This afternoon.

Independent TD Mattie McGrath gets stuck into Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan and his six-gun, Level 5 shenagians.

FIGHT!

Update: Deputy McGrath has apologised to Dr Tony Holohan and his family for asking where he’s been the past few weeks. He said he knew Dr Holohan was looking after his ill wife.

Earlier: The Public Wants More Restrictions Rather Than Fewer

Behold: spiral galaxy NGC 5643. But what the hell is going on inside? To wit:

A swirling disk of stars and gas, NGC 5643‘s appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and brown dust, as shown in the featured image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The core of this active galaxy glows brightly in radio waves and X-rays where twin jets have been found. An unusual central glow makes NGC 5643 one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of galaxies, where vast amounts of glowing gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole. NGC 5643, is a relatively close 55 million light years away, spans about 100 thousand light years across, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Wolf (Lupus).

Alright, just keep it down.

(Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; Acknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani)

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Oh.

Kiely’s pub in Donnybrook in Dublin 4 will make way for a seven-storey, 100-bed space shared accommodation living scheme, if plans lodged with Dublin City Council go ahead.

Need a bag?

A bag that can hold heavy objects like a mini synth?

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Ivory-tinkling, Porto-based Luke Brennan, him off the ‘telly‘, writes:

A video I made as a thank you to the guys at Mamukko down in Kinsale, County Cork.

Originally from Hungary, they are 3rd generation leather-makers who have taken to upcycling sails/dingys/liferafts into the finest bags/wallets/etc.

They are a fixture down in Kinsale, you wouldn’t meet more decent, charming, creative, skillful people, we’re lucky to have them.

Mammuko

Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.

Professor Pete Lunn, founder and head of the ESRI’s Behavioural Research Unit

This morning

Covid fatigue?

Nonsense.

Via The Irish Times:

Prof Pete Lunn, head of behavioural research at think tank ESRI, said that public polling over recent months suggested the public debate was “miles off” the opinion of the majority of the population who want the Government to be more cautious in fighting coronavirus.

…Surveys and evidence gathered on public attitudes towards restrictions are not showing fatigue with the restrictions but “a degree of resilience” and compliance has been “edging up” consistently over recent months, he said.

“That suggests that there is a majority appetite that says, ‘we can cope with this’ and in fact, on balance, the public wants more restriction rather than fewer,” said Prof Lunn, who is a member of a subgroup that has advised NPHET on the public response to the pandemic.

Most people want more, not fewer, restrictions, survey shows – ESRI expert (Irish Times)

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

Previously: Rona Shaming

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Staying in Thursday?

Trevor Courtney at Igloo Animations, writes:

We’ve just finished up on a TV series called Fantasy Ireland and it’s set to air on RTÉ2 this Thursday at 23.20. It’s an Adult Animated Comedy, created/directed by myself and written by Ciarán Morrison & Mick O’Hara (AKA Zig and Zag) and Voiced by Mary-Kate Geraghty (MayKay) & Pascal Scott….

Fantasy Ireland on RTÉ2 at 11.30pm.

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