This morning.
Maynooth, County Kildare
Thanks Colm Funzo
Meanwhile…
From the office window this morning @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/wi6hnPdPer
— Hugh Sullivan (@HughsNughs) January 23, 2019
Last night.
Demonstrators protesting outside RTÉ studios during the broadcast of a ‘Prime Time’ special on the “exponential growth in the number of young people seeking to change gender, and the implications of the proposed new law allowing them to do so without their parents’ consent” featuring an interview with the writer Graham Linehan (above).
Watch back here
Yesterday: ‘Hurting The People It Was Invented To Protect’
Top pic: GCN
A short by Chinese animation student Enge Xue in which a Rubik’s Cube-headed man in a Rubik’s Cube-headed world attempts to maintain connection when the colours of his face become mixed up. Also, he’s in his tights-whiteys.
One Job
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Earlier.
James M Chimney writes:
It’s Nassau Street and it’s the morning…
Blocked
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North Wall Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin, last night.
Steve Conlon tweetz:
We have reached peak (middle finger emoji) to Dublin cyclists.
That’s a boulder. In a cycle lane
Sir James Dyson is moving its company headquarters from the UK to Singapore
James Dyson, an arch Brexiteer
Looks forward without any fear
“My business is grand
And sure to expand
As long as I don’t base it here”
John Moynes
Pic: Getty
Oh No!
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MORE to folly
Most people were underwhelmed with 'watery' findings of Smyth report into National #Broadband Plan. Serious question marks hang over an all-too familiar vista of a major communications contract, a Minister and a billionaire businessman – @CathMurphyTD on #SocDems Dáil motion now pic.twitter.com/HMR5o1kaXZ
— Social Democrats (@SocDems) January 22, 2019
That such secrecy & obfuscation surrounds this process should be a concern. That Minister and Dept has pushed through to Court of Appeals rather than accepting a High Court judgement & an Info Commissione ruling to release details on MANs contracts with Enet shld raise eyebrows
— Social Democrats (@SocDems) January 22, 2019
This evening.
Earlier…
From top: Social Democrat co-leaders Catherine Murphy (left) and Roisin Shorthall at Leinster House this morning; Social Democrat motion on the National Broadband Plan
This morning.
The Social Democrats have introduced a Dáil motion (above) – to be debated this evening – calling for a “Government commitment that any National Broadband Plan roll-out will prioritise affordability for homes and businesses in rural Ireland”.
Party co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said:
“People in rural Ireland are desperate for reliable and sustainable broadband but they will only be guaranteed such a service if we get the National Broadband plan contract award process right while we have this chance.
We have to ensure that the process of awarding the contract is totally beyond reproach. There is no point in going ahead with a process if, when the infrastructure is finally in place, an average household cannot afford to connect to the network.”
Deputy Murphy added:
“The problems we are now witnessing with the National Children’s Hospital for example are not the result of something that happened after the project began. They are the result of a laissez-faire approach to the original tendering and contract process.”
Previously: National Broadband Plan on Broadsheet
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Jeannie Frampton writes:
Yesterday on the Ormonde Road in the heart of Kilkenny City ….Like to see the mammy who can get a double buggy over that one…Us mammies are clever but not that feckin’ clever….
Anyone?