Ah here.
Angie from Target McConnells ad agency, writes:
Here at TMcC we’re obsessed with Game of Thrones. Given the day that’s in it, we did a bit of research and couldn’t help but notice some uncanny similarities between the GoT characters and some of Dublin’s most loved statues. What do you reckon? [More at link below]
FIGHT!
Name those statues and characters anyone?
This afternoon.
Further to the abrupt closure announcement.
SIPTU [The Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union] will host a rally in support of the Clery’s workers outside the store in O’Connell Street, Dublin (top), tomorrow between 12-2pm to “highlight the demand that the new owners [Natrium Ltd] meet with staff”.
All welcome.
Via the union:
SIPTU Sector Organiser, Teresa Hannick, said: “The way these workers have been treated by Natrium, the consortium which took over Clery’s on Friday and then liquated the company, is completely unacceptable…These workers have hundreds of years of service between them and should be treated with the due respect they deserve.”
SIPTU representatives will meet with representatives of KPMG, the court appointed liquidators of the company, in Liberty Hall, Dublin, tomorrow morning prior to the rally.
Later, tomorrow evening a delegation of workers and union representatives will meet with the Minister of State for Business and Employment, Ged Nash. This meeting will focus on ensuring that the workers concerns about how they have been treated by the new owners of the company are adequately addressed….
SIPTU (Facebook)
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Denis O’Brien and his often tangled web of influence.
In interactive form [see link below]
Come into his parlour.
Pat writes:
Irish Water, Denis O’Brien, Siteserv, GMC. Find it all here illustrated. You can Zoom in and out, click on the elements and discover more content in their description. Each connection (as much as possible ) contains information on the nature of the link to the element it is connected to. For any query please reach out on twitter to @beyourownreason…
A Tangled Web: Irish Water, Denis O’Brien and Siteserv (BeYourOwnReason)
Kate C writes:
Bangkok comes to Ranelagh. Brand new too with 15 D plates. I want one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIojj4PzAo
Spectacular slow motion footage of Violas, Touch-Me-Nots and Squirting Cucumbers doing their explosive propagative thing from the Smithsonian Channel.
You at the back. Stop that sniggering.
The vintage swimming pool at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co Kildare (top).
The end of a well-attended chapel of the front crawl/back stroke for young and old alike.
Dan writes:
I felt I should make you aware of Maynooth University’s decision to close its much loved swimming pool. It’s the second oldest* pool in the country and is used by staff, students and hundreds of local children.
It’s also used by numerous swimming clubs including a special olympics swimming club. It will leave the 20,000+ plus population of maynooth and Kilcock without swimming facilities. Above was the letter sent this week informing people of the closure. But hey it doesn’t make money for the university! The new Starbucks does but not the pool and no room for one in the planned €150 million campus expansion. Perhaps your readers could help in some small way by giving the Facebook page [link below] some support.
Save Our Maynooth Pool (Facebook)
*the oldest anyone?
This afternoon.
Dubweasel writes:
I see David Norris is out swimming in the Liffey…..
