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This afternoon.

Following shocking scenes of happiness and physical intimacy caught by eagle-eyed informers (as above) on Saturday night in major cities…

…Via RTÉ

It is understood that a decision to end the sale of takeaway pints and other alcoholic drinks from pubs could be taken swiftly.

Senior Government sources are saying that what happened on Saturday night in a few cities cannot be allowed to continue.

It follows footage on social media of large numbers of people in Dublin city centre drinking on the streets.

Dry freedom!

*burp*

Govt considering clampdown on takeaway alcoholic drinks (RTÉ)

Earlier: “Fraying Around The Edges”

Can you see him?

Barry McKenna writes:

A subtle print idea in honour of Fungie and the time he spent in Dingle harbour. The place will never be the same again – but it will be forever shaped by the 37 years he spent here…

There He Is! print (Etsy)

This morning.

Camelot, Kingdom of Logres, Dublin 9.

Lia Stokes writes:

It wouldn’t be Christmas without panto! The Helix and TheatreworX are excited to announce an online Christmas panto of ‘The Sword in the Stone’ starring Fair City’s Amilia Stewart-Keating (top left).

Produced once again by TheatreworX Productions, The Helix Panto Online will be a new way for families all over the country to enjoy the magic of Christmas panto during these Covid times and all from the comfort of their homes. Tickets for this magical cinematic experience are on sale from tomorrow, Tuesday, 17th November at 12noon at link below

The Helix

Leon Farrell/RollingNews

Free December 4?

You are invited…

…To the Zoom launch of poet Kevin Higgins’ new book The Colour Yellow & The Number 19 – Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020 (Nuascéalta).

To wit

In a mix of poetry and prose, Kevin Higgins takes a darkly humorous approach to finding himself designated one of the “vulnerable” during the year in which plague again stalked the Earth.

He also, as is his way, finds time to drop acerbic comment on the heads of the ungood and the ungreat, and to comment in a fairly unrestrained fashion on world affairs.

This is the ideal Christmas or Birthday present for Irish Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan and for those who, when the time comes, hope to be invited to Kevin’s funeral. It is also the perfect gift for the posh liberal in your life.

The book will be launched by Somatic therapist Aisling Richmond and writer and critic Tomás Mac Siomóin. The MC for the evening will be poet Rachel Coventry.

Join the meeting here (Meeting ID: 738 901 3549) at 6.30pm, Friday, December 4

The Colour Yellow & The Number 19 (Nuascéalta)

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’.

This morning.

Ya daft hapeth.

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

From top: Tanaiste Leo Varadkar Leo Varadkar; Dr Matt Ó Tuathail; Village magazine

Friday.

Following Tanaiste Leo Varadakar’s Dail response to revelations in Village magazine of how he gave a contract negotiated between the Government and the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) to his friend, former National Association of General Practitioners’ president Dr Maitiú O Tuathail.

Mr Varadkar denied the level of contact with Dr O Tuathail suggested by Village. In one instance saying he was in Barcelona, Spain when the magazine claimed he had met Dr O Tuathail in Dublin.

Via Village:

“Dear Tánaiste,

You referred in the Dáil on 10 November to the impossibility of your having had ten encounters in 2019 with Dr Matt Ó Tuathail. You said many of the encounters referred to
were impossible.

Can you please say how many, and which of them, you consider you have now shown – as opposed to just stated without evidence – did not happen. Can you kindly please give information that shows you were in Barcelona at a time that proves you could not have had any particular one of the ten alleged encounters with Dr Ó Tuathail.

You also pointedly told the Dáil you had not spoken to Dr Ó Tuathail in nine days, after you understandably spoke to him on three occasions after Village‘s story broke. Can you please state whether Matt Barrett spoke to Dr Ó Tuathail on your behalf or otherwise about the leak affair and/or its fallout in that nine-day period. Can you please say if you ever discussed Community Hospital Ireland with Dr Ó Tuathail?

Michael Smith
Editor, Village Magazine

In reply…

“The Tánaiste answered questions on these matters in two sittings and over five hours of Dáil debate. In relation to Community Health Ireland, Dr. O’Toole sent a brochure to the Tánaiste in November 2018 for information and informed him that it was being piloted in co-operation with the HSE. The Tánaiste did not take any further action on the matter.”

Statement from the Tánaiste’s office.

Anyone?

Tánaiste’s reply to questions from Village (Village)

Last week: Meanwhile, In The Dáil

Dr Mary Favier, former President of the Irish College of General Practitioners

This morning.

Dr Mary Favier, a former president of the Irish College of General Practitioners, said support for rona restrictions is “fraying around the edges” and rising cases of Covid-19 are due to “complacency and fatigue” among the public.

Via RTÉ:

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Dr Favier said there would be problems with pubs reopening based on the current case numbers.

She said while NPHET will look very carefully at how this might be done for Christmas, caution is needed as the virus spreads when people let down their guard

Dr Favier also said restrictions on travel are appropriate now and will remain appropriate in five or six weeks’ time.

Support for Covid restrictions ‘fraying’ amid concern over rising cases (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Saturday.

GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

A protest against rona restrictions and lockdowns.

RollingNews

Yesterday.

Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News.

US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Sidney Powell (top right) has promised to ‘release the kraken’ telling host Maria Bartiromo (left): “we’re getting ready to overturn election results in multiple states”. A kraken is a huge sea monster feared by sailors, According to Norse legend

Ms Powell said the Dominion voter software used in many states switched “millions of votes” from Trump to Democratic nominee Joe Biden adding: “I don’t make comments without having the evidence to back it up”.

She said:

“We have so much evidence, I feel like it’s coming in through a fire hose. They can stick a thumb drive in the [voting] machine, they can upload software to it even from the Internet … from Germany or Venezuela even…

“…We’ve identified mathematically the exact algorithm they’ve used—and planned to use from the beginning….

Ms Powell added:

“Nobody in our government has paid any attention to it, which makes me wonder how much the CIA has used it for its own benefit in different places,” Powell said. “Why Gina Haspel is still there in the CIA is beyond my comprehension. She should be fired immediately

Trump Lawyer Connects CIA to Dominion Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theory, Says Director Haspel ‘Should Be Fired Immediately’ (Mediaite)

Pic: Fox News

Meanwhile…

Fight!