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Aw Ref!

Last night.

Any excuse

Mohamed Salah Misses Penalty After Having Lasers Shone In Eyes, Egypt Are NOT Going To The World Cup (SportsBible)

Padjo Dolan – Rings Of Saturn

Another girl, another planet.

Clare tunesmith Padjo Dolan (top) goes interstellar on his slow-building, anthemic new single.

Padjo writes:

“I had bought this Japanese import. Totally illegal on the road. I tore up the road, day and night. My girlfriend in the car beside me – it was a moment of magic. As for the name, about Saturn – I felt so free I could have been in outer space.

“Life is short, and those moments of magic are what make it worth living.”

Ain’t that the truth.

Dolan teamed up with Cian Boylan (Sinéad O’Connor), Conor Brady (The Blades, The Drays), Robbie Malone (David Gray) and Dave Hingerty (The Frames) to deliver a ‘feeling of discovery’ across its arrangement.

Nick says: Some things hurt more than cars and girls.

Padjo Dolan

Blame it on the moonlight

Blame it on the good times.

Do not, under any circumstances, blame it on the experimental, gene-altering, clot-making boogie.

*moonwalks out of room*

Warmer summer nights linked to higher risk of heart death in some older men (Irish Examiner)

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This morning.

Boosted, eh?

Earlier…

From top: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and the latest vaccine uptake stats

This morning.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that the number of coronavirus infections in Ireland is ‘running into hundreds of thousands a week’.

Via RTÉ News:

Mr Donnelly addressed a meeting of Fianna Fáil party members online last night, when he said that the number of positive cases of Covid-19 is likely to be hundreds of thousands a week.

Mr Donnelly said that while the daily number of PCR and antigen tests can reach 15,000 a day – the true figure is likely to be two or three times that.

Despite the rise in the number of cases, he said that the “very firm advice” remained that no restrictions need to be introduced.

‘Hundreds of thousands’ of Covid infections per week – Donnelly (RTE)

Um.

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A sun-worshipper is requested to leave Merrion Square Park, Dublin 2  on Bank Holiday May 1, 2020

Covid Emergency Powers are due to expire on Thursday.

Unless TDs vote to renew them.

Time for a petition!

Diarmaid Ó Cadhla writes:

The Emergency Powers allows a Minister to: Set aside provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and of our own Constitution – without any public discussion or vote’ Restrict our right to Work, Travel and Associate; Segregate and divide us based on Health Status; Force us carry a Digital Certificate (ID card) in order to gain access to services, including sports, restaurants and bars.; Dictate, by coercion, what medicines are put into our body, or that we wear face-coverings without any proven benefit; Delay medical treatments for things like Cancer and Heart Disease, in favour of a single illness which is far less dangerous.

We want respect for our fundamental Human and Civil Rights, they cannot be given and taken away at the whim of any Government. We demand respect for the right to Informed Consent and Bodily Integrity.

Sign here

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From top: The Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov; The Russian Embassy, Dublin 6

Gulpski.

This afternoon.

More as we get it.

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