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From top: Liam Herrick, executive director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, whose  concerns about freedom of expression, the right to send and receive information, and the right to privacy are illustrated (above)

Happening now.

Oireachtas committe on Tourism, Culture, Art, Sport and media.

Interested parties are providing pre-legislative scrutiny of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, including the irish Council for Civil Liberties , whose boss Liam Herrick told the committee that significant parts of the proposed legislation may not meet human rights standards.

Watch live here.

Meanwhile…

Hello YOU!

Broadsheet‘s Olga Cronin (arrowed), now with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, at the committee hearing this afternoon.

Olga, Olga, give us a wave!

Like art?

Enjoy walking?

Read on.

Mark at Jam Art Factory writes:

Offaly-born, Dublin-based graphic designer Emily McKeagney’s beautiful new Irish Walk prints include Croagh Patrick, Carrauntoohill, Sugarloaf and Benbulben and are available now at Jam Art.

Emily’s work often features ephemera, cut-ups, vintage photography and the overlaying of images, drawing on her impressions as a young person in a rapidly changing Ireland.

We would like to give away a set of four prints to a a walk-loving Broadsheet reader.

To enter, just tell us your favourite walk and why….

Lines MUST close at Wednesday 2.30pm.

Emily McKeagney (Jam Art)

Jam Art Prints

This afternoon.

Guidelines for indoor dining are out.

Via Sean Defoe (Newstalk)

– Max 6 people over 13 (and some extra kids) at a table
– 105 minute rule
– no live music
– no multiple bookings
– 2m between tables

Um.

Meanwhile…

From top: The Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork; A map indicating a children’s burial ground on the grounds of the former institution

This morning.

Via Irish Examiner:

In its decision, posted to participants in last month’s oral hearing on the project, the board said having regard to the fifth interim report and the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, and on the basis of the information submitted in the course of the application and oral hearing, it is not satisfied that the site was not previously used as and does not contain a children’s burial ground.

It said it considers that there are reasonable concerns in relation to the potential for a children’s burial ground within the site associated with the former use of the lands as a mother and baby home over the period 1922 to 1998.

Plan to build 179 apartments on Bessborough grounds rejected (Irish Examiner)

Last week: ‘Perhaps Forgetting Where They Were Buried Is A Way Of Forgetting That They Died’

 James Geoghegan (centre) flanked by Simon Harris  and Frances Fitzgerald in Ranelagh village

This morning.

Interloper!

FIGHT!

Meanwhile…

Irish Times’ depiction of how ‘one shop worker’ in the Midlands managed to  ‘infect’ a further 54 people

This morning.

It’s a web.

A web of CONTAGION!

Via The Irish Times:

The web of contagion from the initial “index case” in the shop, recorded in April and May, spread to 12 families, 15 households, a food takeaway, a secondary school and a creche. Nine people were directly infected by a shop worker attending the extended family gathering.

One person who attended the party infected five co-workers in a food takeaway from where the virus spread to four other households and the creche, where four people were infected.

Three infected people in the creche spread the virus to six other people in their families.

…The transmission across the 55 cases involved the virus spreading through “seven generations” as it passed from person to person.

Mmm. Sciencey.

Seems legit.

Spread of Covid-19 from shop worker led to 54 people becoming infected (Irish Times)

“I once lived a normal life but something happened that changed my future forever. It was something simple. I got a job on a milk round. I was 12 and nothing was ever the same again. The journey I’ve been on since has brought me into a darkness I didn’t even know existed. I’ve seen things I don’t want to remember but can never forget. I’ve been scared, silenced and brought to the brink of death. But I’m here. I survived.”

Joseph O’Callaghan.

The Witness: In His Own Words.

A new documentary podcast series based on Nicola Tallant’s best-selling book (top) and produced by Yellow Path productions, the team behind the The Stand with Eamon Dunphy.

Aged 20, Joseph O’Callaghan was the youngest person to go into the Witness Protection Programme in Ireland – his testimony helped convict two drug-dealing gangsters for murder – and over the 10 episode series he tells his own story.

Yellow Path Productions write:

It’s a story of Dublin gangland but most significant is that it’s a story about a child being groomed into that world and the remarkable courage it took for him to escape and give evidence against two men who’d murdered.

Now, as the men he put away agitate for release, he tells his extraordinary life story in his own words for the first time.

First episode available now at @ApplePodcasts, @SpotifyPodcasts and @Acast.

The Witness: In His Own Words