This morning.
Connolly Station, Dublin.
Graeme Kelly writes:
Face masks €2.50 for 1…
Pricey, but If it saves one life it’ll be worth it.
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
Yesterday.
UK’s Talk Radio.
Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn describes mandatory mask wearing as “complete madness”.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, center with French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Taoiseach Micheal Martin, left, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Belgium yesterday
This morning.
Brussels, Belgium.
The €750 billion deal was sealed after intense negotiation that saw a threats of a French walkout and a Hungarian veto – and fierce opposition from the Netherlands and Austria to too generous a package.
Summit chairman Charles Michel tweeted “Deal” shortly after the 27 leaders finally reached agreement at a plenary session.
“This agreement sends a concrete signal that Europe is a force for action,” Mr Michel said at a dawn news conference.
Was the miniature defiant tricolour really necessary?
EU reaches deal on post-pandemic recovery package (RTÉ)
Pic: AP
Meanwhile…
🇭🇺🇵🇱 PM Orbán: HUN and PL didn't simply secure substantial funds at the #EUsummit, we have also protected our national pride. We have successfully refused all attempts that would have tied access to EU funds to "rule of law criteria". Stay tuned for more! @MorawieckiM pic.twitter.com/uZRuuBwtSl
— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) July 21, 2020
New cycle lanes taking one lane of the road from Blackrock Village (top) through to Sandycove (above)
New restrictions mean that motorists can no longer drive towards Dun Laoghaire from Blackrock Village and can no longer drive through Blackrock Village from Dun Laoghaire.
So there.
‘Charm Controller’
They have an app for that.
Aidan O’Sullivan writes
A sketch about dating in modern times with apps, and how the man needs all the help he can get from the “Charm Controller” !
Starring Sue Walsh as Sharon and Tom Doonan as Connor.
Written and Produced by Fergus Mulligan and Colman Hayes.
Directed by Fergus Mulligan.
The Late Late Show, February 29
Ryan Tubridy: “Are face masks worth a damn?”
Professor Luke O’Neill: “They are if you are infected.”
Tubridy:”If you’re the infected person?”
O’Neil: “Yeah, the number one advice is to stop you coughing. I could cough on you but the face mask will trap the virus. If you’re not infected you have no reason to wear a face mask. Two reasons. One, people fidget with it anyway, you know? And secondly it goes in through the eyes as well. This evil virus will penetrate the eyes and that’s not covered anyway. There is no evidence that wearing a face mask will protect you at all. The main reason is to stop you spreading it.”
Tubridy: “If you don’t have this,.”
O’Neill: “There is no need to wear a face mask ever. Absolutely not.”
Tubridy: “At all?”
O’Neill: “At all. That’s the recommendation.”
Turbridy: “So why are people panicking a little bit about…”
O’Neill:”They’ve seen too many horror movies. ”
Meanwhile…
The Tonight Show, April 30.
Professor Luke O’Neill: “You hate this but the science has changed in the last three…there’s new information has come along…”
Ivan Yates: “I’m actually prepared to indulge this…”
O’Neill: “…new information…asymptomatic spread means you got to wear a mask. It was good before, coughing meant spreading, you wore a mask if you had symptoms. Now we know it spreads with no symptoms. The great analogy is it‘s like a fire burning in our cities…you’re breathing embers that might get the fire going again. A mask will stop the embers.”
Luke writes:
I realise the ‘science has changed’ but what happened Professor O’Neill’s warning about the eyes? He said ‘This evil virus will penetrate the eyes and that’s not covered [by a mask] anyway’. Does this still apply? Or has the science changed on that also?
Anyone?
From top: Leinster House; Ken Foxe
Yesterday.
In The Business Post.
Rachel Lavin reported:
The details of lump sum payments and pensions made to TDs and senators leaving office will no longer be made public, an internal review by the Oireachtas has decided.
The move comes after the Information Commissioner ruled in April that the public release of the pensions paid to former taoisigh, presidents and ministers would involve a “significant breach” of their privacy.
The Oireachtas review has now extended this interpretation to outgoing TDs and senators, concluding that their right to privacy now trumps the public interest when it comes to publishing the details of their termination and pension pay, even though the money involved comes from public funds.
The decision means “hundreds of thousands of euros in termination pay will now go unscrutinised” Ken Foxe, a journalist and Freedom of Information (FOI) campaigner said.
Politicians’ golden handshakes no longer subject to FOI (Sunday Business Post, Rachel Lavin)
Previously7: Who Took This Decision?
The Pox Men – Ever So Jauntily (Nico’s Grave to See)
Legendary chanteuse Nico (top left) died on this day in 1988.
Donegal alt.folk combo The Pox Men wrote this ditty in her honour and captured their pilgrimage to her grave in Germany on film.
The Pox Men say:
“This video is a wee documentary journey to her grave. And the song fits in too. C’mon. We’ll come straight home.”
Nick says: Meet you at the cemetery gates.
“Following confirmation that a staff member on one of our construction sites in Dublin had tested positive for #COVID19, comprehensive testing has identified a number of additional positive cases.https://t.co/yCcK6bAuyk pic.twitter.com/O88Lxb0RR8
— TU Left Forum (@TUnionLeftForum) July 20, 2020
This morning/afternoon.
Townsend Street, Dublin 2.
More as we get it.
Yesterday.
Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin from the East Pier looking inland
Carlosfandango writes`;
Curious mix of old and new with the library bursting through it’s surroundings….
Meanwhile…
Last night.
Cahore, County Mayo.
Thanks Halfahead
