From the first episode of new dating show Pioc do Ride on TG4 last night.
Ciaran writes:
“This is a new dating show where dates are chosen not on personality or looks but on the car that they drive and what’s in it. There’s plenty of mortification and plenty of chuckles.”
TROID!
Pioc do Ride is on Thursdays, at 10pm on TG4.
Oh.
At the European Federation of National Organisations Working With The Homeless in Dublin Castle this morning.
Peter McVerry Trust tweetz:
Clear spike in presentation of families to homeless services in Dublin.
But what about that dip?
Readers may recall how, following the death of Jonathan Corrie close to the Dáil on December 1, 2014, emergency accommodation was set up in the Civil Defence headquarters at the Esplanade, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7.
At the time, Cathal Morgan, of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, told RTÉ:
“Tomorrow [Friday, December 12], our colleagues in the Civil Defence will be opening up 20 beds. That means 70 beds out of the 260 promised will be in place. By the 23rd of December, we will have those 260 beds in place.”
Readers may also recall how, in late January, Rosie Naughton, from Hope4Homeless, spoke to a homeless man called Richie in Dublin. Richie told Rosie that it was his understanding that the emergency beds, rolled out in the wake of Jonathan Corrie’s death, would be removed over the following two to three weeks.
Richie told Rosie he was told this by the Simon Community, Focus Ireland and Merchant’s Quay.
Anyone?
Previously: The Best We Can Do
This morning.
Dunboyne, Co Meath.
Thanks Alfonzo
Caffeine Explorer.
The only interactive Google map to show YOU where you can get a cup of joe in Britain or Ireland.
Maker Conor Mulcahy writes:
I’ve solved a great problem for your readers, namely: “where can I buy the best coffee when I’m travelling?” It just so happens to be international coffee day on Tuesday, so I’m marking the occasion by releasing to the public; my personal Google Map [link below] of over 6,500 cafes in the UK and Ireland.
I’ve written a Masters Thesis on Independent coffee shops and I’m likely the only person in the world with such a data set….
Btw, I’ve tried to fit in as many cafes from Dublin as possible for you. If you have any further suggestions, please don’t be shy. I’d love to hear them. Go ahead and spread the word, because some things are too good not to share!
*shakes*
Ireland’s European Commissioner Phil Hogan (left) at the National Ploughing Championship yesterday
“First of all I don’t agree that there’s a mess and second of all I introduced what was required of me under the Troika and you’ll have to ask the Minister for the Environment for the rest…He’s in charge of water, and Irish Water, and the delivery of a very important product called water.”
Phil Hogan, yesterday.
Thanks Dave Kelly
(RTÉ)
This morning.
College Street, Dublin.
Bit harsh.
Thanks Graeme kelly
Carlosfandango writes:
Piazza San Ó’Marco. One of our famous Irish Cities..Or so they say in the Irish House Bar, Mumbai. Framed & hanging on the wall in the bar.
