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Tonight.

Government Buildings.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin hosts Democratic Unionist Party Leader Edwin Poots and DUP MLA Paul Given.

Earlier:

This evening.

Merrion Street, Dublin 2

Recently-elected leader of the DUP Edwin Poots takes a swipe at Tanaiste Leo Varadkar while addressing media outside Government Buildings ahead of his first meeting with Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation members at the commission’s launch in 2015, from left: Professor Mary Daly, Judge Yvonne Murphy, Dr William Duncan.

This evening.

Further to the the participation of Professor Mary Daly, one of the members of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, at a seminar in Oxford University, where she disclosed for the first time that 500 survivor testimonies were excluded from the commission’s final report for ‘legal reasons’…

…And following calls from Tanaiste Leo Varadkar and Labour Party leader Alan Kelly for the commission to appear before TDs…

Social Democrats TD, and Oireachtas Children’s Committee member, Holly Cairns said:

“I have written to the Oireachtas Children’s Committee requesting that we again invite members of the Commission to the Committee to discuss their report.

“It is hard for many to understand why one of the Commissioners agreed to discuss the report at an academic seminar, but unwilling to come before the Oireachtas Committee.

“It is even harder to understand how the Commission report’s findings were, in so many cases, contradictory to the testimony of survivors. To give just one example: that there was no evidence of forced adoption.

“Given what we know now about the methodology that was used to prepare this report, the Government must repudiate the report and produce the underlying archive. Survivors must be given the administrative files and all of their personal data.

“Crucially, the government needs to repudiate the report. Survivors were denied fair procedures. This report is rewriting people’s lived experience and, with it, Irish history.”

Meanwhile…

Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Minister for Children Roderic  O’Gorman said clarification would help to address the anger and uncertainty felt by survivors, adding it was not appropriate for the first public comments on the report to be made to a restricted academic event.

He said that “it is necessary at this point for them to come before the Oireachtas committee”.

Commission should ‘urgently clarify’ treatment of survivor accounts – Minister (RTÉ)

Earlier: Gatekeeping

This afternoon.

Iveagh House, St Stephen’s Green, Saint Kevin’s, Dublin 2.

Members of the Trinity Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Campaign outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, where they also occupied the foyer for two hours. The Trinity College group is calling for a boycott of Israeli goods and further sanctions following recent violence in Gaza.

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

This morning.

Morning Joe on MSNBC.

Dr Anthony Fauci addresses concerns raised by the publication of his emails that showed leading virus experts warned him COVID-19 may have been created in a lab while he publicly played such claims down.

He wants everyone to “keep an open mind’ but his money is still on the bats.

Meanwhile….

Last night.

Via Deadline:

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have apparently taken down a new book by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president.

Fauci’s 80-page book, Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward, is expected to be released by National Geographic Books on November 2.

National Geographic Books confirmed the removal to DailyMail.com, which reported that the book sale had been posted accidentally and prematurely.

Dr. Anthony Fauci Book Scrubbed From Amazon, Barnes & Noble After Premature Posts (Deadline)

Meanwhile..

“The enemy is the virus, the enemy is not the public health people who are trying to contain the virus.”

Dr Anthony Fauci to Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show, September 2020.

Good times.

Meanwhile…

*fist bump*

Yesterday: Dear Tony

This afternoon.

Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

Model Maria sports a design by NCAD fashion graduate Stephanie Finney who was today announced winner of the Brown Thomas ‘Designer to Watch’ bursary for her covid-related collection ‘Easing Restrictions’.

Now, where did I leave my keys?

Photocall Ireland

This afternoon.

Hook Head, county Wexford.

Clampers Outside writes:

Out in Hook looking toward Crooke – place origin of the phrase ‘by Hook or by Crook‘…. said to have been uttered pre-invasion by Cromwell (boo, hiss). My first time here, and a gorgeous day for it, it is too :)

Fight!

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Malahide, county Dublin.

Thanks Andy Matthews

This morning.

Good Morning Britain.

Young Britons teach their elders a lesson in divide and rule.

Ryan Mark Parsons?

Meanwhile….

Yikes.