Queen Mary II
Photos of The Queen Mary II, which currently lies at anchor in Dublin Bay, off Dún Laoghaire Harbour.
Photo from shore taken by Eric Luke of The Irish Times; photo from close-up by An Cathaoirleach, Councillor Tom Joyce.
Movies in the Park, Dún Laoghaire
dlr events Movies in the Park, at the People’s Park, Dún Laoghaire.
This afternoon’s schedule is as follows:
14:30 – The Lion King (G 90 mins)
18:00 – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (12A 103 mins)
20:00 – Skyfall (12A 143 mins)
Seeking tour guides…
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is hiring tour guides for its summer programme of guided tours of heritage sites in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area. If you’re interested, you need to have a strong interest in history and heritage, and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Training and/or previous experience as a guide will be an advantage;…
DetailsArrest in Blackrock robbery
The Irish Times has reported that there has been an arrest in the armed robbery in Blackrock this week: “A man in his late twenties has been arrested following a robbery at a Post Office in Blackrock, Co Dublin this afternoon. A man entered the Post Office at approximately 4pm and threatened staff with what is…
DetailsMichael Davitt plaque
Today, I attended a ceremony in Ballybrack village to dedicate the obelisk there to the memory of Michael Davitt, founder of the Land League, who lived close by. Davitt’s first monster meeting took place in Irishtown in South Mayo in 1879 and he stayed in my great-great-grandfather’s house, nearby in Doonmacreena Bridge, that night.
Robert Mallet plaque – Killiney beach
It was a bleak morning, this morning, on Killiney Beach for the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to Robert Mallet, the father of seismology. In October 1849, aged 39, Robert, and his son John, who was a geology student at TCD, decided to carry out a remarkable experiment on Killiney Beach. They wanted to prove…
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