Unusually bendy people.
This afternoon.
IMMA, KIlmainham, Dublin
The launch of the Dublin Fringe festival 2019 which celebrates its 25th birthday from September 7 – 22 with performance artist Deirdre Griffin (above centre) and dancers Rachel Ní Bhraonáin (right) and Lucia Kickham (left).
Isaac Jones – Listen
In the mood for some slinky acid jazz?
Then put your hands together for Isaac Jones who was hit on a punchy lounge groove Jamiroquai would give one of his many feathered hats for.
The video, directed and edited by Luke Murphy, is a hoot too.
Actors Ronan Carey and Lauren-Shannon Jones have their date ruined by a sadistic waiter and kitchen staff. But is everything as it seems?
Isaac also wrote the music for the rap drama Beat which was a standout at last year’s Dublin Fringe Festival.
Nick says: Something is happening here, Mr Jones…
This day 115 years ago – 17 July 1904 – camogie was played in public for the first time at a Féis in Navan, Co. Meath.
The match was between Craobh an Chéitinnigh and Cúchulainns.
A stick-and-ball game, camogie is almost identical to hurling, but played by women instead of men. pic.twitter.com/R5dQyHmkVq
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 17, 2019
Coached by two lads.
FIGHT!
Oh.
This afternoon.
Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2.
Grattan Healy tweetz:
Electric vehicle not even connected & blocking EV charging point…
Not just an ICE problem. Indeed it seems neither EV is actually charging.
We need amendments to parking laws ASAP if the EV thing is going to work …
Anyone?
This afternoon.
Dublin City Centre today.
Protestors from Extinction Rebellion Ireland staged a ‘slow cycle’ along the Quays to “highlight the impact of carbon emissions from car traffic in the capital”.
Cyclists made their way from Dublin’s Heuston Station to the 3 Arena carrying banners asking the public to choose between making Dublin a ‘carpool or a swimming pool’, referring to ‘rising’ sea water levels.
We may drown in hyperbole.
Meanwhile..
Amen, brah.
Neil Young posted this message (top) on his archives website.
The duet he sung with Bob Dylan at Nowlan Park [Kilkenny] last Sunday was a tribute to his late manager Elliot Roberts who died earlier this month.
The song ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken?‘ is an old American spiritual popularised by The Carter Family and was recorded by Dylan in 1961.
Monday: Nowlan In The Wind
🚨New Podcast Alert🚨
A 400-year-old mystery wrapped inside a riddle with a large measure of adventure on top! 🗺 Treasure Island: The Hunt for The Falcon Blanco ep 1 airs at 6:30pm on @drivetimerte & is available to stream wherever you get your podcasts 📲 #FalconBlanco pic.twitter.com/zSQAfy4pDd— RTÉ Radio 1 (@RTERadio1) July 17, 2019
Via RTÉ:
A mystery wrapped inside a riddle with a large measure of adventure on top…Journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes has spent a year investigating if the wreck of a Spanish Armada galleon lies off the coast of Inishbofin for a new original podcast series for RTÉ.
Over six episodes, Philip brings listeners with him as he investigates claims that a dive expedition 50 years ago located the wreck of the Falcon Blanco off Inishbofin.
The divers were commissioned by an enigmatic civil servant who had made a life’s study of the location of the Falcon Blanco, believing it to be a pay-ship of the Armada, with untold wealth on board. But their accounts of what they did or didn’t find on the sea bed are at odds with the accounts of other witnesses.
The first episode of Treasure Island: The Hunt for the Falcon Blanco will be broadcast on Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1 tonight at 6.30pm.
The first four episodes of the podcast are available now wherever you get your podcasts and the final two episodes “will be released at a later date”.
This morning.
Outside Portrush, County Antrim.
Bookmaker Paddy Power writes:
We have marked the arrival of Tiger Woods to Ireland for The Open at Royal Portrush with a cheeky reminder of how far he’s come, 10 years on from the worst drive of his life… after he hit rock bottom when an unsuspecting fire hydrant proved no match for his black Cadillac Escalade back in 2009.
…The initial billboard (top), which is the equivalent in size to a double decker bus, features a SUV shaped hole ripped through it.
While the second has a 3 tonne Cadillac Escalade plunged into it.
Pics: Karen Morgan
Newly elected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and (very) outgoing President Jean-Claude Juncker.
I like this emerging tradition that the EU Commissioner must have a name that would make a good villain in a Die Hard movie. The new EU Supremo’s name Ursula von der Leyen isn’t quite as good as the last one, the all-time classic Jean-Claude Juncker, but the custom is carried on. https://t.co/TuNLWekZdV
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) July 17, 2019
But Jean-Claude Juncker had the best “Die Hard” Euro-villain name because he’s sounds like a cross between a supercilious French skier and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder’s sternest uncle.
That he was a handsy Joe Biden on a bender only made it all better. https://t.co/EbmilU43p2
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) July 17, 2019
In fairness.
Yesterday: Shane Heneghan: Electing Ursula
Yesterday.
The Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The former army munitions store earmarked for mindless redevelopment under the Phoenix Park Visitor Experience Master Plan and Detailed Scheme Design for a New Visitor Hub.
Yeah. You and whose army?
FIGHT!
Top pic: Wikipedia
