A big crowd at the Monday morning pawn shop. Dublin’s Temple bar in the 1970s. pic.twitter.com/vIzfoKPyXs
— Photos of Dublin (@PhotosOfDublin) August 6, 2014
Glimpse of vintage Dublin Bus porn to the right.
Dia dhaoibh uilig ar cóiméad!
— ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) August 6, 2014
The European Space Agency writes:
“After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration.”
“Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half way between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, rushing towards the inner Solar System at nearly 55 000 kilometres per hour.”
“The comet is in an elliptical 6.5-year orbit that takes it from beyond Jupiter at its furthest point, to between the orbits of Mars and Earth at its closest to the Sun. Rosetta will accompany it for over a year as they swing around the Sun and back out towards Jupiter again.”
My mate @cdugdog was down at Skellig last week, managed to catch a bit of the Star Wars filming pic.twitter.com/d9425qotvx
— Laurence Mackin (@LaurenceMackin) August 6, 2014
Previously: A Kingdom Far, Far Away
What Now?
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Perth, Australia.
This looks like a job for…
Everyone!
Yay!
Thanks John Vaughan
Little Bray
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A short timelapse video created using a tiltshift (miniature model) effect shot by Aoife Hester during the Bray Summer Festival in Bray, Co Wicklow.
We DO like to be beside the seaside.
Mule-r Light
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Last night her Belfast-based solicitor Kevin Winters said her family were relieved to receive confirmation of the transfer. “It has been a hugely stressful time for Michaella and her family. They are anxious now to move to the next stage.”
Dungannon’s Michaella McCollum is due to be repatriated to HMP Hydebank, Belfast after a transfer request was approved by Peruvian authorities.
Peru approves Tyrone drug’s mules move to home-soil jail (Brendan Hughes, Irish News) (not currently available online)
Sandymount Strand, Sandymount, Dublin at 9.10 this morning.
Save Poolbeg.
Thanks Puca
Cappagh Beach, Cloghane Brandon, Tralee Co. Kerry
Thanks Aoife Dowd
A Nigerian man hounded from his new home after it was covered in ‘Locals only’ banners has suffered more racial abuse. Michael Abiona (34) abandoned plans to move into a bungalow in East Belfast after finding protestors outside and banners that read ‘Local houses for local people’.
Now the charity worker has been subjected to racist abuse at a second Housing Executive property in the area. He was showing a Nigerian friend his new home on Holywood Road when a woman got out of a taxi and repeatedly shouted “black bastard” and told them to leave the area.
Mr Abiona said “The way things are, you are watching your back whenever you’re walking the street. You’re scared that people will come and attack you. But I’m not going to allow it affect me.”
Victim of locals-only protest rehoused but suffers yet more racist abuse (Brendan Hughes, Irish News) (not currently available online)
Previously: Orange Diss The New Black
Haters Gonna Hat
Seven cops from the Garda Traffic Unit have been transferred after being caught drinking tea on the job. The motorbike officers got caught up in “tea-gate” a fortnight ago when they stopped off for a cuppa at Dublin Port down by the Docks. It was alleged a member of the public rang up and complained about the seven motorbikes being parked up while the officers were on duty. But it’s understood there are trackers on the bikes and that’s ultimately how the officers were caught.
Teapotty: Seven gardai disciplined for having a cuppa while on duty (Alana Fearon, Irish Mirror)