Um.
This morning/afternoon.
Pro Cathedral, Dublin.
Father Kiernan McDermot says mass wearing a face mask as in-person religious services resume as the country begins to reopen with Level 5 restrictions easing.
No Pastor Artur, in fairness.
Earlier: Disconnected Undercut
Hang on, this isn’t Penneys.
This morning.
National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Earlier: We’re Back, Baby
Saturday.
Alberta, Canada.
Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski was made to kneel while being arrested for committing the crime of holding a church service, which violated Alberta’s public health orders. The pastor kicked out police from his church last month calling them ‘Gestapo’.
That’ll learn him.
Calgary COVID-19 dissidents vow to resist court order (Calgary Sun Herald)
Pic via Twitter
Hmm.
Saturday.
The novel suggestion of introducing ‘wheelchair accessible’ park benches was made by Galway City Fine Gael Councillor Clodagh Higgins.
To help the disabled get that prized middle seat?
Or deter the homeless from having a kip?
We may never know.
Meanwhile…
I’m a wheelchair user and I really don’t get this. Like, we have somewhere to sit…we can sit beside benches or in front facing those sitting ob them. Looks like hostile architecture to me.
— Evie Uí Cnáimhín (sí/í) (@Evie_Nevin) May 9, 2021
Anyone?
Yesterday.
Israel Embassy, Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Meanwhile…
Violence erupted this morning ahead of a planned march to commemorate Israel’s takeover of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War, an anniversary known as Jerusalem Day in the Jewish state.
….Dozens of people were wounded when clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
Violence erupts at al-Aqsa mosque as Israel marks Jerusalem Day (Reuters)
Pic: KN
Last night.
Tuam campaigner Breeda Murphy, adoptee and activist Eunan Duffy and lawyer Frank Brehhany, whose father was a Tuam adoptee, discuss the Gardaí appeal to anyone who was the victim of a criminal act in a Mother-and-Baby Home to contact them.
Last week, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris (top right) said there are allegations within the report of the Mother and Baby Home Commission that suggests there was ‘serious criminality’ that could have criminal justice outcomes.
We look at the options open to survivors.
This is the 17th in a series of shows with Breeda, Eunan and Frank looking at all aspects of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation report. They can be viewed here.
This afternoon.
The Seanad.
During a debate on Ireland’s mandatory hotel quarantine system, Leader of the Seanad, Regina Doherty, of Fine Gael claimed the country was “dragged kicking and screaming by populism to mandatory hotel quarantining“.
Via RTÉ:
Senator Doherty added that “we left the doors open and the windows open to Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom whilst picking on other countries”.
She said that she believed that the number of exemptions had surpassed the number of rules.
“We have more holes in the system that we have [than] in a bloody block of swiss cheese“, she told the Seanad.
Ms Doherty called on Government to let the legislation underpinning the quarantine system lapse in June, when it is due to do so, and not renew it.
Seanad hears criticism of mandatory hotel quarantine system (RTÉ)
Previously: Trop Sévère
Ah here.
This afternoon.
Penneys open booking system for shopping by appointment (RTÉ)
Update:
Ah now.
