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This Afternoon.

The Dáil at the Convention Centre, Dublin.

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar explains the government’s digital covid pass strategy. To wit:

We do expect that within the next three weeks, hundreds of thousands of people will receive their digital Covid cert, either electronically or perhaps even by post.

“We’re working out now whether we can use that domestically.

“It was only ever intended for international travel and border check control people checking these passes is a very different thing from your local pub or your local restaurants and that’s what needs to be worked out.”

Sounds promising.

Meanwhile…

Earlier: June 31st

 

The Pandemrix vaccine was distributed to GPs by the HSE during the 2009 swine flu pandemic

Yesterday.

The High Court, Dublin.

Via BreakingNews:

A 16-year-old boy who sued claiming he developed a rare sleep disorder after receiving a swine flu jab has settled his High Court action for €900,000.

The teenager who cannot be named by order of the court was five years of age when he received the Pandemrix vaccine in November 2009.

The boy’s counsel Jonathan Kilfeather SC told the High Court the boy suffered sleep disturbance and loss of concentration and in August 2016 a diagnosis of narcolepsy was made.

The latest settlement follows on the case of another 16-year-old boy who settled his action in November last year. That groundbreaking settlement paved the way for the resolution of 80 cases over the Pandemrix vaccine.

It was agreed under the terms of that settlement that 50 per cent of the settlement figure would be paid out. Mr Kilfeather told the High Court today the €900,000 settlement in the latest case represented 50 per cent of the full value of the case.

Teenager who sued over swine flu jab settles for €900,000 (Breaking News)

‘Anon’ writes:

‘As someone who developed an incurable autoimmune disease after taking this Pandemrix “swine flu” vaccine, I feel for this poor lad. When I was offered this jab at work, no one mentioned anything about the possible side effects.

It’s unconscionable that this was allowed to happen. In a normal functioning society this case should ring alarm bells all over the media.

Yet it has made no impact. Instead the authorities are in a mad rush to vaccinate the whole country with an untested experimental gene therapy whose clinical trials don’t end till 2023 – and to re-organise society into a de facto medical apartheid, with the unvaccinated reduced to the status of second-class citizens.

The campaign to demonise those who believe in bodily sovereignty as a pariah to be shunned by “polite society” chills me to the bone. We are moving into very dangerous territory.’

RollingNews

Hey.

A ‘location across the UK’!?

We’re a free, independent, proud and strong separate country entirely.

Silly.

Here’s How.

The current affairs podcast presented by William Campbell (above right) meets Dublin City Councillor John Lyons, (left) who represents the Whitehall/Artane district and describes himself as ‘Independent Left’.

William writes:

In other countries, the political left pushes hard for taxes on property – why in Ireland do they demand the reverse? I ask John, why?

Listen here

Here’s How






This morning.

Dun Laoghaire, county Dublin.

Street artists putting the finishing touches to a series of large murals as part of the ‘Dún Laoghaire Anseo’ project funded by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, with the assistance of Creative Ireland.

It challenged 14 artists to paint their interpretation of “the essence of the town” on its walls and buildings reflecting Dún Laoghaire’s ‘maritime heritage, its local characters and its wildlife’.

Any excuse.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4.

Josh Mathews (above) with his photograph ‘To the Waters and the Wild’ selected as the winning image in the inaugural ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition, run by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS).  Josh’s photo, along with 22 other entries to the competition is now part of an outdoor exhibition on the railings outside the DIAS building for the month of July.

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

A day that will live in infamy.

Listen back here

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Last night.

Covid response critic Ivor Cummins on NPHET, NIAC and the Delta variant.