Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉

And scored

Strange one.
Going to miss this as about to drive to Manchester Airport to pick up my wife. A one hour drive that feels like three on the M62.

Also reminded of this in Leicester, a one stop shop for all your hip hop needs.

My mother, when playing cards, would complain of hands like feet.

#Speirgorm

'Nothing is real here. That is the horror of damnation'
WB Shaw - Man and Superman.

Apropos of nothing substantial, I once had a student named John Rawls.

These two things that make me nervous. But the right wing one is explicable in terms of the way I think about those less clever than me, whereas the left-wing one threatens that assurance, so I must insist that, nevertheless, they are the same.

Which is why it's a bigger problem than just transport. We've created a situation where essential workers are priced out of the places we need them to be.
But public transport can and does work in other cities and city regions because it has to.

That's a football ground.

It's so not a traffic problem, it's a problem that takes in 30 years (at least) of planning or the absence of same, housing policy, and general development strategy and specifically transport policy.

/ my neighbour here in Leeds works at a hospital that's only about 5 miles away, but requires a bus into town and then another out. She walks. But at night, not something many people would want to do.

Yeah, I did check - doable in slightly less, but maybe if there were some suggestion in the article that a feeder bus from Rathangan to Kildare Station would deal with the worst bit of it, I'd take this more seriously as a report on transport.

No mention in the article of public transport alternatives. Which exist.

For many of us in cities, working and just getting by, this is most people we know; and those cities are the Labour core they are pissing away.

Not that long ago, attendances in Cork dwarfed all the Dublin teams. Even last year, in the Premier league, they weren't keeping up. The one team from the one city which should be able to compete with Dublin and Derry in terms of fan base, and they threw it all away over two decades.

+1 - was your PhD in entitlement?

Michaela McCarthy-McCarthy, FF Cork NW

Metal album title right there

There's one on my way into work, by a school, where even 16 year olds struggle to make it across in time.

'Sash for Cash'

No, should be though

A flooring place called Tiocfaidh Urlár

I love that shop.

Bela Tarr's The Third Policeman.

“I have never written any piece of fiction with the simple purpose of understanding what I might call the real world. I have always written fiction in order to suggest to myself that another world exists.”

— Gerald Murnane, “The Interior of Gaaldine”

Anda -lose - see ya!

See also Hoxton Hotel

They crossed the Atlantic to do this...

VAR! What is it good for!