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This afternoon.

Warrington Place, Dublin 2.

Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, joined Celene Craig CEO of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland at their HQ to announce new funding for TV and radio projects which support live music, the Irish language broadcasting and, you won’t believe it, climate change awareness.

Greta as Gaeilge?

How dare tú.

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Olivia Armstrong

It’s only for fairies.

Irish born, London based professional storyteller Olivia Armstrong writes:

Before Queen Victoria insisted on a white wedding dress in 1840, the custom had been for brides to wear bright, colourful dresses that could be worn again – but never green.

Green was the fairies’ colour and to wear it could bring devastation to the bride…

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

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Atticus writes:

Mother duck (on the right) not happy with the Paddy’s Day celebrations in Dundrum!

And in other lurid green weekend news…

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Marina O’Reilly twaskz:

This is the cotton pad I just used to remove my #paddysday nail polish. Anyone else think it resembles something??

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Greener than thou.

Our Man In Japan writes;

Was doing my occasional Google Earth nostalgia trip back home and took these screengrabs. Thought this might be of some interest, curiosity value…I’ve heard some people say Tokyo is quite a green city. It’s not.

Update:

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Tokyo in Ireland.

Yikes.

Thanks Jojo (see comments).

90294271902942749029428390294289902942649029428190294266Above: Trinity College, Government Buildings, The GPO, St Patrick’s Cathedral, the Phoenix Monument, the statue of Wolfe Tone on St Stephen’s Green and the gates of Aras an Uachtarain last night.

Perfection has been achieved.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)