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This morning.

You cannot be serious?

G’wan the mad Dan.

Australian Open in CHAOS as Daniel Andrews REFUSES to let unvaccinated players compete (MailOnline)

Previously: The Danned

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Who gave me the hot gun?

This morning.

Aras an Uachtarain, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

An Irish Defence Forces Artillery Corps field gun caught in the moment of firing during the 21 gun salute for President Higgins’ German counterpart, Frank Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, who is on a three-day state visit with his wife Frau Elke Büdenbender (splutter!).

No wildlife was harmed in the making of this salute.

Three claims for deafness though.

Will they never learn?

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Lower Domick Street, Galway.

IL Vicolo has raised almost 70k to fight the vaccine pass system in the courts.

The Italian restaurant has refused to ask for digital certs and has been inspected on several occasions by the HSE as a result.

They say:

‘We were served with a Compliance Notice on 20th August and brought to the District Court on numerous occasions. Our business was even shut for two days in September following an application by the HSE for an emergency cessation order. On 4th October the District Judge ruled that he did not have to address the issue of discrimination as the Compliance Notice issued by the HSE was worded in a way that meant that we did not have to prevent people from entering’

Via BreakingNews

Oisin Collins, senior counsel for the restaurant, submitted in court that the EU Digital Covid Certificate regulation provided for a third category of testing. This omission was a clear breach of the regulation itself, European privacy law, the Constitution, the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU Convention on Human Rights, he submitted, adding that his position on the issue of discrimination was unanswerable.

Stephen Moran, BL for the HSE, said the Irish Government were effectively “at large” in relation to how they wished to deal with the issue of re-opening pubs and restaurants at a domestic level, given the serious threat to public health and the rise in cases due to the Delta variant.

District Judge, John King, having heard detailed submissions on discrimination, decided that he did not have to rule on this issue as the compliance notice only went so far as to require records rather than prohibit people from entering.

“This is only the start of the push back against discriminatory laws. We received a letter from the HSE on October 14th that they intend to start inspecting our restaurant again as there has been further complaints of non-compliance,” the restaurant said.

“We intend to now challenge this discriminatory law to the Higher Court.”

Galway restaurant is first business to challenge Covid cert at court (BreakingNews)

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Beauty journalist Triona McCarthy (third right) with from left: Stephen Watkins MD Boots Ireland, Linda Nolan Head of Marketing Boots Ireland, Ger Brannigan, General Manager Boots Liffey Valley, Georgina Roche, Boots Liffey Valley and Pat Laffey Head of Property and Operations, at the opening this morning.

Any lippy?

This morning.

Fonthill Road, Clondalking, Dublin 22..

Boots Ireland unveiled its newly-revamped store at the Liffey Valley – with an increased emphasis on make-up and whatnot –  earlier with the first 100 customers to spend €25 receiving a gift bag worth over €50 featuring the ‘top beauty brands’.

Take that, Brown Thomas.

Fight!

RollingNews

This morning.

Via Irish Times:

In the article “Rent Trap” (Weekend, October 23rd) “Amet” lamented that he was unable to save a sufficient sum to purchase a house in south Dublin, notwithstanding that he and his wife had a joint income of €175,000 a year.

He offered Finland as a country of similar size – presuming that population is the construct in question – as building 40,000 units a year. This effective housing policy has meant that here, a two-bedroom apartment bought 15 years ago in a town comparable to Castlebar was sold this year for the same price it was bought for – €43,000.

Thus, a single person on minimum wage can purchase such a dwelling as repayments on a €40,000 loan over 20 years will amount to €190 a month at present rates of interest charged by Finnish banks.

If one does not wish to live in the Finnish equivalent of Castlebar, then something similar in the capital region of Helsinki will set you back between €150,000 – 10 minutes from the centre by train – to €300,000, 10 minutes by tram.

Repayments on a 90 per cent loan then move to €630 and €1,260 respectively.

David Fitzgerald,

Kiuruvesi, Finland.

Irish Times Letters

Alamy Stock

Just ‘dropped’.

The first official trailer for ‘Unwelcome’ – formerly The Little People – which sees Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of a cgi-enhanced rural Ireland only to discover ‘malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden’.

Are they laughing at us?

We may never know.

Release date: March 17. 2022.

Thanks James Cregan

Green Party leader and government minister Eamon Ryan

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has said he does not expect to see the reimposition of Covid-19 restrictions, despite growing case numbers.

Minister Ryan said he believes that this view was shared by all present at a meeting of the Cabinet Covid Committee last night, which was attended by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan.

The minister said personal and sectoral responsibility was important to manage the disease.

Ryan does not expect restrictions to be reimposed (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Yikes.

Yesterday.

Interesting times.

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Um.

Previously: A Great Bunch Of Lads

“Let me be very clear about this. To declare war you declare war on an enemy. And to declare a section of Irish society as an enemy is inexcusable.”

Renegade medic Dr Vincent Carroll defends the unjabbed from a declaration of war against them – announced in yesterday’s Irish Daily Mail (top left) – by Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.

Earlier: Any Spare Tickets?

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Gulp.

Cunning linguist.

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