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This morning/afternoon.

Greystones, county Wicklow.

Mourners arrive at the Holy Rosary Church for the funeral of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick. From top: former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm (left); former INM Chairman Leslie Buckley and Denis O’Brien.

Earlier: In Memoriam

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Revellers at the Tramline nightclub, Dublin last month

This morning/afternoon.

The Cabinet has agreed that midnight will be the new closing time for bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday midnight.

RTÉ Political Correspondent Mícheál Lehane reports that the Cabinet has agreed that work from home advice will take effect from Friday.

The Cabinet has agreed that midnight will be the new closing time for bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday midnight. Work from home advice for employees will take effect from Friday.

Covid passes will be required for cinemas and theatres but not for gyms and hairdressers.

In a change of policy, household contacts of a person with Covid will have to restrict their movements for five days and take three antigen tests.

Senior Government figures privately fear further restrictions might be needed in a few weeks’ time.

New midnight closing time for nightclubs and bars (RTÉ)

RollingNews

Gott im Himmel.

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Saturday’s Irish Times

In reference to your obituary column in Saturday’s Irish Times: poster-boy banker with semi-detached relationship with ethics, as you state, receives four written columns.

While a life devoted to serving the Irish people with personal courage receives two written columns.

Tom Meaghar,
Athlone

Meanwhile..

Sadly we don’t need Global Trends 2021 to tell us what we have become. Your obituaries page on the same day does the job with chilling efficiency.

Lavishly illustrated with a roguish photograph, exuding his “clubbable (whatever that means?) relaxed, warm bonhomie”, Seánie Fitzpatrick, disgraced banker and wrecker of homes, businesses and lives, dominates three quarters of a page. Pushed into the margins is the “significant political impact both sides of the Border” figure of courageous and diligent Austin Currie.

Lunatics and asylums come to mind, anyone?

Kieran Fagen,
Killiney.

Irish Times Letters

This morning.

Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly arrives for a cabinet meeting to discuss covid restrictions.

Via Irish Examiner:

Mr Donnelly said he expects the use of Covid-19 booster vaccines to be extended significantly as the evidence for boosters is “incredibly strong”.

In addition to extending boosters to those aged 50 to 59, shots are also to be approved for thousands of people under the age of 50 who have underlying conditions.

Mr Donnelly said that it is “all hands on deck” in rolling out the booster shots.

Meanwhile…

The meeting of the Cabinet’s Covid sub-committee heard significant criticism of the HSE from ministers over delays in the booster campaign, and Defence Minister Simon Coveney offered the use of the army to aid in the battle against the current surge.

Cabinet to approve expansion of vaccine boosters after ‘stark’ and ‘grim’ Covid-19 warnings (Irish Examiner)

RollingNews

Earlier: is This Necessary?

Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Dublin Castle this morning

This morning.

Via RTÊ News:

The Cabinet will today consider a proposal that would strongly advise people to work from home.

The move is being described as far-reaching and people will be advised to attend a workplace only when it is necessary.

A recommendation that Digital Covid Certificates would soon be required in gyms, hairdressers and barbers will also be considered.

The revised modelling says there is the potential for a large wave of infection, still peaking in late November, or early December, but higher than previous models due to waning immunity from vaccination.

While the peak could be at the end of December, large case numbers would last well into February.

Cabinet to consider work from home proposal (RTÉ)

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Anyone?

Meanwhile…

‘sup?

This afternoon.

Dublin Port.

Revenue officers seized approximately 20kgs of illegal plants, with an estimated street value of €400,000, concealed within stationary products from Spain. The search was carried out with the assistance of the Revenue’s mobile X-ray scanner and detector dog Waffle.

Meanwhile…

Just go with it, Waffle.

It’ll pass.

Pics: Revenue.ie/RollingNews

This afternoon.

A compilation of athletes recently collapsing in unexplained circumstances.

Climate change?

Sport becoming more competitive?

Too much/not enough Gatorade?

We may never know.

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

Previously: Fourth Quarter

“Not In Vain”

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It’s a total mystery.