to harem pants.

Spaghetti Hoop writes:

When our mothers made our clothes on a Singer…

Wiki Has Released Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns Online For Download (MoonChild)

Behold: M42, the great stellar nurseries of the Orion Nebula – the most famous of all astronomical nebulae. To wit:

Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colours highlighted by emission in oxygen and hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

(Image: Josep M. Drudis & Don Goldman)

apod

Broadsheet.ie