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Last night.

Academic and Mother and Baby Home campaigner Maureen Considine (at top bottom left), of The Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance, joined fellow activists Breeda Murphy (top left) and Eunan Duffy (bottom right) to discuss plans under consideration to build 246 apartments on land overlapping a possible children’s burial site linked to the former mother and baby home in Bessborough, Blackrock , County Cork.

An interim report by The Mother and Baby Home Commission found that some 900 children died in Bessborough or in hospital after being transferred from Bessborough.

It could only establish the burial place of some 64 children who died between 1922 and 1928 despite “very extensive inquiries and searches”.

However, along with witness testimonies, an early map of the land, discovered by Maureen, shows a ‘Children’s Burial site’ clearly marked.

This is the second in a series of shows looking at aspects of the Mother and Baby home regime ahead of publication of the report of the Commission of Investigation commencing the week of January 11.

Last week: Trafficked With Three Birth Certs

 

‘sup?

This afternoon.

Jack Carty writes:

Picked up this dog near Joyce’s [supermarket, Shangort Road, Knocknacarra, Galway]. He thought it was a good idea to dance with traffic. No name tag and or microchip. If anyone knows the owner please send them my way. Cheers!

Anyone?

This morning.

US Presidential Election 2020.

Over 100 Republican lawmakers and 17 state attorneys general are backing a lawsuit at the Supreme Court that seeks to overturn the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Over 100 Republicans back legal effort to challenge election results (CBS)

Meanwhile…

Via Fox News:

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Ken Buck on Friday are leading a group of 18 lawmakers in sponsoring a resolution in the House that backs efforts by President Trump regarding voter fraud.

The president’s most recent action includes a request to join the Texas lawsuit aiming to block four states’ presidential electors from casting their votes

The one-page resolution includes no “whereas” statements as most resolutions do. It moves directly to the resolution supporting the president and also condemns voter fraud, which Trump and his allies have said was more likely to happen in the presidential election because of significant expansions of mail-in voting.

Cheney, Buck lead House resolution backing Trump legal efforts: ‘Must protect the integrity of our elections’ (Fox News)

Yesterday: Remember The Alamo

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This morning.

Smithfield, Dublin 7.

Deliveries of fresh fruit being taken in by BOM Fruit at Dublin’s Fruit and Vegetable Market.

Retailers of fresh produce including fruit, vegetables and flowers are under threat from restrictions and delays that could result from a no deal Brexit

Earlier: Port In A Storm

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Fight!

Previously: Aidan Fitzmaurice on broadsheet

This morning.

Trucks entering Ireland through Dublin Port as the future of trade, haulage and imports are under threat as last minute Brexit talks take place over the weekend.

‘Low expectations’ for post-Brexit trade deal (RTÉ)

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

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Then Minister for Communications Jim Mitchell (right) makes Ireland’s inaugural mobile telephone call to RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny, December 11, 1985. Prices for the phones started at £1400 plus VAT

This morning.

Lia Stokes writes:

Today marks 35 years since the first ever mobile phone call was made in Ireland by Jim Mitchell, Minister for Communications to RTE broadcaster Pat Kenny.

To celebrate this milestone, Ireland’s longest serving mobile retail brand, Carphone Warehouse is looking back on the evolution of the mobile phone and how we use it.

In the 1980’s it was all car phones and brick phones, and with the cost coming in at around £3,000, they were few and far between. No one could have foreseen that mobile phones would become an extension of our work, home and social lives.

Carphone Warehouse entered the Irish market in 1996 with the opening of their first store on Grafton Street. The company, now has 81 shops across the country with a presence in most major towns and cities. They also employ over 600 people and serve over 4 million customers each year.

In a recent survey commissioned by the brand, 57% of respondents had a Nokia as their first mobile phone with just 2% having an iPhone. Interestingly, now 53% of those people have an iPhone as their current model, 30% using Samsung, 14% Huawei and just 3% accounting for other brands. (In a survey commissioned by Deloitte last year, it found that 91% of Irish people own a smartphone.)

Carphone Warehouse

Meanwhile…

Long talk!

Ciarán writes:

Still have the box (above) from my first one! (1995 I think)

Last night.

President Higgins and Sabina turned on the Christmas lights at Áras An Uachtaráin linking the decorations with the light that “always shines for the global Irish family”.

Hmm.

Pic: @PresidentIRL

Meanwhile…

The company which operates the flow of electricity on the national grid has said the all-time record peak demand for supply, dating back to 2010, has been broken twice in the last seven days.

Eirgrid said the final shut-down today of the first of two peat-burning power stations in the Midlands has been factored into their projections for supply and demand in 2021.

But the company has warned of the risk of electricity deficit situations arising in the coming months.

Eirgrid warns of power outages as demand rises (RTÉ)

Oh.

China flight attendants advised to wear diapers for Covid protection (CNN)

Pic: Cathay Pacific