Kojaque – No Hands

Is it too real for ya?

Cabra rapper Kevin Smith (top) aka Kojaque delivers a raw gut-punch of a single that lays it all on the line.

The self-directed video – starring Oscar Nolan as the kid, Karen Connell as the mother and James Smith as the dad – also hits home hard and leaves us in no doubt we’re dealing with a serious homegrown talent here.

To quote one YouTube commenter:

“The best thing to come out of Dublin since Paul McGrath.”

The good news is there’s an album round the corner.

Nick says: Who loves ya, baby?

Kojaque

 

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly

This morning.

Via RTÉ news:

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said the issue with the Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine is very frustrating and he said he spoke to the company about his concerns with supply last night.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said the AstraZeneca representative said the company was committed to the total volumes being delivered to Ireland but could not give dates.

Mr Donnelly said the company admitted to having “unanticipated problems” with supply chains and having a very significant manufacturing capacity…

Minister says AstraZeneca commits to fixing issues but no dates for deliveries (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Um.

Oh.

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Behold: the Canoo – an all-electric pickup truck/‘lifestyle vehicle’ competing in the boxy-but-good sector with the Tesla Cybertruck with preorders from mid-2021 and a 2023 launch.

Built on the Los Angeles-based company’s modular EV platform, the pickup will have dual or rear motor configurations up to 600bhp and a 320km range. The bed has a pull-out section for hauling large cargo, a front cargo area that folds into a work table and workspaces folding out from the sides.

Price as yet tba.

uncrate

Behold: a faint band of light reaching above the western horizon just after sunset last Sunday in rural Illinois. But what could it mean? To wit:

Taken from an old farmstead, the luminous glow is zodiacal light, prominent in the west after sunset during planet Earth’s northern hemisphere spring. On that clear evening the band of zodiacal light seems to engulf bright yellowish Mars and the Pleiades star cluster. Their close conjunction is in the starry sky above the old barn’s roof. Zodiacal light is sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust particles that lie near the Solar System’s ecliptic plane. Of course all the Solar System’s planets orbit near the plane of the ecliptic, within the band of zodiacal light. But zodiacal light and Mars may have a deeper connection. A recent analysis of serendipitous detections of interplanetary dust by the Juno spacecraft during its Earth to Jupiter voyage suggest Mars is the likely source of the dust that produces zodiacal light.

(Image: Joshua Rhoades)

apod

German police say they have solved a nine-year-old burglary case after DNA was found on a half-eaten piece of wurst

If burglary’s something you do
I’d suggest that you don’t stop to chew
Some food at the time
You’re committing a crime
As you may leave the coppers a clue

John Moynes

Clockwise from top left: Neil Curran, Marco Dias, Vanessa Foran and Derek O’Donoghue

Indeed and you probably are.

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Economist Eddie Hobbs (above), Cork’s best known number cruncher after Vanessa Foran, will join the panel to discuss the post-pandemic economy and what the divil happened at Davy.

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Behold: NGC 1499, also known as the California nebula, for obvious reasons. To wit:

Could Queen Calafia‘s mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space cloud echoes the outline of the state of California, USA. Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way’s Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula […] The classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionised) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the energetic starlight that ionises much of the nebular gas is the bright, hot, bluish Xi Persei just to the right of the nebula. A regular target for astrophotographers, the California Nebula can be spotted with a wide-field telescope under a dark sky toward the constellation of Perseus, not far from the Pleiades.

(Image: Yannick Akar)

apod

Yesterday.

In a response to the Final Report of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation…

…Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman launched a consultation process seeking submissions on what should be included in a Restorative Recognition Scheme, as ‘reparation for the wrongs that occurred’ in the homes.

To help with this, Minister O’Gorman has employed the services of Oak Consulting, a Wexford based group specialising in conflict resolution.

Bebe writes:

‘To me, it’s another delaying tactic, outsourcing what the Government themselves should do, with the opportunity for them to look perplexed when it goes pear-shaped. They haven’t a notion of adopting the recommendations – i.e. they will continue to deny as many women and children redress as they possibly can.’

Anyone?

Yesterday: Mother and Baby Home Report Update

 

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