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Above from left (back row): Linda Kavanagh, Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC spokesperson, Steph Hanlon, Choice and Equality Network, Bulelani Mfaco, of the  Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI) and front row, from left: Mara Clarke, Abortion Support Network (ASN) and Danielle Roberts, Alliance for Choice Belfast

This afternoon.

Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin 2.

Pro-choice activists held a media conference to release details of this Saturday’s 8th Annual March for Choice, including this year’s theme: No One Left Behind.

March For Choice (Abortion Rights Campaign)

Earlier: Meanwhile, Opposite Holles Street

Oh.

This afternoon.

Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.

Research Professor Kieran McQuinn speaking at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ERSI) media briefing on the quarterly economic commentary, Autumn 2019 confirming a Brexit-related ‘slowdown’ in the ‘underlying economy’.

More as we get it.

ESRI

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

Last night.

Dubray Books on Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

Senator Michael McDowell (top right) launched In Deep Water: How People, Politics And Protests Sank Irish Water by Sunday Business Post journalist Michael Brennan (top left).

In Deep Water (Mercier Press)

Pics: Senator McDowell

Here’s How.

The current affairs podcast presented by William Campbell (right) looks at the controversy surrounding the Public Service Card.

William writes

Can the government just disregard findings of the Data Protection Commission because they claim to have different legal advice?

I ask data protection expert Dr Katherine O’Keefe (above left) of data consultancy Castlebridge. Our discussion refers to a twitter thread by Katherine and another by solicitor Simon McGarr.

Listen here

Here’s How

Earlier: I Am Not A Number, I Am A Free Man

 

Earlier.

House of Commons.

“Denying the electorate the chance of having its say this Parliament is a dead Parliament. It has no moral right to sit on these green benches.

Twice they have been asked to let the electorate decide whether they should sit in their seats while they block 17.4 million votes, this Parliament is a disgrace.”

British Attorney General Geoffrey Cox speaking a day after after the UK Supreme Court ruled Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament for five weeks was unlawful.

Alternatively….

“For a man like him, a party like this, and a leader like this to talk about morals and morality is a disgrace!”

Labour MP Barry Sheerman responds.

Boris Johnson will attempt to force through General Election for third time, Geoffrey Cox indicates, as he accuses MPs of ‘cowardice’ (Telegraph)

Public Services Card; from the Digital Rights Ireland’s website

Ciannan Brennan, in the Irish Examiner, reports:

A digital rights advocacy body is to bring the country’s first “mass action” against the State regarding alleged infringements of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the case of the Public Services Card (PSC).

Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has launched its #no2psc campaign, which will see the group make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner on behalf of citizens that cardholders’ rights have been breached en masse under GDPR.

…In order to sign up for the action, people who either have or have had a PSC can give their details, including PSC number, via DRI’s campaign portal online. They also must give their PSC number.

Rights group to bring ‘mass action’ against State over PSC (Ciannan Brennan, The Irish Examiner)

#No2PSC (Digital Rights Ireland)

Free Saturday?

In Wexford?

Ann Power writes:

The opportunity to live life in a full-scale Viking Village is on offer to the public free of charge on Saturday, September 28 in Wexford at the inaugural Viking Fire Festival.

A fully immersive Viking Village experience will take over the Wexford Quayside from 11 am as the historical town will be transformed akin to life over a thousand years ago.

Throughout the day visitors will be able to enjoy coin striking, spinning, weaving, leatherworking, metalwork and woodwork, storytelling and even some slave trading.

Gulp.

Viking Fire Festival

Tyler Murphy who died, aged 16, on August 29

Tyler Murphy, from Clonroche, Co Wexford, was 15 when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in November 2018.

He died on Thursday, August 29, at the age of 16, at the home of his grandparents with whom he lived for the final eight years of his life.

He had the developmental age of a 10-year-old boy when he died.

Tyler’s family have told journalist Saoirse McGarrigle, of the Irish Mirror, that Tyler was refused palliative care in the days before he died despite medical records, seen by the newspaper, confirming the need for palliative care and “family support at end of life care” for Tyler.

Tyler’s great-aunt Frances Redmond told the Irish Mirror:

“We got him home that Tuesday [August 27].

“The family had to travel to Wexford Hospital to get his fill of oxygen because we had no palliative care in place.

“Tyler’s veins collapsed the Wednesday morning, so he wasn’t getting his morphine because there was nobody there to fix it.

“He was getting seizures and he was haemorrhaging, passing a lot of blood.

“Nurses came in and hooked up a morphine pump in the morning and that was it.

“I was told if Tyler is still alive on Saturday, somebody will come here Saturday morning and administer the morphine and no one will be back until the Monday morning.

“It would be a double dose set up on the Saturday morning, but that would have to last until Monday.”

“… Mag [Tyler’s grandmother] was at first informed palliative care was in place and nurses would be available at her disposal when she needed them.

“But then we were informed there was no palliative care, because he was classified as an adult at the age of 16, but with his body weight he would still be seen by paeds.”

Heartbroken Wexford family slam HSE for not providing palliative care to terminally ill son (Saoirse McGarrigle, The Irish Mirror)