They don’t normally do this.

Just some of the items left behind by 1980s-loving ‘revellers’ attending the Forever Young Festival in Palmerston House, Naas, County Kildare.

No bumbags then?

Meanwhile, Speedy, who won a pair of Nick’s Free Tixto the festival, writes:

Thanks to everyone there at Broadsheet, Nick Kelly, Karen & all at Forever Young for a fantastic weekend of festivalling. The crowd, the line up, the outfits & the atmosphere were amazing but the free tickets were best of all! Roll on Forever Young 2020, can’t wait to do it all again. Thanks a million!

Forever Young (Facebook)

Monday:A Kind Of Magic

How many?

Dublin Rental Investigator tweetz:

Silas Lima has two properties currently for rent at 37 Kings Avenue and Dorset St both 2 bed properties with current tenants but vacancies for 10 people. Why are you allowing this [Minister for Housing]  Eoghan Murpohy and Fine Gael have brought the tenements back….

He died for Ireland.

Having executed 77 IRA prisoners, including his best man.

Mmmf.

Pic via National Library of Ireland

This afternoon.

In the Dáil, during Leaders’ Questions…

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that he has “absolute, total and full confidence” in Fine Gael TD and Junior Minister for Defence Paul Kehoe.

It follows calls for Mr Kehoe to resign, following his comments at the weekend in which he said two Irish Naval Service vessels, LE Eithne and LE Orla, are in the dock for “planned maintenance” and not crew shortages.

This was despite the Navy’s most senior officer Cmdr Mick Malone saying they were tied up because of manpower issues.

Mr Varadkar told Mr Martin that Mr Kehoe had been briefed at the Irish Naval Service base in Haulbouline, Cork, last Friday and “the remarks he made to the media reflect the briefing he was given in Haulbouline with officials and senior Navy staff present”.

Previously: Which Is It?

We’re Gonna Need A Smaller Boat

Behold: the De Tomaso P72 Coupe – a 60th anniversary offering from the Italian marque paying curvaceous homage to the short-lived De Tomaso P70 of the mid 1960s.

Only 72 of these carbon fibre-bodied, quilted leather-lined presumed track monsters (on account of as-yet unspecified power plants) will be made.

Yours for just over three quarters of a million euro.

uncrate

At the Crawford Art Gallery at Emmet Place, Cork city

Frank O’Dea, of Balla Bán Art Gallery in Dublin, writes:

“Spotted this recently on a visit to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork City. Nineteenth century art instruction often included the use of sculptural models as teaching aids for drawing, painting, study of anatomy and sculpture study, known as Drawing Casts to emphasize the study of form and the visual effect that light and shadow had on these forms.

“But I don’t think they meant to paint them literally unless you’re in the Rebel County that is!

“‘Recasting Canova’ is the title of this ongoing exhibition in the Sculpture Galleries of Crawford Art Gallery in Cork and these historic depictions of gods and mortals have formed the basis of their collection since 1819.

“Might be worth checking out if it’s something that tickles your fancy!”

Recasting Canova (Crawford Art Gallery)

From top: Denis O’Brien; CEO of Granahan McCourt, the preferred bidder for the National Broadband Plan, David McCourt and former Minister for Communications Denis Naughten; tables from the Public Accounts Committee’s latest periodic report

Yesterday, the Public Accounts Committee published its latest periodic report which included a chapter on the National Broadband Plan and its meetings about the same.

In the report, the committee said it was “unacceptable” that significant changes to the National Broadband Plan –  made without a new cost/benefit analysis test being carried out – resulted in escalated costs.

The PAC is recommending that a new cost/benefit analysis test be carried out before the final contract is signed.

It also found the procurement process “may have partly deterred parties interested in tendering for the project from doing so” and has called for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to carry out a review of the procurement process.

PAC found…

“As of 28 March 2019, the total expenditure on the NBP since 2013 was €25.4m. The Department [of Communications] informed the committee that the majority of the spend to date had been on consultancy fees.

“The committee was informed that the value-for-money requirement of the NBP was governed by the public procurement process but consultancy fees had risen since 2014.

“The NBP was issued for tender in December 2015. However, the plan has undergone what members considered to be significant changes since it was first explored and these changes have influenced the procurement process.

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From top: LÉ Eithne and LÉ Orla

Yesterday: Derek Mooney: A Coach And Horses To Shift Kehoe

Which Is It?

Pics; Rollingnews/Irish Naval Service

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