MORE to follow
MORE to follow
Berlin bar Dame Lane, Dublin 2
This is completely over the top! What about that hotel that hosted the #golfgate – few kids acting the maggot – close the place down. Few politicians/judges breaking rules, not a word!!🤷♂️👇 https://t.co/Xjv0KDnlM9
— David McWilliams (@davidmcw) May 26, 2021
This evening.
It’s like the 1930s in, er, Berlin.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the Totem GT Electric – a tribute to the 1960s Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA by Italian automotive startup Totem Automobili, which describes it as ‘the most advanced restomod in the world’.
Fair enough. This all-electric handmade prototype (from which 20 production models will follow) generates 518bhp and will do 245km/h with a100km/h time of 3.4 seconds and 360km of range from full charge.
Jabulation
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This afternoon.
Citywest, Dublin.
Des O’Grady from Castleknock celebrates receiving a free balloon on becoming the 100,000th vaccine recipient since the vaccination centre at Citywest opened on March 3.
The milestone shot was administered by Corporal Thomas Carew, of the Irish Army, lending the event a M*A*S*H feel.
Hang on. Des was promised a cupcake?
UPDATE:
YAY!
Gorgeous Wrecks – Strong Suit
Orange man sad.
Anonymous Irish pop-tronica duo Gorgeous Wrecks continue to intrigue with the second single from their forthcoming album Gentle Art Of Persuasion.
There’s Daft Punk vibes off the video as the man with an orange for a head travels through Dublin in search of his muse.
Nick says: The man from Del Monte says yes.
Two monster renditions from the Rockin’1000 playlist wherein ensembles made up of around 1000 musicians play cover versions of famous tunes.
What sounds like a terrible idea is, as intended, epic.
More tunes here.
#gainz
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Just took this screenshot and it’s clear that aviation although reduced is moving around Europe but Ireland looks deserted and the flights passing over are heading for European destinations. Our government are destroying aviation and tourism, not the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/ZNZYKvplQi
— Niall Boylan (@Niall_Boylan) May 26, 2021
This morning.
Good times.
Earlier: New Rules
From top: Liam Herrick, executive director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, whose concerns about freedom of expression, the right to send and receive information, and the right to privacy are illustrated (above)
Happening now.
Oireachtas committe on Tourism, Culture, Art, Sport and media.
Interested parties are providing pre-legislative scrutiny of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, including the irish Council for Civil Liberties , whose boss Liam Herrick told the committee that significant parts of the proposed legislation may not meet human rights standards.
Watch live here.
Meanwhile…
Hello YOU!
Broadsheet‘s Olga Cronin (arrowed), now with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, at the committee hearing this afternoon.
Olga, Olga, give us a wave!
E-dgelords
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This afternoon.
Dublin City Centre.
Connolly Hospital said yesterday that more than half of people injured in e-scooter accidents were not wearing helmets for fear of looking like ninnies (no doubt).