Guinness very Light.
Fergus Keane knocks back a pint of non-alcoholic Guinness.
A pint of shame is your only man.
Hic.
Author Archives: Bodger
From top: Whelan’s, Newcastle West, Limerick; Landlord Gearoid Whelan
And i know my language isnt appropriate but its the only language them idiots seem to understand, so for all the normal followers i hav just ignore it, the anti vax crowd can 🖕🏻, CLOWNS🤡
— Gearoid Whelan (@whelansbar1) October 5, 2021
Gulp.
Gearoid Whelan of Whelan’s, Maiden Street, Newcastle West, Limerick.
No need for the language.
Previously: Publican says he’s ‘gutted’ he was told to close bar he reopened early (Newtsalk, July 21, Newstalk)
Windfall
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Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time To Die
This afternoon
Skyfall: €1.60m
Spectre: €1.32m
No Time To Die: €1.73m
Sandra Houlihan, of NBCUniversal, writes:
No Time To Die had the biggest ever Bond opening weekend in Ireland. To date the All-Ireland box office is €2.35m making it the No. 1 film released in Ireland in 2021 after just 5 days of trading….
Previously: Velvet Revolver
From top: The expert panel report: The former nuns’ residence at the Marianvale mother-and-baby home in Newry, county Down
This morning.
Via BBC:
A panel has called for a public inquiry to be held into institutions for unmarried mothers in Northern Ireland.
The three experts also advised that there should be immediate redress payments to survivors.
The devolved government committed to an investigation after research into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries was published.
Women said they were detained against their will, used as unpaid labour and had to give up babies for adoption.
The primary recommendation in Tuesday’s report is to establish an “integrated Investigation” by a non-statutory independent panel, feeding into a statutory public inquiry.
There are also further recommendations for supporting measures to ensure that victims and survivors can participate in the investigation, including access to records legislation.
Panel backs public inquiry into mother-and-baby homes (BBC)
Pic: BBC
This morning.
An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims from 1950 to 2020, a “massive phenomenon” that was covered up for decades by a “veil of silence.”
Via The Local:
The landmark report, released on Tuesday after two and a half years of investigations, follows widespread outrage over a string of sex abuse claims and prosecutions against Church officials worldwide.
When lay members of the Church such as teachers at Catholic schools are included, the number of child abuse victims climbs to 330,000 over the seven-decade period.
Meanwhile…
The report, at nearly 2,500 pages, found that the “vast majority” of victims were pre-adolescent boys from a wide variety of social backgrounds.
“The Catholic Church is, after the circle of family and friends, the environment that has the highest prevalence of sexual violence,” the report said.
Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve had already told AFP on Sunday that a “minimum estimate” of 2,900 to 3,200 paedophiles had operated in the French Church since 1950.
Yet only a handful of cases prompted disciplinary action under canonical law, let alone criminal prosecution.
French Catholic Church inquiry finds 216,000 sex abuse victims dating back to 1950s (The Local.fr)
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This morning.
Sorrento, Italy.
A holidaying RollingNews founder Eamonn Farrell writes:
‘The day after Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger went down for over six hours, costing owner Mark Zuckerberg billions of dollars, a large private yacht arrived in Sorrento, with waiters from the city’s hotels proclaiming that Zuckerberg was on board. At the moment we are unable to verify if this is true.’
Anyone?
Earlier: Soz
Mandatory
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Splutter!
This morning.
Mucky Muiris.
Are orgasms good for your health? (Muiris Houston, Irish Times)
Soz
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Facebook Chief Executive Officer and founder Mark Zuckerberg in Dublin in 2019
This morning.
Via Mashable:
In an oddly short update on its engineering blog, Facebook explained the root cause of the outage that saw half the world suddenly post memes on Twitter, and the other half realize WhatsApp (another Facebook service that was down) isn’t a good backup for Messenger.
“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” the post said.
The outage also had an effect on the company’s internal systems, which is why it took so long to fix it, Facebook said.
Meanwhile..
The timing of the outage was somewhat suspicious, given that it happened right after a whistleblower went public with damning info on how Facebook handles misinformation on its platform. However, Facebook is adamant that the root cause of the outage is the misconfiguration issue detailed above.
Finally, Facebook said it has no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.
Facebook apologizes for that massive outage, says no user data was compromised (Mashable)
After an average period of three to four months, fully vaccinated people were found to be 73% protected against infection and 90% protected against hospitalisation https://t.co/4QdrGtpdpb
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 5, 2021
This morning.
Pfizer vaccine prevents severe Covid for at least 6 months – study (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Last night.
Project Veritas released the fourth part of an investigations into the Covid vaccine.
Three Pfizer scientists told undercover journalists that natural antibodies are a better protection against Covid than the vaccine, with one saying:
“When somebody is naturally immune — like they got COVID — they probably have more antibodies against the virus…When you actually get the virus, you’re going to start producing antibodies against multiple pieces of the virus…So, your antibodies are probably better at that point than the [COVID] vaccination.”
Pfizer Scientist: ‘Your Antibodies are Probably Better than the Vaccination’ (Project Veritas)
Delighted to see the extensive work of the SciComm Collective Ireland recognised as best practice in COVID-19 communications in latest ECDC report – https://t.co/zIV9c3VbS0 . 13 young science communicators working with @roinnslainte for the last 6 months tackling misinformation pic.twitter.com/7MBu5dlRB0
— Stephen Donnelly (@DonnellyStephen) October 4, 2021
No one likes a snitch.
Meanwhile…
…are we hot?
Amongst the media companies reported by the HSE to social media companies for distributing “harmful misinformation”: the Hill, Politico, the Jerusalem Post, Gript, Fox, ABC, the New York Post, Reuters, the New York Times, the British Medical Journal, and a TV station in Iowa.
— John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) October 4, 2021
We are not.