Former Ireland President Mary McAleese
In the Vatican on Women’s Day
Our Mary will not have her say
They asked her to talk
But told her to walk
‘Cause she says it’s not wrong to be gay
John Moynes
Rollingnews
Bah Humbug
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This morning.
Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Liamknuj writes:
The spoilsports in Dublin City Council have decided Christmas is over and are taking away the tree.
Let’s hope it’s back in August…
Huge sandal-looking ‘sneaker protectors’ by Sankuanz designer Shangguan Zhe, recently debuted at Paris Men’s Fashion Week.
You know you want them.
True Story
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Staying in tonight?
Broadsheet on the Telly returns tonight at 10pm streaming LIVE (above) and on our YouTube Channel.
Join old friends, surprise guests and the odd domestic pet as they chew over the news of the week from Ireland and ‘abroad’.
All the news that fits in 120 minutes including Gaming the System, Joanne Cantwell & the Sunday Game. and Ulster Rugby solidarity plus Lucky Khambula on recent Direct Provision developments and the ‘sheet’s Olga Cronin on the Disclosures Tribunal.
All welcome.
Drinks served.
Some ‘sailor’ language.
Sorry.
Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly
MORE to folly
‘The Stretch’ in County Cork in early March last year
‘The Stretch’ starts today.
It’s not just grand. It’s vital.
Argues Professor Brian Norton, of DIT:
Daylight is a powerful cue to the maintenance of the circadian pacemaker within all of us that follows the cycle of night and day. Being crucial to the healthy regulation of our hormonal rhythms, it has a huge impact on our cognitive performance. More generally, the fact that the ultraviolet part of daylight kills germs means that it is also important for hygiene….
….Properly supporting the stimulus that maintains our daylight-driven circadian rhythms is also far from trivial. It requires a complex combination of light intensity, duration and timing of exposure to daylight, the amount of blue wavelengths in the received spectrum and that daylight’s spatial distribution. More emphasis on a holistic understanding of the many unexpected aspects of daylight will better allow us to optimise how we best use it.
So there.
There’s a grand stretch in the evenings… (Brian Norton, RTÉ)
Every week, we give away a voucher worth twenty five euros to spend freely wherever you see the Golden Discs sign.
All we ask from you is a tune we can share.
This week’s theme: A-Ha
Norway?
Yes, way.
To celebrate A-Ha’s reunion tour what song – apart from Take on Me – from the underrated chiselled Norwegian trio still gives you the pop chills?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘Apart from ‘Take on Me’, I am rather fond of A-Ha’s_____________________owing to its________________’
Lines MUST close at 10.45pm
This afternoon.
County Wicklow.
Name that mountain, anyone?
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
The Green Rebel podcast.
Hosts Emily O’Callaghan and Irina Dzhambazova meet comedian Catherine Bohart.
Emily writes:
Catherine is a really funny Irish comedian. The kind of funny whose jokes actually pay the rent (not in the ideal gaff she would necessarily choose to, but still)….
She started performing stand-up in 2015 and since then has enjoyed a rapid rise through the ranks of UK and Irish comedy…
Join us in getting to know Catherine better and hearing about her journey through the London comedy scene, self-doubt, confidence, political stances, writing, mental health, challenging suppositions and coming out to her Dad as bisexual while he revealed he was a priest.
Music by Le Boom.