‘Response’ by photographer Fiona Brennan featuring Dublin firefighters
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Camden Street, Dublin 8.
A Dublin Fire Brigade mural based on an award-winning photo “Response” by Fiona Brennan.
Revelino – Don’t Lead Me Down
Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, reader Andy Pipkin hails Dublin sharp-shooters Revelino, led by Brendan Tallon, whose debut eponymous 1994 album (top) has been remastered and re-released on vinyl.
Andy says:
“‘Don’t Lead Me Down’ is out this Friday to coincide with the release of the 2nd vinyl pressing of their debut album ‘Revelino’ which sold out within 2 weeks last month and went straight to No 1 in the Irish Indie charts.”
The new video contains footage from the cult Irish gangster flick I Went Down (1997) directed by Paddy Breathnach.
Nick says: Wild mercury Revelino.
Mmm. Swirly
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Jupiter, right? But what is it with those colourful swirling bands? To wit:
Jupiter‘s top atmospheric layer is divided into light zones and dark belts that go all the way around the giant planet. It is high horizontal winds — in excess of 300 kilometers per hour — that cause the zones to spread out planet-wide. What causes these strong winds remains a topic of research. Replenished by upwelling gas, zonal bands are thought to include relatively opaque clouds of ammonia and water that block light from lower and darker atmospheric levels. One light-coloured zone is shown in great detail in the featured vista taken by the robotic Juno spacecraft in 2017. Jupiter’s atmosphere is mostly clear and colourless hydrogen and helium, gases that are not thought to contribute to the gold and brown colours. What compounds create these colours is another active topic of research — but is hypothesised to involve small amounts of sunlight-altered sulphur and carbon. Many discoveries have been made from Juno’s data, including that water composes an unexpectedly high 0.25 percent of upper-level cloud molecules near Jupiter’s equator, a finding important not only for understanding Jovian currents but for the history of water in the entire Solar System.
Now for yiz..
(Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill)
A load of Christmas trees scattered across the m50 southbound and hitting a hape of cars really does some up 2020
— CON (@conorrushe) November 24, 2020
Dropping off some Christmas trees on m50 pic.twitter.com/iOFqgObzjk
— John Fitzgerald (@JohnFit39306470) November 24, 2020
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Slogan’s Run
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This day 25 years ago – 24 November 1995 – Irish voters approved by referendum an amendment to the constitution which lifted a ban on divorce.
It was the narrowest voting margin in the history the state, with 50.28% opting for ‘Yes.’
The difference was fewer than 9,200 votes. pic.twitter.com/9tqvx17ytp
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 24, 2020
The rot set in soon after.
FIGHT!
A rather excellent video for Ilhan Ersahin’s “Hurri-Mitanni (Good News)i” directed and animated by Gökalp Gönen in which a series of digitally camouflaged dancers morph and sway their way through (and tower above) the streets of Istanbul.
You may be reminded of this.
From top: Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald; Independent TD Mattie McGrath
It will not surprise you to read that there is now a row in the Dáil about whether the schedule should be amended so that Helen McEntee can take questions about the nomination of Seamus Woulfe to the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/DOCbLct110
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 24, 2020
“You are behaving in a way that is an abuse of your office,” says Mary Lou McDonald.
The Ceann Comhairle: “it is not for me to determine what business the Government does in the Government’s time.”
“The heavy gang are back,” proclaims Mattie McGrath.
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 24, 2020
This afternoon.
More as we get it.
Yesterday: Cooling Off
UPDATE:
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she is being accountable to the Dáil, despite refusing Opposition demands that she make a statement in the chamber regarding the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Seamus Woulfe and then answer questions.
The minister said she is prepared to answer questions about the appointment through the long-standing process of written queries submitted by Opposition TDs several days in advance known as Ministerial Parliamentary Questions (PQs).
She told a news conference in Dublin that this process is standard practice, which happens every week and has been in place for many years.
Minister says she is being accountable to Dáil over Woulfe (RTÉ)
From top: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris; Minister of State for International and Road Transport and Logistics Hildegarde Naughton; Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence Simon Coveney; Darragh O’Brien, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin
This afternoon.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin and cabinet members leave a meeting where a ‘brief’ discussion on easing rona restrictions was held.
Via RTÉ:
The Government decision on easing Covid-19 restrictions next week is now most likely to be taken on Friday.
A further cabinet meeting is expected to take place on Friday.
It will be preceded by a meeting of the National Public Health Emergency Team tomorrow and possibly a meeting of the Covid-19 Cabinet sub-committee on Thursday.
Meanwhile…
The key point that must be finalised is when restaurants and gastro pubs reopen and what guidelines might need to be issued to allow for indoor dining.
The prospect of pubs that do not serve food opening this year is said to be diminishing all the time.
Ministers must also decide on when exactly inter-country travel will be permitted in the days leading up to Christmas.
Government decision on easing Covid-19 restrictions expected on Friday (RTÉ)
Sam Wickens – Strange.24
Life’s a maze.
The powerful new single and video from Sam Wickens (top) deals with a sensitive topic close to his heart.
The singer/songwriter from Bangor, County Down, says:
“It’s a song about the acceptance of recovering from a battle with mental illness; the feeling of something changing within my life and trying to accept that it is actually happening.
“After fighting with mental illnesses for such a long time, the possibility of it leaving was a complete myth to me. Life without deep hopelessness seemed strange to me as I was accustomed to the black hole that was my normality.
“Just as you would need to get used to living in a new home, I had to get used to living as a person that was no longer mentally ill. This song was a therapeutic way to help me move on with my recovery.”
Strange.24 follows on from last year’s album All I’ve Seen and is the lead single from his EP Watson, due next February.
Sam plays The Workman’s Club, Dublin, on April 1, 2021.
Nick says: Sing it Sam.