“Security breach” here in Swords. Not sure what but all road leading to Swords Garda Station closed off. @DublinLive pic.twitter.com/PwNAgI7FvA
— Andrew Byrne (@andrew_byrne_) May 16, 2019
This afternoon.
Milieniarista writes:
Anyone?
Behold: spiral galaxy NGC 4921 in the constellation Coma Berenices – estimated to be about 320 million light years away from us. Pale and interesting 320 million years ago, probably much the same today. To wit:
The magnificent spiral NGC 4921 has been informally dubbed anaemic because of its low rate of star formation and low surface brightness. Visible in the featured image are, from the center, a bright nucleus, a bright central bar, a prominent ring of dark dust, blue clusters of recently formed stars, several smaller companion galaxies, unrelated galaxies in the far distant universe, and unrelated stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Kem Cook (LLNL) & Leo Shatz)
John Sheahan
On The Late Late Show...
Sara Whiteacre writes:
With more than a half-century of performing experience under his belt, John Sheahan is one of Ireland’s most recognisable and most loved folk musicians.
To celebrate his 80th birthday, John will join host Ryan Tubridy and some familiar faces for chats and tunes, including Declan O’Rourke, Damien Dempsey, Ralph McTell, Phelim Drew, as well as Steve Wickham, Zoe Conway, Máire Breatnach and Colm Mac Con Iomaire.
Nine-time Irish champion jockey Pat Smullen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March of last year and, following medical advice, announced his retirement earlier this month. Pat joins Ryan to discuss how it felt to come to that decision, and what the future holds.
Three of the leading lights of the Irish crime fiction scene – internationally successful authors Liz Nugent, Jo Spain and Patricia Gibney – will join Ryan to discuss how they started writing, the secrets to their success and why people are so fascinated with the world of crime.
Over the years, Anne Randolph has been a constant support for her goalkeeper son Darren, who plays for both Middlesbrough and Ireland, but now she’s stepping in to the limelight to pursue a career as a singer.
…music will be from Soda Blonde, a new band from four of the five members of Little Green Cars.
The Late Late Show, RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjLjMrZkFQo&feature=youtu.be
Polyglove – Solstice
Analog lo-fi dreamy techno from beyond the astral plane. That’s how Dubin-based electronic duo PolyGlove describe their sound on their Bandcamp page. And that’s just what they serve up on their new EP ‘Leisureplex’.
The video for the hypnotic final song on the EP, ‘Solstice’, was inspired by “nature, paganism and nostalgia” and will appeal to any animal-lovers out there.
PolyGlove say:
“We centred production around analog tape delays and endless reverbs, prioritising our poly synths… opening up the sound for a richer melodic experience.”
Nick says: PolyGlove is in the air
A short film by Stefan Hunt in which a man encounters a talking tree, assuming some greater significance to the fact that it has chosen to address him.
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National Chairperson of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign Fatin Al Tamimi outside RTÉ Studios in Donnybrook, Dublin 4 in March, calling for RTÉ to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest which is taking place in Tel Aviv
I usually find Mark Paul a precise and interesting writer. However, his language in his opinion piece is unusually slipshod.
He describes the call for a boycott of the Israeli-hosted Eurovision song contest as “indiscriminate”, “blunt” and “ill-defined”.
It is none of those things: it is a peaceful, calibrated and proportionate attempt to exert leverage over the Israeli government so that it might change its egregious policies towards Palestinians.
Far from a failure to “communicate fairly” with Israelis, the boycott call is sending a serious and constructive message – that so long as its policies are persisted with, the Israeli government will not be allowed reap the propaganda and other benefits it very consciously seeks to accrue from its sponsorship of cultural events like the Eurovision.
For this mild and measured boycott call to be equated with anti-Semitism is, among other things, an insult to the many Jews (including Israelis) who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in defence of Palestinian rights.
Andy Storey,
Sandycove,
Co Dublin.
Reaction to Eurovision boycott call (The Irish Times letters page)
Eurovision boycott stirs painful memories for Jewish people (Mark Paul, The Irish Times)
Ah, the 1970s – a decade when grooming, coiffure, bodily hygiene and so forth was no longer the preserve of women.
These – plastered to the walls of male hair salons everywhere – were the overgrown, overblown now-try-it-on-your-own styles that men aspired to.
May we never see their like again.
MORE: The Most Romantic Period For Men’s Hairstyles (eatliver)
This morning/afternoon
Via Radio Kerry:
It’s understood the allegations relate to the Killarney Electoral Area…
The allegations centre on the charge that a person gathered up forms for applications to the supplementary register of electors, got them signed by members of the public, and then may have had an individual Garda stamp them without being in the presence of the people the forms relate to.
Pic: Rollingnews
Radio Kerry‘s Jerry O’Sullivan writes:
Like all journalists I have been told lots of stories over the years of polling card and voting shenanigans on various election days in Kerry – this one seems to have more substance to it…
