Journalist Claudia Romeo of Food Insider meets Jean-Yves Bordier – proprietor of St Malo’s Le Beurre Bordier where traditional 19th century butter-making methods are king.
Hand-kneading, finger-slicing and the use of the wooden malaxage wheel.
Kinky.
This morning.
Grafton Street, Dublin 2.
Shopping and busking at the top of Grafton Street ahead of Budget 2021.
Meanwhile…
This morning.
The Gaiety Theatre, King Street, Dublin 2.
Post Office, Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin 1984
From #DublinBeforeTheTiger (1982-1992),
my long-term, high-res series about the inner city in the years leading up to the Celtic Tiger.
For more images FOLLOW, RT and visit https://t.co/oQRmiSI5ya pic.twitter.com/xdmODNYIuh— David Jazay (@DavidJazay) October 13, 2020
1984.
Upper Ormonde Quay, Dublin 1.
Chief Justice Frank Clarke and Supreme Court Justice Séamus Woulfe
This morning.
Following two postponements, Chief Justice Frank Clarke will attempt to meet Supreme Court Justice Séamus Woulfe again today (hopefully over a splendid lunch) to discuss the Denham Report by former Chief Justice Susan Denham into Justice Woulfe’s attendance at the outing at the centre of Golfgate.
According to Ms Denham’s study of the scandal, Chief Justice Clarke was told by Justice Woulfe of his intention to attend the event.
More as we get it.
Meanwhile….
In a dramatisation for #cblive, actors Lorcan Cranitch and Marion O’Dwyer recreate Séamus Woulfe’s comments in relation to his treatment by the media #cblive pic.twitter.com/et36Vi03bl
— Claire Byrne Live (@ClaireByrneLive) October 12, 2020
Last night.
Chief Justice to meet Seamus Woulfe to discuss Golfgate fallout (Irish Examiner)
Previously: Seamus Woulfe on Broadsheet
Possibly one of the most heart-warming things to happen during this crazy #Covid_19 crisis.
The people of Ireland 🇮🇪 have a very, very, long memory. And in this instance those memories were put to good use.#TwitterForGood @NaomiOhReally well done. 👍 https://t.co/icC4AwObDL
— Irish Emergency Logistics Team 🇮🇪 (@irishelt) October 13, 2020
Yesterday.
NBC’s Today with Hoda & Jenna.
An item on US telly – featuring covering the financial aid being sent from Irish donors to help two tribes of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma, USA during the rona. In 1847 the Choctaw people sent $170 to help during the famine. The best $170 they ever spent, in fairness.
A service at The Pro-Cathedral, Dublin in June
Why is mass off?
Via The Irish Times:
In your report that Catholic archbishops have requested a meeting with the Taoiseach to address concerns about the loss of Mass services , you state that under Level 3 “all religious services must move online”.
It is important to be clear about the precise situation.
With the exception of funerals, where attendance is limited to 25 people, there is currently no legal prohibition on religious services, nor restriction on the numbers who can attend.
The Government has issued advice against the holding of religious services. There may well be good reasons for this advice. But if the churches consider that the advice is misguided, they may hold religious services without breaking the law.
Dr Oran Doyle,
School of Law,
Trinity College Dublin
Gulp.
Paddy writes:
Don’t think she be finding much joy in this…
No laughter.
Fewer sprayed-out droplets.
It’s a lose-win.
FIGHT!
Alternatively…
Finding Joy? (The Irish Sun)
From top, left to right: Doctor Owen O Flynn with Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health at the Department of Health last night
Yesterday
Department of Health, Dublin 2.
At a press conference, young Doctor Owen O’Flynn shared his experience of ‘Post COVID-19 Syndrome’.
KN writes
Is it just me or are doctors getting younger? There was a guy on yesterday who looked like hadn’t gone to his debs….
Dr. Owen O’Flynn (23) shares his experience of Post COVID-19 Syndrome (GOV.ie)
Poet Kevin Higgins
This morning.
Kevin Higgins has responded to criticism of his poem posted yesterday to mark the 5th anniversary of the Carrickmines fire.
Kevin writes:
I grew up mostly, from the age of seven, in the Rahoon/Newcastle area of Galway City. We moved here in 1974, and I have lived back here since 2004. This area has been notorious for its anti-traveller racism, much of it stoked by local politicians. The area has even added the word “Rahoonery” to the language.
I know the voice of the anti-traveller racist, which I channel for satirical purposes in my poem ‘After The Barbecue’, intimately. I am happy that this poem has provoked outrage; I think the idea that a tasteful poem should be written about such an event is itself a disgrace.
There was nothing tasteful about what happened and certainly nothing tasteful about the anti-traveller protests of those Carrickmines residents.
The Irish poetry world is awash with tasteful poets. I do not aspire to be part of that tradition. Mine is the tradition of Brecht and Swift, neither of whom, despite their very varying politics, gave any consideration to what crying liberals and closet racists considered tasteful.
In this sense, though I don’t take pseudonymous comments on the internet very seriously, I embrace the distaste of some of the commenters on this poem. I am delighted that I have succeeded in exposing the fact that they appear to be far more exercised by a poem than they were about the deaths of these travellers, and the racism of local residents.
Let them get up an online petition against this poem; I couldn’t care less. If anyone has a serious critique of this poem, let them write an article about it and publish it somewhere.
Yesterday: People Like Us
