According to both sources, there will be one backstop to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.

The backstop will come in the form of a temporary UK-wide customs arrangement, with specific provisions for Northern Ireland, which go deeper on the issue of customs and alignment on the rules of the single market than for the rest of the UK

…..RTÉ News understands that while the main backstop focuses on a UK-wide customs arrangement, there will be specific provisions within the text and within annexes for Northern Ireland, should the UK-wide arrangement not prove sufficient to avoid a hard border.

Exclusive: EU and UK negotiators agree text for Irish border (RTÉ)

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2019 calendar from the Irish Design Shop

Next year.

From the Irish Design Shop.

A pretty special 12 months.

Clare & Laura at The Irish Design Shop write:

Now an annual project, our calendar, printed in Dublin in small quantities, is one of our highlights every year.

The format remains the same, with perforated pages, giving you twelve ready to frame unique prints, the theme, chosen by the designer/illustrator, is what changes.

2018 is a significant year for Irish Design Shop, marking ten years in business. With this in mind, we asked Dublin design studio WorkGroup to create our 2019 calendar.

A year in development, WorkGroup have created a calendar which has a sense of continuity from month to month.

Inspired by birthstones, a classic and timeless illustration of the months of the year, this calendar represents their beautiful and varied colours through macro photography.

A cross section of locations across Dublin are represented, from the significant to the mundane.

Locations such as The War Memorial Gardens, The Pro Cathedral, and Shauna’s Pet Shop are referenced for their rich colours and textures, and as a symbol of everyday life for the modern Dubliner.

In fairness.

2019 Calendar (Irish Design Shop)

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irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’ . No fee.

At The Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 at 1pm.

A protest will take place following statements made during a trial in Cork in which a 27-year-old man accused of raping a 17-year-old girl was found not guilty.

Barrister Elizabeth O’Connell SC, for the accused, had asked the jury to consider what the woman was wearing, saying:

“Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.”

ROSA (Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism & Austerity) writes:

“Clothing has nothing to do with consent. It’s time the judiciary were trained not to use rape myths. Time is up for rape culture. Join the protest.”

Similar protests will also take place in Cork and Limerick.

More here

Previously: ‘The Way She Was Dressed’

Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

Direct Provision Centre run by Barlow Properties , Mount Trenchard, Foynes, County Limerick.

Anyone?

A request for a comment from the Department of Justice has been made.

Previously: Mount Trenchard on Broadsheet

The recreation of a defensive barricade in Aleppo, Syria erected last year at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

Berlin Aleppo

I’m a Dublin dog
Barking mad
The sky ripped with Chinese explosion
I’m a cat in Idlib
howling at the bloody moon
crisscrossed by irate fighter
I am a Raqqa rat
Loving it!
Glad we stayed
Unlike Aleppo foxes scuttling away
Some now thinking of return
We hear
But to what?
Fleeing over greedy land, heartless sea, bitter border guard and always the indiscriminate baton
Walking
Walking
Walking
Spittle
Anger
Suspicion
The chorus:
”Fuck off home’
Home
Home?
Angry spitting crowds bearing batons.
Cowering, why why enough enough
Others came with care and clothing
To be fair
And we were suspicious
cos they sought nothing in return.
Suspicious of kindness
But not far the noise, the noise
‘FUCK OFF HOME’ they roared
Home
Home?
‘Where is my home? Do I have a home?’ my friend asked.
Then he went into the trees
Into the silence
Then in the quiet of night
A small window lured him
Into the still grand life of Berlin’s fabled Pergamon
There inside:
Aleppo
Aleppo
Ancient Aleppo
Before the dust
In all its quirky courtyard beauty
Aleppo
before the mosaic of madness
Aleppo
My dusty ruined friend
Aleppo
Here you are now .
Here we are now.
Both you and I together at last
at this forbidden time
This city that knows the destruction of ours.
I lie down and weep.
Amongst our pristine beauty
My roars, my tears, my howls, my art, my city, my country!
Roar as alarms shriek across Berlin city
And here some will say no gratitude
Other will pray for salvation.
Pray for salvation.

Kevin Barrington

Kevin Barrington

Pic: Getty

This morning.

Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 2

The launch of World Remembrance Day, taking place on Sunday, November 18 to recall the “many millions killed and injured on the world’s roads, together with their families, friends and many others who are also affected”.

Above from left Garda Superintendent Con O Donohue; Neil Fox, whose sister Donna was killed by a truck when she was cycling 3 years ago; Moyagh Murdock, Chief Executive Officer, Road Safety Authority (RSA) and Liz O’Donnell, RSA Chairperson.

World Remembrance Day for Traffic Victims (RSA)

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Meanwhile…

Today’s Irish Daily Mail.

Good times.

Uh oh.

Nat writes:

Trolling level: Brexiteer…

FIGHT!

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