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Location unidentified.
Anon writes:
An Post delivering a package a week ago…No response for their customer support despite two complaints being sent in….
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This afternoon.
On Today with Maura and Dáithí…
…Karina Ryan writes:
Today with Maura and Dáithí will broadcast their 1000th show on RTÉ One today.
This series milestone show presented by Maura Derrane (top right) and Dáithí O Sé (top left) marks the start of Maura and Dáithí’s on-air Christmas season as the set will have some extra festive sparkle for the coming weeks.
Marty Morrissey is joining the 1000th show party and will be taking over the final part of the show with his ‘This Is Your Life’ red book, delving into the archives for this favourite Today show moments, bringing plenty of laughs and heartfelt moments.
Marty will also look back at some of the famous faces that have sat on the couch with Maura and Dáithí over the last eight seasons….
Today with Maura and Dáithí at 3.30 pm on RTÉ One.
Pic: Miki Barlok
People have been leaving coats on the ha’penny bridge for the homeless, this morning myself and hundreds of other and horrified onlookers watched as DCC took them down 😡 Happy Christmas lads, the government need to change this is disgraceful pic.twitter.com/VnGgFkT5Q1
— anthony kelly 🇮🇪 (@anthony38875260) December 8, 2019
Kindhearted Dubliners began hanging the jackets up earlier this week as part of the #warmforwinter appeal.
The initiative drew universal praise on social media with many hailing it as a “brilliant” idea.
But footage emerged on Saturday evening of a man, believed to be working for Dublin City Council, gathering up the jackets and taking them off the bridge.
Onlookers ‘outraged’ at removal of coats for the homeless from Ha’penny Bridge (DublinLive)
Previously: ‘Need A Coat? Take One. Want To Help? Leave One’
Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Beach Road, Pattaya, Thailand.
Police were called to a bar at 3.30am where ‘just arrived’ 46-year-old Irish tourist ‘Bart O’Gready’ was lying in the street semi-conscious with bloodied wounds to his face.
J Doe writes:
Now the gentleman in question may have had drink taken (as you can see in the video above), however that being said, apparently he witnessed very young ladies dancing nude and he made a complaint.. then was attacked by up to 10 staff…
Gulp.
Live from Los Angeles…
Buzz O Neil Maxwell writes:
Patrick Kielty reads Seamus Heaney’s Funeral Rites at the Seamus Heaney Symposium of IrelandWeek 2019. and explains his personal connection to the poem and why he chose to read it on the night.
Held at the Clark Library, UCLA, the Symposium was a very special evening to celebrate the life of Seamus, and the US publication of the newest anthology of his work, 100 Poems, selected by his family…”
Accountant and FAI VP Paul Cooke (left in pics 1 and 2) and FAI President Donal Conway at the Football Association of Ireland Annual accounts publication for 2018 this afternoon.
WATCH: Press conference as the FAI publishes its accounts for 2018, after the loss of main sponsor 3 earlier this week and the announcement today that FAI President Donal Conway is to step down | Read more: https://t.co/FW0tDE2HII https://t.co/9zu5w77wGj
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 6, 2019
This afternoon.
The FAI published their reports and financial statements for 2017 and 2018.
They have revealed that the organisation has net current liabilities of more than €55million and that former CEO John Delaney agreed a settlement with the organisation of €462,000.
The reports and statements for 2017 and 2018 can be read here
Earlier:
FAI President Donal Conway
This morning/afternoon.
Football Association of Ireland tweetz:
Donal Conway is to step down as President of the Football Association of Ireland at an EGM on January 25, 2020…
Meanwhile…
Former CEO of FAI John Delaney
This afternoon.
VIa RTÉ:
The FAI has disclosed that the organisation has current net liabilities of more than €55m, following the release of their 2018 accounts.
The association has been in discussions with UEFA as well as their banking partners since the end of 2018 in an effort to provide financial stability within the organisation.
Presenting the 2018 accounts at the FAI headquarters, executive lead Paul Cooke explained how the association came to a severance settlement with former CEO John Delaney, which amounted to 462,000, including a pension payment.
FAI reveals liabilities of €55m (RTÉ)
Earlier…
At 1pm.
The Football Association of Ireland is expected to publish its accounts for 2018, as well as revised figures for 2017 and 2016.
Details of former CEO John Delaney’s severance package are also expected to be among the figures.
They figures were supposed to be published yesterday but on Wednesday the FAI announced that they’d be published today instead.
Also on Wednesday, mobile phone firm Three announced that it will be ending its partnership with the FAI when their current deal expires next July.
Further to this…
The Irish Independent reports:
Irish football is being told to prepare for a “bomb” when the FAI’s accounts are presented today, with debts of over €50million expected to be revealed.
The association’s former CEO, Bernard O’Byrne, has warned that possible new sponsors will stay away from a “toxic” FAI until more changes are made at board level.
Previously: Three Mobile
“John Delaney Could Run Anything”
For The Last Time, It Was A BRIDGING Loan
“We Were Told ‘There’s No Story Here'”
UPDATE:
FAI press conference pushed back to 1pm now. #FAIaccounts
— Mark Tighe (@marktigheST) December 6, 2019
‘sup?
Yesterday.
Ranelagh, Dublin 6.
Rachel Elliman photographed this black fox which wandered into One Kinda Folk café in the courtyard of Yoga Dublin in Dartmouth Road.
They write:
“We are huge animal lovers here at One Kinda Folk and are absolutely buzzing after this very rare beauty decided to come by for a coffee… Anyone know anything about Black foxes? The most beautiful boy we’ve ever seen!”
Further to this, Colm Walsh writez:
“The colouration is a neotenic trait — retaining juvenile characteristics — associated with tameness and friendliness.
A lot of the Novosibirsk foxes are black, silver, or even spotted or piebald, and have floppier ears and waggier tails.
Paolo Viscardi of the Dead Zoo thinks it’s more likely that it is a domesticated fox (descended from the Novosibirsk foxes) that was being kept as a pet and escaped or was released.”
Anyone?
Adorable black fox pays a visit to Dublin cafe and delights locals (Emma Costello, Extra.ie)
Previous: Fantastic
Thanks Colm
The proposed new National Children’s Hospital; from an article on IPVM
Shaped like an eye.
Made for looking…
This afternoon.
Charles Rollet reports on IPVM (the ‘world’s leading authority on video surveillance’):
The world’s most expensive hospital project ever, the new Children’s Hospital in Ireland, has chosen an all-Hikvision surveillance system including specialized facial recognition cameras, IPVM has found.
Privacy experts and an Irish politician raised serious concerns about this to IPVM, due to the sensitivity of deploying facial recognition in a children’s hospital and the use of Hikvision cameras given its recent human rights sanctions and China government control.
The NCH, which is currently under construction in Dublin, has already attracted controversy for its spiraling price tag which now stands at $2 billion.
…IPVM made a Freedom of Information request about the NCH’s video surveillance system, and we received one detailing all the “equipment brand and models being used on the NCH project”
While NCH would not disclose the camera counts or pricing, we estimate in the range of a million Euros for the project including at least hundreds of cameras. Given the size of the hospital campus, the variety of high-end models selected (facial recognition, ANPR, PTZs, people-counting, etc.), this is a large project.
IPVM asked about Hikvision’s Xinjiang sanctions and we received a generic response ignoring this question:
“The safety of patients, visitors and staff at the new children’s hospital is of paramount importance to everyone working on the new children’s hospital project.
Stanley Security Systems, who have been working in this area for more than 25 years, were successful in the competitive procurement process for the installation of the security systems at the new children’s hospital.”
Using facial recognition on children is highly sensitive; in both Sweden and France, schools that attempted to use facial recognition were banned from doing so by data regulators due to the GDPR, which Ireland is also subject to.
IPVM asked the NCH directly why it had specified facial recognition cameras and we received this response:
“It has not yet been decided which aspect of this technology’s many capabilities will be used in the new children’s hospital. This decision will be taken nearer the opening of the hospital by Children’s Health Ireland and will be in line with Irish and European data protection and privacy legislation and in such a way as to ensure that the occupants of the hospital have the right protections afforded to them, in line with their privacy rights..”
Meanwhile…
The thing about CCTV facial recognition systems is that they don’t work unless you have a database of faces to recognise.
What’s in that database and from where it is being sourced are the questions that I’d be askinghttps://t.co/7gWZkQh8SR
— Fred Logue (@FredPLogue) December 6, 2019
Anyone?
Ireland National Children’s Hospital Chooses Hikvision End-to-End With Facial Recognition (IPVM)
Pic: IPVM
Brian Dowling (left) and his husband Arthur Gourounlian on their wedding day in Wicklow last July
On The Ray D’Arcy Show…
Rayna Connery writes:
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Michelle Visage will spill the beans on her time on Strictly Come Dancing and how she’s feeling after her recent elimination…
Brian Dowling and his husband Arthur Gourounlian will be on the couch to fill Ray in on what life is like in Los Angeles and their hopes of starting a family…
The grand finale of the Stand Up & Be Funny comedy competition will take place in studio on Saturday night. The panel of judges includes Barry Murphy, Emma Doran and Darren Smith.
The four finalists Jasmin Gleeson, Michael Rice, Sinead Quinlan and Justine Stafford will perform live and Ray will announce the winner of the big prize.
And Ray will surprise a few unsuspecting members of the studio audience with this year’s Christmas Crackers!
The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ One at 9:55pm.
Pic: Twitter
Farmers protesting outside a Lidl distribution centre in Ballyhea, Co Cork
This afternoon.
Further to this morning’s farmers’ protest outside a Lidl distribution centre in Ballyhea, Co Cork this morning…
Claire McCormack, in Agriland, reports:
Meat processor ABP has confirmed that it will increase its base price for cattle next Monday, December 9.
AgriLand understands that a minimum increase of 5c/kg is expected.
In a statement issued this afternoon, Friday, December 6, a spokesperson for ABP confirmed the move, whilst also criticising the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) for staging a series of protests on the beef price issue over the last 48 hours.
The spokesperson said: “The company is at a complete loss to understand why Joe Healy, the outgoing IFA president, pursued a course of irresponsible, disruptive and illegal action at retail distribution centres this week.
“The Beef Taskforce met on Tuesday and Joe Healy and the IFA were fully aware that market indications pointed towards a cattle price increase in Ireland. This was reported extensively.”
ABP to increase base price for cattle next week (Agriland)
Earlier: Beefing Up
Pic: C103