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This morning.

Further to the voting down of a Dáil motion on Wednesday night calling for a ringfenced insolvency fund to be established which would facilitate all payments due to workers (including recently laid off Debenhams staff) if a company goes bust…by just three votes.

Ciara G writes:

Our Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael/Greens government voted 24-21 AGAINST a motion that would see Debenhams workers getting their redundancy that is owed to them. Above  is a list of the TDs that voted against the motion.

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

Ciara G adds:

Fianna Fáil are performative, they do not care. Fianna Fáil TD Padriag O’Sullivan (above) stood on the picket line only to vote against workers in the Dáil. Taoiseach Micheál Martin came to the picket line in Cork over a month ago  for a photo op and has done nothing to help since.

Debenhams workers march on Taoiseach’s Cork office demanding he ‘step up to plate’  (Irish Examiner)

Sligo students (mainly blokes) having it large.

Gurning to the dance of DEATH.

We’ve all been there.

‘sup?

Yesterday.

Drumaclarig, County Cork,

Glengarrif Woods Nature Reserve writes:

Anyone know what created these? They were foundafter a large Monterey Pine was felled. They were described by the finder as being ‘tennis-ball size, made of animal hair, hollow but with no obvious entry point‘.

Gulp.

Anyone?

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Acting Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn at Covid-19 briefing in Government Buildings

This evening.

At Government Buildings.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces that the county of Donegal will move to Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions as of midnight tomorrow night for three weeks….

Watch live here.

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, Virgin Media One‘s Gavan Reilly asked Mr Martin about the rationale for the announcement that wet pubs in Donegal, on Level 3, can remain open, for serving 15 people outdoors, but wet pubs in Dublin can’t.

Mr Martin said the Government accepted advice from NPHET.

Mr Glynn said:

“NPHET recommended today that Donegal be moved to Level 3 of the framework which Government published and so the recommendation, or what will happen in pubs in Donegal is consistent with Level 3 of the framework.”

Mr Reilly asked Mr Glynn a further question which was not audible, but Mr Glynn replied:

“No, but there was a, there is a specific set of circumstances in relation to Dublin which the pubs have never been open, so…”

Anyone?

Previously: Sitting On A Tinder Box

Lollipop Lady, Dublin 1988.

David Jazay writes:

From Dublin Before The Tiger (1982-1992), my long-term, high-res series about the inner city in the years leading up to the Celtic Tiger. For more images follow, RT and visit my website

Name that thoroughfare, anyone?

‘The Council Workers’

Wait for it.

Noel Barrett, from Leopards on a Bike animation, writes:

We’re a small group of amateur animators from County Clare and we just finished this short comedy video about two lazy council workers in rural Ireland.

Everything in it is made out of paper and paint and random stuff like pebbles and Jay Cloths…

In fairness.

Leopards on a Bike

This afternoon.

Voting in the 2020 World Travel Awards closes today,

EPIC The Irish Emigrant Museum is seeking a second year as’ Europe’s leading Tourist Attraction’.

Vote Here

Jedward (left)  and Dr Anthony Fauci 

Anti-Trump?

Pro-mask?

Read on.

On the Late Late Show.

Via RTÉ:

Ryan Tubridy has revealed some of the guests who will be joining him on the Late Late Show tomorrow night, with the US’ Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,Dr Anthony Fauci  among the line-up.

Speaking on his RTÉ Radio 1 show on Thursday morning, Tubridy also announced that former President of Ireland Mary McAleese and world champion boxer Kellie Harrington will be among his guests. The Late Late Show later tweeted that Jedward will be around for a chat too.

Of Fauci’s appearance, Tubridy said:

“[US President Trump] Has pretty much taken him off the TV so that he doesn’t outshine him, because, actually, Fauci is trusted and liked. And that’s why, in some ways, Fauci is available to talk to us tomorrow night, because Trump doesn’t want him anywhere near American TV. So, I’ll talk to him.”

“Imagine trying to protect the health of an enormous nation like that while being undermined by your own president… I mean, it is impossible. But Fauci, Dr Fauci, has handled himself with such dignity and skill and professionalism and courtesy; it is extraordinary how he keeps going. It is amazing. I look forward to his company no end.”

Good lord.

Any excuse.

The Late Late Show tomorrow on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.

Yesterday: Waiting For Glaxo

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