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Psst.

Vax pass with your charlie?

Via Irish Times:

A prolific Irish drug dealer is selling fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates on the dark web for as much as €350 each.

…The seller operates on a well known dark web marketplace for illicit items which can only be accessed using specialist software.

The price includes a digital certificate containing a custom QR code, which will display the buyer’s name when scanned.

It also includes a realistic-looking, printed HSE vaccination card. “Full Irish vaccine passport, not recorded on data base,” customers are told, meaning the code could not easily be cancelled by health authorities. Other items on the site include cocaine, LSD and ketamine.

It’s a one stop shop to par-tay DEATH.

Fake Irish vaccine passports for sale on dark web for €350 (Irish Times)

Shane Moore is running “a dick a day”, mapping out phallic-shaped routes in Dublin to raise money for Movember

Splutter!

This morning/afternoon.

Via Dublin Live:

Shane told Dublin Live: “I did a dick-shaped cycle back in March just for a laugh. On Strava, you can actually draw out your routes and one Clontarf shape caught my eye.

“On Halloween, I had planned on doing a run anyway after just moving to Clontarf. You can get creative on runs because it’s a lot of time by yourself. Sometimes the stupid ideas are the best ones.”

A dick a day?

Didn’t Fluffybiscuits try this last month?

Dublin lad running penis-shaped routes for genius Movember fundraiser (Dublin Live)

Thanks ESB

This morning.

Catherine?

You’ve changed.

*turns purple-faced*

Earlier: Obey

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan

This morning.

Further to Eamon Ryan’s ‘false positive’…

Via The Irish Times:

Mr Ryan said he got his first PCR Covid test from the National Ambulance Service (NAS) – which has been carrying out the tests for ministers who are to travel abroad – on Friday morning and it came back with a positive result on Saturday.

He said he went home and worked on contact tracing of people he had seen in recent days including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and secretary general to the government Martin Fraser.

He said his private secretary was later contacted by the HSE to say the results of the test had actually been “inconclusive”.

Mr Ryan said it is his understanding it is “standard” to have a second test in such circumstances, particularly where the person did not have symptoms and were not a close contact. He got the test that evening and it came back on Sunday as “completely negative”.

Mr Ryan said: “I just followed medical advice right the way through all of this”. He said the advice he got after the second test was to “go about your business as normal” so he announced that the trip was back on.

Asked if he had sought the second test he said: “I didn’t have any direct involvement” and his understanding is the suggestion came from the NAS which had contacted his private secretary “rather than from any approach by myself.”

Seems legit.

Ryan says he did not seek second Covid test that allowed him to travel to Cop26 (Irish Times)

Yesterday: Unrepeatable

RollingNews

This morning.

MetroLink – for which the cost is reported to have increased to €10bn – will not see construction start for at least another ten years.

This would mean its earliest completion date would be 2037 – ten years later than originally planned.

The project’s business case is currently being assessed by Government and according to the strategy it is still expected to go for planning approval next year.

Luas Finglas – the first of the Luas extensions – was originally meant to be built by 2028. The earliest completion date is now expected to be around 2034.

Meanwhile other Luas extensions that will not be going ahead until after 2031 are Poolbeg, Lucan, and Bray.

Dublin’s MetroLink postponed for ten years – NTA draft strategy (RTÉ)