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Vicky Phelan

On The Late Late Show…

…Linda Pototzki writes:

Vicky Phelan will join Ryan to talk about her decision to stop her chemotherapy treatment and look ahead to Christmas at home with her family.

Following the success of last year’s Toy Show Appeal, which raised €6.6m for Irish charities, Ryan will catch up with some of the over 600,000 people whose lives have been changed thanks to the generosity of Toy Show viewers.

Christy Moore will drop by to chat with Ryan fresh from winning his award his Life Time Achievement Award at the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards earlier this week…

Comedian and impressionist Mario Rosenstock will bring a wide array of hilarious characters…

We will rock you with an incredible musical tribute to the legend that is, the great Freddie Mercury, thirty years after the Queen frontman passed away.

And as audience applications close at midnight on Friday night for the Toy Show studio audience, we have two golden tickets to give away…

The Late Late Show tomorrow on RTÉ One at 9:35pm.

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Kylemore Park, Ballyfermot, Dublin.

A burned out car (above) near where Gardaí are investigating a shooting incident that occurred at approximately 7:30pm last night at Ballyfermot Crescent (top). A man sustained a number of apparent gunshot wounds and was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Jammer, anyone?

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Gibraltar is the ‘most vaccinated place on earth’

This morning.

Via London Standard:

Gibraltar has cancelled official Christmas celebrations despite its high vaccination rate and relatively low number of infections.

The small British territory tightened Covid restrictions over the festive period following a spike in cases.

Officials said they should “exercise their own judgement” on whether to hold Christmas events and it “strongly advises against” doing so in the next four weeks while the Covid booster scheme continues.

Christmas cancelled in Gibraltar – the ‘most vaccinated’ place in the world (Evening Standard)

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This morning.

Via Australia’s 7News:

As Christmas approaches.. many of us will be faced with a new dilemma: How to handle unvaccinated loved ones. and whether you should spend time with them this festive season. So how do you find out who’s vaccinated? And how do you decide whether to invite them over for Christmas lunch? We’ve got the tips and tricks to help you avoid awkward encounters.

Meanwhile…

Thanks, Zara.

This morning.

The Court of Justice of the EU has published its opinion which gives the first indication of the possible judgment in the case taken by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer over the retention and accessing of his mobile phone data. Dwyer was convicted in 2015 of the murder of Elaine O’Hara in August 2012.

More as we get it.

Europe’s top court to publish opinion on phone data (RTE)

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Anyone?

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin addresses the nation last night on new covid restrictions

Anyone?

R-nought?

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The results are in.

Last week, with two new beautifully screen printed Geebags by HomeBound (above) at Jam Art Prints on offer, we asked you to share interesting word origins.

It was an etymological spree worthy of a boozy soiree around Samuel Johnson’s gaff.

But alas, only one winner.

Rapscallion snatches gets the pair of Geebags with these intriguing word roots:

“Slogan comes from the Irish for war cry.

“Nazi isn’t short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. It’s a pre-existing term for a country bumpkin that plays on the rural Catholic preponderance for Ignatius of Loyola. Anti Nazis just borrowed it.

“Tanks (land based Ironclads) are tanks thanks to Churchill (in part). The code name for the top secret development project was supposed to be Water Containers for Russia. Churchill said the military would shorten it to WCs for Russia and changed Container to tanks. The Russians changed sides and the military did indeed shorten it. To tanks.”

Tanks Thanks all

Last week: Totes Rude

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The Jam Art Prints competition runs here every second Thursday.

Education minister Norma Foley (top) has asked parents to consider cancelling their children’s birthday parties

This morning/afternoon.

Via RTÉ News:

People should reconsider hosting and attending birthday parties or play dates for children, Minister for Education Norma Foley has said.

She also asked people to “hunker down” in light of the rise in Covid-19 cases.

Ms Foley was speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne programme after the Government announced a series of new measures in a bid to curb a rise in Covid-19 cases.

“We are in a different setting now,” she said.

“There is a window of opportunity to reassert ourselves and do the right thing.”

Hmm.

Reconsider birthday parties, play dates – Foley (RTÉ)

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