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Above from left:  Dr Diana Paun, senior adviser on health issues for Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Eileen Whelan, Chief Director of Nursing & Midwifery & Quality, Dublin Midlands Hospital Group and Dr Laurentiu Stefan, Romanian ambassador to Ireland

This afternoon.

Citywest, Dublin.

Dr Laurentiu Stefan, Romanian ambassador to Ireland, visits the Citywest vaccination centre  to monitor the distribution of 700,000 Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccines recently purchased from Romania.

The deal was “a show of solidarity” with the Irish people, where the uptake of vaccination has been much higher than in Romania, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

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For the weekend that’s nearly in it.

Saturday, October 18, 1980.

Romania gripped by Ceausescu’s austerity policy sent her rugby team to Dublin… to make a good impression.

Kevin Myers wrote in the following Monday’s Irish Times:

“They’re playing very dangerously,” said a woman in the grandstand amid the tinted glasses, fur coats and the havanas, as the Rumanians passed the ball within their own goal area, each looking at it like it was a wrongly addressed letter..

..The crowd applauded the visitors warmly, perhaps an indication of a wish for them to enter the International Championship. If they do, it must be RTÉ commentators’ devoutest hope that the Rumanian winger Fuicu, changes his name or is dropped.

Ho, dear me, rugger rout not to hand.

Final score: Ireland 13 Romania 13

horse

 

A frightening, high-pitched bottom burp [from the white horse] captured by Channel 4 News’ Irish-born investigative reporter Paraic O’Brien in Romania.

He’s got a nose for the big story.

Nose.

Suit yourselves.