In a letter sent to the Irish Times, doctors in the newly-formed ‘Cannabis Risk Alliance’ have warned of the dangers of possible reefer madness in Ireland if pot is legalised
A group of top doctors agreed
That talk of medicinal weed
Is a big Trojan Horse
That will soon lead, of course
To a terrible future indeed
John Moynes
Pic: The Cannabis Collection
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This afternoon.
Dublin city centre
Scenes from the Raise the Roof march to protest the housing crisis from from Parnell Square to O’Connell Street followed by a rally outside the GPO featuring performers including Damien Dempsey (above).
Pat O’Mahony writes:
25 years ago [last Tuesday] I saw The Auteurs in the recently-razed Tivoli Theatre, Dublin. 1994 wasn’t a bad year at all in fact at the old Francis Street venue, was it?
In fairness.
Previously: All The Clubs Have Been Knocked Down
Save The Metal Man campaign group has launched its campaign to save the Metal Man in Rosses Point, Co Sligo, with the help of Westlife’s Shane Filan (pic five).
The group writes:
In any other county he would be a national monument but Rosses Point’s historic Metal Man is rusting away apparently unwanted, unpainted and certainly neglected by Sligo County Council.
Behold: RS Puppis (or RS Pup) a Cepheid variable star ten times the size and 15,000 times the brightness of our old Sol. It’s around 6500 light years away, and the brightness of RS Pup is one of the reasons we know that. To wit:
As RS Pup pulsates over a period of about 40 days, its regular changes in brightness are also seen along its surrounding nebula delayed in time, effectively a light echo. Using measurements of the time delay and angular size of the nebula, the known speed of light allows astronomers to geometrically determine the distance to RS Pup to be 6,500 light-years, with a remarkably small error of plus or minus 90 light-years. An impressive achievement for stellar astronomy, the echo-measured distance also more accurately establishes the true brightness of RS Pup, and by extension other Cepheid stars, improving the knowledge of distances to galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (DeepSkyColors.com))
