This afternoon.

UK’s House of Commons.

Mr Johnson was answering questions from the DUP’s Ian Paisley who asked what he was going to do when he realises the EU, as Mr Paisley said, will do nothing to help Northern Ireland.

Mr Johnson said he “utterly shares the frustration” of how the EU Commission seemed to call to use the protocol in such a way as to “impose a border contrary to the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement.

He said: “we will do everything we need to do to, whether legislatively or indeed by invoking Article 16 of the protocol to ensure that there is no barrier down the Irish Sea” and businesses can continue “unfettered between Northern Ireland and the rest of this country”.

Johnson says UK is prepared to invoke Article 16 ‘if necessary’ (RTÉ)

Yesterday: I Von Der Who It Was

This afternoon.

More as we get it.

Update:

G’wan the Gleeser.

Update:

A nom for Irish-made Wolfwalkers.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly

This afternoon.

Poor Steo.

RollingNews

Update:

Ask the bishops?

FIGHT!

This afternoon.

Liverpool goalie Vitezslav Jaros on loan for Dublin team.

They won’t have to sign a big Czech.

Czech/cheque.

I’ll get me gloves.

Above from left: Ericka Rowe, Lauren Larkin and Shauna Higgins from Deadly Cuts

This morning.

O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

Cast members of Irish hair-salon-based black comedy  Deadly Cuts (2020) launch the 2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival programme.

The festival welcomes director Steve McQueen and actors Colin Firth, and Stanley Tucci plus more for for a 12-day ‘online extravaganza of cinema’ from March 3-14.

2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Yikes!

This morning.

Via @gardainfo

Gardaí recently arrested two males in Dublin city centre for being in possession of these knives. Both men have been charged and are due to appear in the CCJ later this month.

The Bic (left) is shown for size and is not a weapon.

Any excuse.

FIGHT!

An entwined couple on the banks of the River Lee, Cork City in 2016

This morning.

Recruitment is underway for a HSE-funded ‘public sex environment outreach worker’ role with the Sexual Health Centre in Cork city.

Via The Irish Examiner:

Dr Martin Davoren, the centre’s executive director, described it as a “challenging yet exciting new role”.

“It’s quite a bespoke role and it’s not going to be for everybody but we are excited to introduce it,” he said.

While some people use apps to hook up with sexual partners, Dr Davoren said there was a significant cohort of mainly older men who don’t use such technology to meet sexual partners.

“Public sex environments are active and alive in Ireland,” he said.

Recruitment underway for outreach worker to visit Cork’s public sex spots (Irish Examiner)

Behold: the beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 in glorious detail despite being 35 million light years away. To wit:

The gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. This reprocessed Hubble Space Telescope close-up view spans a region about 30,000 light-years wide around the galactic core. It shows the galaxy’s disk dramatically inclined to our line-of-sight. Surrounding its bright core, the likely home of a supermassive black hole, obscuring dust lanes and young, blue star clusters sweep along spiral arms dotted with the tell-tale glow of pinksh star forming regions. Messier 66, also known as NGC 3627, is the brightest of the three galaxies in the gravitationaly interacting Leo Triplet.

(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Leo Shatz)

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