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This afternoon.
Dollymount strand, Dublin
Pic above by Anton, who writes:
Frozen seawater “snow”, quite rare.
Arf.
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By popular demand.
Janet’s Saturday Jam Scones.
Reader Janet writes:
Every Saturday we would bake up for Sunday and the week, we weren’t allowed bake on a Sunday, I have been making these since I was a wee wan and never really measure anymore, but Mother says these are right…
You’ll need:
Ilb of self raising flour,
4oz marg or butter ( depends who’s coming for tea)
3oz sugar
1 well beaten egg
Either milk or butter milk if you have it (roughly half pint)How to:
Rub butter into flour until like fine breadcrumbs, add sugar, add beaten egg with milk (add milk slowly don’t drown the miller!) Shape gently into a ball and flatten slightly on a floured work top, cut out rounds, you can use a cleaned and floured jam jar of you don’t have fancy cutters
Chuck in sultanas or cherries if you want to,
Hot oven for ten minutes,
Serving suggestions:
Clotted cream and Mum’s homemade jam/jelly ;)
Pics via Janet.
From top: Minister for Children, Disabilty, Equality and Integration Roderic O’Gorman TD; Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation members at the commission’s launch in 2015, from left: Professor Mary Daly, Judge Yvonne Murphy, Dr William Duncan.
This morning/afternoon.
Some details surrounding the publication next week of the long-awaited report by Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation have been released.
Via Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance:
Minister for Children, Disabilty, Equality and Integration Roderic O’Gorman has advised this morning that he will be bringing a Memorandum to Cabinet on Tuesday the 12th January as he intends to seek approval for the publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) and the Commission’s Sixth Interim report.
On the same day, he will also bring a separate Memorandum seeking approval to proceed with the Certain Historic Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill, which will allow for exhumation and dignified reburial of the remains interred at the site at Tuam. Pending Cabinet approval, the Bill will then proceed to pre-legislative scrutiny in the Oireachtas.
After the Cabinet meeting, An Taoiseach and Minister will host an online presentation for former residents and those directly affected to outline some of the key findings from the Report, along with details of the initial Government response. The Minister has provided details of how we can access the online webinar. The webinar is not open to the media who will be afforded a separate briefing after the webinar has concluded.
Meanwhile…
Last night.
Breeda Murphy, of Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance, and Mother and Baby Home adoptee and activist Eunan Duffy on what they hope and expect from the report.
RollingNews, Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography
Keep your windows closed if you have not had a rona test, advise Gardai.
This afternoon.
People who are travelling to and from Covid-19 tests are being urged not to open their window if they are stopped at a garda checkpoint en route
Instead they should display their test appointment confirmation through the window.
Gardaí have said that at least five unmasked drivers who were on their way to a testing centre rolled down their windows to talk to gardaí at one checkpoint near Ashbourne in Co Meath yesterday.
People traveling to tests urged not to open window at checkpoints (RTÉ)
Johnstown Park, Dublin this morning
The very cold northerly airmass over us, with tonight being the coldest night of the season so far, will be replaced next week by a much milder Atlantic airstream bringing more unsettled weather with it. pic.twitter.com/BzjfIWhlwT
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) January 8, 2021
This afternoon.
Minus 9!
15.8 in old money.
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
A poster for Merchant’s Quay Ireland homeless and drugs services in Dublin.
Some Hole
at
The Tower Hotel, #Waterford have lodged an application for the #construction of a 5-storey extension consisting of 60 guest bedrooms & conference centre. Details here: https://t.co/drrrK1Fdee #buildinginfo #hotelconstruction #hotels #hoteldesign #building #jobs #hospitalitydesign pic.twitter.com/6q4u2nlKwq
— Buildinginfo.ie (@BuildingIndex) January 8, 2021
Um.
Archidub tweetz:
Worst of all time…
Anyone?
Army medics are being prepped to join the ‘national jabs emergency team’
This afternoon.
An ally in the war against rogue microbes.
Turning bayonets into syringes.
Grenades into gurnies.
Killing machines into life savers.
You get the picture.
Via The Irish Mirror
The army is currently having its medics trained-in to become part of the healthcare team that delivers the jabs.
Negotiations are at an “advanced” stage for existing testing centres, such as Croke Park, Punchestown racecourse and the Aviva Stadium to become mass vaccination centres.
They are already on standby for any logistical emergencies that arise, but negotiations have taken place between the HSE and the Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Mark Mellett, for the army to play a more active role….
Gulp.
Army being prepped to help vaccinate the public in mass rollout plan (Irish Mirror)
Meanwhile…
Ireland is in line to receive an additional 3.3 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after the European Union extended its contract with the pharmaceutical companies.
This morning European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the deal was extended with a view to the European Union purchasing an extra 300 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Ms von der Leyen said delivery of the extra doses would start in the second quarter of this year…
Ireland to receive additional 3.3m Covid-19 vaccine doses under EU deal (RTÉ)
‘sup?
This afternoon.
Via The Guardian:
Percy Pig has emerged as one of the first casualties of Brexit red tape, with Marks & Spencer warning that its famous pink sweets could be hit with new import taxes in Ireland.
The sweets are among the more than 2,000 products sold in M&S food halls that are affected by the “rules of origin” regulations set out in the trade deal struck with the EU.
The rules dictate whether import taxes, called tariffs, must be paid based on where a product’s ingredients come from and where it has been manufactured.
Actually addictive, sweet, sweet porcine.
FIGHT!
Oink.
Percy Pigs in Ireland hit by Brexit red tape as M&S warns of tariffs (The Guardian)
In case you missed it.
Tomorrow Tonight.
A lockdown series.
Green Party veteran, Cork City Councillor and Broadsheet columnist Dan Boyle (top left) looks at today’s papers and his column yesterday dedicated to the extraordinary life of an old friend.
Yesterday: Dan Boyle: Death Be Not Proud
From left: Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health Dr Tony Holohan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Professor Philip Nolan and Dr Ronan Glynn at the Department of Health press briefing last night
Last night.
Professor Philip Nolan – chair of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group – told the briefing that at no time since the start of the pandemic in March had it exceeded 1.4 or 1.6 (the R rate)…
Prof Nolan said this was certainly, “at least in part explained by the very high levels of socialisation and social contact” in the last weeks of December
Curbs on sale of alcohol next in line as Holohan says it fuels spread (Independent.ie)
Meanwhile, curbs on the sale of alcohol by forcing off-licences to cut their opening hours may be the next step in the fight against the Covid-19 crisis after chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan warned it is helping to fuel the spread of the virus.
Hic.