This morning.
The European Parliament published its first results of its post-election Eurobarometer survey.
Asked if “taking everything into account, would you say that Ireland has on balance benefited or not from being a member of the EU?”, 89 per cent of Irish respondents said “yes” – 21 per cent more than the EU average.
The programming really works.
FIGHT!
The survey can be read in full here
Aidan Regan tweetz:
Ireland – the most centralised fiscal state in Europe. This is why local infrastructure and local services are so underdeveloped.
Anyone?
FIGHT!
This afternoon.
Glencree and Powerscourt County Wicklow.
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall have arrived in Ireland for a two day visit which begins here at the Glencree Centre For Peace and Reconciliation. @VirginMediaNews @ClarenceHouse #RoyalVisitIreland pic.twitter.com/4SBtdZT2HK
— Zara King (@ZaraKing) May 20, 2019
More as we get it.
EARLIER:
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have arrived in the Irish Republic at the start of a two-day visit. It comes in the run-up to European elections this week which in the UK are likely to be dominated by Brexit.
— Richard Palmer (@RoyalReporter) May 20, 2019
Earlier: Meanwhile, In Powerscourt
Colm tweetz:
Random item in the shape of Ireland. (Single Bran Flake, on tile, North Kildare, 2019)
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (New Island)
From top: the offending article in The Spectator; Ireland’s UK ambassador Adrian O’Neill and his letter to the magazine’s editor
Last night.
A diplomatic response to ‘ cheese-eating surrender monkey’ accusations leveled at Ireland in The Spectator by the suitably-named, Robert Hardman.
To wit:
Hardman said that Ireland was joining a group of “flimsily-connected” countries with “deplorable human rights records” and “French-speaking crooks”, some of whom, he added, appeared “at the bottom of every global corruption index”.
“Only the mean-spirited would suggest that little Leo will do anything to suck up to the top gang in the EU playground…,” he continued.
“How odd, then, to see the Irish — usually so quick to take offence at any whiff of imperialism — acting as a cheerleader for French aggrandisement.”
Magazine criticised by ambassador for “anti-Irish sentiment” (The Irish World)
Previously: A Mere Spectator
Hostels In Ireland tweets:
New #SpiderManFarFromHome posters were recently released which show Spidey in #London, #Venice and #France. We’re terribly disappointed by the lack of #Ireland in #FarFromHome so we decided to create our very own #Dublin edition of the posters
Ah.
Constantin Gurdgiev tweetz:
Congratulations, #Ireland! We’ve done it again. Another housing crisis, and we are the second WORST in the world in terms of housing affordability.
Source: IMF
Migrants Rights Centre of Ireland tweetz:
This week, over SIX HUNDRED undocumented people sent these postcards to Ministers Flanagan & Humphreys to remind them that in communities, homes & businesses all over Ireland, undocumented people are doing work that is *essential* to Irish society. #TheOtherUndocumentedIrish
Anyone else want to reminisce about back went Dublin was merely expensive and not eye-watering and unsustainably exhorbitant as it is now? Important to not fall into the trap of thinking our current situation need be regarded as normal. https://t.co/AIYydSOfon
— Dublin Central Housing Action (@D_C_H_A) March 15, 2019
Lived in Dublin 2006-2009, last days of the Celtic Tiger, hard to get a flat. Paid €450 for a double in a tiny 3 bed. Thought THAT was out of control. Now a friend pays double that for a room in a 4 bed in Ballsbridge. His one room costs more than my mortgage in Montreal.
— Emer O’Toole (@Emer_OToole) March 15, 2019
Anyone?
Snowbie, who describes themselves as an amateur UK/Ireland weather historian and student, tweetz:
Maximum wind gusts for Storm Gareth in comparison with other storms of the season and the 2010s decade at Irish stations. Colour coded based on the warning system.
Red = In excess of 130kph
Orange/amber = 111 to 130kph
Yellow = 90 to 110kph
Meanwhile…
Carlow Weather tweetz:
Two planes playing X and O in the Sky 😁 plenty of bright spells over Carlow but cloud increasing from the West as winds start to ease off here.
