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Extra.ie
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Dublin Influencer's American Husband Stunned by Ballyfermot Bash
A Dublin influencer's husband has gone viral after she dragged him to a very Irish street party in her hometown. When an American thinks of coming to Ireland, they think of the green fields, cobblestone pubs and, for some reason in the big year of 2025, some believe that leprechauns and pots of gold are still a thing. And while some eventually have the illusions shattered after visiting, only a select few would be lucky to experience what Dublin influencer Hayley's husband Austin had — after he was brought to a street party in Ballyfermot. @ @DJ george mc lit up the street! @No plan b #fyp #ballyfermot #dublin #irishcomedy #pov #ireland #irish #dj @Austin Prebula ♬ Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! – Vengaboys Outside Lam's takeaway (one of the several in the area), the party had everything — a DJ set, kids bouncing around, and for some reason a literal horse being led through a crowd by a group of children. Hayley, who's previously been on the TRY YouTube channel, filmed the video for her TikTok — where she proceeded to pan over to Austin, who's face said it all as he couldn't comprehend what was happening. Hayley shared clips of the street fair, which included a horse and DJ in front of the Chinese. Pic: Hayley/TikTok People thought that the video and culture shock was gas, with one person commenting 'the horse and all. Ya couldn't have planned it better!' 'Doesn't everyone have a horse at their street parties?' one joked, while another commented that it was 'just a regular day in Ballyfermot.' Hayley's husband, from America, was in for the culture shock of a lifetime. Pic: Hayley/TikTok Hayley boasts over 132,000 followers on TikTok, and married her husband Austin back in March. She's a regular contributor on the TRY channel, where she's tried everything from craft cocktails to 'pistachio flavoured everything.' Where should she bring him next? Bag of cans on the canal? The Square Tallaght? The possibilities are endless.
India.com
23-06-2025
- Climate
- India.com
DGCA Issues Revised Safety Guidelines For Monsoon Flying Amid Rising Weather Risks
Amid increasing instances of weather-related flight incidents during the monsoon season, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a revised set of operational guidelines aimed at strengthening aviation safety. The updated circular, issued on June 12, follows a recent incident involving IndiGo flight 6E 2142 from Delhi to Srinagar. The aircraft suffered nose cone damage due to severe weather, but landed safely with 227 passengers on board. The revised guidelines warn of monsoon-related hazards such as heavy rainfall, turbulence, windshear, lightning, hailstorms, and en route icing. Pilots have been directed to plan weather avoidance early and maintain a minimum distance of 20 nautical miles upwind of convective weather systems. Flying below such clouds is strongly discouraged due to the risk of windshear, hail, microbursts, and lightning strikes. The new guidelines focus on the threat of Ice Crystal Icing (ICI), a phenomenon caused by high concentrations of small ice crystals accumulating inside aircraft engines, particularly at high altitudes near storm systems. A difficult-to-detect phenomenon caused by high-altitude ice particles that can accumulate inside aircraft engines. ICI may lead to engine vibration, power loss, or even damage to air data probes. The DGCA advises lateral deviation as the preferred method of avoidance. Emphasis has also been placed on flight crews' experience. While standard cockpit requirements continue to apply, the DGCA has advised airlines to deploy more experienced personnel during adverse weather conditions and to conduct thorough fatigue risk assessments. Additionally, Flight Duty Time Limits (FDTL) extensions are not permitted during the monsoon season. To enhance situational awareness, the DGCA has asked airlines to incorporate scenario-based training programs requiring pilots to assess real-time weather risks and decide on en route diversion or returning to the point of origin. Pilots are encouraged to actively use Threat and Error Management (TEM) frameworks that treat air turnbacks or diversions as proactive safety measures rather than operational failures. During approach and landing, the circular warns of visual illusions caused by weather conditions. Rain at night can exaggerate the brightness of approach lights, making the runway appear closer than it is, which may lead to premature descent and landing short of the threshold. Conversely, wet runways reflect less light, making the aircraft seem farther from the runway than it is. This can cause late flaring and hard landings. Pilots have been reminded to remain alert to such illusions and make timely, informed decisions to maintain flight safety. The DGCA also reinforced the importance of pilots reporting real-time weather reports. PIREPs (Pilot Reports) help bridge gaps between forecast and actual conditions by providing firsthand data on visibility, turbulence, storms, and icing. These reports assist other pilots, air traffic controllers, and flight dispatch teams in making safer, more accurate decisions. Pilots encountering significant turbulence must notify ATC with details of position and severity and request altitude or lateral changes as needed. Reaffirming the growing threat from climate-driven weather volatility, the DGCA urged operators to prioritise safety over schedule, act proactively in uncertain weather, and ensure clear communication across all flight stages.
