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Taoiseach Micheál Martin during an interview with CNN in his office last week

Excellent.

This morning.

Details of the government’s ‘medium term Covid-19 plan’ is due to be published tomorrow,

It will set out ‘five levels of the virus’ and related restrictions that will apply across the country for the next six to nine months.

Via RTÉ

It is understood it is possible that Dublin could be placed on a higher level of the plan due to the prevalence of the disease in the capital.

It is expected that the Government will adopt the National Public Health Emergency Team’s recommendation further limiting visitors to homes in the capital.

That would mean only allowing six people from two households rather than three.

Tomorrow’s plan is also set to provide for a return of spectators to matches, with 500 allowed at club level and 5,000 for a large stadium like Croke Park….

Meanwhile…

…Gardaí are increasing high visibility patrols in Dublin as part of the efforts to reduce the spread of Covid-19.

Over the last week, 57% of the new coronavirus cases in the country occurred in Dublin.

To support the public health guidelines and regulations, Deputy Garda Commissioner for Policing and Security John Twomey, said gardaí will be carrying out increased high visibility patrols – across the city and county – with a focus on social distancing, gatherings in large groups and compliance with the use of face coverings.

Government to finalise details of medium term Covid-19 plan (RTÉ)

Rollingnews

This morning.

Madison Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

A murder investigation is under way following the death of a homeless man in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.

A 16-year-old boy is being questioned in connection with the incident.

Gardaí are still trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the death of the man in Kilmainham.

It is understood the victim, who was in his 40s, was attacked and his phone stolen on a laneway off Madison Road before 1.30am.

Teenager arrested over death of homeless man in Dublin (RTÉ)

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“Claims by Sinn Féin to be wholly committed to achieving Irish reunification through peaceful methods are brought into question on a regular basis. The continuing sale of memorabilia such as this brings further questions.

“The establishment of a United Island Unit in the Department of the Taoiseach under this Government will allow these questions to be considered with the respect they deserve.”

Fine Gael Senator Mary Seery-Kearney

Name that truck, anyone?

Sale of IRA badges on Sinn Féin Website is a glimpse behind their party mask (Fine Gael)

Thanks RanelaghPete

This afternoon.

Dublin city centre

Supporters of groups which are opposed to Covid-19 restrictions march from the Custom House, Dublin 1 to Government Buildings on Merrion Street, Dublin 2. A separate rally raising similar issues took place outside the Dáil, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Rollingnews

Update:

A small protest against a claimed ‘right wing agenda’ at the rally is confronted in Kildare Street.

Meanwhile….

A protest outside the offices of The Journal.

Meanwhile…




This afternoon.

A rival, socially distanced demo in ‘defence of public health’ at the Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

Rollingnews

Friday: Competing Narratives

The Salthill Hotel, Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), County Dublin in the 1800s

Rob Cross writes:

My restored and colourised pre-1894 photo of the Kingstown Railway Company’s Bath in Kingstown, now Dún Laoghaire and in the background the old Salthill Hotel designed by J.S. Mulvany for the Dublin & Kingstown Railway Co. in 1843.

Unfortunately it had been left derelict for some time before being destroyed by fire in 1970 and was later demolished in 1972. Once our architectural heritage is gone, it’s gone forever!

You can support Rob’s work here.

The Fun Place (not Palace).

Beside the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin 2.

Now is the time to splash out on that water-squirting carnation you’ve always wanted.

From top:  eviction in Falsk, Strokestown, County Roscommon, December 11, 2018 ; Emmett Corcoran, editor of The Democrat

This afternoon

A High Court judge has ruled gardai are entitled to carry out a limited examination of the contents of a mobile phone seized from the home of a provincial newspaper editor as part of their investigation into a violent incident at a repossessed house in Co Roscommon.

The ruling means gardai can access calls, texts, social media messages, photos, videos and other information on the phone between December 11th and 17th 2018.

In an important judgment on Friday addressing the protection of journalistic sources and other issues, Mr Justice Garrett Simons refused to grant Emmet Corcoran and his company orders quashing a search warrant forcing him to hand over his phone when gardai arrived at his Strokestown home.

….The phone was seized as part of a garda investigation into violence at a house in Strokestown

Following a tip-off, Mr Corcoran says he arrived at the scene, where a number of vehicles were on fire, before gardai and fire services arrived…

…Before his phone was seized, Mr Corcoran, who invoked journalistic privilege some months earlier in relation to its contents, switched it off and refused to provide the PIN…

Gardai can examine limited content on journalist’s phone, High Court rules (Breakingnews)

Previously:  Cause And Effect

This morning.

Unspecified location, Dublin.

Chuckling Mark Smith launches HB Ireland’s 2020 Ice Cream Sunday campaign in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland.

HB Ice Cream Sunday will take place on Sunday, September 20 and by purchasing HB multipacks, HB will donate €0.10 from every pack purchased to DSI’s See and Learn programme.

Down Syndrome Ireland

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland