Author Archives: Bodger

This afternoon.

Prescient war-gaming?

Or something else?

We may never know.

Operation Lockstep?

Ah.

Can you smell what the Rockefellers were cooking?

Full document here

Connnolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15

Gulp.

This morning/afternoon.

KN writes:

Got this off Telegram, not sure of its authenticity. Anyone?

Meanwhile…

‘Isreal…Kindergarten teachers play “vaccinate”. As soon as a child is “vaccinated”, they are allowed to take off the mask.’

This morning.

Garda HQ, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris (above right) and Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll (left) prepare to brief media on Operation TARA, an ‘enhanced anti-drugs strategy’ which will focus on tackling ‘street-level’ dealing in cities, towns and villages across the country.

The war against illegal drugs, unorthodox medicinal supplements and rogue chemists never ends.

God speed, brave guards.

Now get your vax.

RollingNews

This morning.

Unidentified location, Cork city.

Frank O’Connor writes:

How is this not a home?

It’s a real character home, in an old part of the city, part of a terrace that is about 200 years old, so it has significant heritage value also.

Very sad to see it decay in this way.

The reality is our government & local authorities deliberately allow properties to stay vacant & go derelict in a housing & homeless crisis.

Would they rather have people homeless than take the chance of prices dropping on their watch?

Anyone?

Thanks wickedfairysad

Empty gaffs to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Empty Gaffs’.

Yesterday’s Irish Times’ advertorial for the Chinese Communist Party

This morning.

Via Irish Times Letters:

I resent the publication of the Chinese government ad in yesterday’s Irish Times.

Comparing China to Ireland is an insult.

They talk about looking after the “wellbeing” of the Chinese people and the development of the country.

Is forced sterilisation looking after people’s wellbeing?

Is imprisoning protesters democratic?

Is silencing that optician who broke the scandal of coronavirus democratic? I think not.

I am saddened that the Irish Times published this propaganda, money is not everything.

Tina Dermody,

County Wicklow

Irish Times Letters

Meanwhile…

The advertorial talks about the CCP’s commitment to the “wellbeing of the Chinese people”. Tell that to the millions of Uighurs in China’s west who have been terrorised, imprisoned or surveilled and are having their culture erased. Or speak to feminist activists who have been jailed or forced into exile for calling out gender discrimination.

Or consider the lawyers who have been imprisoned for taking on human rights cases. Even Marxist activists have been detained for supporting more worker’s rights. The party indeed may be committed to “wellbeing”, but the party gets to define what wellbeing means.

China’s self-penned praise calls for dose of scepticism (, Irish Times)

Yesterday: A Great Bunch Of Lads

Thanks Lilly

 

This morning.

“From Monday 12 July, there will be an online option as well, so when you go to the online portal you now be able to say yes I’m 18-34, I appreciate I will be getting a mRna vaccine in the future, but I actually what I want to do is opt, mainly for AstraZeneca vaccine through the vaccine centre, there will be some Janssen as well, but mainly AstraZeneca through the vaccine centre.

“So they can be vaccinated earlier. 18 to 34 can now be vaccinated one to two months earlier which is a huge benefit for them and society in the face of this Delta surge.”

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.

Meanwhile…

Oh.

Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, in the Department of Health at a NPHET press briefing this evening

This evening.

Tense, nervous Headache?

If somebody is able to show me evidence that my advice is wrong, I’m happy to look at it.

Dr Tony Holohan, Cheif Medical Officer, Department of Health.

Over to you, ratlickers.

Be the fuzzy-tongued tin-foilers we know you can be.

Fight!

Sam Boal/RollingNews

From top: The Hairy Lemon, Stephen Street, Dublin 1; The Red Parrot, Dorset Street, Dublin 1; Doyle’s, College Street, Dublin 2, and The Boar’s Head, Capel Street, Dublin 1

Missing the ‘battle cruiser’?

Enjoy art?

Read on.

Mark at the Jam Art Factory writes:

We have new pub-themed work by Irish designer, photographer and digital artist Maxi (see full selection here).

AND we have an A3 print to giveaway to a pub-loving Broadsheet reader.

To enter, just let us know the answer to the following question – If you were to open a pub tomorrow, what name would you give it? Best name wins!

Hic.

Lines MUST close at 1am.

Jam Art Factory

The Jam Art competition appears here with new prints here every second Thursday.