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Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys (above left) and Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment Richard Bruton; The Trading Online Voucher Scheme

This afternoon.

Government Buildings, Dublin 2.

The Trading Online Voucher Scheme to ‘help small and micro enterprises get online quickly’ is to be expanded.

Via RTÉ:

There were 1,218 applications for the scheme last year, but the scheme saw 3,962 applications from the middle of March to early June of this year alone.

Under the scheme, small businesses can claim up to €5,000 in two grants worth €2,500 each.

It also facilitates subscriptions to low-cost online retailing platform solutions to quickly establish a retailing presence online.

Trading online voucher scheme to be expanded amid strong demand (RTÉ)

Trading Online Voucher Scheme

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Hawthorn Crescent, Dundalk, County Louth last night

A man ran up to the house and threw a device that set trees and the side of the house on fire. The heat of the blaze cracked the windows.

The children were taken from bed and the family escaped without injury but remain severely traumatised.

It is the third such attack on the home of a garda in the Dundalk area in the last 18 months.

Sinn Féin TD for Louth Ruairí Ó Murchú condemned the attack. He said: “If a neighbour hadn’t seen the fire and warned the family we could have been dealing with something much more serious.”

Investigation under way after arson attack on home of garda (RTÉ)

Dundalk blaze causes extensive damage to family home (Dundalk Democrat)

Pic via Donegal Democrat

Anyone?

Hic..

Rollingnews

This morning.

RTÉ has announced that an almost 30-hour production of James Joyce’s Ulysses will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 Extra to celebrate Bloomsday on Tuesday,  June 16.

Anne Louise Foley writes:

The full dramatised production – originally broadcast in 1982 (top) to celebrate the centenary of Joyce, and totalling 29 hours and 45 minutes in duration – will begin at the same time as both Stephen Dedalus’ and Leopold Bloom’s journey through Dublin begins in the book: 8am on 16 June.

The production was recorded by Marcus MacDonald, directed by William Styles, and performed by the RTÉ Players, featuring Pegg Monahan, Patrick Dawson, Ronnie Walsh, Brendan Cauldwell, Colette Procter, Barbara McCaughey, Kate Minogue, Denis Staunton, Laurence Foster, Conor Farrington and Déirdre O’Meara….

Listen live on RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, or via podcast here.

 

From top: The Statue of Viscount Fitzgibbon, Wellesley Bridge, Limerick destroyed in 1930  and its replacement The Limerick 1916 Memorial, Sarsfield Bridge, Limerick. Erected in 1954.

Further to the felling yesterday of the statue of slave trader Edward Calston in Bristol, England….

…Historian Liam Hogan writes:

Monuments are temporal symbols of power and politics. Territorial markings.

A statue or monument is not “history”. Its construction, retention, reverence, preservation, defence, relocation, removal, destruction, detonation (or unceremonious dump into a river) is.

At top is The Statue of Viscount Fitzgibbon, Wellesley Bridge, Limerick. Erected in 1885.

Above is: The Limerick 1916 Memorial, Sarsfield Bridge, Limerick. Erected in 1954.

Exact same location but very different social and political landscapes.

Viscount Fitzgibbon was killed during the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was the grandson of Lord Fitzgibbon the 1st Earl of Clare, infamous for his role in suppressing the 1798 rebellion and imposing the Act of Union with no concessions for Catholics.

For nationalists and republicans the monument thus represented the Protestant Ascendancy, elitism, allegiance to the Act of Union and loyalty to the British Empire.

Which is why there were at least three unsuccessful attempts to destroy it before the IRA eventually obliterated it with explosives in 1930.

Cllr Place attempted to pass a resolution condemning this act but it failed to garner the support of his peers. Alderman Wallace commented that “Fitzgibbon has passed, it is just as well that he has, as the class who erected him have also.”

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

Liam Hogan

Meanwhile…

Gulp.

The young man was attacked at 10.25pm on Saturday night in the Waterpark area of Carrigaline, County Cork.

The young man who was brutally assaulted in Carrigaline late on Saturday evening has been released from hospital and is now recovering at home with his famliy.

The 17-year-old arrested for questioning in relation to the attack has been charged and is due to appear in Cork District Court this morning..

Update: Carrigaline stabbing victim released from hospital as youth is due court appearance (Southern Star)

Yesterday.

Dublin city centere.

Lord Mayor of Dublin Tom Brabazon (top) on Grafton Street and Richard Guiney CEO of Dublin Town (above) in Great Outdoors launching the partial reopening of Dublin City Centre,

Dublin City Council together with Dublin Town, An Garda Síochána and the National Transport Authority are supporting a joint informative reopening campaign called ‘Easing Like Sunday Mornings’.

Via RTÉ

While some large retailers have said they will reopen today, others including Arnotts, Brown Thomas and Penneys have decided to defer for a few more days in order to take additional time to get prepared, following Friday’s announcement that all retailers could resume trade.

Shop owners have warned the shopping experience will be very different to the way it was before the pandemic, with browsing likely to be discouraged in many stores, queuing required and additional hygiene measures in place.

Many businesses to begin opening their doors again (RTÉ)

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Header h/t: Niall Martin