Last night.
Grand Canal, Dublin 8 or 6 (see comments).
Thanks Colum Cronin
Blewitt 2020
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When your 3rd cousin is @JoeBiden! #Ballina is the ancestral home of Joe Biden’s maternal relatives the #Blewitts! #JoeBiden #JoeBlewitt pic.twitter.com/uLCdXmG22d
— Aileen Horkan (@Aileenballina) September 1, 2020
Ballina, County Mayo.
Home of the Joe.
Vice President Joe Biden’s Irish Family History (Irish Family History Centre)
Alternatively
??? Biden: ‘CoVID has Taken This Year, More than 100 Years, Look… The Lives, When You Think About it!’ pic.twitter.com/AHyriuIbRo
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) August 31, 2020
He’s more Galway, no?
FIGHT!
Remote learning?
Read on.
Ian Collins writes:
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Irish-made stuff to broadsheeet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
Derp Walk
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I’d double lock that.
This afternoon.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
Members of the cabinet arrive for a meeting to discuss the rona and the European Commissioner gig. From top: Taoiseach Micheál Martin; From left: Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath, and Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadka; Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, and Minister for Climate Action and Communications Networks and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan.
Where are your masks, etc.?
Earlier: May The Best Woman Win
Meanwhile…
Cat among the pigeons… I hear the Taoiseach has firmly told today’s cabinet meeting that there is NOT yet any decision to put forward two names, as requested by Ursula Von Der Leyen …
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 1, 2020
Oh.
Oh.
CH writes:
Received 19th August, no rescheduled appointment. I have written to Sinn Féin, Labour, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael. 12 days later, Nobody has responded.
Anyone?
Heaven Knows
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Morrissey – Brow Of My Beloved
A Morrissey single from last year set to a worldwide, mutli-fan-made video in honour of Moz’s mum, Dublin born Elizabeth Dwyer, who died last month.
Mmf.
Previously: Morrissey’s Mum
This morning/afternoon.
Dr Marcus De Brun, a family GP from Rush, County Dublin has received notice that he is the subject of a formal investigation by the Irish Medical Council over his appearance at a protest against mandatory mask wearing and Covid-19 restrictions.
Two fellow doctors complained about Dr De Brun’s address (above) to the rally outside the Custom House, Dublin 1 last month.
Dr De Brun, who himself resigned from the Medical Council over the nursing home scandal, has faced claims that, unbeknown to him, the rally was hijacked by far-right agitators and anti-immigration activists.
On Sunday, Dr De Brun told the Business Post:
“If the six or seven thousand people were all members of far-right groups they fooled me. When I looked out in the crowd I saw Asians, a couple of black people and lots of families.”
“I would certainly be sorry and sad to learn if people found my presence at the rally to be offensive, and I can understand that sharing a platform with other people with very radical views would certainly be offensive.
But with one caveat: there is nowhere else.”
“[the rally] is [the] only show in town, the only place you can go and demand justice for those who died in nursing homes.
What am I to do? It seems I’m being told to find this imaginary other platform or shut the f**k up.”
Concerning the Medical Council investigation, Dr De Brun said this morning:
“It’s clear they are now coming after my livelihood.”
Previously: Baring All
Previously: Left To Die: Nursing Home Timeline
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen
Earlier, Govt sources said issue would not be discussed at Cabinet this morning, but @MichealMartinTD @LeoVaradkar and @EamonRyan would meet again later today re assessing candidates
— Paul Cunningham (@RTENewsPaulC) September 1, 2020
This morning.
She’s really Leyen down Der law.
Suit yourselves.