This evening.
Near Dalymount Park, Phobsborough, Dublin 7.
Football fans light flares as they are escorted by the Garda Public Order Unit directly to Dalymount Park football stadium, ahead of tonight’s Bohemians vs Rovers FAI Cup semi-final match. A Garda ban on overtime was lifted in order to provide coverage for the match.
Shamrock Rovers outclass rivals Bohs to book FAI Cup final berth (RTÉ)
The year is flying by.
As September prepares to succumb to October, we thought we’d give away a Golden Discs voucher – worth a staggering €25 – to the best entrant who can tell us their favourite song mentioning specific months of the year.
Lines MUST close at 5.45pm EXTENDED until Midnight.
Nick says: Here’s mine…
Behold the centre of the Milky Way galaxy – a mere 26,000 light years away (as the photon flies) toward the constellation of Sagittarius. To wit:
Even on a dark night, you can’t really see it though. Gaze in that direction, and your sight-line is quickly obscured by intervening interstellar dust. In fact, dark dust clouds, glowing nebulae, and crowded star fields are packed along the fertile galactic plane and central regions of our galaxy. This annotated view (top pic), a mosaic of dark sky images, highlights some favourites, particularly for small telescope or binocular equipped sky-gazers. The cropped version (second pic) puts the direction to the galactic centre on the far right. It identifies well-known Messier objects like the Lagoon nebula (M8), the Trifid (M20), star cloud M24, and some of E.E. Barnard’s dark markings on the sky. A full version extends the view to the right toward the constellation Scorpius, in all covering over 20 degrees across the centre of the Milky Way.
Huge view here.
(Image: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva)
Clinging On
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Tanaiste Simon Coveney outside EU headquarters after a meeting with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
This afternoon.
Brussels, Belgium.
The Tanaiste has said that even if a Brexit deal is agreed, Britain will have to remain part of the EU’s single market and customs union for up to four years to allow time to negotiate a free trade agreement.
Simon Coveney said there had been no “serious proposal” from Britain to break the Brexit deadlock over the Irish backstop and that “significant gaps” remained between the two sides after meeting with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, in Brussels.
Mr Coveney said that if there was a deal, a transition period of two to four years would be needed to negotiate a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU….
Good luck with that.
Ireland says Britain could have to stay part of EU for 4 years after Brexit deal agreed (Telegraph)
Earlier: Good Friday?
Pic: AP
Free next Wednesday?
Dr Joe Byrne, of the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway, writes:
I’m co-organising an event on October 2 that might interest your Galwegian readers.
We’re celebrating 100 years since republican-revolutionary-turned-chemistry-professor Tom Dillon (top) joined the staff at NUI Galway (or UCG, as was) with an evening of science, history and dance…
He was a member of the Irish Volunteers and acted as Chemical Advisor in the 1916 Rising….
Professor Dillon, was appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1919. A century later, and the scientific topics he started exploring, such as the study of carbohydrates and sugars, as well as research into Ireland’s seaweeds, are still relevant…
Last night.
Zozimus, South Anne Street, Dublin 2.
This just gin.
Emily Cox writes:
The great and the good of the Irish Drinks world were out in force to celebrate the first-ever Best Gin ‘Oscar’ Win for an Irish Gin in Dublin last night.
Dublin’s renowned Zozimus bar & cocktail venue threw a gala party in honour of Leitrim brand, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, winning the Best Gin Award 2019 at the Flaviar Spirit Awards in New York.
The win has boosted the gin’s popularity across the world resulting in the brand landing in ten new countries in just 6 months, with Finland becoming the 50thinternational market to list the much-loved Irish Gin…
From top: group shot; Laura Pasquale and Kevin Flanagan; John and Agneta Crean; Alice Brophy and Marianne Healy; Clare Campbell and Keifa Murray; Pat Rigney and John Crean.
Hic.
Pics: Karen Morgan
This morning.
St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule, County Dublin.
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral in Dublin of an Irish man who died in England without any known family.
Joseph Tuohy, who was originally from Co Tipperary, died on 11 July aged 83 in London.
His friend of many years Brian Boylan, whom he met in the 1970s in London in a homeless hostel, and local parishioner Margaret Browne, founder of Friends of the Forgotten Irish, led the mourners.
A lone piper led people into St Joseph’s Church in Glasthule, Co Dublin.
Inside the church there was standing room only at the Requiem Mass.
Hundreds pay respect to Irish man who died in London (RTÉ)
Previously: For Joseph
Pic: Tim Ryan
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