This morning.

Aldi, Terenure, Dublin 6.

Karen Morgan writes:

Ho, ho, ho! Exciting news! Santa dropped into Aldito announce that, while we may not be able to visit him in person this year, during the month of November, Aldi is giving 100 lucky families the opportunity to win a virtual chat with the man himself in the run up to Christmas via SantaOnline.ie.

To enter, email your best Christmas cracker joke to santa@aldi.ie!

You may share them with us as well.

Or not.

Suit yourselves.

Living in Dublin?

Cracked screen?

Charging issues?

Read on.

Ian writes:

Irish brand Fónfix, Ireland’s only manufacturer authorized mobile phone repair centre has launched a same day, door to door collection, repair and return service for phones and iPads tablets, available today.

Fónfix will see the collection and repair of any phone or iPad tablet, no matter where you are located in Dublin city through the teams dedicated collection, repair and return service.

From charging issues, broken screens, software problems and not to mention accidental drops down the toilet, the latest and innovative Dublin city collection service from Fónfix can repair all makes and models of smart phones and iPads tablets.

Thanks to an industry trained team of 50 technicians with over 20 years’ experience

Book a repair here

Level 5 heroics to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Level 5 Heroics’.

Peter Broderick – Ode To Blackberry

Succulent.

Originally from Carlton, Oregon, but now living in the West of Ireland, indie folkster Peter Broderick (top) returns with a tune paying tribute to his favourite fruit while the video animation is by Chad Van Gaalen.

The album Blackberry is out now.

Peter says:

“What an honour to have Chad’s animation accompanying this tune. During my brief stint working in a record shop in Portland (Oregon) several years ago, Chad stopped in one day while passing through town, and this is how I first met him. I was struck by how warm and friendly he was, then later discovered what a brilliant artist he is. Isn’t it great when brilliant artists are also nice people?”

It sure is.

Nick says: The good seed.

Peter Broderick

SPLUTTER!

This morning.

Merrion Street, Dublin 2.

A beverage-carrying member of the public, possibly a UK visitor, photobombs Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath, on his way into government buildings for a cabinet meeting.

Not sure where the geezer is off to.

We didn’t want to ask.

RollingNews

This morning.

The discovery of a woman’s body inside a tent at Lynch’s Lane, Ronanstown, Clondalkin last Saturday brought to more than 50 the number of homeless people who have died this year.

Via The Irish Examiner:

As of Monday night there were 133 homeless in Dublin and we are not even seeing the full extent of what is happening,” explained [Independent councillor and CEO/ Co- Founder of Inner City Helping Homeless] Anthony Flynn

He revealed that homeless people don’t feel safe in many privately funded hostels and shelters, “as many are the scrapping of the bottle of the barrel with too many people sharing sleeping arrangements.

Cllr Flynn added: “Despite advice from the Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan for homeless people to seek shelter due to fears over their health and Covid-19 they feel safer on the streets because of poor conditions being provided.

“They don’t want to raise their chances of contracting the virus living in cramped and overcrowded conditions and they genuinely feel more secure going back out on the streets.”

Two bank holiday deaths bring to 50 number of homeless to die this year (Irish Examiner)

Behold: Sh2-136, otherwise known as the Ghost nebula, for obvious reasons. To wit:

The jewelled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal constellation of Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over two light-years across and brighter than the other spooky chimeras, VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen at toward the bottom of the featured image. Within the reflection nebula are the telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.

(Image: Bogdan Jarzyna)

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The Stars Of Heaven – Lights Of Tetouan

Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960 (unearthed by our recent Golden Discs music competition), reader Brother Barnabas selects Dublin dreamers The Stars Of Heaven who shone bright in the 1980s.

Singer Stephen Ryan went on to form The Revenants in the ’90s and most recently The Drays.
Guitarist Stan Erraught went on to form The Sewing Room.

This lyric video (above) is for a song about a trip to Morocco taken from their 1988 album Speak Slowly (top).

Brother Barnabas writes:

“Just one of my favourite ever songs.”

Nick says: Magnetic North Africa.

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