MORE to folly
MORE to folly
ATM in @TescoIrl store. Why no Irish? pic.twitter.com/NKcqK7D1SE
— Tús Áite le Michelle Nic Grianna (@TusAite) June 12, 2019
Splutteraigh!
Put a JCB ina shuí.
Troid!
‘Off Message’
A brand new media podcast hosted by Pat Mahoney.
Via Off Message:
…soon-to-be-gigless (though probably not for long) Lise Hand (top left), political writer with The Times and The Sunday Times, Ireland edition explores with Pat O’Mahony why she thinks the paper [The Times] is shutting [its print edition and scaling down its digital presence] and reveals how she’s dealing with it.
Plus she comes clean on the life of the political hack, the impact of social media on the world she covers, the very real downside of the closure of local newspapers, and much, much more…
What the heck is going on in and around the optically dark star-forming region of the Cave Nebula, sez you. Easy now. NASA’s orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the scene in four colours of infrared light. To wit:
The Cave Nebula, catalogued as Sh2-155, is quite bright in infrared, revealing details not only of internal pillars of gas and dust, but of the illuminating star cluster too – all near the top of the image. The red glow around the Cave’s entrance is created by dust heated by bright young stars. To the right is Cepheus B, a star cluster that formed previously from the same cloud of gas and dust. Other interesting stars of Cepheus come to light in infrared as well, including those illuminating an even younger nebula toward the image bottom, and a runaway star pushing a bow shock, tinged in red near the image centre. This region spans about 50 light years and lies about 2,500 light years toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus).
(Image: NASA, JPL-Caltach, Spitzer Space Telescope)
Oh.
Yesterday.
Blacklion, County Cavan.
Pic: Nick
Yesterday’s Extinction Rebellion’ protest outside Leinster House
A tipping point?
Termagent writes;
First thing I ask myself when I see a protest is “how sane do these people look”. And this crowd did not pass the test. And why would you make a load of signs that just have cryptic symbols on them? That’s completely contrary to the point of a big sign….
A graphic but essential warning of impending doom?
Or gooey fear porn?
The choice if yours.
Yesterday: Bad Blood
Geniius
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcqP4db5KU
Audio (and occasional visual) outtakes from a 1992 recording session for Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ matched with sketches made at the time by illustrators trying to keep up with the late great Robin Williams.
Calling all 1980s music fans.
I (‘sheet Music Editor) am offering you the chance to win TWO (count ’em) tickets to the Forever Young festival which takes place from July 5-7 in Palmerstown House, near Naas, County Kildare.
It’s time to dig out the shoulder pads, backcomb that big bouffant, slip on the leg warmers and spangly jewellery and party like it’s 1982.
The line-up for the weekend is ‘a veritable who’s who of the decade that they could not kill’, including The Human League, Marc Almond, Kim Wilde, Holly Johnson, Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins, T’Pau, Level 42 (careful with that slap bass!), Midge Ure, Bonnie Tyler, Heaven 17, Big Country and Jimmy Somerville.
There’s camping at the festival ‘to suit all tastes and budgets’ and there will be regular daily return buses from Main Street in Naas, Naas-Sallins train station and from Aston Quay in Dublin.
For a chance to win two day tickets to Saturday and Sunday (not camping tickets, sorry!), just become the 80th person to correctly answer the following question:
Holly Johnson was the lead singer of which 1980s chart-topping group?
Lines will stay open until we have a winner.
Frankie Nick says: Good luck!
UPDATE:
A serious flaw in the competition (which was Bodger’s idea) has been detected (by TheQ47 below) that would allow a lurker to wait until the 79th entry and ninja-like sneak in and claim the 80th spot with some ease. Very sorry. I will pick a random name out of the hat at 6pm. You may also a request a suitable song by way of apology.
We’re setting up a new Citizen’s Assembly on gender equality. We’ve made great strides in improving equality in Ireland in recent years, but we’re still falling short. The pace of change is too slow; it could take generations before men and women are equal. We want to change that pic.twitter.com/1Ptkht24sS
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) June 12, 2019
This afternoon.
Government Buildings, Duiblin 2.
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan (top left) realises he may never see full equality in his lifetime.
Hence the dismay.
More as we get it.