Begley’s Bar, Killoe county Longford

Oh.

Previously: Open for Business: Longford pub owner features in RTE TV show (Longford Leader)

Pic: Begley’s

‘sup?

Yesterday afternoon.

Roundstone, Connemara, county Galway.

Ian Dempsey writes:

Miss Otis chills at the aptly named Dog’s Bay….

Your hot pet to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Hot Pet’.

Yesterday: End of A Perfect Day

If You can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out With Kitcha

Macy’s Day

High On The Hog

U OK Hun?

Professor Philip Nolan, chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group

This morning.

Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio One.

Professor Philip Nolan said he believes people have forgotten how easily the virus spreads, adding “we’re simply getting too close”.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said “we cannot let the disease run riot” and people will need “to be careful around this virus for some time”.

There has been a four-fold increase in cases, he said, and “where they go next really depends on what we do over the next few weeks”.

He said, however, that if the levels of infection are allowed to build up to very high levels, “we’re going to be in real trouble”, and warned against “the vaccinated feeling inappropriately bulletproof“.

‘People are simply getting too close’, says Nolan amid warning over infection levels (RTÉ)

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Meanwhile…

Yesterday.

Citywest, Dublin

Meanwhile…

Oh.

Rachel Mae Hannon – Alright

These green boots were made for walking.

Monaghan-born, Dublin-based neo-soul singer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Mae Hannon (top) presents a fresh new twist on an old genre with this single from her forthcoming debut EP Like It Is.

Chris Walsh plays bass, David Joyce plays guitar and the slick promo was directed, edited and shot by Rachel, Aisling Grennan and Barry Kavanagh.

Nick says: Mae day.

Rachel Mae Hannon

Behold: the cosmic cloud of NGC 2359 also known as Thor’s Hemet. To wit:

Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble’s center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula’s filamentary structures. The star in the center of Thor’s Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years.

(Image: Bernard Miller)

Previously: Thor’s Helmet

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The launch of Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien’s new housing policy has been delayed to allow for more work on the package of reforms

The people in government say
That a housing plan is on the way
But there’s also a worry
About all the hurry
So that’s their excuse for delay

John Moynes

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Evocative aerial shots of the pink waters of the Camargue river delta near Arles in southern France by Paolo Pettigiani, of which he sez:

The pink water comes from a pink algae (Dunaliella Salina) which lives in it. This pink algae can exist in just about any kind of natural body of saltwater and is the main source of nutrition for another common resident of saltwater: a miniscule shrimp called the artémias salina.

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Zzup?

Lois writes

Jacob and Dexter after a day at Sea Point [county Dublin]…

Earlier: If You can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out With Kitcha

Macy’s Day

High On The Hog

U OK Hun?

My hot pet to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Hot Pet’.

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