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Last night.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar greets Labour’s Ivana Bacik and party leader Alan Kelly following Labour’s victory in the Dublin Bay South by-election.

Earlier…


This evening.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Labour Senator and Dublin Bay South by-election candidate Ivana Bacik (top right) with her party leader Alan Kelly (top left). Ms Bacik is favourite to take the seat left vacant by Fine Gael’s Eoghan Murphy.

Earlier…

This afternoon.

With 100% of the boxes tallied, the indications are that Ms Bacik is on 30% ahead of Fine Gael’s James Geoghegan on 26%, with Lynn Boylan of Sinn Féin on nearly 16%.

Tallies, which are not official counts and come with a strong health warning, suggest that Claire Byrne of the Green Party is on just under 8%, with Fianna Fáil’s Deirdre Conroy under 5% and Independent Mannix Flynn on 3%.

Bacik on course to top the poll in Dublin Bay South (RTÉ)

Earlier: Meanwhile, In The RDS

Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Sinn Fein candidate Lynn Boylan (right) with party president Mary Lou McDonald and constituency neighbouring TD Chris Andrews.

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He’s waffen a laff.

This afternoon.

Election candidate and National Party leader Justin Barrett (in suit) and friends leave the RDS he Dublin Bay South by-election count centre for his bunker. He was eliminated on the third count.

Thanks, Green Zip-Ups.

Meanwhile…

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This evening.

Am I hot?

You are not.

Earlier…

top from left: candidate James Geogehan, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael campaign director and government minister Simon Harris

This evening.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Earlier…

This afternoon.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Fine Gael candidate James Geoghegan and wife Claire arriving at the RDS count centre for the Dublin Bay South by-election tally.

Earlier: I Am Bacik Crazy

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Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Fianna Fáil’s Jim Callaghan and election candidate Deirdre Conroy outside the RDS count centre for the Dublin Bay South by-election.

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Last night.

Mother and baby Home activists Breeda Murphy, Eunan Duffy and Frank Brehany discuss the latest developments on the fall-out from the Mother and Baby Home report and the reaction to the discovery of burial sites in Canada.

Eunan shares the research that led to the revelations in last week’s Sunday Times (above) that the bodies of at least 27 children were donated for medical research without consent to Queen’s University Belfast including from Mother and Baby homes.

This is the 19th in a series of shows with Breeda, Eunan and Frank looking at issues surrounding the publication of the Mother and Bay Home Commission of Investigation report. They can be viewed here.

Bodies of 27 children donated to Queen’s University for medical research (Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times)

This afternoon (1.40pm).

Via Ciarán Bolger

Earlier…

Labour TD Duncan Smith in the RDS during the count for the Dublin Bay South by-election this morning

This morning.

Gulp.

Earlier…

This morning.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

A layer of protective perspex in front of ballot boxes and tellers in the RDS, as the count begins for the Dublin Bay South by-election.

More to follow.

 Leah Farrell/RollingNews

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This afternoon.

Further to plans to re-open indoor dining and drinking only to the vaxxed…

…via the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)

‘ICCL has opposed the idea of vaccine passports since they were first mooted in early 2021. A system of vaccine passports for access to goods and services will discriminate against people on the grounds of health status.

Such a system would also set a precedent of requiring people to share private medical data to gain access to services…

…Up until less than two weeks ago, the Government also agreed that these human rights and civil liberties concerns were too serious to consider introducing vaccine passes. The idea that allowing indoor dining and drinking this month is so urgent that these concerns should now be dispensed with – via emergency legislation and without meaningful debate – is frankly incredible.’

ICCL’s Executive Director Liam Herrick said:

“We cannot set a precedent whereby government can declare that problems with its own re-opening timetable constitute some sort of parliamentary emergency, which would justify ignoring serious and complex issues of workers’ rights, equality law, privacy, and data protection. Human rights law is there to protect us all. We cannot dispense with it when faced with political dilemmas.”

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Earlier: Clean And Unclean

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This morning.

Outside Naas, county Kildare.

Eamonn writes:

From gardens to public spaces and roadside verges, Ireland is seeing a surge in the growth of wild flowers and fauna as city and county councils, home owners and farmers, cut back on the trimming of gardens, parks, roadside verges and fields. Suddenly across the country, wild flowers are popping up in a glorious splash of colour, reminding us of times gone by and that left to its own devices nature knows a thing or two about colour coordination.

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Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that it will seek regulatory approval for a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine

Last night/this morning.

“While protection against severe disease remained high across the full six months, a decline in efficacy against symptomatic disease over time and the continued emergence of variants are expected,”

A joint statement from Pfizer and BioNTech

Pfizer to seek OK for 3rd vaccine dose; shots still protect  (AP)

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Meanwhile…

Or not enough.

This morning.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Independent candidate Professor Dolores Cahill (above left) after being refused entry to the Dublin Bay South count centre.

Earlier…..

This morning.

RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Independent Dublin Bay South candidate Dolores Cahill, a professor at the school of medicine at the University College Dublin, is denied entry to the by-election count centre without a face covering.

More as we get it.

Earlier: Meanwhile, At The RDS

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