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Newly ratified DUP leader Edwin Poots at Dublin Castle last year

“They took photographs of blown up border posts to impose upon Northern Ireland people a harshest form of customs, and an internal market that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world.

“They’re going to starve Northern Ireland people of medicines, no less, cancer drugs and other materials such as the food that’s on our table.

“And I’d say that’s a shame on the Irish Government that they done that. And that belongs to Fine Gael under the leadership of Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney. So relationships are really, really bad with the Irish Government as a consequence”

Edwin Poots

A promising start.

DUP leader Edwin Poots says Irish Government will ‘starve’ NI of medicine (RTE)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

He wanted to be the ‘voice for the generation locked out of the housing market’.

How’s that going?

Via Irish Independent.ie:

…the Price Property Register shows the Fine Gael barrister and his wife bought a house three years ago in Clonskeagh in South County Dublin for €730,000.

House prices in Dublin have risen 2.8pc in the last year with the median price in the capital now standing at €390,000 and rising to €540,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.

While he is running to be elected in Dublin Bay South, Mr Geoghegan’s home in the neighbouring Dublin Rathdown constituency.

‘Voice for generation locked out of housing market’ Fine Gael candidate lives in €730,000 house in different constituency (Independent.ie)

Yesterday: Local Man Not Local

From top: HSE CEO Paul Reid: above from left: Anne O’Connor, COO, HSE; Dr Colm Henry, CCO, HSE; and Damien McCallion, HSE National Lead, Vaccination Programme

 

This afternoon.

Weekly HSE briefing at Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

Meanwhile…

Asked about the increase in cases of the so-called Indian variant, Dr Colm Henry, CCO, HSE said any increase was a concern, especially seeing how the variant has fared in the UK.

Dr Henry said it is more transmissible than the UK variant, but said they are unsure yet as to how severe it is.

He said it was important to get through the vaccine roll-out quickly before they allow the variant to get a foothold in the population.

2.6 million vaccine doses administered – HSE (RTÉ)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

Via Dear Prudence agony aunt in The Slate:

‘I want to see my beautiful husband’s face again. I want to kiss him on the lips romantically, like we used to, and not through a piece of fabric. (He does not change his mask very often and it is often smelly and soiled.) And I don’t want to feel judged by him for my own behavior, which I consider reasonable.’

Well.

Shouldn’t have married Nigel in the first place.

FIGHT!

My Husband Won’t Take His Mask Off—Even for Sex (The Slate)

Katie Taylor at Dublin Airport – with then Minister for Sport Shane Ross – following her world boxing championship victory on June 4, 2019

On the Late Late Show…

…Jennifer O’Brien writes:

Katie Taylor, World Champion boxer and Olympic gold medallist, will speak to Ryan for her first in-depth Late Late Show interview since turning professional five years ago.

As they enter the final weeks of preparation for Tokyo 2021, we will be joined byTeam Ireland AthletesincludingNatalya Coyle (modern pentathlon), Brendan Irvine(flyweight boxer), Nhat Hguyen (badminton), Aoife Cooke(marathon runner), and Rhys McClenaghan (gymnast), as they discuss their journey to the Olympics.

TricaHeberle, Chef de Mission Team Ireland, and Peter Sherrard, CEO of the Olympic Federation of Ireland, will also be in studio to discuss the unprecedented hurdles faced to get to the Olympic Games this year.

As she celebrates 21 years since taking a silver medal in one of the most thrilling finals of Sydney 2000, Ryan will talk to Sonia O’Sullivan from her new base in the USA about her incredible Olympic medal win.

Star of The Late Late Toy Show Adam King returns with his family

After the success of the recent Commitments music feature, The Late Late Show Soul Band is back. This time fronted by Lucia Evans, the band will treat us to brilliant live music to close out the season….

REJOICE!

Aw.

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

RollingNews

This afternoon.

Convention Centre.

Pilots from the Irish Airline Pilots’ Association (IALPA) protest outside the sitting of the Dail in the Convention Centre calling for the deployment of Rapid Antigen Testing for all travellers and vaccine passports to be introduced from July 1.

Meanwhile…

RollingNews

Revolt (above) is a new system for retrofitting battery devices with USB

This afternoon.

Broadsheet pal and entrepreneur Luke Brennan’s battery-free future is about to go live on Kickstarter.

It could be the best investment you’ll make this year.

Luke sez:

Our project goes live at 3pm, it’s what I’ve put most of my effort into over the last 4 years.

In fairness.

Watch live here