Category Archives: Misc

Above from left: Jared Gormly, Head of HSE Spark Innovation programme, Dermot Burke, HSCP Innovation Fellow, Amy Carroll, Nursing/Midwifery Innovation Fellow, Minister Stephen Donnelly, Dr Rachel McNamara, NCHD Innovation Fellow, Prof Martin Curley, HSE Digital Transformation

This afternoon.

Baggott Street, Dublin 2.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly at the Department of health launches the Hospital Innovation Fund – a collaboration between the Spark Innovation Programme, HSE Digital Transformation Office, the Acute Hospital Division and the HSE Change Guide – funding approved for projects impacting on waiting lists, capacity, digital transformation and improving patient care.

Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

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Taniaste Leo Varadkar arriving to Cabinet in Dublin Castle this morning

This afternoon.

Via Independent.ie:

The membership of the Fianna Fáil youth wing has voted in support of a motion which called on party TDs “not to cast votes in favour of any individual seeking election to office of Taoiseach should said individual be under criminal investigation”.

The motion, which was before the Fianna Fáil Ógra National Youth Conference last weekend, also called on TDs “not to support said individuals to ministerial portfolios”.

Through the passing of the motion, the youth wing’s central office board will have to bring the same motion to the party’s ard fheis.

This means the membership of the entire Fianna Fáil party, as well as its ministers, TDs and senators, will vote on the motion at the party conference in several months’ time.

FIGHT!

Fianna Fáil youth wing will call on TDs not to vote Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach if he is still under garda investigation (Independent.ie)

RollingNews

This morning/afternoon.

Earlier…

Last night.

ITV News.

Meanwhile…

Last night.

GB News.

Via Mark Steyn @8.26:

‘It was just another government racket for 37 billion pounds of UK and COVID relief money was filched by fraudsters. For purposes of comparison, that’s a third of the NHS total budget, a third of the NHS total annual budget fetched by COVID fraudsters.

“Hundreds of footballers and other athletes have died of heart attacks after getting a COVID shot, hundreds of guys dropping dead often on the bench in the peak of condition. There were figures suggesting as many as 20,000 residents of the United Kingdom may have died from the vaccine. Suddenly, there’s a lot of unexplained excess mortality around among the young and middle aged including minor trends of 52 year old celebrities dropping dead in Australia.

“This is a public policy scandal.”

Fight!

Meanwhile…

This morning/afternoon.

FIGHT!

Support for Irish unity gives hope to nationalism (The Irish News)

Previously: Soon We’ll be Shipbuilding

Gulp.

Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6.

Meanwhile…

….via Irish Mirror:

A source said: “The embassy is struggling because no one wants to do business with them as a result of what’s happening in Ukraine. It’s not only some oil companies they’re having issues with, it’s banks too and many more businesses.”

The Irish Mirror also understands that Bank of Ireland has decided to suspend their accounts with the Russian Embassy in Ireland, according to senior sources.

When contacted, a spokesman for Bank of Ireland said the firm can’t comment on any individual account. It’s understood the embassy also had both its boiler contract and fuel card account ended by separate companies.

A second source said: “The Department of Foreign Affairs wouldn’t be stepping in to get anyone anything.”

Russian Embassy urges Irish government to intervene as it faces fuel shortage with companies refusing to deliver supplies (Irish Mirror)

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Ew.

Poo-tin.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Dublin Castle. Dublin 2.

It’ll be grand.

Earlier: Coal War

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

This morning.

To the bogs.

That’ll teach them

Europe to Propose Fresh Sanctions on Russia (Wall Street Journal)

Graham Dwyer leaving Dun Laoghaire Courthouse after being charged with the murder of Elaine O’Hara in 2013

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

Europe’s top court confirmed this morning that Ireland’s system of retaining and accessing mobile phone metadata breaches EU law.

Such data was a key part of the prosecution’s case against Graham Dwyer, who was convicted in 2015 of the murder of Elaine O’Hara in August 2012

The court also outlined the circumstances in which the targeted retention of such data is permitted under EU law.

It confirmed that EU law precluded national legislation that provided for the general and indiscriminate retention of mobile phone metadata.

It said it had already held that the objective of combating serious crime, as fundamental as it may be, did not justify this.

Meanwhile…

The case will now go back to the Supreme Court, which is likely to rule in his favour.

But his appeal will be determined by the Court of Appeal which will hear arguments about the admissibility of this evidence at his trial.

There is also a previous Supreme Court judgment which allows evidence to be admitted, even if a person’s rights are breached, as long as that breach was inadvertent or in good faith.

Ireland’s retention of Dwyer phone data breaches EU law (RTE)

RollingNews

Ah here.

Last night.

Claire Byrne Live on RTÉ One.

Meanwhile…

Hmm.

Anyone?

Any excuse.

RTÉ’s Claire Byrne returns to her garden shed after contracting Covid-19 for a second time (Independent.ie)