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So Long, Joe
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Joe Higgins, of the Socialist Party, this evening
Dublin West TD Joe Higgins addressed the Dáil for the final time during Order of Business this evening, as he won’t be taking part in the general election.
And he was in fine fettle.
Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett: “Deputy Higgins is leader of his party and he’s probably standing for the last time on the Order of Business and I want quietness and attention for him and to wish you every success in your retirement.”
Joe Higgins: “Go raibh míle maith agat a Ceann Comhairle and, as it happens, I hav two or three brief issues to raise and, with your permission, I’ll raise them. One by one. First, very specifically, Ceann Comhairle, under standing order 26.3, in relation to the business of the Dáil, and we are unable to ask the Taoiseach questions about business, the order of paper, etc, and about arrangements for sittings. So could I ask you Taoiseach what is the arrangement for the sitting of the Dáil tomorrow. Is it intended if it will sit at 9.30am? How long do you intend the Dáil to sit tomorrow? Do you intend to come to the Dáil to say if you are going to the President to seek the dissolution of the Dáil and, in that case, what time might that be? And what will be the arrangements thereof for the sitting? That’s my first question.”
Barrett: “Have you got another one?”
Talk over each other
Higgins: “I’m very much within order hear actually. That’s why I brought the Standing Order with me.”
Enda Kenny: “The Dáil sits at 9.30am in the morning.”
Barrett: “The Dáil sits at 9.30am in the morning.”
Higgins: “And the arrangements for the sitting? Will you come here to announce when you’re going?”
Talk over each other
Kenny: “We’ve approved the Order of Business, deputy.”
Barrett: “Joe you have your innocent face on at the moment.”
Higgins: “Taoiseach, you’ll deal with the Order of Business tomorrow is it?”
Kenny: “The Order of Business is approved already.”
Higgins: “I just want to finish maybe, Taoiseach, on your way to the [Phoenix] park, Taoiseach, in case you meet an anti-water charges protest, can I suggest that you take your AK47 for protection.”
Barrett: “I think you’re stepping over the mark a bit there.”
Higgins: “Judging by what he had to say in the Sunday Business Post (sic) he has so much energy he could do with a run around the park before he’s unleashed on the unfortunate people of Tipperary. However, he’d want to be careful because, as a self-confessed addict, he might stage a coup on the way to meet the President. But I think you really should, Taoiseach, tell us what time tomorrow you intend to dissolve, because you have activists all over the country waiting to start their activity, put up their posters….”
Later
Higgins: “I can’t wish anybody here good luck in the next four weeks for obvious reasons, politically speaking, but Taoiseach in the terms of the last five years and what dominated this Dail, would you like to say sorry to the people? For making them pay bankers’ debts? With savage austerity over that period of time?…”
Barrett: “Let’s not spoil it now, let’s not spoil it. We now move on to Topical Issues…”
Previously: Joe To Go
A new Trailer Mix from Mashable Watercooler – A New Hope recut as a 1970s Grindhouse galaxploitation feature.
Previously: Off With Her Head
A simulated, colour-enhanced flyover of the dwarf planet Ceres (a tiny denizen of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter) created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab using data from the Dawn Spacecraft.
Friday February 5: Rosa Nutty, Drawn By Dogs @ Bello Bar, Portobello, Dublin 2 (€5)
Nialler9 writes:
The Dublin-based singer-songwriter Rosa Nutty (above) recently released her crowdfunded debut EP Bunny, on which the sweet folk pop of Fine Print was a highlight. Friday’s show will feature Nutty and her new live band.
(That should have been @radiomidwest but you know yourself) — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 2, 2016
FIGHT!
Salad Insane
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Grafton Street, Dublin
That queue in full.
Photographer Evan Doherty writes:
Massive queues outside the Chopped opening on Grafton Street today [with free salads for every visitor] !! Great to finally have it so close to me! #cleaneating #healthy
Top pic: Ross Edmonds
Clouds above Dublin yesterday
Finally.
Dr Jessamyn Fairfield explains:
Dubliners have been treated to an amazing sight the last two mornings: rainbow clouds, just before dawn. Their delicate beauty captures the imagination, but how do they form?
Clouds are made up of tiny droplets of water, or in the winter, ice. So clouds can spread sunlight into different colours, the same way you’d see different colours in a rainbow, when light passes through water droplets in the air. This happens due to an optical process called diffraction: when light passes from air into a medium like water, it bends because the properties of water are different than the properties of air for an electromagnetic wave-like light which is passing through.
Different colours of light bend different amounts, giving us the splaying of colours as if from a prism…
Polar stratospheric clouds occur in the far north and south of the globe, where ice crystals in clouds are common, and are also called ‘nacreous clouds’ for their resemblance to mother-of-pearl… Another even rarer winter sky phenomenon to keep an eye out for is ‘sun dogs’. Diffraction in ice crystals in clouds can bend the light from the sun so much that it appears to be in multiple places at once!
Rainbows Clouds And Diffraction (City Of Physics Dublin)
Earlier: Sky Breaking News
Yesterday: Is This Normal?
Thanks Sophie