This afternoon.

South William Street, Dublin 2.

Dublin City Council has begun works to pedestrianise a number of streets in the city-centre.

From today, the following four streets will be either traffic-free, or have sections of them traffic-free daily after 11am: Anne Street South from the junction of Dawson Street; South William Street from Exchequer Street to the Brown Thomas carpark exit (above); Drury Street from just after its junction with Fade Street to the Drury Street underground carpark, and Dame Court from Exchequer Street.

Finally.

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This afternoon.

Brussels, Belgium.

A masked up Taoiseach Micheál Martin in town for a special meeting of the European Council attends a gathering of Renew Europe, the largest ‘centrist’ group in the European Parliament.

Asked about the Belarus plane jacking, he replied:

“Mmmmfff arummf.”

More as we get.

Earlier: Aviation Piracy

Behold: a recently pruned grove of oak trees in the Spanish town of Salamanca framing a spectacular galactic vista. To wit:

The photographer stayed up until 2 am, waiting until the Milky Way Galaxy rose above the level of a majestic looking oak. From this carefully chosen perspective, dust lanes in the galaxy appear to be natural continuations to branches of the tree. Last came the light. A flashlight was used on the far side of the tree to project a silhouette. By coincidence, other trees also appeared as similar silhouettes across the relatively bright horizon. The featured image was captured as a single 30-second frame in 2015 and processed to digitally enhance the Milky Way.

(Image: César Vega Toledano; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt)

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How does it feeel?

Meanwhile…

Um.

Beats writing to Kylie, ‘spose.


The 4 Of Us – Waiting Room

Brothers are doin’ it for themselves.

Long beloved Newry siblings Declan and Brendan Murphy aka The 4 Of Us are back with a new single from their album Heaven And Earth, which is available in limited edition beautiful blue vinyl.

Brendan (top left) writes:

“Waiting Game is about how the past 12 months under varying levels of lockdown have affected our families. One of the few upsides has been the chance to spend more time together. The song came about through our weekly Facebook/YouTube live shows – and the video for the song is a compilation of clips from those live sessions.”

Nick says: Murphys lore.

The 4 Of Us

This afternoon.

Leinster Road, Dublin 6.

Good times.

This afternoon.

Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

The Irish Airline Pilots’ Association has urged the Government to urgently deploy rapid antigen testing for Covid-19 as part of the union’s four-point plan to reopen international aviation.

IALPA, which represents 1,200 Irish-based pilots, is holding an outdoor general meeting today at which all members attending will submit to rapid antigen testing – a measure which the union believes could facilitate the early resumption of international travel.

Pilots call for rapid antigen tests to reopen aviation (RTE)

Recover Irish Aviation









This morning.

Enniskerry, county Wicklow.

The village is being transformed into the set for Disney’s Disenchanted, a follow-up to fairytale blockbuster Enchanted (2007).

Filming is to begin next month where actors Susan Sarandon, Patrick Dempsey, Amy Adams and James Marsden are expected in the village.

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