Carlow Weather tweetz:
Once we get over today the ensembles show dry and warmer weather is on its way up to at least Monday, could be a shortage of bread by Saturday, Burger Buns that 😉
Bowie Books
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Game On
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This afternoon.
Opposite the main entrance to Belfast City Hall.
The Dave tweetz:
New Game of Thrones stained glass window unveiled in Belfast.
It’s the first of six such windows to be unveiled in the city.
Earlier: How Was It For You?
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt reveals the densest things in the Universe apart from black holes and [insert political ideology here]. To wit:
Inside neutron stars we can find the weirdest and most dangerous substance in the universe: Strange matter. What is strange matter, how dangerous is it and what can it tell us about the origin of the universe?
Previously: Blown Up Out Of All Proportion
Um.
Merrion Street tweetz:
This morning an Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar is performing the official opening of Castleknock Post Office. The Post Office is a new Post Office which has just opened in the Lidl premises in Castleknock in Dublin.
In his constituency.
FIGHT!
Camille O’Sullivan and Aiden Gillen – In Dreams
The duet of Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams’ in aid of homeless charity Focus Ireland by real-life couple Camille O’Sullivan and Aiden Gillen has just ‘dropped’ and is available to purchase here.
The torch singer and Game Of Thrones star are set to perform the song live at the Sunday Independent’s Rock Against Homelessness concert in aid of Focus Ireland at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin on April 23.
Also appearing on the night will be Finbar Furey, Duke Special, Tommy Fleming, The Celtic Tenors, Natty Wailer, Jerry Fish and Pat McCabe as well as comedian Deirdre O’Kane.
Camille says:
“You see someone sleeping in the street every few metres almost, in Dublin. It is heartbreaking, awful. I am now seeing children and I am seeing women who are vulnerable. When did we become so cold? People are passing these people by like they do not exist. And when I hear of children not having a house, that kind of shocks me.”
Tickets here
From top: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar; Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin; Instructions via Whatsapp to Fine Gael staffers
“How can we trust Micheál Martin on health? He established the HSE.”
“Why should we trust FF? They destroyed the economy.”
“Will Bertie Ahern ever run for the Arás (sic) on the FF ticket?”
“Is the talent there on the FF frontbenchers (sic)? Outside of Micheál Martin and a handful of others you don’t have many household names.
“On housing Darragh O Brien (sic) constantly criticizes (sic) Eoghan Murphys (sic) background – is it right to always play the man and not the ball?”
“Are you feeling the pressure from your own backbenchers?”
“Why should we trust FF on housing?”
“Do FF have a clear, stated policy on personal taxation?”
Above are a series of suggested questions that were sent from Fine Gael’s digital team to party members last Thursday evening via WhatsApp.
Sunday Business Post journalist Hugh O’Connell reported yesterday that the Fine Gael members were instructed to send these questions – or reworded versions of them – into Newstalk during a live interview with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin last Friday.
Mr O’Connell reported:
“Leaked WhatsApp messages seen by The Sunday Business Post show that dozens of Fine Gael staff and activists were told by the party’s digital team to reword suggested questions ‘in your own voice’ as ‘we don’t want to make it obvious it’s coming from us’.
“They were also told to avoid using email addresses with either Fine Gael or Young Fine Gael in them.”
Meanwhile, from the vaults…
The Fine Gael online campaign team during the 2011 general election.
Good times.
Previously: Fine Gael’s Frape Room
Property developer Garrett Kelleher (right) at the launch of the Chicago Spire development unveiled by Liam Neeson and his wife Natasha Richardson in Dublin on January 23, 2008.
Last month in Chicago, a judge dismissed a lawsuit that Mr Kelleher filed against the National Asset Management Agency (Nama), which took over debt on the aborted 150-storey skyscraper in 2010, seeking $1.2 billion. Mr Kelleher intends to appeal.
Via economist Constantin Gurdiev:
Overdosed.
The premiere of a debut documentary by Irish director Mary Sue Connelly on the real story behind America’s opioid epidemic.
Isabelle Blanche writes:
Overdosed highlights the troubling turmoil of the opioid crisis in America, as witnessed in the small town of Petersburg in rural West Virginia, the state hardest hit by this epidemic. Through interviews with former drug dealers, over-prescribing doctors, DEA agents and local community members, Mary Sue Connolly uncovers what is a shocking narrative of intentional placement of opioids in this under-served community by the pharmaceutical industry…
On Wednesday, April 24 at the Seán O’Casey Theatre, St. Mary’s Road, East Wall, Dublin 1 at 7pm, with a Q&A with Mary Sue afterwards.