Folklorist and author Terry Fagan tweetz:

(First pic) 1960. Avondale Dairy, Waterford Street next door to Mitchel’s Rosary Beads factory. It was here in 1960s my brother aged 7/ 8 was caught stealing rosary beads. He was sentenced to 7 years Artane industrial school, escaped, capture, sent to Letterfrack ind sch, & FerryHouse ind sch.

(Second pic) He was rescued from FerryHouse Industrial School, spent two years dressed up as a girl to avoid capture, he was captured on his last year of freedom, sent to Marlborough House detention center & St Patrick’s institution to finish his last year. Photo Waterford St off Gardiner St

Terry Fagan

The annual walkabout of Les Empaillés – grotesques enveloped in 30kg of sacking and straw  who roam around the Swiss municipality of Evolène on Carnaval Sunday – their demonic mugs scaring off evil spirits in a Celtic tradition dating back to the Bronze Age.

The figure on the left in the top pic is their friend, la Peluche.

But you knew that.

pour15minutesdamour

Yesterday.

Seems credible.

After all, they are the Road Safety Authority.

Not so fast..

Dublin Cycling Campaign writes:

Article 22 applies to mechanically propelled cycles (more commonly known as motorbikes). Article 29 applies to pedal cycles (bicycles). All of this information is freely available online.

Oh.

Thanks  Conor Kearney

Building site in Dublin

Last night.

At a meeting of Dublin City Council.

Councillors were shown plans to rezone industrial land in Dublin “to provide up to 20,000 homes in four new ‘towns’ in the city area”.

John Kilraine, of RTE, reports:

A monthly meeting was told that up to 270 hectares has been identified on four key growth sites within the M50 presently zoned Z6 for industrial use.

The sites are situated at Jamestown Business Park, Finglas; Dublin Industrial Estate, Glasnevin; sites near the Malahide Rd, Coolock and a tranch of land along the Naas Road from Inchicore to Cherry Orchard.

City Planner John O’Hara said this was the start of a process that could provide 17,000 to 20,000 homes in 10 to 20 years time.

Plans to rezone industrial land in Dublin unveiled (RTE)

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

Earlier: Latent Defects Insurance And Ireland

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron during an EU summit in Salzburg, Austria last Summer

This struggle is a daily commitment, because Europe, like peace, can never be taken for granted. I tirelessly pursue it in the name of France to take Europe forward and defend its model. We have shown that what we were told was unattainable, the creation of a European defence capability and the protection of social rights, was in fact possible.

President of France Emmanuel Macron writing in today’s Irish Times.


Meanwhile…

Bon temps.

Europe’s renewal must be based on freedom, protection and progress (Emmanuel Macron, Irish Times)

Priory Hall, Dublin 13 in 2017

I read with interest the detailed exposé concerning the serious flaws with a large number of residential construction developments dating back to the Celtic Tiger era.

It is astonishing that the burden for remedying such defects is falling on the individual apartment owners or tenants.

Why was a latent defects insurance policy not arranged for each project?

Such cover would have substantially mitigated the financial cost, if not the inconvenience of remedying the damage. Latent defects insurance is a compulsory insurance cover for residential developments in France.

Perhaps the Government should also consider enacting the necessary legislation to make it compulsory in Ireland.

Cían Carlin,
London.

Structural defects in boom-era flats (The Irish Times letters page)

Related: Boom-era apartment owners left with large bills to fix defects (Niamh Towey, Jack Horgan-Jones, The Irish Times, March 4, 2019)

Pic: Adam Gelson

Alan O’Reilly, aka Carlow Weather, tweetz:

As expected new Yellow Rainfall warning for Munster and Leinster.

A spell of heavy rain will move up from the south Tuesday afternoon, giving 25 to 35 mm of rain. The larger totals are likely to be over southern and eastern counties.
Valid 3pm today to 6am tomorrow.

Sigh.

Carlow Weather

Met Eireann weather warnings

Dublin Rental Investigator writes:

Frequently I hear elected officials criticise previous parties or place blame on failed policies without ever coming up with a solution. If you only have criticism and not solutions, take a seat. We need regulation that works. #RaiseTheRoof #DRIManifesto

Previously: Dublin Rental Investigator on Broadsheet

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