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UCD School of Medicine’s Professor Dolores Cahill addressing the crowd at at an anti-lockdown gathering in Herbert Park, Dublin 4 on St. Patrick’s Day

This morning.

University College Dublin’s Students’ Union has called for an investigation into UCD School of Medicine’s Professor Dolores Cahill for “gross misconduct.”

Professor Cahill told an anti-lockdown event on St Patrick’s Day that the wearing of masks was starving children of oxygen.

Via Irish Examiner:

Conor Anderson, President of UCD Students’ Union said Prof Cahill, who chairs the far-right Irish Freedom Party, has propagated a number of “medically-inaccurate conspiracy theories in service of a far-right political agenda throughout the Covid-19 pandemic”. He said she is not an expert in virology, epidemiology, or public health.

Mr Anderson said he has written to the head of the UCD School of Medicine and the head of UCD Human Resources to request that Prof Cahill be investigated under Statute 28 of the Universities Act 1997 which defines gross misconduct, in part, as “deliberate disregard for health and safety precautions likely to endanger another person.”

UCD students call for internal investigation into Prof Dolores Cahill (Irish Examiner)

Meanwhile…

The academic is no longer lecturing in UCD’s school of medicine. She had taught a first-year medicine class, called Science, Medicine and Society, usually held in the spring.

UCD confirmed Prof Cahill was no longer teaching the class, or any modules during the current academic term. “Prof Dolores Cahill is not scheduled to teach or co-ordinate modules this trimester,” said a spokeswoman.

The module, previously taught by Prof Cahill, had been taken over by Prof Patrick Murray, she said. However, she declined to say whether Prof Cahill’s move had been in response to her comments about Covid-19.

That’ll learn her.

UCD professor Dolores Cahill moved from lecturer role (Irish Times)

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Meanwhile…

Good times.

“sup?

This morning.

Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2.

Carlosfandango writes:

Happy Friday from Mr Hugh & Little Miss Lette. We hope that you all have a great weekend and have managed to get through another week of the zombie apocalypse unscathed. Mind yourselves…

This evening.

Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

Earlier…

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19

This afternoon.

Weekly HSE briefing at Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

Ahead of a decision expected this evening from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) whether or not the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe to continue to use after incidents of blood clotting.

“We have had a number of clotting events, in which there has been no link in terms of cause and effect of those vaccinations. They may well have been coincidental but they’re under investigation.

“In any population based screening program other things will happen that will happen anyhow in unvaccinated people – illness, hospitalisation, even death.

“There have been a number of cases of clotting and none of the unusual type, and it’s to be expected with this heightened sense of awareness that there will be improved reporting on those to HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority].

It will investigate these and inform us if there’s any is any cause for concern, and none has been expressed to date.”

Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE

Covid-19: HSE holds briefing, EMA decision due (RTÉ)

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Gwen Layden’s decision to waive rents at her family-owned George’s Arcade has so far cost the business between €400,000 and €500,000 in lost income, she tells the Irish Times Inside Business podcast (above)

“We took the decision to suspend rents for the lockdown. You can’t charge rent if they’re not making money.

“It’s immoral really because they [tenants] won’t have the money to pay you, and they’ll take it from their family savings, which isn’t fair.

“We tailor the rents that are realistic and we have taken it out of our own savings. I’m not saying it doesn’t hurt. It definitely is hurting and dad [Joe Layden] is 77 and he’s been fantastic. But I don’t see any other way. The alternative is that the business closes and a shutter down is good for nobody.”

Gwen Layden, landlord of  George’s Street Arcade, Dublin 2.

In fairness.

George’s St owner says charging tenants rent would be ‘immoral’ (Irish Times)

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After

This afternoon.

Journalist Ewan McKenna is censored by Newstalk for raising issues prompted by leaked correspondence from the Independent Science Advisory Group (ISAG) critical of covid response critics that appeared on the website Gript.

Update:

John McGuirk, Gript founder, writes:

Newstalk, since this story was published, appear to have re-instated the original interview with Ewan McKenna in full. This poses several questions that are quite serious: If, for example, the defamation lawyers working for Newstalk had insisted that the section be removed, there would be no reason to re-instate it. The decision to re-instate the section makes this look much more like an editorial decision. In other words, we can be reasonably certain that McKenna’s interview was censored for political reasons.

Anyone?

Revealed: How Newstalk “disappeared” a criticism of the Zero Covid group (Gript)

 

This afternoon.

A new series of Reeling in the Years – covering 2010-2019 – will air from April 11, RTÉ has announced.

Anne Louise Foley writes:

From Katie Taylor to Kodaline, from Mrs Brown’s Boys to the marriage referendum, from ‘Fake News’ to Fidget Spinners, Reeling in the Years showcases the stories and the soundtrack of Ireland over the last decade. Each half-hour programme features a specific year between 2010 and 2019…This is the sixth series of Reeling in the Years, with the years from 1962 to 2009 covered to date…

Too soon.

FIGHT!

Reeling in the Years on Sunday, April 11 at 8.30pm on RTÉ One.

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

Bygge Bo Watergate Street, Dillonsland, Navan, county Meath

Expecting?

Navan-based Irish baby concept store Bygge Bo have launched an ONLINE personal shopping service.

Sophia Heather writes:

 The new service was created to provide an informative, live, personal shopping experience to new parents that will help them simplify and streamline their baby shopping.

The service is free of charge and there is no minimum spend required for parents. Bygge Bo wanted to create a comfortable and supportive environment for expecting parents to make their baby shopping easier, and satisfy needs such as creating a baby gift registry.

The personal shopping service will enable parents-to-be to learn about and purchase suitable products for their baby from the comfort of their own home, on a dedicated personal shopping video appointment. Bygge Bo staff will provide detailed product demonstrations across products such as pushchairs, travel systems, car seats and furniture.

For first-time parents, the personal shopping service will be tailored to their needs.

PLUS!

Bygge Bo have kindly granted mother and Broadsheet reader legend Janet a new baby gift set (above) for her daughter, who was born last week.

In fairness.

Bygge Bo