A day in the General Election 2016 life of Dublin North Labour TD John Lyons.
Photographer Leon Farrell joined Mr Lyons at his home on the Poppintree estate, Ballymun, Dublin 11 for breakfast and a day of Pancake Tuesday canvassing
A day that included a visit to his alma mater, Trinity Comprehensive and to Dublin City University with Labour leader Joan Burton and tay with his mother Josie (pic 12) and her dog Busker.
Leon Farrell/Rollingnews
Ray Kennedy tweetz:
For some commuters walking tram line to work, cafe Mima [at] Beechwood stop has foot massage with coffee! #luas strike.
No really.
Kathleen Healey, of Dublin-based creative agency Rothco, writes:
Rothco Taxi Driver Report is a new series which explores topical issues using taxi drivers as a conduit of public opinion. Starting in Ireland, we’ll soon be hailing down cabs in cities across the world to provide a completely unique global perspective.
Meet a few of our Dublin regulars in our first episode “Dublin Taxi Drivers on Love”, who give us their own personal thoughts on what love is – giving you the feels just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Fight!
He’s back.
Oh shoe fupp.
Are Ya Having That writes;
LeatherJacketGuy tells us some of the ‘Best Swear Words’ he’s heard in January, 2016 (Featuring O’Hara’s Irish Craft Beers)
Of his new play, Frame 37, Aidan Fitzmaurice writes:
Frame 37 is part of the upcoming Scene and Heard Festival in Smock Alley Theatre [6/7 Exchange Street Lower, Dublin 8]. Frame 37 is about pool. About people playing pool. About people playing pool and coming to terms with the fact that they’re merely scripted characters in a play about pool. It’s not really about pool. But there is a pool table.
Fair balls, in fairness.
Book here.
For the weekend that’s nearly in it.
Saturday, January 29, 1972.
The final 5 Nations game between France and Ireland to be staged at Stade Colombes, Paris.
The championship that never was.
Five new Irish caps, all fine, young, inordinately hairy men, They heaved against the veterns de rugby francais and gritted it out for an historic and most unlikely victory (France 9 Ireland 14).
Paul McWeeney writing in the following Monday’s Irish Times said:
It was a sobering thought before the match, when asked if I had ever seen Ireland win at Colombes, to realise that, in fact, only myself and one or two other of my British press colleagues had ever had the pleasure, nor was I all that optimistic that I would ever see it again.
Puissant!
Previously: Frogger 1983
Retro Rugby on Broadsheet.ie
Photo credit: Lineout Coach
Siptu picket at Red Cow Luas station this morning
From Stillorgan and right into town,
The whole of our tram network’s down,
Now the poor middle class,
Must trudge through cold grass,
As they walk into work with a frown.
John Moynes
Pic: Dave Dunne
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