The nighttime LED glow emanating from vast greenhouses in the Netherlands, as documented by German photographer Tom Hegen.
Irie.
Not A Robot
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This morning.
In Cabinteely, Dublin 18.
Cabinteely Life tweetz:
“From a local resident. Urgent! Anyone know what the approval process for removing trees is? Council about to cut down the most beautiful tree on Highland Avenue in The Park. How can I stop this asap? I’ve asked for the details of the council worker who has approved this.”
Anyone?
Books shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards
Last night.
At the General Post Office on O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
An Post announced the shortlists for each category of the An Post Irish Book Awards.
Anyone who wishes to vote can do so here.
The winners will be announced on November 20, 2019, at the Convention Centre, Dublin.
The Tuck?
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“Have you ever wanted to tuck @BorisJohnson’s shirt in?” – #AskMeAnything with @LeoVaradkar @DermotTodayFM @DaveTodayFM pic.twitter.com/bunEYGp17F
— Today FM (@TodayFM) October 25, 2019
This morning.
Anyone?
Via Today FM
Niall Toner – The Last Wolf On The Mountain
Whither the wolf?
Carlow-based country blues troubadour Niall Toner (top) has written a poignant lament imagining the last days of the noble four-legged hunter on these shores. (The wolf has been extinct in Ireland since 1786).
Maybe [Green Party leader]Eamon Ryan was listening?
The song is written from the point of view of the doomed craythur and would have fit perfectly in Johnny Cash‘s twilight testaments.
Fiaz Farrelly‘s atmospheric video is also visually striking and the use of a drone as it hovers over the Blackstairs Mountains adds a real sense of grandeur.
Nick says: Time for a comeback?
Playing Dead
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Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tweetz:
New-born pups found abandoned at graveyard in need of urgent foster homes. If you have hand-reared very young pups before and you are at home most of the time with your own mode of transport please email foster@dspca.ie PLEASE SHARE.
Mmmf.
Anyone?
Last night.
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2.
The launch of The Lights of of the Night Watchman – Ghost Ships light show on Grand Canal Dock as part the Bram Stoker Festival.
The installation is a ‘free to watch’ and assembled by the Lantern Company.
In fairness.
At Dublin’s Heuston Station
This morning.
Jim Deegan, CEO of Railtours Ireland, told Sarah McInerney, on RTÉ’s Today with Seán O’Rourke show, that the free travel pass system in Ireland is “unsustainable” – arguing that up to 85 per cent of train services are full of people using such passes.
He said:
“Irish Rail are getting very, very little, a blanket payment of about €14million a year to Irish Rail to carry all free travel customers. And, of course, we’re not only talking about people who are over 66. We’re talking about a signifiant number of people of working age, who have free travel for various reasons.”
He added:
“Free travel is a wonderful thing and but it does need to be controlled and it needs to be regulated. We have a totally carte blanche system, total unrestriction [sic]. You can travel any time, as many times as you like for no charge whatsoever and that is a model that is unsustainable.
“And, for example, in Britain, you buy a travel card and you get a percentage of your travel for senior citizens.
“The prescription charge would be a good model, where you would put a nominal charge for every journey. At the moment, Irish Rail get about 70 cents per journey, which is unsustainable – for a company that’s trying to… you know, that’s pilloried by Government for constant losses.”
Meanwhile…
Éidín Ní Shé tweetz:
Lovely bit of ageism on Today with Sean O’Rourke at a time when older people are experiencing increase levels of isolation and loneliness suggestion we now ‘control’ free travel.
Listen back in full here