Splutter!
Luke Brennan writes:
Sketch I did of Dalkey [Co Dublin] to celebrate Dalkey-based Cuala GAA‘s run in the Leinster championship [Cuala were Dublin senior Hurling League and Championship winners]…
Senator David Norris
“I hear people on the wireless [radio] saying ‘Oh what about the poor people on the social welfare and they’ll be deprived of their few drinks’ – I don’t spend my tax dollars to buy drinks for people on social welfare…I don’t think tax is for people to be drinking all the time – and I see them all around my area buying slabs of drinks.”
Senator David Norris
People on social welfare should not be allowed buy alcohol, says Senator (Jack Quann, Newstalk)
Wednesday: €1 Per Unit Of Alcohol
Behold the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (TEPR), a 12,910 mile (20,777km) road alongside the existing route of the Trans Siberian railway, proposed by Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin earlier this month.
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John D writes:
My toast had me feeling patriotic this morning….
Brian Mckeown writes:
Splash of water arranged itself nicely on the counter top. One for the buke?
Stuck for a stocking filler? There remains vast stacks a small number of copies of The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland, edited by Aidan Coughlan (New Island) in stock. Purchase for €5 here
Your new favourite Instgram hashtag has arrived.
You’ll be picking bits out of your vegan falafels till April.
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A selection of the fruit of photographer Steve Garrington’s six year chronicle of enormous waves crashing on the 19th century Porthcawl lighthouse in Wales.
More here.
A gendarme from Cherbourg, France with a banner brought in by irish climate change activists
Climate change pre-crimes?
Mais oui.
The activists, ranging in age from 20 to 72, are all involved in the group Stop Climate Chaos, an umbrella group comprised of 28 environmental groups including Friends of the Earth, Trócaire, An Taisce, Concern and Christian Aid.
An officer with the French border police in Cherbourg told The Irish Times the group had been stopped under the state-of-emergency legislation which currently banned demonstrations in France.
Speaking before their bus had been let through, the officer said it was expected the group would be returned to Ireland on Thursday evening as they were considered “likely to trouble public order in France”.
Asked how they knew about the group, the officer replied: “We were advised by the Irish authorities.”
The border police later confirmed the position had changed and the bus was being allowed to proceed but declined to comment on the reason why.
Threat to deport Irish climate activists entering France lifted (Harry McGee, irish Times)
Mark Malone writes:
So Irish authorities forewarned French police about visiting climate change campaigners heading to COP21. Pretty much puts the question of political policing to bed.
Top pic: William Hederman
More stolen moments from the upcoming space opera, courtesy of a new trailer released by Disney in China (where audiences aren’t quite as familiar with the series and the film doesn’t open until the end of January).
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Ormond Quay, Upper, Dublin 7 yesterday.
Acid rain?
(Pic: Oisín)