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This morning.

Government Buildings, Dublin 2

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced that Mandatory hotel quarantine in Ireland will come into effect this Friday.

Via RTÉ

The cost for an incoming passenger coming from one of 33 designated states is €1,875 for 12 nights.

The rules will also apply to any passenger who arrives into the State without the required negative PCR test for Covid-19.

The day rate for those passengers will be €150.

The service provider – Tifco Hotel Group – will provide full board accommodation, along with transportation, security, health and well-being services.

The first facility that will be available to receive arriving passengers is the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel in Santry (top).

However, the Tifco Hotel Group has committed to making as many rooms available as required.

The Department of Health said that when it comes to transportation, the Defence Forces will oversee the process, but members will escort the bus rather than drive it.

Mandatory hotel quarantine comes into effect on Friday (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Um.

Yesterday: Take Me To The Plaza

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Meanwhile…

Anyone?

From left: Sarah McInerney, Miriam O’Callaghan and Fran McNulty

This afternoon

RTÉ has announced a new RTÉ Prime Time presenting team.

Laura Fitzgerald writes:

Miriam O’Callaghan is to be joined by Sarah McInerney and Fran McNulty. Tuesday nights will see Sarah join Miriam in studio, with Fran and Miriam taking the helm every Thursday on RTÉ One. As the new presenting team take to screens beginning the week of 6th April, there will also be a refresh of RTÉ Prime Time with the unveiling of a brand-new look for the programme and studio, which will enhance Prime Time’s storytelling capabilities as it reports on Ireland and the wider world.

Meanwhile, Richard Downes, Editor of RTÉ Prime Time, said:

“As RTÉ Prime Time changes and evolves, our new presenters will lead the mission to illuminate dark corners and ask the questions that matter to you. They reinforce a talented team committed to staying at the very heart of public debate in Ireland and being your guide to the truth through the maze of spin and fake news.”

Ah now.

Maze balls, amirite.

Pic montage by RTÉ

Fancy a 10-minute spin in an old VHS?

When the jam jar was king?

Paulus writes:

This is 30 years old and was shot on a Saturday afternoon in Dublin city in late March 1991.

There have been less changes in some areas than I expected; the most noticeable being Parnell Street near today’s ILAC Centre.

Name those jammers, anyone?

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— Réabhlóid 🏴‍☠️🐊 (@Revolution_IRL) March 22, 2021

This afternoon.

FIGHT!

Thud.

Anyone?

Previously: ‘Grave error’ in Government’s new medicinal cannabis scheme (irish Examiner, February 20)


This afternoon.

Sleepy man bad.

U.S. races to find bed space for migrant children as number of unaccompanied minors in government custody hits 15,500 (CBS)

Meanwhile…

Hmm.

This afternoon.

Sinn Féin spokesperson on Arts and Culture, Aengus O Snodaigh launches a document outlining his proposals for the revitalisation of the Moore Street district.

Via The Irish Sun:

The plan — called A Vision for Moore Street — includes turning Moore Street into a cultural quarter and ‘living museum’ which would involve developing the area to look like it did during the 1916 Easter Rising.

Sinn Fein TD Aengus O’Snodaigh is set to bring forward a bill to the Dail on Wednesday that will put the Moore Street plan on a legislative footing.

The buildings at 14-17 Moore Street were a key base for the 1916 Rising leaders and mark the place where they met for the last time. The streets surrounding the headquarters were also key battlegrounds during the Rising.

UK property group Hammerson, which owns a six-acre site stretching from O’Connell Street to Moore Street and Parnell Street, are set to seek planning permission next month that would involve knocking down buildings and changing the streets.

Fight!

Sinn Fein bill calls for historic buildings and markets on Dublin’s Moore Street to be preserved (The Irish Sun)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

George’s Dock, Dublin 2.

The Intended basin for Dublin City Council’s possibly doomed whitewater rafting centre.

It’s fairly obvious we’re not mature enough as a country to take recreational kayaking seriously.

*dive bombs*

Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

Meanwhile…

Gulp.

Kiora writes:

This guy…

In fairness.

The Geldingadalsgos Eruption (RVK Grapevine)

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

The Crowne Plaze and Travelodge hotels at Dublin Airport this morning

This morning.

Dublin Airport.

The contract for the Mandatory Hotel Quarantine (MHQ) system is to be awarded to the Tifco Hotel Group, which owns 24 hotel properties including  the Crowne Plaza, and the Holiday Inn Express and Travelodge Hotels at Dublin airport.

The detention system will come into effect by the end of this week. There are 33 countries, mainly in Africa and South America, on the Government’s Category 2 list of “high risk” countries.

Good times.

Leon Farrell/RollingNews