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This morning.

Cologne, Germany-born, Dundalk-based Broadsheet on the Telly stalwart and new Irish citizen Marcel Krueger’s essay marking the centenary of partition is included in The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border, edited by James Conor Patterson for New Island. Out now.

They come over here with their fancy hats  and cherubic smiles, clogging up our non-fiction anthologies…

The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border (New Island)

Thanks Vanessa

Last night.

Derrybeg, County Donegal,

Uncanny Fr Fintan Stack lookalike priest Fr Brian O’Fearraigh  blesses the reopening of The Dodge nightclub.

he then played jungle on full volume until sunrise

Praise be.

The Dodge

Angela Scanlon

Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything.

A new Saturday night entertainment show on RTÉ One.

Rayna Connery writes:

Angela will bring her charm, wit and humour to this one-hour show featuring surprises and unexpected revelations for the celebrity guests, as they all agree to be asked, absolutely anything.

Actor and comedian Chris O’Dowd tells Angela about the importance of staying true to your Irish accent…

Line of Duty actor Martin Compston reveals what really went down at the National Television Awards….

Singer Sharon Corr, the “sexiest fiddler in Ireland”, joins Angela to speak about family, feisty lyrics and Tinder…

Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything tomorrow on RTÉ One at 10pm.

Pic: Kieran Harnett

From top:  Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins; Alec Baldwin on the set of his new movie ‘Rust’

Last night.

Via Reuters:

Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer while leaving its director in critical condition on set of his new movie, Rust.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and movie director Joel Souza were shot after a prop gun reportedly misfired.

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set, killing cinematographer (Reuters)

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This afternoon.

St Teresa’s Church, Clarendon Street, Dublin 2.

Attending a mass for murdered British MP, Sir David Amess, were from top: Minister for Education Norma Foley and British Ambassador Paul Johnston, Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail, Rural Independent Group TDs Michael Collins (centre) and Richard O’Donoghue (right) and Mr Johnston receiving communion from an unidentified priest.

Earlier: Was It For This?

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Above from left: Damien McCallion, HSE National Lead, Vaccination Programme; Paul Reid, CEO HSE; and Anne O’Connor, COO, HSE in Dr Steevens’ Hospital this afternoon

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

The weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19.

HSE in bank holiday vaccine push to ‘increase uptake’ (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

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Above from left: Jane Daly, Irish Theatre Institute, Minister for Culture Catherine Martin, Siobhan Bourke, Irish Theatre Institute and research lead Dr. Ciara L. Murphy

This morning.

Temple Bar, Dublin 8

The launch of  Speak Up: A Call For Change Report, containing findings from a 2021 survey on Dignity In The Workplace in the Irish arts sector commissioned by the Irish Theatre Institute

The survey, with1,300 respondents, found that the…

‘… 70%, had experienced harmful behaviour and 53% had witnessed it.

The majority of those instances were reported to have taken place in the workplace.

The data shows the perpetrators were more likely to be men – 67% – and that women accounted for 42% of the reported incidences.

Freelance arts workers were also more likely to face harmful workplace experiences than those who are not freelance.

Those who experienced the behaviours were more likely to be women than men, and the data found that women were more than three-and-a-half times more likely to experience sexual harassment than male respondents, and more than twice as likely to experience sexual assault.

The majority of perpetrators were reported to hold positions of authority, and respondents reported that often, supports were not available to them and that where they were available, they were insufficient.

Full report here

70% of art sector workers experience harmful workplace behaviours – report (RTÉ)

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Jelly gummies next to an illegal cannabis plant

Gulp.

This afternoon.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has warned parents to be vigilant over THC-infused gummies this Halloween.

Via RTE news:.

In its warning about the jellies, the FSAI said: “Cannabis edibles are illegal food products containing THC and come in many forms, but primarily jelly sweets.

“THC is a controlled substance in Ireland with a zero tolerance under the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977.

“Furthermore, in food, THC is considered a contaminant, with no permitted threshold in EU or Irish food law.”

Also: check apples for concealed razor blades.

Parents warned over cannabis jellies packaged like sweets (RTÉ)

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This morning/afternoon.

“We’re looking at a number of options there obviously the Gardaí can be involved because it is a criminal offence not to enforce the pass system and we’re looking at involving the private security agency as well because they’re involved in regulating bouncers and people at the door…they might be part of the solution as well.

“But really what I would say to the industry is you’ve been closed for five, six hundred days. We want you to stay open.The best way to do that is by running a good house and enforcing the Covid pass.

“And to say to people as well, I’m going to be doing it you know, when going into bars and restaurants be saying ‘make sure you check my pass because if you’re not, you’re not running a safe shop‘.”

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar.

Leo Varadkar warns gardai and security companies could check if pubs are following Covid pass rules (Irish Mirror)

Earlier: Bizarre Counter Culture

This morning.

Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

Historian Cecelia Hartsell (above left) and Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating American anti-slavery leader Frederick Douglass.

Dublin City Council mounted the plaque to honor Douglass’s 1845 visit to Eustace Street.

On leaving Dublin, he said:

“I can truly say, I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life since landing in this country. I seem to have undergone a transformation. I live a new life. The warm and generous co-operation extended to me by the friends of my despised race—the prompt and liberal manner with which the press has rendered me its aid—the glorious enthusiasm with which thousands have flocked to hear the cruel wrongs of my down-trodden and long-enslaved fellow-countrymen portrayed…

“…The deep sympathy for the slave, and the strong abhorrence of the slaveholder, everywhere evinced—the cordiality with which members and ministers of various religious bodies, and of various shades of religious opinion, have embraced me, and lent me their aid—the kind hospitality constantly proffered to me by persons of the highest rank in society—the spirit of freedom that seems to animate all with whom I come in contact.

“…And the entire absence of everything that looked like prejudice against me, on account of the color of my skin—contrasted so strongly with my long and bitter experience in the United States, that I look with wonder and amazement on the transition.”

In fairness.

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