Quattro Colori.

Donal Moloney’s mind-blowing documentary about the epic events in Italy dedicated to the brutal, earliest form of football is now available on Amazon Prime.

Donal Moloney writes;

 ‘Quattro Colori’ has finally arrived on Amazon. 10 months back and forth to Florence, Italy last year and certainly the most difficult thing I’ve shot to date with a crew of just three wonderful people. It was also self funded.

In fairness.

Quattro Colori (Amazon Prime)

Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, Dr Tony Holohan.

Last night/this morning.

Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, has warned that international travel posed a significant rona risk. It follows Tanaiste Leo Varadkar’s advice yesterday asking people booking flights for Christmas to delay that decision.

“One of the biggest risks will be the re-importation of the disease through international travel,” said Dr Holohan.

When asked if travelling on compassionate grounds, such as a grandchild visiting here from abroad, would be allowed, Dr Holohan said inbound travel from other countries was now a bigger risk because they have higher rates of infection growth than we have.

He said: “We would feel the kind of travel that would normally happen at Christmas time, people coming back to spend time with their loved ones, which we all understand and facilitate, we regard as non-essential for this Christmas.”

Non-essential travel should be avoided for ‘foreseeable future’ – CMO (RTÉ)

Meanwhile.

Asked if he would be in favour of the vaccine being mandatory, [Trinity biochemist professor] Luke O’Neill said “that’s a tricky one.”

“What they’ve done in the past: you don’t make it against the law, you exclude people. So one prediction here is that you cannot travel unless you have the vaccine, and that would incentivise people. That’s a better way to do it,” O’Neill claimed.

Prof Luke O’Neill: Unvaccinated could be “excluded” from travel (Gript)

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Oh.

Meanwhile…

FIGHT!

It is so.

Sorry.

Watch: Fans go through ‘disinfecting pod’ ahead of Northern Ireland clash (Extra.ie)

This morning.

Via AP:

Election officials in Georgia’s 159 counties are undertaking a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by state law.
The law requires that one race be audited by hand to check that the machines counted the ballots accurately, not because of any suspected problems with the results. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger chose to audit the presidential race and said the tight margin — Democrat Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump by 14,000 votes — means a full hand count is necessary.

The final numbers in the audit count will almost definitely be slightly different than the numbers previously reported by the counties but the overall outcome should remain the same, said Gabriel Sterling, who oversaw the implementation of the state’s new voting system for the secretary of state’s office.

Georgia hand tally of presidential race getting underway (AP)

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A tweet from US president Donald Trump yesterday

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Amid a razon-thin purported lead by the Democratic candidate in some key swing states, and Republicans questioning the legality of the voting, Dominion Voting Systems has found itself in the eye of the storm.

Dominion, originally a Canadian company that is now headquartered in Denver, makes machines for voters to cast ballots and for poll workers to count them. It also produces the software that helps government officials both organise and keep track of election results.

US President Donald Trump’s campaign attorney demanded recounts in every state that used the company’s software (at least 28 states), after it was revealed to have wrongly given 6,000 votes to Democrats in the Michigan county of Antrim, with a “glitch” being stated as the reason.

“If 30 states have used the software and there’s already proved to be a glitch of 6,000 votes in one balloting area… lawyers should be… demanding a manual recount,” said Jay Sekulow, a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team.

No evidence of US election fraud, says coalition of federal and state officials (Guardian)

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

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Wise beard.

St Patrick’s Tower (and pear tree), Roe Lane, Dublin 8.

Harry Warren writes:

If you are strolling along Thomas St in Dublin, walking past the St. James Gate Guinness Brewery entrance, perhaps dreaming of the halcyon days pre COVID-19 of quaffing a creamy pint, have you ever noticed that odd looking tower across the road topped with a green dome and where else in Dublin would you find a pear tree outside of a private garden?

St Patrick’s tower was built in 1757 and was and arguably is, the largest smock windmill with a revolving top in Europe, today its sails are long since gone. The tower itself is 135 feet high and the width of the base is 70 feet. A smock mill is a type of windmill that resembles the shape of the smocks, the clothing originally worn by farmers in the Netherlands where these type of windmills were first erected. Why the moniker of St. Patrick’s Tower? If you look closely at the dome the wind vane on top is an effigy of St. Patrick.

The windmill was built to grind corn for the Roe Distillery that produced in excess of two million gallons of whiskey annually. The Roe family were very successful whiskey producers, by 1887 the distillery had expanded to 17 acres making it Europe’s largest distillery. Roe Whiskey was exported to the United States, Australia, Canada, as well as all over Europe.

The wealth of the Roe family became so great that they funded £250,000 (€20 Million euros in today’s money) for a major restoration of Christ Church Cathedral. Unfortunately, by the 1920’s the worldwide global whiskey market was in serious decline and by 1949 the distillery and its grounds were finally sold off to Guinness.

The pear tree? It is located at the base of the tower and in Autumn it produces a large crop of juicy pears. Perhaps someday it will be used in the manufacture of a nice pear liquor if they ever open a new distillery here again.

Today the tower is a feature of The Digital Hub in Thomas Street, the tech and media enterprise centre. There is seating in front of the tower and it is a lovely spot to enjoy a coffee in the Autumn sunshine.

Pics by Harry Warren

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Oh.

A rather adorable short directed by Catherine Prowse for Childline about the anxieties of growing up and the futility of bottling them inside.

And if you liked that, you may care for the equally cute ‘making of’ feature.

colossal

Amid Brexit turmoil, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s aide Dominic Cumming (above) has said he will leave Downing Street before Christmas

In Downing Street several factions
Now openly stage hostile actions
As Brexit draws near
And Covid’s still here
Can Britain afford these distractions?

John Moynes

WENN

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