Metro
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Metro
The 2025 US Open is set to be a 'brutal' test - just ask the players
The US Open has built its brand on being 'golf's toughest test', and in Oakmont Country Club, the site of this week's tournament, it has a course that typifies that more than most. In recent years, the United States' national championship has faced criticism for not producing courses with the requisite penal conditions that fans have come to expect. That was particularly the case two years ago at Los Angeles Country Club, where Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele carded the lowest rounds in US Open history, shooting eight-under-par 62s within 15 minutes of each other during a benign and friendly first round. Fans hungry to see the best players in the world suffer should not worry this week, though. High scores and punishment await on every hole. A par-70 layout measuring at 7,372 yards this week, Oakmont possesses two par-5s over 600 yards, a par-3 over 300 yards and a whopping 168 bunkers littered around its 18 holes. With fairways only 28 yards wide on average, driving the ball straight will be the key to success. Land in the five-inch thick rough on either side, and many will be forced to lay up short of the green or simply hack out sideways. Get to the greens, and the challenge is no easier. The huge, undulating putting surfaces will be rapid and tricky to navigate. Players have already been seen chipping on the green during practice rounds as they try to find solutions. Such conditions should come as no surprise. When Oakmont last hosted the US Open in 2016, just four players finished below par for the tournament. Before that in 2007, Angel Cabrera's winning score was +5. 'It's just a tough course. It's so difficult where very few times anybody has won under par,' former US Open champion Jon Rahm said. 'If it doesn't rain, most likely over par will win again. It's something that none of us are used to, but it's a challenge you need to embrace. 'If there's any part of your game that will be tested on a week like this, it will be your mental game, that's for sure.' Scottie Scheffler – 11/4 Bryson DeChambeau – 7/1 Jon Rahm – 10/1 Rory McIlroy – 12/1 Ludvig Aberg – 20/1 Xander Schauffele – 20/1 Collin Morikawa – 22/1 Joaquin Niemann – 25/1 Shane Lowry – 28/1 Tommy Fleetwood – 28/1 Justin Thomas – 33/1 Patrick Cantlay – 33/1 Sepp Straka – 33/1 Viktor Hovland – 40/1 Ben Griffin – 50/1 Brooks Koepka – 50/1 *Odds provided by Betway (correct at the time of publishing) World No.1 Scottie Scheffler is the favourite for the week, but even the three-time major champion is under no illusions as to the task awaiting him. 'This is probably the hardest golf course that we'll play, maybe ever, and that's pretty much all it is. It's just a different type of test,' the American admitted. And what about the defending champion? Bryson DeChambeau is renowned as being one of the game's longest and most accurate drivers, but even the LIV Golf star was left awestruck by Oakmont's sheer size. 'It's a beast, it's brutal. The 18th was playing into the wind yesterday – I hit a great drive and still had 240 yards in,' DeChambeau told ESPN. 'I was like 'oh my god, what is this test, this is crazy'. It's a great test of golf.' Given all the challenges presented by Oakmont, this edition of the US Open may quickly become a mental test as much as it is a golfing one. More Trending Scorecard errors can quickly compound if players buckle under the weight of Oakmont's unrelenting setup. Having the experience to navigate those setbacks could well come to define a player's week. 'Being perfectly honest and very selfish, I hope it psychs a lot of players out,' two-time major champion Justin Thomas said. 'I understand this place is hard. I don't need to read articles, or I don't need to hear horror stories. I've played it. I know it's difficult. 'It's getting a game plan for how you're going to approach the course mentally and strategically.' For more stories like this, check our sport page. Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. MORE: US Open golf odds: Scottie Scheffler is in sensational form and is the golfer to beat at daunting Oakmont MORE: Rory McIlroy admits he has two major 'concerns' heading into the US Open MORE: French Open 2025 odds: Carlos Alcaraz can fend off Jannik Sinner to successfully defend his Roland Garros crown
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
America Is Having a Showboater Moment
