By Alan O’Regan
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Morehampton Lane, Donnybrook, Dublin, this lunchtime.
Andrew sez:
Rainbow-coloured signage, looks like a Yes vote from the good people on Morehampton lane
Thanks Andrew
Fully Woolly
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Woollen Dublin and parts adjacent on show in the Knitted Together exhibition at the Mansion House as part of the Bealtine Festival.
Open today and tomorrow 11am – 3pm.
(Thanks Moira Cardiff)
Pop Art
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Tenuously related to the day that’s in it, Chicago artist Jim Bachor has been repairing the city’s potholed pavements and roadways with pop, cone and ice cream sandwich mosaics for the last three years.
He calls them Treats on The Streets.
As well he should.
Jack Ascinine writes:
“And so it begins… Finally investigating how they are going to clean up Grafton Street and possibly put the sealant on the granite that they promised. They’ll be a long time at it with that buffer.”
Anyone?
Previously: Grafton Street: The New Paving!
Kids Today
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Irish Foreign Ministry tweetz:
Minister Charlie Flanagan welcomes HRH Prince Charles to Sligo as royal visit continues
Fashion writer Tríona O’Donnell tweetz:
What Charles wore to Sligo. We just shook hands!
TRH arrive @modelsligo to meet members of the local community and watch a music and poetry recital #RoyalVisitIreland pic.twitter.com/v0k6RR6F6s
— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) May 20, 2015
Meanwhile…
Gerry Adams says he and Prince Charles have little in common – but they’re both “tree-huggers”.
— Today FM News (@TodayFMNews) May 20, 2015
Um.
Previously: Anything Good In The Guardian?
Journalist Bruce Arnold
Sorcha Pollak in the Irish Times writes:
“Former president Mary McAleese was wrong to call for families across Ireland to vote Yes in the same-sex marriage referendum, according to journalist Bruce Arnold. Speaking on RTÉ radio [Morning Ireland], Mr Arnold said as an “officer of the State” the former president had broken convention by taking part in the same-sex marriage debate and had abandoned her duties.”
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“According to Mr Arnold, when he moved to Ireland [sixty years ago] homosexuality was not penalised or illegal and “homosexuals lived a reasonably open and happy life”.
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“’Homosexuality was never a crime in Ireland. Homosexual acts were and through David Norris’ work with Mary Robinson in Europe the edict was created that made the government here reluctantly, and with disagreement, decriminalise homosexual acts.’”
Listen to radio interview here
McAleese wrong to call for Yes vote in referendum, says journalist (Irish Times)
Previously: ‘Remembering Your Father And What He Stood For, I Need Answers’
And even more old buildings uncovered during Luas works on Marlborough Street, Dublin pic.twitter.com/olabsDH216
— Eye On Dublin (@EyeOnDublin) May 20, 2015
Hmmm.
Anyone?
Former Justice Minister Alan Shatter
High court: no denial of fair procedures to Alan shatter by Sean Guerin in his report. @rtenews
— Orla O’Donnell (@Orlaodo) May 20, 2015
Alan Shatter bid to quash aspects of guerin report dismissed by High court. @rtenews
— Orla O’Donnell (@Orlaodo) May 20, 2015
Judge says aim of case was to curtail commission’s investigation into his role with Sgt McCabe’s complaints by a “collateral attack” on it.
— Mark Tighe (@marktigheST) May 20, 2015
More to follow.
Previously: Indecent Haste
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland