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Today’s Irish Daily Star.

In fairness.

Related: Coronavirus: Sweeping Garda powers take effect despite Cabinet divisions (The Irish Times)

Via Gavan Reilly

Previously: Wednesday’s Papers

When The Butcher Stopped Ordering Meat.

A just-uploaded, award-winning short documentary by filmmaker Laura Gaynor.

Laura writes:

Michael Quirke holds a PhD in Philosophy and is carving mythology for 50 years. His father was a butcher – as was his grandfather – and so was Michael, til one day, he wasn’t.

Previously: Laura Gaynor on Broadsheet

Oh.

This morning.

Spotted in Dublin.

Niamh Kiernan tweetz:

Time to take advertising signs off our buildings, streetscapes and urban spaces?

We’re probably going to start seeing more of this in the coming weeks and months…

Donnybrook Fair (1859) by Erskine Nicol (above right) and featuring Erskine Nicol (left)

Early Funderland.

The National Gallery of Ireland writes:

Artists often include themselves in their own works, and there’s another fine example of it in this painting of Donnybrook Fair (1859) by Erskine Nicol, which is on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland from the Tate.

Nicol is clearly identifiable in the throngs at the centre of his magnum opus, walking with his wife Janet & another finely-dressed couple. He included himself as a way of declaring his status as gentleman observer & to demonstrate his familiarity with this subject in particular.

Donnybrook Fair (Tate)

A Magdalene laundry in Ireland in the 1950s

Today.

Daniel Boffey, in The Guardian, reports:

Nineteen women are suing a Dutch monastery and its Catholic order over claims they were subjected to forced labour and abuse by nuns between 1951 and 1979 during periods of virtual imprisonment as children or young adults.

The case against the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, which operates in 70 countries, concerns the treatment of women, aged 11 to 21 at the time, who had been placed in the nuns’ care by the courts or at the request of their parents or guardians.

The women, who are now in their 70s and 80s, say they were forced to work in laundries and sewing and ironing rooms under threat of punishment, against their will and without wages, for the order or for the benefit of outside organisations including the Dutch royal house.

…At least 15,000 girls and young women, accused of falling into “licentiousness”, were held in confinement and forced to work in the laundry and sewing rooms of the Catholic order of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the Netherlands between 1860 and the early 1980s.

There you go now.

Women sue Dutch Catholic order over forced labour claims (The Guardian)

Previously: The Magdalene Report: A Conclusion

‘Based On The Findings Of The McAleese Report’

Not Forgotten

Just Saying No

An image of Clare teenager Conor Wilmot, who died by suicide in May 2017, was used online falsely claiming he was the first boy to die from Covid-19 in the UK

Via The Clare Echo:

Conor Wilmot died by suicide in May 2017 following a twisted internet game, Blue Whale.

Now members of the Wilmot family have been disgusted following the publication of misinformation online.

Pictures of Conor have appeared on online articles claiming that he is Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab who was the first thirteen year old boy in the United Kingdom who is known to have died COVID-19.

Melanie Wilmot outlined her frustration at pictures of her younger brother being used in such fashion. “We’re devastated that they can do this, frankly had enough just let us be and leave Conor alone”.

She appealed to people to report such content if they came across it. “I have well and truly had enough of the news and their crap,” she added.

‘Leave us alone’ – Sixmilebridge family horrified at being falsely linked to UK COVID-19 death (Páraic McMahon, Clare Echo)

Previously: Conor Wilmot ‘found something on the internet that went wrong’ (Irish Times,  May 16. 2017)

Um.

This afternoon.

RTÉ’s Mary Regan tweetz:

Four out of five (82%) Irish adults agree that the Government is doing a good job in handing Covid-19 with “strong agreement” with this far higher among older people, according to Behaviours and Attitude-commissioned survey for RTÉ.

Meanwhile…

Earlier: Unknown Knowns