Over the dozen years I spent covering the police as a beat reporter in Los Angeles, I came to realize there are two kinds of officers: showboaters and real cops. The showboaters strut around and talk tough. They think they know a lot but they don't. They get in your face when you turn up to cover a story and wax poetic about bad guys, knuckleheads, and gangsters. They praise blanket measures, crackdowns, sweeps. I had to learn how to get past them and find my way to the real cops, who tend to be quieter but know more. America is having a showboater moment, summed up by federal agents imprisoning alleged immigrant gang members and shipping them abroad. To make itself look strong, the government plays up the danger they pose. Meanwhile, it shrugs off the unglamorous work of following due process and avoiding mistakes. [Read: The terrible optics of ICE enforcement are fueling a Trump immigration backlash] I've studied murder in America, so I have no illusions about gangs and what confronting them takes. In an online database of deadly violence, I chronicled more than 900 murders in Los Angeles County in a single year, and in my 2015 book, Ghettoside, I followed the patient investigative work that ultimately brought to justice the killers of an LAPD detective's son. I've seen the death and suffering that gangs inflict on thousands of Americans every year. And I find it infuriating that so many people, particularly on the left, seem to diminish America's homicide crisis. I understand the desire for a magic wand to make it go away. But any idiot can pull off a police state. That isn't innovation. Governments that imprison indiscriminately and ignore due process have been known to post extraordinarily low murder rates: In the late 2000s, Syria's dictatorship reported a criminal-homicide rate half that of the United States. Eliminating crime isn't difficult if you eliminate freedom. But that ain't the business, to borrow a phrase I often heard in South L.A. True policing means fighting crime within a constitutional system—safeguarding freedom and security at the same time. This is more sophisticated than mere goonery, and it takes a legal sensibility. Real cops aren't just security guards, scarecrows, or social workers. They are legal professionals on par with prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges. In the homicide units I observed for more than a decade, I never heard a detective complain about shepherding a case through the courts. They knew it was an integral part of the job. Real cops don't skirt the rule of law; they wield it in defense of the weak. This ethic prevails even when the victims themselves are criminals, which they very often are. Most gang violence is the result of members attacking one another, and many victims have rap sheets as long as those of their assailants. Showboaters divide the world into bad guys and good guys, but that distinction falls apart when applied to gangs. And the flashy roundups they favor are in sharp contrast to the way real cops work. The latter are subtle and focused; they don't squander limited resources on nonviolent or low-priority targets. The Trump administration claims to be focused on gang members, but even that can be too wide a net. When I was reporting in California, the gang members listed in the old state database outnumbered annual gang-related homicides by more than 100 to one. That's because only a small fraction of gang members were actually shooting people. The rest were lesser criminals, opportunists, hangers-on, partiers, teenagers seeking protection or just trying to fit in. I know of some boys who joined gangs under threat—and a few who were murdered because they refused. [Read: Airport detentions have travelers 'freaked out'] Real cops go after the killers and shooters, of course, but they try to win over everyone else. They work the weak links—gangs are full of defectors—and they give victims and witnesses the backing they need to stand up, stripping gangs of the power they derive from intimidation and coercion. The most successful cops assemble a quiet army of 'friendlies,' many of whom have lost family members to gang violence or been victims of it themselves. These officers receive more tips and have more success getting witnesses to cooperate. Their police work allows people to rely on the protection of the law rather than protection rackets run by gangs. Neither the political left nor the political right lends much support to these kinds of efforts. Conservatives have long been too giddy about showboating. They reach for hammers when they should reach for scalpels. The current right-wing preference for federal intervention, indiscriminate sweeps, and emergency declarations will undermine the efforts of real cops who already face skepticism in many of their communities. The last thing they need is to be perceived as invaders. Many on the left, meanwhile, disparage any solution that relies on enforcement—a position that can't adequately respond to the suffering of victims. A popular leftist line of thinking even holds that the only actual problem is moral panic or fear. Americans are right to be outraged by criminal homicides, though, including the fraction that illegal immigrants commit. The country has a real murder problem that has been neglected for too long, and certain groups, particularly Black men, have paid a disproportionate price. But showboating isn't the answer. Any goon can impose repression. Real cops impose the law. That's the kind of toughness we need now. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Hans India
