This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

No one likes them.

They don’t care.

From top: A memorial at the site of a former Catholic-run residential school in Saskatchewan, Canada last week; a protest at the Mother and Baby Home Commission offices in Dublin last January; ‘Cue Frank’ podcast

This afternoon.

A new ‘Cue Frank’ podcast by Mother and Baby Home activist and lawyer Frank Brehany, whose father was a Tuam adoptee.

Frank, a founder member of SALI, discusses the Institutional Burial Bill and the Irish connection to the recent discoveries of unmarked burial sites in Canada.

Previously: “We Need To Know Who Died, We Need To Know How They Died”

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Dublin city centre

Millennial Artist With A Masters Degree Attempts
To Enter The Workforce And/Or Buy A House

Starter pack:
A) Rich parents (if you cannot attain this, skip to part F).

Other options:
B) Pay more money to train better so you aren’t worthless.

C) Educate those around you to appreciate the necessity of art. Please note: you may lose friends and family who (let’s face it) have real jobs, that paid for the little Arts Council funded thing you did, that one time.

D) Create something so intoxicatingly commercially brilliant that it impresses those you lost in part C but ironically only just covers what you paid for part B.

E) You haven’t gotten this far and still thought I’d have any advice for the ‘’buy a house’’ bit, did you? Oh honey, refer to part A.

F) Kill yourself.

beam

beam is a 26 year old woman from Galway. A new poet and a recent MA graduate, beam is working on her first collection after being published on Spilling Hot Cocoa Over Martin Amis. Recent work includes: ‘surviving the pandemic and several disappointing sourdough loaves’. You can find more of her poetry @personalbeam on instagram.

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Mars? Pfft. Who wants to live on that boring red kip?

Come the time when extraterrestrial colonisation becomes unavoidable, why not relocate to Earth’s ‘sister planet’?

A 96% carbon dioxide atmosphere.

Mean daytime temperatures of 737 K (464 °C).

Skies filled with clouds of sulphuric acid.

What’s not to like?

German educational design studio Kurzgesagt breaks it down for your delectation.

Previously: The Day The Dinosaurs Died

The results are in.

Last Friday, from a suggestion by Capernosity & Function and with a €50 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store on offer, I asked you for your favourite song sung in a language other than English.

You replied in your dozens, creating a playlist of bangin’, if lyrically incomprehensible, choonage.

But there could be only one winner.

Third Place:

Talyat (Girl) By Tinariwen

Seanydelight writes:

“Ex-militia fighters, who have the wildest back story of any band, possibly rivaling the great Fela Kuti in terms of near unbelievableness. Tinariwen. Desert tinged, hypnotic ethno-folk with chanting and a soulful guitar leading the way.”

Runner-up:

Neon Licht by Kraftwerk

Seamus writes:

“I could post up at least twenty great Kraftwerk songs sung in the original German, but I think this is my favourite.”

Winner:

C’est Petits Luxes by Christophe

Lush writes:

“The first gift he-who-broke-my-heart gave me was Christophe’s album ‘Comme Si Le Terre Penchait’. I still love it, though the memories are bittersweet and I find it hard to listen to now.They’re all beautiful songs and I hesitated between Elle Dit Elle Dit Elle Dit and C’est Petits Luxes.”

Nick says: Well done Lush and thanks all.

Golden Discs

Last night.

The Dail at The Convention Centre, Dublin.

Via RTE:

Micheál Martin said the current tax breaks have to be kept in place to provide social housing for families through leasing properties from these funds.

He said that if the tap was turned off immediately then 2,400 families would lose out on getting a home this year.

Mr Martin added that the future model will focus on direct building, but he said: “The reality is we need more houses.”

He said there would be a move to a new system where the State would ultimately own leased properties but this cannot happen immediately.

Government wins Dáil vote on housing investor tax break (RTÉ)

‘sup?

This morning.

Portobello, Dublin 8.

Labour Senator Ivana Bacik arriving at her polling station with husband Alan Saul and dog Ginny, to cast her vote in the Dublin Bay South by-election this morning.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Meanwhile…

This morning.

RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Fianna Fáil candidate Deirdre Conroy with her sons as they voted  in the Dublin Bay South by-election this morning.

Earlier: The Auld Triangle

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