This afternoon.

Clontarf, Dublin 3.

Members of the DART Access for All group including top pic from left Sean O’ Kelly with Saoirse Smyth and Sophia Mulvaney (above centre) hold a protest outside Clontarf DART Station where there is no access for wheelchairs only stairs at the entrance.

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Laoise – Seriously?

If you like your pop with a capital P then you’re going to love Laoise’s new single.

The 22-year-old Galwegian singer brings an infectious enthusiasm and charisma to this come hither ditty.

The video is also an hallucinogenic magic carpet ride.

Nick says: Laoise has a seriously bright future ahead of her.

Laoise



From top: Sergeant Martin O’Meara; Manager Army Heritage Australia Neil Dailey (top left) and Major Henry Fijolek of the Austrailian Army and Army Museum of Western Australia

This morning.

The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin 4.

The Installation of Martin O’Meara’s Victoria Cross, the highest award for ‘gallantry in the face of the enemy’ that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Sergeant  O’Meara – who was born in Terryglass, County  Tipperary in 1885-  was given the award to recognise his acts of bravery at Pozieres in France in August 1916.

This Loan will be for approximately 12 months and marks the first time an Australian Government owned Victoria Cross will have left Australian Shores.

Irish Australian soldier’s Victoria Cross medal loaned to National Museum (RTE)

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Uncanny.

Chris Somers writes:

I have a housemate who cuts his own hair (he’s a filmmaker). However he has taken to disposing of it by simply throwing it out his bedroom window which another housemate, to his horror, discovered when retrieving some kale from our back garden this week.

The initial confusion and outrage was quelled by its Ireland-like shape and some thorough rinsing.

Mmf.

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Sunken buses?

No, silly.

Folklorist Terry Fagan writes:

Air Raid Shelters On Lower Gardiner Street, 1940s. I recorded some good stories of people living in the Dublin tenements during WW2. One man told me how he got locked up in prison for breaking a lock on an air raid shelter during a air raid alert.

Some flats complexes built 1939/ 40s had underground air raid shelters. Like St Mary’s Mansions on Railway Street are still there. I ran a youth club in that one, they are massive and go right around the complex. The flats were built after the knocking down of the houses of “Monto”….

Denis O’Brien

Ratings agency Fitch is suggesting that Digicel Group [94 per cent owned by Irishman Denis O’Brien] consider raising new capital or sell additional ­assets in order to prepare for its next payout on maturing bonds.

That’s because more than half of its debt maturities are due within four years and its free cash flow is negative.

[Digicel already tried to restructure its debt by ­extending the maturity dates. But an ­extension needs to be matched with increased capital or revenue to repay the maturities]

Digicel’s total debt maturities are estimated at US$6.97 billion: with US$1.3 billion in payouts set for April 2022; another US$2.9 billion in 2023; and an additional US$2.56 billion for repayment ­beyond that.

The telecoms’ total debt is more than 6.7 times its operating earnings.

The Financial Gleaner awaits a response from Digicel on whether it will contemplate selling shares or assets, going forward….

Digicel advised to sell assets or add fresh capital (Jamaica Gleaner)

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This morning.

Lord’s Cricket ground, London.

Ireland need 182 to beat England in Lord’s Test match – live! (The Guardian)

UPDATE:

Ah.

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