Gardaí are appealing for anyone who may have been on the South Circular Road between 8.15am – 8.45am and who may have dash cam footage, to come forward following a fatal collision involving a cyclist.

Broadsheet contributor Alan O’Regan writes:

I’m the last person to take to social media after seeing something horrible (I’m no rubbernecker. I despise that) but this morning I saw something awful.

I was walking to the end of my road (South Circular Road at the back of St. James’ Hospital) at about 8.15am and lying there on the street, outside the Mace shop, was a body. Next to it was a mangled bicycle.

My first thought, looking at this scene from across the street, was ‘that person is dead.’ I don’t know how I knew, but I just did. Something about the stillness of the scene.

There was no car or truck around and nobody was bending over the body which made the scene even more surreal. It had literally just happened and people didn’t know what to do.

Some workers from the new hospital building site were going over and placing hi-vis vests across the body and I stood and watched for a moment out of sheer shock. It was just unutterably sad.

I walked on as I heard the ambulance speeding up from Rialto. A couple of more workers were running from the site towards the scene and another followed with a medical bag. News reports now emerging say the cyclist was in a collision with a lorry.

You see the works at the hospital have been going for a long time now and for a long time the South Circular Road in that area has been filled with site traffic.

Huge trucks going back and forth to the site constantly all day. So many of them that the tarmac on the road at that junction is like the surface of the moon.

Huge chunks of the road have been churned up, filled in, churned up again. A truck even goes up and down the road all day spraying the ground to keep the dust at bay.

I have nothing against progress and I know that the hospital needs to be built but I also knew somewhere inside that something was going to happen at some point. Some collision, some accident.

I’m not blaming anyone but I just hope that some more thought will now be given to traffic management to at least take some of the site traffic out of regular traffic there.

God be with that person on the ground.

I’m sure readers will have lots of questions and opinions but I just wanted to write in to say what I saw. It helped to type this out.

Cyclist Killed After Collision With A Lorry In Dublin (Examiner)

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This afternoon.

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor leaves the Criminal Courts of Justice after been convicted of assaulting a man in a Dublin pub and fined €1,000.

He was given one month to pay the fine.

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Earlier…




This morning.

Members of the public attempt to pose for a selfie with Conor McGregor as he enters the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin today to face assault charges from April of this year.

More as we get it.

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Vogue Williams and Spencer Matthews

On The Ray D’Arcy Show…

Via RTÉ:

Vogue Williams and Spencer Matthews join Ray to talk about their recent wedding party, son Theodore, trips to Ireland, those pregnancy rumours and the new series of their reality TV show, Spencer, Vogue and Wedding Two.

Iconic 1980s TV presenter Anneka Rice tells Ray about finding fame on Treasure Hunt and Challenge Anneka and how she found herself back in the limelight on this season’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Ray chats to Cork entrepreneur Pat Phelan about turning his life around after his battle with alcoholism and his new venture into the world of cosmetic clinics.

And Alopecia sufferer Michela Moloney tells Ray about her aim to raise money for the charities that helped her after she lost her baby girl Poppy at birth. She wants to shave her head for these charities live on air….

The Ray D’Arcy Show at 9.55 pm on RTÉ One.

Pic: RTÉ

Planning application notice for 15, Usher’s Island, Dublin 8

During this ongoing debate about the repatriation of James Joyce’s body, the developers Fergus McCabe and Brian Stynes have submitted an application to convert 15 Usher’s Island – the house in which Joyce’s story, The Dead, is set – into a 56-room hostel replete with a cafe.

If Dublin and the Dublin City Council truly want to honour Joyce, their energies would be better spent on devising a better plan for this house, rather than wasting time on the misguided business of repatriation (as has been well documented in these pages).

Joyce conceived and wrote The Dead in his self-imposed exile at a point when he began to miss his abandoned city.

As a result, it is less caustic than the other stories in Dubliners and, while still critical, shows a sincere and abiding appreciation of “Irish hospitality”.

This underlying affection is one of many reasons why this story is often considered the greatest short story in the English language.

On the other hand, McCabe and Stynes’s application exemplifies the very reasons why Joyce left Ireland, “the old sow that eats her farrow”.

Dr Sam Slote,
Associate Professor,
School of English,
Trinity College Dublin,
Dublin 2.

Anyone?

A better plan for the house of The Dead (Irish Times letters page)

Yesterday: 10,397

Last night.

Dublin Fire Brigade firefighters were called out to 230 incidents between 4pm and 6am.

These included fires at (from top) Malahide, Ballymun, Darndale, Kildare (pic 4 and 5) and Fortunestown.

Greg O’Dwyer, assistant chief fire officer at Dublin Fire Brigade, told Morning Ireland earlier today that there were also 298 ambulance call-outs overnight.

He said this was a decrease in incidents compared to previous years and said no firefighter suffered any injury last night.

However, he said, throughout the city, attempts were made to stop the firefighters from entering some estates.

He said at the entrances to some estates, they found that either cars had been driven into fires or set alight or bonfire material was set alight.

Meanwhile…

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Pics: Dublin Fire Brigade

Seats laid out at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire last night; Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey leaving the hotel last night

This morning.

RTÉ’s Political Correspondent Paul Cunningham told Morning Ireland that last night’s motion calling for an urgent review of general election candidates by Fine Gael’s executive council passed 88 in favour and 66 against.

He said 120 chairs were laid out for last night’s meeting but 160 people turned up, while around 20 people spoke, including Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey.

He described the atmosphere as “pointed but polite” and that most of the speakers spoke against the motion.

He said Ms Bailey told those present that the opinions of Fine Gael’s members mattered to her; she was “always a diligent TD”; she was “fighting for her political life”; and she “regretted how the party became engulfed in media exposure” but she wants to be their candidate.

Last night’s motion is not a binding motion and Fine Gael’s executive council will now have the final say as to who will go on the general election ticket.

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Last night: Sway To Go

Previously: “The Motion Is Widely Viewed As A Move Against Her”

‘I Found Myself On The Floor’

Pics: Paul Cunningham

Behold: the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass in Durham, North Carolina — aka the 11 Foot 8 Bridge, aka ‘The Can Opener’.

For eleven years, this low span has been tearing the tops off trucks despite light sensors and clear signage warning the drivers of tall vehicles. The carnage has been such that the bridge has long since been fitted with a camera, generating an endless stream of impact videos

Due to an unground sewage line, the road can’t be lowered but the local authority has now finally agreed to raise the bridge height by eight inches, thereby ending an era.

Spoilsports.

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An investigation into a hoax Nobel Prize call earlier this month to writer John Banville (above) has revealed it was not made from the offices of the Swedish Academy

It’s a phone call that’s certain to stun
When an author is told they have won
The great Nobel Prize
But quickly realise
Some prankster was just having fun

John Moynes

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