This afternoon.

Slane Castle, County Meath

Hippy squire Lord Henry Mountcharles (centre) surveys his estate ahead of the Metallica concert with MCD event co-ordinator Eamon Fox (left) and Chief Superintendent Fergus Healy.

Up to 75,000 ‘headbanging revellers’ are expected on Saturday, June 8.

Even some ladypersons.

Probably with the band but still.

Slane Castle ready to rock with Metallica (Meath Chronicle)

Photocall Ireland

Meanwhile…

Mark Paul, in The Irish Times, reports:

The Central Bank of Ireland has fined Permanent TSB €21 million for the “unacceptable harm” it caused certain tracker mortgage customers, including some who lost their homes, when it wrongly denied them their discounted rate.

The fine, which was originally set at €30 million but discounted by 30 per cent due to PTSB’s agreement to the terms of a settlement scheme, is the largest ever issued by the State’s banking regulator.

PTSB fined €21 million over ‘unacceptable harm’ caused by tracker mortgage scandal (Mark Paul, The Irish Times)

Behold: the Ferrari SF90 Stradale – the first four wheel drive racing Ferrari, the first plug-in hybrid Ferrari and the first time Ferrari has had a V8 as its flagship. But wait, there’s more. Three electric motors paired with a 769 hp, 4.0L twin-turbo also make this the quickest Ferrari of all time.

The SF90 accelerates to 100km/h in 2.5 seconds. 4.2 seconds later, it reaches 200km/h before topping out at 340km/h. Named in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team, it will shortly be joined by the lighter, carbon fibre enhanced  Assetto Fiorano – an even quicker, more track-hugging variant.

Price tba but likely to be €1,000,000+.

uncrate

This morning/afternoon

Government Buildings,

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar meets UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn for a chat about Northern Ireland, Brexit and working class emancipation. Not sure about the last bit.

Last night: He Is Among Us

Update:

That seemed to go well.

I’ll see myself out.

Rollingnews

From top: Independent TD Micheal Lowry (third from right) with his political team John ‘Rocky’ McGrath, his son Micheál Lowry, Michael O’Meara, Shane Lee and Eddie Moran who all won seats in the local elections in Tipperary; a supposed fan of Lowry in Jamaica 

Michael Lowry TD writes on his Facebook page:

Kev is back in Montego Bay and is delighted that #TeamLowry achieved its #Drive4Five.

The drive for 5 is alive ya man.

Previously: Bumbaclot

The Bernard Shaw pub in Dublin 2

Following reports that An Bord Pleanála has denied the Bernard Shaw pub, in Dublin 2, permission to continue operating its beer garden area at the rear of the property, after complaints from local residents, a petition was set up against the decision.

A total of 19,300 signatures have already been collected online.

Johnny Brennan writes:

“The Bernard Shaw is a cultural institution in Dublin. The venue’s contribution to the vibrancy of our city is met by few other and now it faces losing a planning bid to continue operating outside beer garden and Big Blue Bus area.

“The recent criticism is apparently over noise complaints from ‘local residents’, however The Bernard Shaw has been operating happily and peacefully as such since 2006.

“It is one of the most unique spaces we have in our city, which actively supports and encourages the cultural growth Dublin so desperately needs.

“Please sign and show An Bord Pleanála how important this space is and that taking it away would be drastically harmful to Dublin’s development as an attractive and vibrant cultural hub.”

Save The Bernard Shaw’s beer garden and Big Blue Bus area (Petition)

Cows cool off in County Cavan in the summer of 2017

Máire Geary is of course correct to point out that those who adopt a vegan diet “should be mindful of where food is sourced and grown when adopting this type of diet” because of the contribution of the relevant “food miles” to environmental harm.

It is indeed the case that vegans consume foods “not grown in Ireland and imported from long distances”.

However, the implication that vegans are significantly different in this respect from their fellow citizens is difficult to accept. Ireland is a country where more than 90 per cent of the agricultural land is used for grazing livestock.

Predictably, in order to give citizens even a moderately balanced diet, we have to import large amounts of nearly everything that is not meat and dairy. Indeed much of the crops we do produce are grown as feed for animals.

Those trying to reduce or eliminate their intake of animal products may not have emission-free diets, but at least they can hope that their behaviour will begin to change the pattern of demand, and that more than a tiny fraction of that glorious Irish soil will be used to grow some vegetables.

Christopher McMahon,
Oxford,
United Kingdom.

FIGHT!

Climate change and veganism (The Irish Times letters page)

Pic: Lorraine Teevan

Meanwhile…



NOMNOMNOM

Mmf.

Thanks Bebe

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