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Vet Noel Fitzpatrick

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Today is International Dog Day.

Bebe writes:

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, our own fantastic Irishman, who does wonderful work in his UK practice for all animals including dogs – reads a poem which should resonates with dog lovers worldwide…

Send your dog to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Dog On Dog Day’

Noel Fitzpatrick

yesterday.

Tuam, County Galway.

Survivors, family members and supporters remember the 796 Tuam Babies whose remains at the site of a former Mother and Baby home  have still to be exhumed.

[Historian] Catherine Corless said the exact location of the buried children was known since the publication of the Fifth Interim Report of the Commission of Mother and Baby Homes in April, and that campaigners had mapped out the burial chambers before the ceremony.

“Anyone that walks in here today cannot but be moved by the love and the care that was put into these exhibitions here. People care so much about the babies who were put into the sewage tank, and if only the Government and the Church could show a bit of care, just as the people have here today.“

Tuam mother and baby home protest calls for site to be fully exhumed (Irish Times)


This afternoon.

Beside the Four Courts, Dublin 7.

Workers and supporters celebrating the last day of the Dublin Victorian Fruit and Vegetable Market.

Once the centre of fruit distribution in Dublin, the market closes today for “refurbishment” bidding farewell to stallholders who regularly promised oranges as “big as your head and twice as juicy”.

Mmf.

Earlier: Victims Of Market Forces

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Ah here.

This afternoon.

Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire,, County Dublin.

Wonsan Ski writes:

Mao ignoring the disabled space. They’re always parking in it and ignoring the sign…

It’s the Chairman’s spot.

(pause)

I’ll get my Zhongshan jacket.

Ah lads.

Terry Rickard writes:

A flock of geese in China share their memories of Ireland….

Photos of the Day (The Guardian)

Pic: Costfoto/Barcroft Media

The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (edited by Aidan Coughlan, New Island)

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This afternoon.

Harcourt Centre, Charlotte Way, Dublin 2.

Brazilian activists – and others – stage a harmonious protest INSIDE the Brazil embassy at their government’s response to recent Amazon rainforest fires.

Taoiseach says Ireland won’t vote for Mercosur deal if Amazon fires continue (RTÉ)

Earlier: Pants On Fire

Thanks Aaron Dwyer

Dublin Rental Watch tweetz:

Paul Lappin Estates offer a €650pm Studio 6, 80 NCR. The smallest I’ve featured & kitchen photos suggest non-compliance with A.7 Min Standards Regs 2017. There’s not even a seat. @dccprivaterent how are these on the market?

Daft.ie

Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health Dr Tony Holohan; Lorraine Walsh

This lunchtime.

RTÉ’s health correspondent Fergal Bowers, on foot of a Freedom of Information request, is reporting on correspondence he has seen between the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health Dr Tony Holohan and CervicalCheck patient advocate Lorraine Walsh from March of this year.

Ms Walsh, from Galway, who was one of the women caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal last year, cannot conceive due to having had cervical cancer.

She is also one of the Government’s appointees to the CervicalCheck steering group.

Mr Bowers has reported that Dr Holohan – who is co-chairperson of the CervicalCheck Group – wrote to Ms Walsh on March 13  of this year taking issue with comments she had made on social media, and to print media, about him.

He reported the letter said her claims about him were “baseless” and it warned her that if she repeated the claims in public, there would be a “very strong response”.

He also asked her to withdraw the claims.

Mr Bowers reported that the letter was also released to Labour TD and the party’s health spokesperson Alan Kelly, following a parliamentary question and separate FOI request by him.

On RTÉ’s News At One, Labour TD Alan Kelly told Mr Bowers:

 “I sought this information under parliamentary question in early July. The department refused to give it to me. I had to chase this for two months.

“I had to repeatedly go to the Ceann Comhairle and it was only after the Ceann Comhairle wrote to the minister that basically, telling him, that this was against the constitutional responsibilities of a minister, that we’d got to a point where this information was released to me.

“I had no faith that this information was going to be given to me so I had to put in a Freedom of Information request on top of my parliamentary question.

“TDs shouldn’t have to put in Freedom of Information requests because they believe that their parliamentary questions are not going to be answered.”

Mr Bowers told News At One that a spokesperson for the Minister for Health Simon Harris said Mr Harris was not aware of the letter in advance of it being sent from Mr Holohan to Ms Walsh.

Walsh warned over repeating CervicalCheck management criticisms (RTE)

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