A POPULAR event is set to go ahead this year in Ilminster. The Ilminster Midsummer Experience 2021 (IMEx) will take place from June 24 until June 27 - two weeks later than normal due to coronavirus restrictions. Michael Fry-Foley, chairman of Experience Ilminster CIC, said public safety is the organisers top priority this year. “We believe that it is right to re-schedule IMEx taking account of current Government regulations,” he said. “However, we are fully aware that this may have to change as we approach the new date, depending on the situation at the time. “I can re-assure everyone that public safety is our top priority.
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Leadership like St Patrick’s needed to drive virus out – We need our politicians to do everything to turn things around
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17 Mar 2021, 7:30
THIS day last year, the choice sound-bite from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s address to the nation was “a Saint Patrick’s Day like no other”.
It’s a phrase that hasn’t aged well, as we endure another March 17 exactly like the one before.
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Then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with CMO Tony Holohan
How innocent we were in those early days to think that the lockdown might be short, that we would even enjoy the economic pause and perhaps rebuild society in a better way.
A POPULAR event is set to go ahead this year in Ilminster. The Ilminster Midsummer Experience 2021 (IMEx) will take place from June 24 until June 27 - two weeks later than normal due to coronavirus restrictions. Michael Fry-Foley, chairman of Experience Ilminster CIC, said public safety is the organisers top priority this year. “We believe that it is right to re-schedule IMEx taking account of current Government regulations,” he said. “However, we are fully aware that this may have to change as we approach the new date, depending on the situation at the time. “I can re-assure everyone that public safety is our top priority.
The show must go on. For the second year running, St Patrick’s Day festivities have relocated online, with some of our most acclaimed artists, performers, and curators readjusting to celebrate our national holiday.
Indeed, the theme for this year’s official St Patrick’s Festival is ‘Dúisigh Éire! Awaken Ireland!’ It is exactly as it sounds a rallying cry of hope, asking audiences to cast aside the long, dark months, to come together (at a safe distance, of course) and embrace brighter days ahead.
So, what are some of the best cultural treats we can enjoy from our living rooms? Well, there are plenty of options, each one listed at stpatricksday.ie. Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit.
Photos: Rare night rainbows created by moonlight to arrive in Yosemite
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Lunar rainbows are both exciting and challenging to shoot, according to the photographer, because they depend upon so many things happening simultaneously.Courtesy of Luke Tyree
They’ve got a lot of names: Lunar rainbows. Moonbows. Spraybows. Space rainbows. Lunar Spraybows.
Whatever you’d like to call the moonlight reflecting off waterfall droplets, the photographs of these things beneath starry skies are absolutely incredible. And, Yosemite National Park is one of the best places in the world to behold a moonbow.
Even better news: the moonbow viewing season is upon us. Clear spring evenings with a full moon overhead offer the best chance to catch a glimpse or snap a photo, as well as specific conditions that have been allowing humans to observe moonbows for centuries.