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Good grief.

Anyone?

Via Malachy Quinn

Thanks Bebe

This morning.

Dublin Airport.

Meanwhile…

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Um.

From top: A  new memorial in honour of children who died in the Clare County Nursery in Kilrush; Dr John Treacy of Burial Grounds Unit at Clare Co Co.

Tuesday.

Old Shanakyle Graveyard, county Clare.

A sculpture was unveiled  by Clare County Council in honour of the children who died at the Kilrush Nursery.

As many as 168 babies may have died at the site when it was in operation between 1923 and 1932

Breeda Murphy, PRO of the The Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance, writes:

We attended this memorial event invited by CEO of Clare Co Co Pat Dowling, the Cathaoirleach PJ Ryan and historian Dr John Treacy of Burial Grounds Unit at Clare Co Co.

Over the past eighteen months Clare county council have engaged specialists in an effort to locate the burial site of remains of infants and children from the Kilrush Nursery which operated from 1922-1932 as a Mother and Baby Home for the county.

An excellent booklet was produced for the event of the extensive work largely undertaken by Dr John Treacy of Clare Co Co.

Chapter 16 of Mother and Baby Home Commission’s report dealt with the Kilrush Nursery.

In 1928 the Sisters of Mercy withdrew their services due to ‘the reluctance of the Local Government board to sanction the appointment of nuns other than trained nurses – the County is now in the hands of secular nurses’ (Mercy Archives 1928)

West Clare Historian Hails Significance Of New County Nursery Memorial In Kilrush (Clare FM)

Pics: Breeda Murphy

 

 

Dublin Airport Authority CEO Dalton Philips

This morning.

Newstalk.

On The Pat Kenny Show, DAA Chief Executive Dalton Philips said:

“I don’t expect the holding areas to be in place this weekend.  don’t expect it to be in place.”

“If people are coming two-and-half or three-and-a-half hours before their flights as we have said, it should flow well.

“There will be periods when queuing could be up to an hour but if we have to introduce a back-up contingency – which we didn’t have last Sunday – we will have this contingency where we will say, sorry sir you’re in the queue for a flight that’s in seven hours’ time we are just going to ask you to hold.”

“It will be a covered facility. It will be a little bit temporary as we start off, but it will be covered and we will have restroom facilities there.

“It’s not ideal but what I don’t want is somebody who comes in on time to find they can’t get to the front of the queue because there are many people there who have been there from six or seven hours before.

“I understand why people are coming so early. They are spooked because we have let them down, but we’ve just got to manage this until we can restore people’s confidence again.

Dublin Airport does not expect to use the new outdoor holding areas (Newstalk)

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Um.

This morning.

Via Irish Times:

Facial recognition technology set to be used by An Garda Síochána will be able to identify and track people in real time using CCTV cameras.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee announced last week her department is drawing up legislation to allow gardaí to use the technology to analyse CCTV footage for suspects in serious crimes or missing people….

…However, sources confirmed there will be provision for gardaí to use the technology in conjunction with live camera footage rather than just retrospectively.

This would allow the force to track people in real time as they move about in public.

Gardaí will be able to use real-time facial recognition under planned legislation (Irish Times)

Meanwhile….

Garda use of facial recognition technologies unnecessary and disproportionate (Irish Times Letters)

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Do it yourself.

This morning.

In fairness.