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This afternoon.
Cork city’s first cycle map.
The brainchild of the Transport & Mobility Forum (TMF) and the Cork Cycling Campaign, the routes were suggested by regular cyclists based on segregation, quality and connectedness.
TMF co-ordinator Sandy McGroarty said “cycling around Cork can be made more enjoyable by using the routes suggested on the map which are often safer, quieter and quicker than other routes”.
Hmm.
Yesterday.
Portarlington, County Laois
Eric Hennelly Flanagan writes:
Rúaidhrí Conroy [Tayto] and Ciaran Fitzgerald [Ossie] immortalised on the old Savoy cinema in Portarlington where scenes from Into The West were shot in 1992.
Artist, anyone?
Meanwhile…
This day 60 years ago – 24 June 1959 – Walt Disney attended the world premiere of Darby O'Gill and the Little People at the Theatre Royal, Dublin.
Set in the fictional Irish town of Rathcullen, and based on the work of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, the film featured Sean Connery. pic.twitter.com/7NfySmOon1
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) June 24, 2019
This morning.
Donnybrook Road and Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
An abandoned house in Donnybrook, among a row of properties where a development company has been granted permission to build a seven-story apartment block containing 94 homes despite dozens of objections from local residents…
FIGHT!
Previously: Donnybrook Unfair
Leigh Michael (featuring Staz Beats) – Fly High: Rapper Vs Seagulls
Bray, County Wicklow-based rapper Leigh writes:
A quick video from myself and Staz Beats. Its a single verse inspired by our feathered friends the seagulls and the mischief they can get up too…
The symbiotic relationship between nectar-harvesting insects and blooming flowers, explored in sumptuous high definition by filmmaker and colour artist Thomas Blanchard.
The insects were shot in 8K resolution and the blooming flowers are made up of over 5,000 high-definition photographs so full screen for best effect.
EMR – Boy Moon
There are so many talented musicians in this small country beavering away under the radar, just waiting to be discovered. Step forward Eimear O’Sullivan, a singer/songwriter from Skerries, north County Dublin, who records under the moniker EMR.
Having released three EPs and a wonderful Christmas single (no, really), EMR is back with a moonstruck ode to love’s young dream.Unshowy acoustic guitar and minimalist piano set the mood for EMR’s incredibly intimate, yearning vocal. Sweetness follows.
The video (above), with its clips of the gravity-defying Peter Pan, complements the song perfectly.
Check out her website
Nick says: Fly me to the moon.
Um.
Saturday.
Gresham Hotel, Dublin 1
Scenes from the third Social Democrats National Conference.
In a joint statement, co leaders Catherine Murphy and Roisin Shorthall said:
“People are increasingly asking the question – where is Fine Gael taking us and is it really where we want to go?
We had many doorstep conversations at last months’ local elections about overspends on the Children’s Hospital and the National Broadband plan and people were dismayed at the laissez-faire attitude of Fine Gael to such colossal cost overruns while basic services are starved of critical investment.
People are seeing, more clearly than ever, the disparity between the politics of privilege and the lives of ordinary working people. The flathúleach approach of the spin-perfect glossy privilege of Fine Gael is at odds with the daily lives of those working to stand still.
Fine Gael pay lip-service to a so-called squeezed middle but they never put any squeeze on those at the very top of the tree. And, for most people who are not at the top of that tree, the current government has failed.”
Fine Gael failing people who feel their ordinary aspirations are a pipe-dream (Social Democrats)
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— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) June 24, 2019
As you wNOMNOMNOM
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, from its proposal to regulate social media across Europe; solicitor Simon McGarr
Yesterday.
Samantha McCaughren, in the Sunday Independent, reported that the Government is considering proposals from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland that it be given the power to regulate content on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Ireland and across Europe.
Solicitor and director at Data Compliance Europe Simon McGarr spoke to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland about the proposal this morning and said he didn’t think BAI should be given those powers.
He said:
“I think that the proposal that they’ve [BAI] made today, and they’re publishing later this morning, is basically 98 pages intended to make that argument that they are [right group for the job] but demonstrating throughout exactly why they should not be the body to do that.”
“I think perhaps the best example would be to think of whether or not we thought that the 1950 Censorship Board of Ireland would be the correct body to be put in charge of a modern censorship organisation or a classification organisation.
“The argument that would be made is: ‘well, we have the most experience censoring things and therefore we should be put in charge of all these other censoring activities’.
“It’s precisely because of its institutional history, not because of the people on the board but because of the legislation that was created by the Broadcasting Act of 2009.
“While the institution of the BAI doesn’t have the right instincts, institutional instincts and experience for regulating a completely different form of communication because what has happened here in this body’s proposal is that they have taken the concept of regulating broadcast and applied it in certain areas to regulating areas between individuals.
“So we are now looking at a proposal for example in this, that they would be able to take down private messages, including encrypted messages, sent by things such as WhatsApp or IM message between individuals and they’d be able to censor those messages.”
He added:
“For example, we don’t open all the envelopes in An Post to check whether or not we think that the content is acceptable and deliver on the basis of somebody censoring that information.”
The interview can be listened to in full in the Soundcloud link above or here
Mr McGarr has also written a blog post about the matter here
Why the BAI is not the body to regulate the internet (Simon McGarr, Tuppenceworth.ie)