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
MyVoice: Views of our readers 12th May 2025
It's not a peace treaty but a mere pause The ceasefire, which was officially announced by India and came into effect at 5 pm on Saturday, is a welcome development after four days of hostilities. However, this is not a peace treaty but a technical pause after DGMOs of India and Pakistan agreed to stop all firings and military actions. By and large, the ceasefire coming through on India's terms that every future act of terror emanating from Pakistan across LoC will be treated as war and would be responded accordingly, sends a loud and clear warning to Islamabad against violating the ceasefire. Since Pakistan has been stripped of its illusions after four days of open hostility, the writing on the wall is clear that India is not looking for a drawn-out war but if provoked it has demonstrated its military prowess. It is now up to Pakistan to prove its sincerity because terror has no future. K R Srinivasan, New Bhoiguda Will Trump own responsibility if Pak violates truce terms? It has been widely reported that US President Donald Trump had brokered the ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan. The fact is that Trump had no propriety to 'declare' ceasefire even before the warring countries had made any such official announcements. If the ceasefire is presided over by Trump, will US own the responsibility if Islamabad violates the ceasefire agreement? Things seem unwell as regards the US interventions and its claim of unilateral fixing of a 'neutral' venue for a dialogue has been denied by New Delhi. P R Ravinder, New Mirjalguda, Hyderabad. Pak notoriety back in focus Barely three hours into arriving at a ceasefire between India and Pakistan on Saturday afternoon, Pakistan lived up to her notorious reputation for having scarce respect for peace with India through a barrage of drone attacks on Indian territory. Quite apparently, Pakistan doesn't know the meaning of the concepts of 'peace' and ceasefire'. India cannot afford to lower her guard against her ill-meaning neighbour, which is a failed democracy being run by its army and the ISI. Dr. George Jacob, Kochi Islamabad has no understanding of morality The ceasefire between India and Pakistan mediated by the USA is good news. However, a fragile calm should not be mistaken for a permanent resolution. The threat of future aggression by Pakistan continues to loom. In fact, barely hours later, Pakistan breached the ceasefire. India should take appropriate steps to address such violations and deal with the situation with all seriousness. Pakistan has repeatedly targeted military and civilian sites in India with a swarm of drones. The country has no moralities and ethics. Dr. Ch Anand Kumar , Movva, AP Significance of Buddha Purnima Buddha Purnima, also known as Vesak or Buddha Jayanti, is a significant festival in Buddhism that commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death (Parinirvana) of Lord Buddha. It is celebrated on the full moon day of the month of Vaishakha (May-June). Buddhists believe that Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and passed away on the same day, making it a highly sacred day. The day is marked by spiritual reflection, meditation, and acts of kindness, as followers seek to emulate Buddha's teachings. Devotees visit monasteries, offer prayers, and participate in various cultural events, highlighting the importance of Buddha's teachings in their lives. Buddha Purnima is observed with great reverence in countries with significant Buddhist populations, such as India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. Devotees often visit monasteries to offer prayers and participate in religious ceremonies. Many engage in meditation and reflection to connect with Buddha's teachings. A great innovative leader with a quest for renunciation. CK Ramani Jayanthi, Bhandup, Mumbai Save migratory birds World Migratory Birds Day, which is commemorated on May 11, is a campaign that raises awareness about migratory birds, their ecological importance and the need to conserve them and their habitats. During their long journey they need places to rest feed and breed. Sadly, these places are destroyed by humans for profit. Birds inspired Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to study aeronautical engineering, coming with design of B-2 bomber, Japan's bullet train and wind turbine. Swami Sivananda kept water for birds, while eulogising that by serving them one is closer to God. TS Karthik,Kilpauk
