Shay Connolly – The Five In A Row Is What We’re After

‘Cluxton gets the ball and taps on his toe,
Gives out to Cooper and away he’s goes,
Gives it on to Fenton right on the nose,
Fenton gets fouled but the ref doesn’t blow
He sees Johnny Small sneaking up on the right
Johnny sticks it o’er the bar to every Dubs delight’

Shay Connolly writes:

How ya doing folks, above is song I wrote (re: Dublin football team). Don’t know if you do this type of thing but just thought I’d send on for the craic in the hope that it might peak an interest among your readers for Saturday’s All Ireland Football replay…

FIGHT!

Meanwhile…

Via RTÉ:

RTÉ Sport will have full live coverage of the All Ireland Senior Football Final replay from Croke Park this Saturday (September 14) on RTÉ2, RTÉ Player, RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.

On the Saturday Game Live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player (5.00pm) Joanne Cantwell will be joined by Pat Spillane, Ciaran Whelan and Stephen Rochford with Ger Canning and Kevin McStay on commentary.

Jacqui Hurley and Darren Frehill on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 will be alongside Alan Brogan, Conor McManus and Colm Cooper with Darragh Maloney joined by Oisín McConville on commentary.

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta will also have full live commentary on Saturday.

On Saturday evening (10.00pm) the Saturday Game will see Des Cahill and guests Colm O’Rourke, Sean Cavanagh and Tomás Ó Sé look back at the afternoon’s action while Marty Morrissey will be at the winners’ hotel. The programme will also feature the football team of the year announcement.

Thanks Fergus McCormack

Jim Fitzpatrick (above) with artwork for the 1979 Black Rose album by Thin Lizzy, among the exhibits of Jim’s album artwork at the Ulster Museum, which also includes Lizzy’s Vagabonds of the Western World (1973)

Artist Jim Fitzpatrick writes:

If you love Thin Lizzy art head north to the Ulster Museum [for Overtones: Irish Music Art with the touring exhibition, The Art of Selling Songs: Music Graphics from the V&A] which ends on September 15.

I offered all this artwork to our National Museum absolutely FREE at least three times and no interest whatsoever. Normal for the South where art is rated on a facile ‘who you know’ basis and I’m not exactly an Irish Arts Council elite luvvie…

Jim Fitzpatrick

The Art Of Selling Songs (Ulster Museum)

Black Rose?

Vagabonds of the Western World?

Wel, as you can see, it’s a little beige in places but it’s taken a long time to find that out.

In 2015, multispectral images were sent back to Earth by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it shot by Pluto at 80,000km/h. But processing these (in order to approximate what the human eye might see) took time. To wit:

The result featured here, released three years after the raw data was acquired by New Horizons, is the highest resolution true colour image of Pluto ever taken. Visible in the image is the light-coloured, heart-shaped, Tombaugh Regio, with the unexpectedly smooth Sputnik Planitia, made of frozen nitrogen, filling its western lobe. New Horizons found the dwarf-planet to have a surprisingly complex surface composed of many regions having perceptibly different hues. In total, though, Pluto is mostly brown, with much of its muted colour originating from small amounts of surface methane energised by ultraviolet light from the Sun.

Full sized image here.

(Image: NASA, JHU APL, SwRI, Alex Parker)

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Crowds on the 7.15am train from Westport in Co Mayo to Heuston Station in Dublin on Thursday, August 22

Recently you published a report on the Irish Rail service, “People were gone demented – I’ll never travel on Irish Rail again”, in which your reporter Colin Gleeson interviewed me, my sister and my son Jamie, among others, regarding the appalling conditions on the Westport to Dublin train.

We were travelling to Dublin on the train to attend Barretstown for the weekend, as part of Jamie’s treatment for leukaemia at Crumlin Children’s Hospital.

As a result of your article, we received a phone call on Saturday while we were in Barretstown, to say that a reader had contacted your office to offer us a lift home! He had read your article and was adamant that we would not have to be subjected to such conditions on the homeward journey.

Your reader came from Dublin to Barretstown on the Sunday afternoon, and drove myself, Jamie and my sister home to Castlerea, Co Roscommon.

I just wanted to acknowledge in your paper the kindness and generosity of your reader, who sacrificed his Sunday to come to make life easier for a sick little boy he had never met before.

We cannot thank him enough. He knows who he is and will never be forgotten.

Samantha Webb,
Castlerea,
Co Roscommon.

In fairness.

A kind and generous reader (Irish Times letters page)

Related: ‘People were gone demented . . . I’ll never travel on Irish Rail again’ (August 22, The Irish Times)

Previously: “Dangerously Overcrowded”

Pic: Kieran Ryan

Balseskin Direct Provision Centre on St Margaret’s Road in Dublin 11

Movement Of Asylum Seekers in Ireland tweetz:

There is a mom with newborn in desperate need of a buggie, a baby cot and clothes for an 8 week old baby boy in Balseskin Direct Provision Centre. Please send us a message if you can help and we’ll connect you with the mom.

Anyone?

Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland


Pete Drake’s 1964 country blues hit ‘Forever’ – featuring the sonic stylings of the ‘talk box’ applied to a steel guitar long before Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh made their regular guitars ‘talk’ in the 1970s.

But long before any of that, there was the Sonovox.

awesomer

 

This morning.

At The Printworks in Dublin Castle.

The Department of Agriculture hosted a free seminar on Brexit for agri-food businesses.

Lisa O’Carroll, of The Guardian, tweetz:

Getting ready for Brexit seminar in Dublin for farmers and food businesses. 80% of about 350 delegates say they have prep started. How many think they are prepared? One lone person put hand up. On my table, gent says he is afraid if one t not crossed, will be held up.

Pics: Lisa O’Carroll

For the day that’s in it.

Meanwhile…



Thanks Bebe

This morning.

Former Fine Gael TD and Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan was confirmed as the EU’s next chief trade commissioner.

Further to this…

Jon Stone, in The Independent UK, reports:

The appointment of Phil Hogan to the role of EU trade commissioner for the next five years will see him go up against the UK’s negotiators in talks – if the Brexit process gets that far.

Mr Hogan earlier this year rubbished the UK government’s “global Britain” plan, warning that Britain would become a “medium-sized” nation with reduced bargaining power.

Just last month he accused “unelected” prime minister Boris Johnson of putting “the best interests of the Tory party ahead of the best interests of the UK”.

During Brexit talks he has developed a reputation as the Commission’s attack dog: In June last year he said the tide was going out on the “high priests of Brexit”, suggesting the British public were finally seeing through the “deception and lies” of politicians like Michael Gove and Nigel Farage, who he named.

EU puts Ireland’s commissioner who called Boris Johnson ‘unelected’ in charge of negotiating Brexit trade deal with UK (Jon Stone, The Independent UK)

Hogan confirmed as new EU Trade Commissioner (RTE)

Previously: Phil Hogan on Broadsheet

Pic: Rollingnews

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