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Bank of Ireland CEO Francesca McDonagh and AIB CEO Colin Hunt leaving the Department of Finance after a meeting with Minister of Finance Pahal Donohoe in March

This morning.

Good times.

Payment breaks won’t be extended beyond 6 months – Bank of Ireland CEO (RTÉ)

Bank of Ireland falls into loss of €235m due to Covid-19 impact (Independent.ie)

Rollingnews

This morning.

Health advisory posters at a building site in Dublin city centre,

Meanwhile…

The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) will be able to shut down workplaces which do not comply with new safety protocols aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19, the Minister for Business Heather Humphreys has warned.

Employers will have to ensure their employees answer a survey before they return to work, and confirm whether or not they have Covid-19 symptoms or if they have been in contact with someone displaying symptoms.

Workers will also have to undertake induction training to ensure they are up to speed with public health advice.

New return to work rules will see no handshaking or sharing of cups (irish Times)

Rollingnews

Meanwhile…

Artists and arts organisations across the country are suffering enormous financial losses and facing an uncertain future as a direct result of the Covid-19 public health crisis, new data from the Arts Council shows.

This morning.

Via The Arts Council

Surveys carried out by the Arts Council, the government agency for funding and developing the arts, show that 90 percent of artists have been impacted by cancelled or postponed events, with a great many describing the effect on their financial situation as ‘severe’ and almost half applying for the Government’s Covid-19 emergency payment.

Arts organisations estimated the loss of audience at 2.4 million people and growing, with more than 12,000 events cancelled and hundreds of staff members being laid off.

Arts Council Chair Prof. Kevin Rafter has said the information gathered from the surveys will help the Arts Council better understand the impact of jobs and livelihoods, and the responses needed to help the sector come through the months ahead….

Findings from Arts Council-funded organisations 23-27 March 

Findings from Artists’ Survey 3 – 13 April 

‘sup?

Louise Williams writes:

Not my pet but my sister Dot Maxwell’s pet dog, Jinky enjoying the sunshine and the garden hose. Pic by Joey Farrell.

Meanwhile…

‘sup?

Patrick writes:

Ball will have to be surgically removed…

My pet in lockdown to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Pet in Locdown’.


Oh.

Photojournalist Eamonn Farrell, founder of Rollingnews, writes:

After 41 days in Lockdown, I had reason to go into our city centre office and used the opportunity to take my exercise in the form of a walk around the city centre north and south. What I found was a sad, empty, lonely and almost decrepit space…

Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews

‘Until There Was Nothing’.

By Paul Trillo, who writes:

While under lock down, I recently completed this experimental short that envisions Earth in its final moments before entering a black hole.

Alan Watts pontificates on the meaning of nothingness while we float through surreal landscapes that become increasingly ravaged by an intense gravitational force. The piece has just been given a Vimeo Staff Pick…

Locations: Downtown LA, Dumont Dunes, San Gabriel Mountains, Háifoss Iceland, Fjadrargljufur Iceland, Blue Lagoon Iceland, ‘somewhere off the coast of Malibu’ and the universe.

Acieed!

Paul Trillo