[Fianna Fáil councillor in Waterford] Eddie Mulligan tweetz:
Think my 10-year-old is playing reverse psychology with me…. 🤔
She normally says goodbye each morning with a kiss but when I leave before 7.30am she leaves a note…
This was left out this morning 😂💙
Dáil chamber
Jennifer Bray, in The Irish Times, reports:
A report into the Dáil voting controversy is to be published today following discussions by the clerk of the House with four Fianna Fáil TDs involved.
The Dáil’s Committee on Procedures will meet today at 9am and the report will be published soon after.
Mícheál Lehane, of RTÉ, reports:
It is understood that the report, which was prepared for the Ceann Comhairle on the Dáil voting controversy, will be unable to recommend disciplinary action because the matter is also under investigation by another Dáil committee, and any sanction could prejudice that work.
The Dáil will also be debating the report this afternoon [at 2.25pm], and TDs who are the subject of the report will have an opportunity to make a statement.
Dáil clerk’s report on Fianna Fáil voting incident to be published (Jennifer Bray, The Irish Times)
Report due into Dáil voting activity (Mícheál Lehane, RTÉ)
UPDATE:
Daniel McConnell, of The Irish Examiner, tweetz:
Breaking: Conclusions of Oireachtas report into irregular voting in Dail Eireann last Thursday, as discussed by Committee on Procedure and Privileges.
Breaking: Dail report into voting scandal concludes a wider review of electronic voting system, demands TDs must be in their allocated seats.
JP Swaine
Founded in 2009, mental health charity First Fortnight staged its first annual, two-week arts festival in 2012 to make the First Fortnight of each year synonymous with “mental health awareness, challenging prejudice and ending stigma”.
The charity has since become a mental health service provider with the establishment in 2013 of the First Fortnight Centre for Creative Therapies in Dublin.
First Fortnight write:
Every year, looking forward to our next festival means looking back at the work that we’ve done in years gone by. This year brings more cause for reflection than others as a massive part of First Fortnight is no longer at the table.
Earlier this year, our co-founder J.P Swaine decided the time had come for him to say farewell to the charity.
JP has been the driving force of the organisation for more than a decade – sparking ideas, encouraging others, leading by example and always ensuring the charity stayed true to its goal to challenge mental health stigma.
First Fortnight began at JP’s kitchen table and through it all we have been privileged to share space, physical and mental, with someone whose extraordinary efforts have inspired not only those of us who had the opportunity to work with him, but every single person who has ever been influenced by the work of First Fortnight.
With the New Year and FF2020 on the horizon, we hope you’ll join us at the launch of First Fortnight 2020 on November 27th (full details to follow) to show our appreciation and gratitude to JP as we continue the work that he started all those years ago.
JP, there will always be a place for you at the kitchen table!
Thank you!
In fairness.
Cormac tweetz:
I picked up a pair of what I thought were cheapo headphones up off the road on Barrow St today (I am a magpie). On closer inspection, they’re a pretty pricey pair. Would like to reunite them with their owner.
Anyone?
Finally.
Paul Dillon writes:
The Financial Services Union has launched a petition seeking legislation on the ‘right to disconnect’.
The Union says that new laws are required that would give workers the right to ‘switch off’ once their working day is over.
Workers should not be obliged to answer calls, reply to emails or engage in work-related activities outside of paid working hours.
Sign here
Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Thurrock, Essex, England this afternoon
UPDATE:
Gardaí are satisfied the 39 people found dead in a container in the UK this morning were not trafficked through the Republic of Ireland.
Detectives from the Garda National Immigration Bureau and officers from Special Crime Operations have been investigating the route the truck, and the container, took from Europe to Essex in England.
Earlier…
This afternoon.
The truck at the centre of the container tragedy in Essex is registered in Bulgaria and is owned by an Irish woman, according to the Bulgarian foreign ministry.
….Gardaí are investigating if the container transited through the Republic of Ireland.
They said they have not received a formal request for assistance, but are carrying out their own inquiries into the route the lorry may have taken.
They are also trying to establish if the lorry and container travelled to Holyhead from Dublin Port….
Truck at centre of Essex tragedy ‘owned by Irish woman’ – Bulgarian foreign ministry (RTÉ)
Earlier…
Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Thurrock, Essex, England this morning
This morning.
Thirty nine bodies have been found in a container in Thurrock in Essex, police have said.
The bodies were found in a lorry Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Thurrock, Essex at roughly 1.40am this morning adding a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder…
Pic: Essex Live
This morning
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2.
Thanks Jennifer Farrell
‘sup?
This afternoon.
Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
Pumpkins decorated by children from all over Ireland displayed at the annual Halloween decorative pumpkin competition in the National Botanic Garden.
In fairness
Sam Boal/RollingNews
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dáil
Gavan Reilly tweetz:
Leo Varadkar tells the Dail that Ireland will conduct whatever inquiries are needed, if it is established that the Essex truck carrying 39 remains had passed through Ireland on its way, amid reports it had arrived into the UK at Holyhead.
Earlier: In Essex
He’s back.
Hector USA: Ó Chósta go Cósta on TG4
Linda Ní Ghríofa writes:
Ireland’s most famous intrepid traveller Hector Ó hEochagáin (top with the Blind Boys of Alkabama] opens our eyes to “His America” as he takes on the road trip of a lifetime from Coast to Coast as he treks across the Southern States from Savannah on the Atlantic to San Diego on the Pacific.
Hector USA will be road tripping from Georgia through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana into Texas, New Mexico and Arizona before finishing up on the Pacific seaboard in California.
Covering 8 states and more than 5000 miles on the road, it will be one helluva awesome adventure with Hector taking us to a world only he can access.
Any excuse
On TG4 Thursdays from tomorrow 9.30pm.
