Kilruddery House, Bray, County Wicklow


Last night.

Via The Irish Socialist Republicans (ISR):

Irish Socialist Republicans engaged in a direct action against British Imperialism and Colonialism in Ireland, by highlighting the ongoing robbery of Irish Land by Imperialist Aristocrats.

Anti Imperialists chained shut the gates of the 800 acre Killruddery House and Gardens in Bray Co. Wicklow, and hung a large banner across them that read ‘Dispossess the Robber Barons- Saor Éire Anois!’

Kilruddery is currently in the possession of the self styled ‘Earl of Meath’, Jack Brabazon and his heir, Anthony, the so-called ‘Lord Ardee’.

These people have no right or legal claim to the land. Their British Imperialist titles are an affront to the People of Ireland. Their possession of our land is based on violent robbery during the conquest. Kilruddery and its land belong by right to the Irish People.

Anyone?/Fight!

Earl of Meath?

Top pic Bray.ie

From top: Van Morrison; Lyrics to his anti-rona protest song No More Lockdown

This morning.

Via The Guardian:

Van Morrison has described the British government as “fascist bullies disturbing our peace” in one of three new tracks he has written to protest against safety measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19….No More Lockdown also condemns “celebrities telling us what we’re supposed to feel”…Morrison said the songs would be released every two weeks, starting with Born to Be Free on 25 September.

Over to you, Jedward.

Van Morrison criticises ‘fascist bullies’ in anti-lockdown Covid songs (Guardian)

Previously: Bleeding Fleece

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Meanwhile…

You hum it, we’ll play it.

Update:

Escalating.

The serene variegated sculptures of Australian artist Gil Bruvel – his expression of Vipassanā meditation, which strives for introspective, judgement-free contemplation of the mind.

Composed of stacked and glued, burned and painted sticks, pixellated up close and coherent at a distance serving as “a reminder of what it looks like to be centred and at peace.”

Fadó fadó…

More of his work here.

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From top: Pre-Covid revelry; Special measures for Dublin

This afternoon.

Legal boffins Dr Oran Doyle and Dr David Kenny are members of the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory at Trinity College Dublin.

Since the rona outbreak, they have studied the ‘divergence between the announcement of restrictive measures and what is actually prohibited by law’.

You may recall Dr Kenny spoke at a recent Oireachtas Special Covid-19 Committee meeting about possible government overreach and lack of clarity.

Of the new restrictions, Doyle and Kenny write on their blog [at link below]:

It is in relation to the [red marked bullet-point, above] that significant divergence emerges between the Regulations and the Government announcement.

As presented by the Government, this measure prohibits more than two households meeting at any time, whether indoors or outdoors, and with a maximum of six people.

Part of this is included in the regulations and is a legal requirement; a large part is not.

Regulation 5A only applies to events in private dwellings. ‘Private dwelling’ is not defined in the Regulations, but the definition of ‘dwelling’ in the primary statute, which refers to a dwelling including a part of a house, strongly implies that the dwelling is the physical structure in which people live.

It seems to follow that there is no legal prohibition on events in, for example, the gardens of private dwellings.

Still less so is there any prohibition on more than one household gathering in public places outside.

The second way in which the Regulations diverge from the Government announcement is that no numerical limit is placed on the number of people from two households who may gather in a private dwelling.

Moreover, Regulation 5A is not deemed to be a penal provision, meaning that breach of the provision— although unlawful — cannot lead to criminal punishment, nor to enforcement powers for the Gardaí. This was notably termed a “civil offence”, though this is not a term with established legal meaning.

They add:

….it is difficult to read the [red marked bullet point] as an announcement of anything other than legal prohibitions. This impression is then enhanced by the fact that some of the measures contained in that bullet-point are now implemented through legal prohibition, while some are entirely absent from the regulations.

It is hard, without skill in compiling and reading secondary legislation, to know what the law truly requires, and so citizens will inevitably be confused as to what the law is and what they are legally required to do.

All back to mine.

FIGHT!

Special Measures for Dublin: Legal Restrictions and Government Announcements. COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory (TCDLaw)

Top Pic: Eventstock

 

Bobbi Arlo – Breathe

And relax.

With her new single ‘Signs‘ just released, we thought we’d rewind to Bobbi Arlo’s last single ‘Breathe’ whose video (expertly edited by Kelly Evans) was made during the first lockdown in Spring “as a means of taking people’s minds off all things anxiety driven”.

Nick says: Go Arlo!

Bobbi Arlo

Late 1950s

A laconic gent, possibly pub-bound, ambles on Dublin Hill, Cork.

Name that jammer, anyone?

Solar activity follows an approximately 11 year cycle, the minimal point of which occurred last December. Solar Cycle 25 has now begun. To wit:

…[the] quiet Sun, at minimum activity, appears on the right of this split hemispherical view. In contrast, the left side shows the active Sun at the recognised maximum of Solar Cycle 24, captured in April 2014. The extreme ultraviolet images from the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory highlight coronal loops and active regions in the light of highly ionised iron atoms. Driving the space weather around our fair planet, Solar Cycle 24 was a relatively calm one and predictions are that cycle 25 will be calm too. The cycle 25 activity maximum is expected in July 2025. Solar Cycle 1, the first solar cycle determined from early records of sunspot data, is considered to begin with a minimum in February 1755.

(Image: NASA, SDO)

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