Tuam campaigner Breeda Murphy, adoptee and activist Eunan Duffy and lawyer Frank Brehany, whose father was a Tuam adoptee, discuss efforts to halt development on land where those who died in Mother and Baby Homes are buried – including in Bessborough, Cork (above) – and the ramifications of the Institutional Burials bill, which is making its way through the Oireachtas.
The bill if passed will ensure inquests to establish cause of death on children’s remains may not be carried out after exhumation.
This is the 13th in a series of shows with Breeda and Eunan looking at all aspects of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation report. They can be viewed here.
We would like to give a Broadsheet reader a new signed A3 print from Irish designer, Fuchsia Macaree – “The Creation of Pints” for the day that’s in it (any day is a good day for pints).
A passenger reacts angrily as she is taken by coach under Irish Army escort to the Crowne Plaze Hotel on the first day that travellers from countries deemed hot spots are required to undergo mandatory quarantine.
A plane from Dubai arrives on the first day that mandatory hotel quarantines are implemented in Ireland. The United Arab Emirates is one of the countries deemed to be high risk.
Member of the Defence Forces – responsible for overseeing detentions – wait to escort coaches for passengers from high risk countries to nearby hotels for mandatory detention.
From top: Irish Daily Mail; St Gerards school, Bray, county Wicklow, and The Beacon Hospital
This morning.
Further to the Irish Daily Mail‘s exclusive (top) earlier…
…The Beacon Hospital has confirmed it administered 20 leftover Covid-19 vaccines to a number of teachers at St Gerard’s School in Bray earlier this week.
In a statement, the hospital apologised for the upset caused by the move, acknowledging that “the decision was not in line with the sequencing guidelines in place from the HSE“.
St Gerard’s School in Bray has said it will not be making any comment on the matter.
Vax-giddy pharma phanatic Luke O’Neill (top) joined Vanessa Foran, Jimmy Smyth and host Neil Curran for a rona special.
Neil writes:
Professor O’Neill shared his insight on the handling of the virus and all things vaccines. From Covid in kids to conspiracy theorists, and when we will be having pints again, when will it all end?
2.05 – How is Ireland doing? – “No.4 for keeping our people alive and on vaccine rollout” 4.25 – Should we have relaxed lockdown before now? 7:00 – “NPHET are not following the science” 11.05 – When do we switch from prioritising vaccines figures over cases? 18.50 – Are asymptomatic carriers really a risk? 26.00 – Vanessa doesn’t like corporate branding of vaccines. 37.00 – AstraZeneca and blood clots 41.15 – Could Ireland produce a Covid vaccine? 46.44 – “We didn’t overwhelm the hospitals in this country” 48.35 – Are children a risk? 58.30 – Did China withhold information about the origins of the virus? 1.01.30 – Does Vitamin D, Zinc etc help? 1.04.15 – Conspiracy theorists 1.07.05 – When will we be having pints indoors again? 1.13.25 – Representation on NPHET 1.20.05 – William Shatner turns 90
Whistleblower Shane Corr (top) reveals how the Department of Health secretly used information from private doctor consultations to build and maintain dossiers on children with autism who were involved in legal actions against the State.
Children’s Ombudsman Niall Muldoon was asked if he wanted the practice stopped, he said: “Absolutely”.
He added:
“There’s a couple of questions need to happen, statements need to come out: Has this stopped? And also has the Department of Health made immediate contact with the families involved? Because there’s hundreds of families out there worried that they might be the ones involved here?
“They might be the ones who have had information gathered on them. So we need to make sure that those families know that they have this information available.
“And, finally, we want to take a look at see has this been happening in other lawsuits in which children are involved. Because, again, if you consider this to be normal, than I would very concerned about the culture that you’re working in.”
Later, asked what the impact of the revelations on the relationship between children involved and those providing care to them, he said:
“It’s got to be damaging. As you heard [HSE CEO] Paul Reid say there, earlier on, confidentiality is the cornerstone of all medical and therapeutic services. Our children with autism are going to these therapeutic services with the sense this is about them and them only and no information will be shared outwards.
“But to find that, if a child has a meltdown, or has some sort of challenging behaviour situation, that that is recorded for nobody to look at, not for a lawyer to use against them, that’s the absolute opposite of therapeutic service.
“There’s real serious concerns from that regard. So we have to ask: who asked for the information? And who gave the information? And those answers are crucial.”
HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid says transmission of Covid-19 is not high in schools. However, he warned of a lot of activity outside schools: “Playdates is very clearly one of the aspects of it coming through.” pic.twitter.com/ols9nxf8VL
HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid has expressed concern over the level of activity outside schools, saying that inter-household playdates are “a significant issue”.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Mr Reid said that transmission of Covid-19 was not high in schools, but warned that there had been a lot of activity outside of schools.
He said significant testing has been carried out in both primary and post-primary, and on average the positivity rates stand at 2.7% and 1.6% respectively.
“Playdates is very clearly one of the aspects of it coming through or visits between households, that it’s a very significant issue,” he said.
Clockwise from top left: Neil Curran, Marco Dias, Vanessa Foran and Derek O’Donoghue
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Jab happy medic, Professor Luke O’Neill (above), professor of biochemistry in the school of biochemistry and immunology in Trinity College is joining us tonight to share his views on Covid, vaccines and bespoke, bubble-based, live entertainment.
