55 thoughts on “Holy Saturday’s Papers

  1. Lush

    First!
    I’m only here cause of Minnie Driver, but The Guardian would appear to have disappeared.

      1. Lush

        Ah brilliant, just the ticket to kick things off.
        Thanks Andy; hope you and yours have a lovely weekend.

  2. Rosette of Sirius

    Interesting stuff across the pond that the Republicans find themselves dealing with their very own pizzaGaetz scandal. Q woulda thunk?!

    1. Easter Joker

      Gaetz is just another distraction, another sacrificial lamb.
      The GOP is much worse than they pretend to be. The stuff they do behind closed doors would make a Catholic priest blush.

      1. Rosette of Sirius

        If he was a member of Congress or the Senate, I’d be really impressed by that link….

  3. Slightly Bemused

    My mother always called it Unholy Saturday. Her thinking was it was the one day of the year that Jesus was not here. He died on Friday, was raised on Sunday, but was not here on Saturday. For some reason I think there is a song rhyme in that.
    Before we moved here, the local Jehovah’s Witnesses would regularly turn up at her door. They would argue book and verse for what seemed like hours. In later life, I was surprised how much I recalled. There were always two, and always the same one in charge, with a new acolyte, I think they call them.
    But the funniest one was actually when my mother was unwell (no, that was not funny at all) but she was in hospital. So my Dad was off to look after us. And the doorbell rang, and as always, given the time, I sat halfway down the stairs to watch and listen.
    The lead lady was disconcerted it was Dad, and asked for Mum. He was actually very polite in saying she was not available. He then asked her why she kept calling, as it was clear she would not be turned in her belief. I must give the lady credit. She may have blinked (Dad was in the way), but she gave a simple, one word answer:

    “Practice”

    1. newsjustin

      On Holy Saturday Jesus was down below “Harrowing Hell.” Something I’d never heard about until recently, but a very ancient belief. Basically, Christ decends to hell to rescue all the good Old Testament people who had been unable to go to Heaven until He unlocked it for all of us. Now, I also think those Old Testament prophets weren’t in “hell hell” but, rather something called “Limbo of the Fathers”…the Jewish Sheol maybe.

  4. Necessary Name

    I bought 2 X 70cl bottles of Bushmills yesterday @ €20 a pop from a reputable convenience store that I will not disclose the name of.
    It was a very good Friday.
    Today is Saturday. I’m still on the lash.

    I’m probably going to be hungover until next Monday.

    1. Gabby

      @ N.N. Poor you. If you’re not awake early on Easter Sunday you will miss the annual sundance.

    1. Charger Salmons

      Sir Nigel of Farage is 57 today.
      He’s younger than Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and George Clooney.

      Heh,heh,heh.™

  5. ReproBertie

    Irish Athletic Boxing Association board member Andrew Duncan, an auctioneer and Fine Gael councillor for the Mullingar-Kinnegad area, has been accused of making a 140km round trip from his home in Westmeath to Laois for a boxing coaching event where around 30-40 people from across the country were training in a gym, including many involved in full-contact sparring indoors across three boxing rings, on March 13.

    Mr Duncan said it was “in his capacity as an elected representative and (he was) entitled to be there”.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40256765.html

    Standard FG arrogance on display. Clearly restrictions are only for the little people.

    1. goldenbrown

      will be very interesting to see what happens in court today to the pair of tits who got themselves arrested at the airport for refusing to quarantine after their essential trip to Dubai

      presumably they can manage any potential post-surgery complications out at Wheatfield

          1. Lilly

            Haha, I know the feeling. Can you not do your own nails? I would hand over my Easter egg for a haircut.

      1. ReproBertie

        That was the word that jumped out at me V. No apology, no shame, no embarrassment.
        Just arrogant entitlement.

        1. V AKA Frilly Keane

          You might not remember this but when Lowry was in the height of it
          And after getting the all clear to have his Tribunal Legal Costs covered by the State
          In a challange by news cameras & Journos remember them?
          In typically Tipp Head fashion he spat back “I am perfectly entitled to them
          And it’s been a live wired trigger for me since

          Actually -bitta useless Information coming up
          – under a running theme of ‘self-interest’
          it was a particular Irish Condition that featured in that buke I keep promising to crack open again

  6. Charger Salmons

    I’m still trying to work out Ireland’s latest quarantine policy, particularly the idea that the EU, USA and ‘ anywhere there’s lots of Irish people ‘ are exempt.
    For instance you have to quarantine if you come from Wallis and Futuna – a French sovereign territory in the South Pacific with a population of 12,000, which has had 409 TOTAL covid cases and 4 deaths.
    But you do not have to quarantine if you come from France where deaths are skyrocketing as the country enters its third wave.
    Then there’s the Carribean Netherlands – population 25,000, with 196 total covid cases and 3 deaths.
    But you don’t have to quarantine if you come from the actual Netherlands.
    It’s almost as if this government is clueless about what it’s doing …

    1. ReproBertie

      This is the €9 meals all over again. The government is trying to introduce a policy and also satisfy every lobbying group going. They don’t have the spine to stand their ground so the policies end up as a confusing, unworkable mess.

      The switch to vaccination by age was because they can’t tell what people’s occupations are. If they said teachers were next they have no way of knowing if the person arriving for vaccination is a teacher, the school secretary, the caretaker or the sister of the woman that runs the local Montessori. The same is true if they give the go ahead for carers to go next. They can, however, check a birthdate on ID so that’s the easiest solution. They may explain it otherwise but that’s the reason for the change.

      1. V AKA Frilly Keane

        It’s just pandering to all the lobby groups and special interests that the State is built on
        That’s why there is no one plan that they will all stick to

        One for them – but it’s flexible
        Another for this crowd – same as above
        Something else for them over there, and as above

        Ye get my drift

        1. ReproBertie

          You know that rhyme “30 days hath September” which falls apart around the February rules? That’s a government policy after the February lobby group got to them.

      2. Charger Salmons

        Why even have a change at this stage ? The exact criteria for vaccines should have been established from the outset based on scientific data not lobby groups.
        The outstanding UK vaccination programme has always been based on age after the initial cohort of the most vulnerable and frontline health workers were jabbed.
        Police and teachers were considered no more at risk than any other profession.
        Indeed early research found taxi drivers and restaurant managers among the occupations with the highest fatality rates.

    2. goldenbrown

      hm. regarding the airport conundrum….

      via flightradar I regularly notice a certain private jet with a Maltese registration

      sometimes she be traversing the Atlantic all the way from a lovely lil island called St. Martin which is a Dutch/French split affair I believe

      https://www.flickr.com/photos/187622071@N03/51058797901/

      so whilst I’m not buying this “we can’t close Dublin Airport because we’re an open economy” old toss perhaps it’s not about ineptitude or cluelessness

      sometimes the answer is in plain sight

    1. GiggidyGoo

      President Miriam on the way out this year I’d say. Young bloods with no retirement party baggage coming in.

  7. Johnny

    New York Police Department (NYPD) memo here:

    “Among other changes, police can no longer arrest adults 21 and older for simply using marijuana in places where smoking tobacco is permitted—and that includes “on sidewalks, on front stoops and other public places,” the document states. “As a result, smoking marihuana in any of these locations is not a basis for an approach, stop, summons, arrest or search.”

    “This means that [members of service] may not approach, stop or detain a parolee based on their use or possession of lawful amounts of marihuana (3 oz or less)”

    3 ounces-wow.

    -working with a team on securing a growing/cultivation and manufacturing lic in city-gonna be fun.

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