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Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone

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Fianna Fáil TD for Offaly and Foreign Affairs committee member Barry Cowen has said the Taoiseach needs to address the issue regarding the “content” of the texts shared yesterday by Leo Varadkar over a UN role for former minister Katherine Zappone.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said that while he accepts Micheál Martin has said that no texts should be deleted if it contains Government business, he believes he needs to “acknowledge” the content of those texts.

He said he did not allude to the “startling information” within the texts, “the amount of knowledge that was known by the parties involved” and that a contract and agreement had been reached with Ms Zappone while no one else was aware of it.

Taoiseach should ‘acknowledge’ content of Varadkar texts (RTÉ)

Yesterday: From The Piglet

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From top Piglet wine bar, Dublin and from left, Simon Coveney, Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone

Gulp.

This afternoon.

More as we get it.

Oink

Earlier: Anchor Aweigh


They want you, they want you* as a new recruit.

This afternoon.

A gathering of sailors and possibly our entire navy fleet moored in Dublin for the Naval Service’s 75th Anniversary.

In pic 1, the L.É. Samuel Beckett arrives (left) with from left: L.É. George Bernard Shaw (P64), L.É. WB Yeats (P63) and L.É. James Joyce (P62) docked at Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.

Is our western coast now vulnerable to invasion?

Only time will tell.

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* Probably not, but here’s the website in anyhow.

Save Poolbeg

*screech*

This afternoon.

Hardcore.

‘No vaccine, no motorway’, announces Motorway police (Geo.tv)

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Ah.

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Oh.

This morning.

Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence Simon Coveney TD disembarking the L.É. Samuel Beckett at the Naval Service 75th anniversary.

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CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan

On The Late Late Show (in front of a live audience).

Linda Pototzki writes:

The Script will be performing their new single ‘I Want It All’ from their forthcoming greatest hits collection ‘Tales From The Script’ and tell us why they’re so excited to get back on the road with a new tour.

Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s son, Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud, will talk about the impact his mother’s brutal murder has had on his life…

We meet Ireland’s Olympic heroes including Kellie Harrington, Paul O’Donovan, Fintan McCarthy, Aidan Walsh, Afric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty who did the country so proud and created history over the summer.

Culture Club icon Boy George will be live in-studio to talk about his incredible career…

Eileen O’Riordan remembers her beloved daughter Dolores on what would have been her 50th birthday. Eileen will also be joined by Fergal Lawler from The Cranberries…

We catch up with CNN journalist and Cahirciveen man Donie O Sullivan to chat about his adventures in America’s hinterland…

The Late Late Show on Friday at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.

Pic: RTE

This morning.

Via Reuters:

Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a week, threatening to slow the country’s sputtering inoculation campaign.

Kanagawa prefecture said several black particles in one Moderna vaccine vial were found upon checking for foreign substances before its use, and it has put the rest of the lot on hold.

Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna shots last week after being notified of contamination in some of the supply. Moderna and Spanish pharma company Rovi (ROVI.MC), which bottles Moderna vaccines, have said the cause could be a manufacturing issue, and European safety regulators have launched an investigation.

Moderna has said no safety or efficacy issues had been identified from the issue.

Japan finds another Moderna vial suspected to contain foreign substance (Reuters)

Yesterday: Teen Spirit

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Good times.

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