Above from left: Brid SmithTD and Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Gino Kenny TD

This afternoon.

Buswell’s, Dublin 2.

People Before Profit hold a press conference outlining details in  their pre-Budget 2020 submission document entitled, System Change – An Alternative Budget for People and Planet.

People Before Profit

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Last night.

On BBC One’s Question Time.

American-British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster Bonnie Greer, who’s from Chicago but has lived in the UK since 1986, said:

“Often times,  hear people talking about Ireland, as if this country [UK] owns Ireland. Ireland owes this country nothing.

“Ireland owes this country no concession, it owes it no quarter, it owes it nothing.

“The third thing that I would add, too, is that the Good Friday Agreement, in spite of its rather benign name – the Good Friday Agreement is a truce.

“And it’s a truce because the United States of America and the EU sat down with the country to make it happen. We have to be much more serious about this.

“And the third thing I want say is that the United States is Irish and anybody who thinks that they’re going to get a deal through and have a relationship, a trade relationship with the United States, that shafts Ireland, you got another thing coming.

“It’s not gonna happen.

“I’m from Chicago, that’s where I was born and you know what we do on St Patrick’s Day? We dye the river green. People are very serious about Ireland in the United States. Don’t mess with it.”

BBC Question Time

Thanks Spaghetti Hoop

Meanwhile…

Hardcore.

Thanks Nat King Coleslaw

Meanwhile…

Who you calling savages?

Today’s London Evening Standard.

Thanks Ken

This afternoon.

On RTÉ’s News At One…

RTÉ Online’s Motoring Editor Donal Byrne told broadcaster Áine Lawlor that motorists can expect a “double whammy” in next week’s budget in terms of the carbon tax.

He said it’s likely the Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will announce tax increases on new diesel and petrol-run cars.

And he said a €6 per tonne carbon tax increase is also on the cards.

Ireland’s carbon tax – which hasn’t been increased since 2014 – currently stands at €20 per tonne.

Mr Byrne explained:

“When you go to fill your car at the pumps, it’s going to cost you somewhere between €1.20 and €1.60 extra to fill your car.”

But you get to save the world from imminent EXTINCTION.

Which is nice.

Earlier: A Modest Proposal

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Meanwhile…

Catherine Murphy

Yesterday.

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy asked Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe  for the following:

‘The amount collected to date in carbon tax; the methods of dispersing the revenue generated from the tax; the purposes for which the revenue collected from the tax has been used for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter?”

In a written answer, Minister Donohoe responded:

‘The total annual net receipts from carbon tax are set out in the following table:

Total Net Receipts:

2010; €223,084,537

2011: €298,231,058

2012: €353,954,210

2013: €388,376,990

2014: €385,361,885

2015: €418,996,237

2016: €430,247,558

2017: €419,603,362

2018: €431,131,923

Total: 3,348,987,760

Carbon tax receipts to end August 2019 were approximately €281,800,000, some €20 million (6.8%) behind forecast. To date the revenue from carbon tax has been remitted to the central fund and therefore used to fund public services.’

Carbon Tax Yield (Oireachtas,ie)

 

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In fairness.

Thanks Mark Geary

You are?

Then may we direct you to the Alternative Sunday Social Club in The Wild Duck on Sycamore Street, Dublin 2, where former Dixons alumnus Ed McGinley (whose excellent song ‘Bring’ can be accessed above) will be playing for your pleasure.

Ed will be previewing material from his forthcoming album, Tangled Roots & Twisted Tales. His band features Darragh O’Kelly (organ & piano) Garvan Gallagher (bass) and Kevin Malone (drums).

Special guest is Jerome Arrigan, making his Dublin debut, and as always doors are 4pm and tix are €10.

Nick says: Better Ed than dead.

Edv McGinley

Behold: the splendid spiral galaxy M33 – a trifling 3 million light years away, it’s also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. To wit:

The galaxy’s inner 30,000 light-years or so are shown in this magnificent 25 panel telescopic mosaic. Based on image data from space and ground-based telescopes, the portrait of M33 shows off the galaxy’s reddish ionised hydrogen clouds or HII regions. Sprawling along loose spiral arms that wind toward the core, M33’s giant HII regions are some of the largest known stellar nurseries, sites of the formation of short-lived but very massive stars. Intense ultraviolet radiation from the luminous, massive stars ionises the surrounding hydrogen gas and ultimately produces the characteristic red glow. To enhance this image, broadband data were used to produce a colour view of the galaxy and combined with narrowband data recorded through a hydrogen-alpha filter. That filter transmits the light of the strongest visible hydrogen emission line.

Huge image here (caution: you will tend to feel insignificant in the Grand Scheme.)

(Image: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope – Image Processing: Robert Gendler. Additional Data: BYU, Robert Gendler, Johannes Schedler, Adam Block – Copyright: Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope, NAOJ)

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Earlier today.

Fianna Fáil TD’s Michael McGrath and Barry Cowen held a press conference to give an “update” on next week’s Budget 2020 process.

Virgin One Media’s political correspondent Gavan Reilly noted:

Oh.

More as they get it.

Top, from left:  Rian Ledwidge, Frida Maguire, Alba Keogh and Kyle Mc Donnell at Tayto Park in Ashbourne, Co. Meath, as the park announced a brand new kids attraction for Halloween – The Wicked Adventures at Tayto Park

Theres never anything  to do on Halloween.

Until now!

Ian Collins writes:

Tayto Park, Ireland’s favourite theme park and zoo located in Ashbourne, County. Meath, is excited to announce a brand-new kids attraction for Halloween – The Wicked Adventures at Tayto Park, which opens Saturday, October 18

On arrival at The Wicked Adventures at Tayto Park, transform into your favourite Halloween character at the Tayto Park Face Painting Hut, before stepping inside the Wicked Witches Lair where the spooktacular adventure trail begins.

..creep through the mysterious passageways of the pumpkin walkthrough and say hello to some of your favourite Halloween characters, but be prepared for a trick or a treat!

The magic and fun continues at the Wacky Wizard’s Mansion, be amazed by spooky magicians and learn some beastly breaking dancing, zombie zumba and much more before partying like a mon-star at the Wacky Wizard’s Mansion disco!

We have ONE (yes, one) FREE Family pass for up four people to giveaway to a Broadsheet reader.

To enter, Just tell us your most memorable (or least memorable) house-to-house Halloween collection moment.

Lines MUST close at 3.33pm Extended until 6.06pm MIDNIGHT.

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