Last night.

The Dail at the Convention Centre, Dublin.

Sinn Féin TDs walked out of the Dáil chamber before a vote to extend the Special Criminal Court for another year. Sinn Féin has previously said its TDs would abstain from the vote pending a review of the Court.

Sinn Féin TDs walk out of Dáil before Special Criminal Court vote (Independent.ie)

Meanwhile…

Citywest vaccination centre in May

This morning.

Anyone?

Meanwhile…

Oh.

Rollingnews

The National Maternity Hospital could now relocate to Tallaght or Blanchardstown

One thing nobody wants to see
Is us building a facility
On top of some land
Where we cannot command
But thankfully there‘s a plan B

John Moynes

RollingNews

Behold: a recent image of the young star system HD 163296 from which jets of hydrogen are emerging, though no one really knows why. To wit:

The central star in the featured image is still forming but seen already surrounded by a rotating disk and an outward moving jet. The disk is shown in radio waves taken by the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, and show gaps likely created by the gravity of very-young planets. The jet, shown in visible light taken by the Very Large Telescope (VLT, also in Chile), expels fast-moving gas — mostly hydrogen — from the disk centre. The system spans hundreds of times the Earth-Sun distance (au). Details of these new observations are being interpreted to bolster conjectures that the jets are generated and shaped, at least in part, by magnetic fields in the rotating disk. Future observations of HD 163296 and other similar star-forming systems may help fill in details.

(Image: Visible: VLT/MUSE (ESO); Radio: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

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This evening.

River Liffey at Dublin city centre.

Trawlers leave Dublin following a protest today by fisherman against against the EU Common Fisheries Policy, quotas cuts and the impact of Brexit

A flotilla of 55 trawlers from all around the coast gathered at the entrance to Dublin Port before dawn, berthing at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay were a rally was held to highlight the ‘lack of support from the Irish government.

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Behold: the 2004 Shelby Cobra – Code-named Project Daisy, this one-off, fully functioning prototype was the last Shelby Cobra ever made (production was subsequently cancelled during an economic downturn).

Powered by an experimental 6.5-litre, 605bhp V10 with a rear-mounted six-speed transaxle, it had an aluminium space frame chassis with front and rear suspension components from the Ford GT. The vehicle was tested by Carroll Shelby himself at Irwindale Speedway and went on to star in the otherwise garbage movie XXX: State of the Union, driven by Ice Cube.

Up for auction next month for an as yet undisclosed but probably somewhat hefty starting price.

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