MORE to follow.
Behold: the most famous manned voyage of the 20th century on its way home. To wit:
After proving that humanity has the ability to go beyond the confines of planet Earth, the first humans to walk on another world — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — flew the ascent stage of their Lunar Module back to meet Michael Collins in the moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. Pictured here on 1969 July 21 and recently digitally restored, the ascending spaceship was captured by Collins making its approach, with the Moon below, and Earth far in the distance. The smooth, dark area on the lunar surface is Mare Smythii located just below the equator on the extreme eastern edge of the Moon’s near side. It is said of this iconic image that every person but one was in front of the camera.
(Image: NASA, Apollo 11; Restoration – Toby Ord)
RIP: (the other) Big Fellah.
This afternoon.
Bay Meadows estate, Dublin 15.
All 112 houses have been bought by tax break-savouring, absentee hedgelords Round Hill Capital – having already purchased 135 homes in an estate in Maynooth, county Kildare – to be put on the rental market. Probably only for the vaxxed.
Earlier: Gazumped
Yesterday: Estate Of The Nation
Dublin city Marathon 2015
You need your JAB.
This afternoon.
Running the Dublin marathon this year?
Dublin Marathon race director Jim Aughney sez:
“Vaccination is key. The greater number of vaccines we can get approved and get out there, that’s going to be key for us to try and organise an event.
“The one thing I suppose, the unknown for us, will be the spectators. Again the vaccine is going to be key for that, to get everybody vaccinated and if that is the case, we’re still hopeful that we can run an event.”
Gazumped
at
“We’re getting to a point of no return”
Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy says there is a “skewered ideology” in place, and that the Government must urgently address institutional investors purchasing large portions of housing estates | More: https://t.co/IGrLJOSjv9 pic.twitter.com/nvwzAvd19v
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 5, 2021
“We’re going to deal with that. That is not acceptable”
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that institutional investors purchasing large portions of housing estates is unacceptable, and that Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is examining the issue today | https://t.co/IGrLJOSjv9 pic.twitter.com/JcMIT3DSjF
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 5, 2021
This afternoon.
The Dáil at the Convention Centre.
Earlier: While Stocks Last
Meanwhile…
.@labourparty will reintroduce Darragh O’Brien’s own bill from 2019, word for word, before the Summer if the Government continue to fail to act to give first time buyers a chance against big property investors and their bottomless pockets pic.twitter.com/AAuy2zntoV
— Rebecca Moynihan (@RebeccaMoy) May 5, 2021
Hmm.
when you’re explaining you’re losing
also when you’re describing the ending to a decade-long saga as “down” you are probably also losing https://t.co/AA0wRXPw6A
— Peter O’ Dwyer (@peterodwyer1) May 5, 2021
When it comes to losing, I have to defer to lifelong expert @peterodwyer1. What a fucking prick. https://t.co/ZoN3EaE9SR
— Jed Mercurio (@jed_mercurio) May 5, 2021
Gulp.
Line of Duty creator hits out at season 6 backlash ‘Thanks for watching’ (Daily Express)
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An enlightening graduation short by Géraldine Charpentier-Basille tells the deeply personal story of transgender Lou and the difficulties they faced with clothes, periods and labels when growing up.
Inspired by both the work of American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler and Charpentier’s “non-queer friends”, the director describes her film as “a representation of a queer person made by a queer person”.
And you think you have problems.
The Battle of Boora: Pat Barrett has lost the contract for the bike hire business in the Lough Boora Discovery Park in Offaly.
Locals say they’ll boycott the biz under the new owner, ex Dublin GAA star Conall Keaney who runs the popular Phoenix Park Bikes#Liveline @joeliveline
— Liveline (@rteliveline) May 5, 2021
This afternoon.
Stand with Pat writes:
On the Friday the 30th of April, Pat Barrett was contacted by Bord na Mona. He was informed that he had lost the tender for Boora Bike Hire [county Offaly] to a much larger Bike Hire chain that operates at a national level. 11 years of hard work, patience and unwavering kindness to countless visitors to Boora were not taken into account. Without Pat there would be no Lough Boora Parklands. It would not be the entity that it is today.
Petition here
