Laura Elizabeth Hughes – Straight For Tomorrow
Home is where the art is.
For the video to her new single, Dublin singer/songwriter Laura Elizabeth Hughes (top) has rummaged through the cupboard and found some old home videos from her childhood.
Director Peadar Gill has then expertly spliced these with brooding cinematic shots of present day Laura that match the intensity and emotion of the music.
The single can be found on Laur’a’s Ceremony EP.
Nick says: Tomorrow we love you.
Behold: the Land Rover Black Mamba Defender 6X6 – a one-of-a-kind upgrade and restoration of a rare late 80s Defender 6×6 found in a South African fire station with just 30,000 km on the clock.
Yours for €295,000.
Previous 6×6 shenanigans: Mercedes Benz G63 AMG
Yesterday.
Spotted at an undisclosed location in Galway.
Alan Curran tweetz:
I’m struggling to understand why anyone in Galway City Council thought it’d be a good idea to cut grass today. Making an absolute f**k of it.
Anyone?
Video footage can be watched here.
Economist Dara Turnbull tweetz:
Spending on actual social housing has dropped off a cliff since ’07, while housing welfare has recovered strongly. Clearly Fine Gael have chosen to pad the pockets of private landlords rather than building.
Anyone?
Houses on Inis Mor overlooking the Atlantic towards Connemara, Co Galway
For as long as I have been reading the pages of this newspaper, and observing political debate more generally, public discourse has been gripped by the trials and tribulations of a place called “Rural Ireland”.
While nobody ever defines where this place actually is, by common consensus it seems to be somewhere, or everywhere, out there “beyond the M50 motorway”.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan was the latest to incur the instant wrath of “Rural Irelanders” by having the temerity to suggest that the radical lifestyle changes, which every major political party agrees will need to be brought about in response to climate change, may require a future with fewer cars.
The reality is that the narrative of “Rural Ireland” is now often deployed as a catch-all euphemistic trope to camouflage the deeply reactionary, car-based culture that we have allowed to develop over the past half-century.
We know from the census data that, in general, the vast bulk of “Rural Ireland” is located within 10 kilometres of a large town or city; those commuting greater than 30 minutes to work typically have higher incomes; and live in much larger houses.
“Rural Ireland” has a lot of genuine challenges which need urgent, sustained attention, but it is not a homogenous space.
North Leitrim is not the same as north Kildare. Much of what we class as “Rural Ireland” is, in fact, the sprawling geographical extension of “Urban Ireland”, or what is more pejoratively referred to as middle-class flight.
As the debate on what we do about climate change intensifies, so too will the prominence of “Rural Ireland”.
It therefore behoves us to have more nuanced media reporting. This will require a recognition that; not only does its car-dependent legacy create very many real and practical problems for decarbonisation; it is also a state of mind that needs to be challenged.
Gavin Daly,
Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place,
University of Liverpool.
FIGHT!
Finding ‘Rural Ireland’ (The Irish Times letters page)
Previously: It Takes A Village
Dublin City councillors want to bring the remains of James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle back to Ireland from Flunturn cemetery Zurich, Switzerland.
There once was an author, James Joyce
Possessed of a singular voice
His death overseas
Is causing unease
As a Dublin grave was his choice
John Moynes
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone
Yesterday.
Conall Ó Fátharta reported in the Irish Examiner that the Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone had acknowledged the “distress” suffered by adopted and illegally adopted people who are being denied access to personal information that State bodies hold.
Mr Ó Fátharta reported:
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs said Ms Zappone is aware “of the challenges being experienced by Tusla in relation to the release of information”.
“Tusla is obliged to adhere to the GDPR and data protection legislation in relation to the release of information which may identify a third party,” said the statement.
“Tusla must assess its own legal responsibilities in this respect and apply this to individual cases.”
However…
Solicitor who specialises in data protection Fred Logue tweetz:
“I am probably going to have this chiseled on my tombstone but I’ll say it again, there is nothing in GDPR that says you don’t have a right of access to your personal data if it could identify another person.
“In fact such an exclusion was proposed by the European Council in early drafts of the GDPR but was not accepted by the EU legislator.”
Katherine Zappone aware of distress at Tusla refusals (Conall Ó Fátharta, The Irish Examiner)
Previously: ‘To Ensure That It Can’t Be Found’
‘Every Single Thing Minister Zappone Says Here Is Factually And Legally Wrong’
John Finn tweetz:
I was doing a property shoot in Cork City last Thursday. A man stopped and started posing. An inoffensive, humorous guy, full of fun. I took his snap and he was delighted. His name was Tim Hourihane, from Bantry. He was murdered on Saturday night. RIP.
