Seána Kerslake and Nika McGuigan in darkly comic RTÉ drama Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope; Nika with her father Barry McGuigan at the Ifta Awards, 2012; Nika

Yesterday.

Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope actress Nika McGuigan passed away at the age of 33.

A statement from Nika’s family has been released through Nika’s acting agency, The Agency.

It says:

“It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our beautiful daughter and sister, Danika “Nika” McGuigan.

“After a brief but brave battle against cancer, Nika passed away peacefully in the early hours of Tuesday 23rd July, surrounded by her loving family.

“As a family we are devastated and ask for complete privacy during this difficult period to allow us to grieve for our Nika.”

RIP.

Actress Nika McGuigan, daughter of boxing champion Barry, dies aged 33 (RTE)

Ireland’s Tim Murtagh (left) of Ireland bowls out Jason Roy of England this morning

This morning/afternoon.

Lords Cricket Ground, London, United Kingdom.

Via The Guardian:

OH MY DAYS! OH MY ABSOLUTE DAYS! IRELAND ARE HAVING A DAY OUT, ENGLAND ARE HAVING AN ENGLAND!

There were two noises: the ball hitting the front pad, then the ball hitting the back pad!

As the whoops begin from the fielding side, the umpire is ordered to reverse his decision because the ball is cleansing the stumps, and this is astonishing!

Ireland have bowled superbly! England still do not know how to bat in Test cricket!

Howzat, Charger?

FIGHT!

England v Ireland: Lord’s Test match, day one – live! (The Guardian)

Pic: Getty

Meanwhile…

Update:

Oh.

Yesterday evening.

Designer athletic-wear clad meathead fulminates following bird-flipping incident.

Location and Bus number unidentified.

Last Monday, with a bottle of Chinnery Dublin Dry Gin to literally giveaway, YOU were asked to tell us why you deserve the hooch

You entered in your thirsty tens.

Runners up:

class wario: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to the fact it’s been oolong since I’ve had a drink!

Bisted: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin as friends of mine once had a racehorse called Comrade Chinnery…a gin called Chinnery might just finish the process of ruination…

Scottser: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to my secret life as a Victorian prostitute ‘Ello Dearie, fancy a good time, my lovely?’ *raises petticoats and jiggles ankle seductively*

Fluffybiscuits: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to a weekend of sin, caused by gin, which left me with a grin, a bloke’s heart I might win…so Chinnery…am I in?

Daisy Chainsaw: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin. I DON’T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO YOU.

Winner:

Kolmo: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to our office Air-Con not functionin’, 9 people, 10 computers, pungent lunch choices, ’tis a sin for it smells like a bin, It truly smells like a bin. As we sit in this airless 28 degree cage, I scroll through the Broadsheet front page, Lo! this situation we are in could be eased with a win of a bottle of Chinnery Gin.

Thanks all.

Sip Responsibly.

Last week This Calls For A Chinnery

Chinnery Gin

Thanks Leah

From top: Madigan Solicitors, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2; Maria Bailey and  Minister for Arts Josepha Madigan

“I think there has been a fair degree of murkiness…. The degree of Josepha Madigan’s involvement should be fully transparent and should be clarified.

I think the Minister [Madigan] needs to make a full, comprehensive statement in relation to that.

At the moment we’re being told that the report says she hadn’t an involvement, but then we’re told she was involved in the initial documentation.

What does that mean?

Did she advise Maria Bailey to take the case?

She needs to answer the basic question: did she or did she not advise in the early stages Maria Bailey to take the case.”

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin

Josepha Madigan needs to clarify her involvement in Maria Bailey case, says Martin (Irish Times)

Last night: “There Have Been Inconsistencies In Deputy Bailey’s Account of Events”

Meanwhile, in 1919…

The House of Lords has been told that before the government introduced an Irish housing bill, it should first have brought forward a bill dealing specifically with Dublin, as its slums were ‘a disgrace to the United Kingdom’.

Supporting the bill, Lord Mayo agreed with the Lord Chancellor’s comments on the Dublin situation, adding:

‘The working classes and the poor in that town live in the most wretched way. They live in houses which were built for gentlefolk in the eighteenth century. They are totally unsuitable, and the sanitary arrangements are practically nil.’

‘It is a town which is a disgrace, and if the government do not see that it is properly dealt with will be a very serious matter. The people there live in a filthy state, and people who are badly housed are the prey of every sort of agitator, and of every kind of wickedness you can imagine connected with agitation.’

But we were happy.

Dublin slums a disgrace to UK, House of Lords is told (Century Ireland)

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris

Drew Harris was being driven back to Garda Headquarters at around 5.30pm when he saw a car being driven in an erratic manner in Blanchardstown.

The Commissioner contacted the Roads Policing Unit and the woman was stopped.

She was subsequently arrested and tested for alcohol and is expected to be prosecuted.

Nobody likes a whistleblower snitch.

Woman arrested after Garda Commissioner intervenes in road incident (RTÉ)

Rollingnews

A section of the Grand Canal in Inchicore, Dublin 8 has been drained due to the partial collapse of a sewer.

Canals, you’d be tempted to think
Would not disappear in a blink
But a faulty storm drain
Which collapsed, may explain
What would make a whole waterway sink

John Moynes

Pic: RTÉ

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