Stop that.
This afternoon.
Garfton Street, Dublin 2.
Students wearing ‘Piggyback Mickey D’ costumes from Fun Place joke shop, in the Stephen’s Green centre (top), embark on on a fund-raising run to help reach their goal of donating €5,000 to Irish homeless charities this St Patrick’s Day. Fun Place has committed to donating €10 for every ‘Piggyback Mickey D’ costume sold.
They’re riding mickeys, Joe.
latest results of an Independent.ie poll
This afternoon.
Mask on or off?
Or dangled provocatively from one ear?
Only YOU can decide.
Facemasks expected to be dropped for shops, public transport and schools (Independent.ie)
Um.
Yesterday.
Germany’s NTV
Presenter Clara Pfeffer, age 33, became the latest on-air collapse of 2022 as she appeared to faint while urging for mandatory covid vaccinations during a news discussion.
Yesterday: Too Many
Last week: Knock me Down With A Heather
This morning.
A man in Scotland who said he was sexually abused as a boy by Christian Brothers has been awarded almost £1.4 million in damages – said to be a record sum for a victim in the UK.
Via The Herald (Scotland):
The man, identified as AB, who has not been named for legal reasons, said he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Brothers Ryan, Farrell and Kelly while attending St Ninian’s School in Falkland, Fife, about 40 years ago.
The claimant, now 54, said his brother, who is 14 months older than him, also claimed to have been sexually abused by the same men at a similar time without him knowing.
The Christian Brothers, a religious sect that ran the school, tried to have the legal case thrown out but, in a written judgement released on February 4, a sheriff dismissed the attempt and ordered them to pay just short of £1.4 million in damages to AB.
Speaking after the ruling, AB said he hopes the landmark decision will inspire other abuse victims to fight for justice.
He said: “Finally, after nearly 40 years, I’ve been acknowledged and those responsible can be exposed.”
Previously: Christian Brother Stories
Alamy
Thanks Breeda
Why the long faces?
This morning.
Dublin 2.
Wage-stuffed HSE CEO Paul Reid and salary-happy Secretary General at the Department of Health Robert Watt (above) arrive at Kildare House before a meeting with the Joint Committee on Health to discuss the oversight of Slaintecare following the publication yesterday by the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly the ‘Sláintecare Implementation Strategy and Action Plan Progress Report 2021’.
Minister for Health publishes Sláintecare Progress Report 2021 (Gov.ie)
1988.
Talbot Studio, Dublin.
By David Jazay
Meanwhile…
Jimmy Murphy’s Shop, also known as “baldy moon’s shop”. Old baldy moon was a great Dublin inner city character.
— MontoWalkingTours (@LifeTenement) February 16, 2022
G’wan Baldy.
This morning.
You think it’s all over?
Via The Irish Times:
With 95 per cent of adults in Ireland having received two Covid-19 vaccine doses, and more than two-thirds having had a booster, the flow of people passing through the country’s vaccination centres has slowed to a trickle. A system that had built up enough capacity to provide more than 500,000 jabs in one week in December is now called on to administer just a few thousand every week.
The success of that programme, which gave Ireland one of the world’s highest vaccination rates, has saved many lives, spared countless others from serious illness and was a key factor in enabling the Government to lift most public health restrictions last month.
Yet, at home and abroad, it is vital that the focus remain on vaccines. The potential for the emergence of new Covid variants and the likelihood that further boosters may be required means that states must maintain stocks and rollout infrastructure for rapid use.
Efforts to reach communities that have so far resisted vaccination must continue, and the misinformation spread by Covid deniers and conspiracy theorists must be fought with facts, reassurance and scientific rigour.
Seem to be taking it well.
Russia’s Defense Ministry released a video of what it said was a withdrawal of military equipment from Crimea. In the video, a train, loaded with armored vehicles, traveled along the new bridge built across the Kerch strait between the peninsula and Russia’s Kuban region. https://t.co/gFX50Cb3zf
— Ivan Nechepurenko (@INechepurenko) February 16, 2022
Last night/this morning.
No wait, come back.
What about the war?
FIGHT!
Movement of Russian forces alone does not confirm withdrawal, NATO says (Reuters)
From top: Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty; The “No Woman Left Behind” rally is due to take place ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8
This morning.
Further to furore over a rally organised by the National Women’s Council which has excluded speakers from women of the Green Party, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil…
…Via RTE News:
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Regina Doherty described the decision as juvenile and counterproductive.
She said women are not competition for each other and that working together is more impactful.
Ms Doherty said she has a fundamental problem that an organisation that is nearly entirely funded by the State and whose mission statement is to empower and unite women has chosen to exclude some women.
She said the NWC is not tolerant of the views of all women.
Meanwhile…
People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith, who is one of the speakers at the event, said she did not believe it was appropriate for people who belong to political parties that cut services for victims of violence to speak at the rally.
Doherty criticises decision on National Women’s Council rally speakers (RTE)
Discussing Prince Andrew’s settlement statement, Moira Penza, partner at Wilkinson Stekloff, says “we couldn’t have expected anything stronger” but that Virginia Giuffre “got as much out of him as she could”.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 15, 2022
This evening.
Regal times.
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