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Illuminated Code From Space is artist Haari Tesla’s tilt-shift experiment with publicly distributed images of galaxies and nebulae – the most vast phenomenon we know of – presented as a series of micro-organisms. Sez she:

Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosm or sub-sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level). In the system the midpoint is Man, who summarizes the cosmos.

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The Oireachtas Petitions and Public Service Oversight Committee held a private session tonight, following its discussions with members of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, including GSOC chairman Simon O’Brien, above.

Since this private session, the committee, chaired by Sinn Féin TD, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, has released the following statement:

The Committee has grave concerns about some of the issues raised during the detailed discussions with the Garda Ombudsman Commissioners. Serious questions remain unanswered. Reflecting on the need for further consideration of these matters, the Committee has decided:

To contact the GSOC requesting the unredacted reports by security company Verrimus, and any other related information in connection with the investigation into suspected surveillance at GSOC offices, be made available to the Committee on a confidential basis, and to invite the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence Alan Shatter TD to address the Committee on these developments and to assess the approach he and his Department propose to take to respond to the concerns raised.

The Committee is undertaking this process conscious of the need to secure public confidence in the administration of justice.

Statement by Public Service Oversight Committee following meeting with GSOC (Oireachtas.ie)

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Maria writes:

I know you don’t normally do this, but my mates dog ‘Bobby’ is missing in Castleknock/Carpenterstown Dublin 15 since 1pm today and am particularly worried because of this storm. He’s a Japanese Spitz with a blue collar.

Update: 9:29pm

Maria writes:

Bobby is home! A lady found him and posted a pic on Facebook which made it’s way back to my friend.

Yay!

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Stop motion animator Kirsten Lapore (she of the excellent Bottle) sez:

A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape, but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself. A story about illness, perseverance, and our connection to everything around us.

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From right: Kieran Fitzgerald, Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commissioner (GSOC), Carmel Foley, Commissioner GSOC, and Simon O’Brien, Chairman GSOC, arriving at the Public Service Oversight and Petitions Committee in Leinster House, Dublin today.

[GSOC]’s Simon O’Brien says the Commission investigated possible bugging under a legal clause that allows it to investigate possible offences by members of the Gardaí. However, he says he personally decided not to report the suspicions to the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, because he did not want to suggest that Gardaí had organised the surveillance of the office. However he is clear that he believes the office was targeted.


GSOC head: We may have been under some form of surveillance (BreakingNews)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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This evening.

Alan writes:

Tree down on Lower Dodder Road [Dublin]. Pain in the hula-hoop if you’re using it to get to Rathgar area.

 

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Andrew Carey tweetz:

Probably the scariest picture you will see from Limerick in the wake of Storm Darwin. Knocklisheen road. No one in van at the time.

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Reppy writes:

I’m heeding all advice on the stay indoors warnings… Thankfully the fire is on in the Man O’ War [pub] north county Dublin….

 

 

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