Yesterday evening.

Government Buildings, Dublin 2.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar and Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan launching the ‘Housing For All’ 2021 progress report.

Via BreakingNews:

The Government said that the latest data indicated that it will likely meet or exceed targets for new homes in 2022.

Responding to questions from reporters, Mr Martin also took the opportunity to reignite an increasingly personal row with the Sinn Fein front bench.

Mr Martin lashed out in particular at the privately educated Sinn Fein housing spokesperson Eoin O Broin, as well as accusing the party of serially blocking housing developments on ideological grounds.

“There’s been very deliberative attempt by Sinn Fein to create a political narrative, in my view a fraudulent narrative, that members of the Government parties are some elite upper-class cabal who don’t understand the need for housing on the ground for ordinary people,” he said.

“It seems to be Sinn Fein is ruthlessly exploiting the housing crisis for electoral advantage.”

Government defends housing record amid war of words with Sinn Fein (BreakingNews)

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Spotify has begun removing music by Neil Young (right) after the rock star called for the streaming platform to choose between him and podcaster Joe Rogan (left)

There was a Young fellow called Neil
Who just couldn’t see the appeal
Of some guy called Joe
Who still doesn’t know
That Covid and vaccines are real

John Moynes

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The Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov (top) has invited fishermen to  discuss the Russian military drill planned for 240km off Ireland’s southwest coast

This afternoon.

…Via RTÉ News

Members of the Irish South and West Fish Producers’ Organisation are to attend a meeting in the Russian Embassy in Dublin tomorrow.

The Ambassador of Russia to Ireland H.E. Yuriy Filatov issued the invitation to hear directly the fishermen’s concerns over proposed Russian naval exercises which are planned to take place off the south west coast early next month.

The delegation of fishermen is expected to highlight the potential harm to fish stocks and cetaceans from the effect of military sonar use and possible disruption from live ammunition drills in the area during the drills.

It is expected that they will also formally request that the planned area for the exercises be relocated further south west into deeper water off the continental shelf.

Russian ambassador to meet fishermen over naval exercise concerns (RTÉ)

RollingNews/ The Irish South and West Fish Producer’s Organisation Ltd

Yesterday: Red Snapper

This afternoon.

De Montfort House, Dublin 7

Unite Executive Council Member Therese Moloney (red cap) with supporters, including Joan Collins TD (pic 3 centre), outside the Legion of Mary HQ, before handing in a letter to Legion President Mary Murphy seeking a meeting to help secure the future of Northern Ireland’s sole woman-only hostel.

Legion-owned Regina Coeli House in west Belfast has 21 beds and provides support to homeless women, women who have been trafficked, the sexually abused, those suffering from addictions as well as survivors of domestic abuse.

Protests to keep the doors open, including sit-ins, are now in their third week.

Belfast Mayor Nicholl blasts Regina Coeli House management ‘silence’ (ITV)

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Met Eireann’s ‘Ensemble Forecast Probability Maps‘ are live!

Finally, sez you.

Meanwhile…

 

Stop that.

Ensemble Forecast Probability Maps (Met Eirean)

Johnny Marr (left)  and Morrissey in 1984

‘This is not a rant or an hysterical bombast. It is a polite and calmly measured request: Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews? Would you please, instead, discuss your own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music?

‘If you can, would you please just leave me out of it?’

Extract from an open letter to Johnny Marr from Morrissey

Yesterday.

Meanwhile…

Twang!

This morning.

An Open letter To Johnny Marr (Messages from Morrissey)

Pic: NME

This afternoon.

Had to be done.

Earlier…

Last night/this morning.

A massive trucker convoy is making its way across Canada with the intent of converging onto Parliament Hill in Ottowa, Ontario this weekend, voicing opposition to the federal government’s mandatory vaccination policies.

Meanwhile…

Last night/this morning.

Getty/RebelNews

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