Stop that.
Saturday and Sunday.
Stradbally, County Laois.
Music-loving ‘revellers’ at the Electric Picnic where they were entertained by Hozier (pic 9) and Billy Eilish (Pic 6) among dozens of others.
Earlier: This Is Not The Beer Talking
Behold: M45 aka the ‘Seven Sisters’ aka the Pleiades Star Cluster, looking dustier than most people have ever seen it. To wit:
Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the bright stars of the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. With a long exposure from a dark location, though, the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster becomes very evident. The featured exposure took over 12 hours and covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon. It lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus). A common legend with a modern twist is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named, leaving only six stars visible to the unaided eye. The actual number of Pleiades stars visible, however, may be more or less than seven, depending on the darkness of the surrounding sky and the clarity of the observer’s eyesight.
(Image: Marco Lorenzi (Glittering Lights)
For your consideration.
‘Through Her Eyes’.
A History of Ireland in 21 women.
Author Clodagh Finn writes:
I’ve been time-travelling, looking for forgotten women in Irish history.
Starting in the Stone Age, I found a far more rich and varied history of women than you might ever imagine from reading conventional history.
There were thinkers, toilers, soldiers, sailors – to misquote the old rhyme – and many more besides; powerbrokers, adventurers, artists and magicians.
Some favourites – St Dahalin, an early Irish miracle-worker and saint; Roesia de Verdun, a 12th-century noblewoman and the only woman ever to build a castle in Ireland; Lady Ranelagh, chemist Robert Boyle’s brilliant older sister; Cork-born Clotilde Graves, one of the first female journalists on Fleet Street.
The launch at 6pm in Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 on October 16. Everyone welcome. There will be wine…
Name those cover girls (top), anyone?
Pre-order here (Eason) and here (Dubray).
Thomas Walsh (top) has long been recognised as one of Ireland’s finest songwriters.
As the lead singer with power-pop maestros Pugwash and Neil Hannon‘s foil in The Duckworth Lewis Method, Thomas has written some of the best tunes this side of XTC and ELO.
Now our local music community have rallied round their friend, who is unwell, in his time of need by recording a tribute album in his honour titled This Could Be Good.
A wonderful gesture, we hope the album finds a home far and wide.
This Could Be Good – A Tribute To The Music of Thomas Walsh, by Various Artists
Leader of the UK House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg (left) and British prime Minister Boris Johnson
Until We Are Dogs
Johnson and Rees-Mogg
Won’t be happy
Until we are dogs
Until social democracy
Is long gone
And we are their dogs
Fetching the kill
From their glorious hunt
So happy with a pat
On the head
And a dog’s dinner
Desperate to please
Delighted to be teased
Overjoyed to be worked
To the heart-pounding bone
For nothing but a treat
And a blanket in the barn
Johnson and Rees-Mogg
Won’t be happy
Until we are dogs
Until social democracy
Is long gone
And we are their dogs
Fetching the kill
From their glorious hunt
Wretches whose only thrill
Is attacking other dogs
In dark-lit alleys
As our masters laugh
And drink and punt the money
We slaved for them to throw
On us to kill or be killed
Pitiful hopeless cunt after cunt
Johnson and Rees-Mogg
Won’t be happy
Until we are dogs
Until social democracy
Is long gone
And we are their dogs
Fetching the kill
From their glorious hunt
No longer understanding
The language they speak
But ecstatic if they approve
Of us in any way- ‘good boys!
Good girls!’ a finger through the curls
Utterly oblivious to the new routine
Which means in the event
Of any illness or unrest
It’s a bullet in the chest
And pig-swill mince at best
Roddy McDevitt
Previously: Roddy McDevitt on Broadsheet
Pic: Getty
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This afternoon.
Rochestown Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin
Fine Gael TD, Maria Bailey (above right and pic 2 with Catherine Byrne TD)) joined, top from left: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and Minister for Health Simon Harris at the launch of the government’s publication of the HSE Capital Plan in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, in Ms Bailey’s constituency.
They write themselves.
Earlier…
Minister for Health Simon Harris said the plan provides certainty for capital spending for the next three years and will deliver 250 projects.
Earlier, speaking on Today With Seán O’Rourke, Mr Harris said all of the projects promised, under Project Ireland 2040, are now secure.
He said some of the projects have already started and there were no projects delayed as a result of the increased cost of the National Children’s Hospital.
“There’s genuinely no delayed projects and the reason for that is quite simple. Paschal Donohoe made a decision in the Summer Economic Statement, which has allowed me to do this, where he set aside what he called a reserve, and that reserve is to meet the cost of the children’s hospital and the cost of broadband. It allowed to me to give the HSE certainty over its funding for 2020,” he added.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the Mokka KL50 – an all electric remake of a 1978 Garelli KL50 two-stroke motorcycle.
Stripped down and rebuilt by the Budapest-based manufacturer with a 5kW brushless motor powered by Sony lithium ion batteries (good for 40km between charges), the fuel tank now houses the electronics and control systems.
Price: tbc.
Moving back to Ireland after 30+ years in London, a few thoughts in the first month. I know all the country’s faults but *kindness* is what I’ve experienced. pic.twitter.com/pn1LBmFw6T
— Helen O’Rahilly (@HelenORahilly) August 30, 2019
Back from London, is she?
Well for some.
’tis. With her big fancy job.
In fairness.
