Why is it that we say that two men rescued a child from drowning, or two men won a Nobel Prize, but we say that two males were arrested for burglary, or two males were brought to hospital after a traffic accident?

Is a man only a “male” when he does something bad or comes to the attention of the emergency services?

Aoife Lord,
Tankardstown,
Co Meath.

Anyone?

When is a man a male man? (Irish Times letters page)

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Meet Your Maker.

Series 5 of the award-winning culture podcast about people who make things.

Hosted by Liam Geraghty , who writes:

On today’s episode we go behind the scenes of the new Netflix series Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance with director Louis Leterrier, puppeteers Louise Gold and Damian Farrell (a Dubliner) and author Caseen Gaines.

You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Meet Your Maker

Meanwhile…

Pics: Aerial.ie

UPDATE:

Yesterday.

On the Garda Laois and Offaly Facebook page, the gardaí wrote:

#ElectricPicnic gates opened at 4pm today and within minutes a number of seizures of illegal drugs have been made. Gardaí are carrying out searches and are reminding people attending that any seizures made will have consequences for the individual. Keeping people safe and free from harm is important. Cocaine, Ketamine, LSD, MDMA have been seized so far today.

Garda Síochána Laois Offaly (Facebook)

Simon Coveney (left) and Boris Johnson in Dublin in 2017

“Boris Johnson is outlining a very clear and firm position but it is a totally unreasonable position that the EU cannot facilitate and he must know that…”

“We all want to get a deal but, at the moment, nothing credible has come from the UK government in terms of alternatives to the backstop.”

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney this morning.

Meanwhile…

British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps insisted Britain had made alternative proposals to replace the backstop, and it was wrong of Ireland and other EU countries to suggest otherwise.

“It’s just not true,” he said.

“So it’s a cover when they keep saying: ‘You are not putting forward ideas’- we are putting forward ideas”.

Johnson ‘totally unreasonable’ in backstop dispute – Coveney (RTÉ)

Rollingnews

The storm is upon them.

As Dorian spun into the warm, open waters of the Atlantic Thursday, concern grew about the storm’s projected path towards the United States, where it is expected to strike as a major hurricane over the upcoming holiday weekend…

Dorian to strengthen through Labor Day weekend, make US landfall as major hurricane (AccuWeather)

Cycling advocate Oisin O’Connor meets Shane Ross.

James Gallagher writes:

Since Yuri Gagarin’s last-minute toilet break in 1961, each Russian space mission begins with a call of nature

Cosmonauts always agree
That it’s vital to sprinkle some wee
On the wheel of a bus
But now there’s a fuss:
Their new suit has no fly we can see

John Moynes

Pic: Getty

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