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This afternoon.

An Post said that many items posted in Ireland during December for delivery outside the country “are still in transit through airports and sea ports”.

But that’s not all…

….consumers are complaining not just about international parcels and deliveries.

There are reports of letters being posted from one Dublin address to another Dublin address taking up to a month to be delivered.

Numerous An Post customers have contacted RTÉ News to report severe delays in having post delivered within Ireland, with the delays appearing to have hit not just parcels but letters too…

Anyone?

An Post warns customers may be waiting weeks for parcels (RTÉ)

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This afternoon.

Baggott Street, Dublin 2.

One of a large number of Garda checkpoints around the country as Level 5-enforcing Operation Fanacht resumes

Gardai last week gave 17 fixed penalty charges to motorists who FLAGRANTLY traveled more than 5km from their home to visit the Wicklow Mountains.

Meanwhile….

You can find a list of questions that Gardai will ask you at checkpoints here, and exemptions that allow you to break the Covid travel restrictions here…

Ireland lockdown travel restrictions: The Covid rule Gardai ‘will now enforce’ after notorious ‘large gathering’ (DublinLive)

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This afternoon.

Covid-sceptical, leftist-baiting Irish YouTuber Dave Cullen, whose often conspiratorial Computing Forever channel has amassed 14,000 videos and 515,000 subscribers since its launch in 2006, responds to his banning from YouTube amid a purge of conservative and right-wing voices on the Google-owned platform.

Taking it well, in fairness.

This afternoon.

A 47-year old man is due before a district court judge in Wexford accused of not wearing a mask in a supermarket and refusing to identify himself to gardaí.

Via RTE:

Following consultations with the Director of Public Prosecutions, the man was charged with two offences, failing to wear a face covering at Pettitt’s supermarket in Wexford and failing to provide his name and address.

He was detained overnight and brought to Wexford District Court this morning. He is due to appear before a judge later today….

G’wan the Constitution.

FIGHT!

Man accused of not wearing a mask in supermarket (RTÉ)

Oh yes.

Oh God yes.

Yesterday’s Sunday Independent

“The plan is that it will go to the Cabinet that week, and following the Cabinet meeting, the Taoiseach and I will host a webinar solely for survivors at which we will discuss and bring out the major conclusions of the report for survivors. It will only be after that point that it will be available. We will hold a press conference for the general public, but we will be engaging with survivors first and telling them first.”

Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman, December 3, 2020

“It is extremely disappointing that the leak has occurred. Survivors were given clear assurances about how the release of the report would be handled. The publication of details of the report in the media today flies in the face of this. Minister O’Gorman needs to set out how he will establish how the leak occurred.

“He also needs to set out again how he will consult with survivors and survivors’ groups and ensure that assurances made about how the report will be released will be honoured.”

Social Democrats spokesperson for Children, Jennifer Whitmore TD this morning

Good times.

Friday:  A Week of Reckoning

Public Expenditure and Reform, Secretary General Robert Watt

This morning.

Irish Tax Payer writes:

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has set a new pay rate of €292,000 for the position of secretary general of the Department of Health.

The current Civil Service salary regulations set the the highest grade at €211,000 so this new rate represents a 40% pay increase.

The current head of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform who set and approved this salary increase is… Robert Watt.

It is widely reported that the top job at the Department of Health will go to…wait for it….Robert Watt.

Conflict of interest?

Anyone?

Robert Watt to become new secretary general of Department of Health (irish Times)

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