This afternoon.

South Circular Road, Dublin.

The site of the new National Children’s Hospital which, with spending overruns of €450 million, may become the ‘most expensive medical facility in the world’.

Minister for Finance Pascahl Donohoe is to bring proposals to Cabinet in January to deal with a new budget estimate of €1.4 billion –  more than twice the €650 million projected in 2016.

Good times.

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Behold: the 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB. Only 250 were made but this – the prototype – was the first.

Fully restored with the modified ‘long nose’ hood, rally lights and ‘prototype yellow’ paintwork  it wore in the 1966 Monte Carlo Rally, this one-of-a-kind icon of Ferrari race history can be yours for a trifling €5.23 million+.

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Terry McMahon writes:

That’s my daughter’s hand around my finger. Her mother is a midwife. Another midwife helped the birth. Their dedication is astonishing but now midwives have had to vote to strike. And it’s beautiful to see so many powerful people support these women who have chosen to make a life out of helping other women give birth.

Okay, it hasn’t happened yet, but it will.

Social media is awash with campaigns for these astonishing midwives who guide women through the miraculous process of birth and thereafter. Support is everywhere. And the t-shirts and the hoodies and the pop-up shops are amazing.

Okay, it hasn’t happened yet, but it will.

Anyone who questioned any recent campaigns has been proven wrong. Equality is here. Rights are real. Support is everywhere. Particularly for the midwives who do thirteen-hour shifts, without a break, to facilitate the miracle of birth for women who are at their most profoundly vulnerable, as they bring new life into our world.

Okay, it hasn’t happened yet.

But it will…won’t it?

Terry McMahon is a filmmaker and can be found on Twitter @terrymcmahon69

Previously: Terry McMahon on Broadsheet

Update:

In fairness.

Erin Fornoff?

Researchers from graphics Interface pioneer NVIDIA demonstrate their Style Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks.

In other words, artificial intelligence capable of generating human faces and other objects that don’t otherwise exist in real life.

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From top: Irish Ferries’ Managing Director Eamonn Rothwell; Minister for Transport Shane Ross

Further to the announcement by Irish ferries that  it may stop sailing between Rosslare [County Wexford] and France….

Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Minister Shane Ross said he did not know that the move was going to happen.

Mr Ross said he had spoken to Irish Ferries owner Eamonn Rothwell about the decision and would do so again.

…He said: “No, they haven’t convinced me this is the right decision at all, I think it’s very, very bad for Rosslare but what I’m saying is that I can’t interfere with a commercial decision that’s all.”

Hauliers call for Ross to intervene in Irish Ferries service issue (RTÉ)

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The intricate, elegant cranes of origami artist Cristian Marianciuc, who perfected the artsy making one a day since 2015.

He’s since regulated the process, spending days rather than hours on designs that he posts here and sells here.

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Prime minister of Belgium, Charles Michel

Last night.

Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel offered his resignation to his country’s monarch King Philippe following a dispute with his former Flemish coalition partner, the N-VA, regarding the UN’s Global Compact on Migration.

Belgium will face a snap election next month.

The right-wing Flemish party quit the government after Mr Michel refused its demand to drop his support for the migration pact, and secured parliamentary approval to go ahead against its wishes.

It branded his weakened administration “the Marrakech coalition,” after the city where the accord was signed just over a week ago.

Its withdrawal left his French-speaking liberal MR supported only by two smaller Flemish parties.

The US dropped out of talks on the pact last year and countries including Italy, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Australia have rejected it.

The deal is expected to be ratified at the UN headquarters in New York on December 19.

Belgium PM Charles Michel resigns after government collapses in dispute over UN migration pact (Telegraph)

Belgian PM Charles Michel resigns after no-confidence motion (The Guardian)

Splutter!

On Dorset Street.

Dublin 1.

A billboard for over 50s dating app Lumen featuring a hot, disrobed Santa.

Lumen launched in the Irish market last month and they say users are most active on Tuesdays with Galway identified as the “chattiest county” in Ireland, while the oldest Irish members are a 73-year-old female and 97-year-old male.

In fairness.

Thanks Fionnuala

 

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