ultan tweetz:
Dublin Bay full moon for #StormEleanor as the @IrishLights Muglins light (1879) flashes. Two pirates were hanged on the island for high seas murder in 1765. Dalkey property prices were not impacted
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Patrick Boyle writes:
A wallet I found on Military Road in Kilmainham [Dublin 8] this morning on the way to work. It belongs to Christopher Doran and I’d be very grateful if you could post the pic in the hope that someone might know him and I can return his wallet…
Anyone?
MORE to folly
The little Mini who could – Galway tonight
— Helen Rafferty (@giraffe_rty) January 2, 2018
Weeeeeeeeee!
55,000 ESB customers without power due to Storm Eleanor (RTÉ)
Thanks John Gallen
Meanwhile…
WOW!
Knock Airport has seen a gust of 84 knots which is 155.5kmh!!!! That is near #HurricaneOphelia levels!#StormEleanor is leaving her mark! @kclr96fm @NewstalkFM pic.twitter.com/f8IGbkP7jX— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) January 2, 2018
Run!
RTL – Much Love
A brilliant five track debut EP by RTL aka Rob Toal-Lennon, who hails outta Enniskerry, County Wicklow.
Some beats, in fairness.
The latest drop by ‘qanon’ on 8chan
Chompsky: “Bodger, what on earth is this about now?”
Bodger: “Qanon.”
Chompsky: “What?”
Bodger: “A person close to Donald Trump who has been leaving cryptic messages like the ones above on the websites 4chan and 8chan since October 31.”
Chompsky: “About what?”
Bodger: “Child trafficking and taking down the ‘Deep State’, the Clintons, Obama, the Bushes and several oligarch globalists like George Soros. Full thread here.”
Chompsky. “Is this what you’ve been doing all Christmas?”
Bodger: “Sort of.”
Chompsky: “I thought you were working. Why I haven’t heard about qanon?
Bodger: “Mainstream media won’t touch it.”
Chompsky: “Why not?”
Bodger: It’s both fantastically complex and involves them. Events quickened on December 21 following the ecexutive order signed by Trump declaring a national state of emergency and allowing the US Treasury to confiscate property from “corrupt entities” in the US and across the world.
Chompsky: Can you briefly summarise in graphic form what it’s about?
Bodger: “Sure…
Chompsky: ‘Ah here.”
Bodger: “Dastardly and complex, right”
Chompsky: “The doodles of a raving lunatic.”
Bodger: “All will become clear in the coming days and weeks, according to qanon. Meanwhile, can I suggest you follow the twitter hashtag qanon and the reportage of New York journalist vlogger Lionel Nation for updates.”
Chompsky: “You’re on your own Bodge. The site can only take so much ridicule.”
Bodger: “I am sure the readers will appreciate the opportunity to add their reasoned and thoughtful views on the subject.”
[pause]
Bodger: “FIGHT!”
Ouch.
Dublin Cycling Campaign tweetz:
We’ve analysed the Road Safety Authority’s fatal collision data for 2017 and put together this infographic which focuses on cycling deaths. All of last year’s fatal cycling collisions involved motor vehicles, with the vast majority of fatal crashes occurring during daylight hours.
Meanwhile…
73% of deaths were on rural roads. As a rural cyclist I’d like to know where you propose spending on infrastructure? Dublin? Other towns? Or in the country where most fatalities occur? What kind of infrastructure will save lives in rural areas?
— Pete MacGowan (@petemacgowan) January 2, 2018
Anyone?
Hook Head, County Wexford
James Gabriel Martin writes:
Sunset over Hook Head on New Year’s Day. The extra foamy waves were a result of seriously strong winds
A Crying Chair whistleblower service.
Finally.
Slumleaks writes:
Slumleaks is the work of a collective of people suffering the effects of the housing crisis in Dublin and Ireland…
…focusing on exposing the noxious deeds of some of the worst slumlords of the capital in their rapacious drive to extract maximum profit from renters and tenants misery.
Lets make 2018 an uncomfortable year for slumlords. Get in touch if you’ve got a slumlord.