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A PARTIAL ECLIPSE of the moon will be visible tomorrow morning as the sun rises and the moon sets.
About two thirds of the moon will disappear into the Earth’s shadow.
Astronomy Ireland has advised that it will happen as dawn breaks, and people should look West.
It says the first so-called “bite” will be taken out of the moon around 45 minutes before sunrise, at 07.18am
This is the first lunar eclipse to be visible in Ireland since July 2019, and the next one won’t come around until May 2022.
Unlike a solar eclipse, when we’re watching the sun get obscured by the moon, the lunar eclipse is totally safe to look at with your eyes.
Total vs. Partial
A lunar eclipse happens when the Sun, Earth and the Moon are aligned with the Earth in the middle.
When they are aligned exactly, the Moon is entirely within the Earth’s shadow.
This results in total darkening of the Moon’s surface and is called a total lunar eclipse.
When the Moon is only partially within the Earth’s shadow part of its surface appears darker, hence a partial lunar eclipse.
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This is why its very important to not totally trust the EU. They dont even know what our interests are let alone protect them.
@Mjhint:
Thanks that’s very helpful, and in no way pointless.
Bet you miss trummp
What’s the point of you then if you are out of the loop…. clearly you are in the fringes and completely useless to us.
@London-Irish Senator: It was a rushed emergency policy that didn’t even go through consultation stage or debate within the Commission. Obviously she wasn’t informed.
@Tomo: Maybe so, but the decision was made by people who are clearly in the loop to make such a decision in the first place. She should be at the forefront of anything to do with Ireland/Brexit and the EU and should be ensuring she imposes her presence as the Irish Rep. If this situation is anything to go by, she needs to up her game.
@London-Irish Senator: if you’re so well informed and sure about your judgment that our commissioner is useless to us, it’s a shame you don’t have the integrity to put you name on your contribution. Another keyboard warrior!
@Chris Linehan: she’s the finance commissioner.
@London-Irish Senator: None of your business you live in Britain. As for your aspiration to have senate representation, I am sure there are many here who not want any persons living in Britain have a say in our affairs. There are plenty of memories of absentee and foreign politicians for us in Ireland from the 19th and early 20th century
@John Mulligan: Exactly, every decision made in the EU has financial implications. It’s exactly why she should be fully in the know about all branches of the commission and their decisions. It’s why it was huge that she got picked and we had someone at the top table of the commission especially during the Brexit transition. She’s not the agricultural commissioner but when decisions are made on the EU agricultural economy by the agricultural commissioner, she should be in the loop since those decisions financially effect the EU including Ireland.
@Chris Linehan: Commissioners are not Irish reps. They swear an oath to act independently of their own country when they take office. The regulation to control vaccine exports was done in a day and would not have been run by her as she is in financial services not trade.
@Chris Linehan: she is not Our commissioner.
She is the Finance Commissioner.
Your comment was clearly made by someone who doesnt understand how the Commission works.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
@Liam Mernagh:
No member state has their OWN commissioner.
Ironic that you criticise others for being badly informed and then prove your own lack of understanding
@Ciaran O’Mara: Point taken about the trade/financial decisions but I find it hard to believe it was not a considered situation for weeks beforehand once the UK started delivering vaccines. Or perhaps the EU are equally adept at being unprepared like the UK were in the Brext negotiations.
@Trevor J Coonan: That she’s Europe’s Finance Commissioner and not Ireland’s is clear. To assume she doesn’t and shouldn’t have a deep interest in EU decisions which effect Ireland, despite her oath to serve the EU only, is naive at best.
@London-Irish Senator: you have no clue so quiet down, spreading falsehoods…she got emailed the legislation about 2 hrs before it was published, we no indication art 16 was included…it was a rush job gone wrong
@Chris Linehan: stop digging
The main point and key learning here is that she was NOT consulted. That tells you all you need to know about how the EU currently operates.
@RBUman1: in fairness, I wouldn’t expect evety commissioner to know the detail of the work of every other commissioner. I doubt the minister for agriculture here is fully up to speed on everything that happens in the department of justice.
How did this get passed her ? Not good enough.
The EU bureaucracy was able to invoke article 16 without reference to Irish MEPs or commissioner, without reference to the Irish government, and without reference to the other party to the agreement – U.K. government and NI executive. The fact that they have the authority to act independently and didn’t feel the need to even consult on the matter tells you all you need to know about the EU and what they think of Ireland.
@Sara Davis: Independence from member states governments was the very reason member states governments voted to set up the European Commission in the first place. That isn’t what’s at issue here. What is, is that Ireland and the EU weren’t consulted. It was part of the rules surrounding article 16 that they should have been. So it isn’t the rules as such that were the problem, but that the rules were violated.
And even though the mistake was quickly rectified, I still think Ursula von der Leyen committed a sackable offence. But unfortunately she won’t be sacked over this.
@Mick Tobin: Oops, that Ireland and the *UK* weren’t consulted, that is…
2 weeks to late
The list of people who wouldn’t have let it happen is very long, and is not limited to Irish politicians. Barnier and the wider Brexit negotiating team is among the list.
Whats the point of commissioners then if things like this can be pushed through without consultation, why did it take this long for her to say this..
I lost any respect I ever had for McGuinness when she (along with her pals in Fidesz in Hungary) voted to allow migrants drown at sea,
the dup want the protocol scrapped at the same time as calling for it to be invoked hmmmmm
- “It is argued that it has effectively created a border between the Northern Ireland and the rest of Britain.”
Argued? It has. The only reason it’d be put this way is so Boris Johnson can continue to argue there isn’t a border.
She is a Commissioner who happens to be Irish.
No state has their own commissioner.
Very poor by the Journal
Big Phil wouldn’t have let it happen, wakey wakey Mairead
A month later we still dont know who did what when! Never mind it’ll never happen again… WHO envolked it in the first place?
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