From top: Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s holiday home in Courtmacsherry, West Cork; Village magazine, July issue

Taoiseach confirms he travelled to ‘collect clothes’ in lockdown (Independent.ie)

Meanwhile…

Fight!

50 Person Gathering Does Not Include A House Party (Newstalk, July 1)

July 8

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s guidance on its website for how to get the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment.

July 26

The Business Post reveals that Pandemic Unemployment Payments had been stopped following checks at airports by social welfare officers and gardai.

July 26; Lunchtime

Responding on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said checks were being made because to receive the pandemic payment “you have to be genuinely seeking work“.

 

July 27: 7.15am

A Department official contacts a webmaster to include under the website’s PUP eligibility criteria: ‘You must be genuinely seeking work‘.

 

 8.29am

The webmaster replies.

Later

The page is updated

There you go now.

Via Ken Foxe

Right To Know

 

Another diverting animated video essay from The School of Life – well worth a watch if you have time on your hands, especially too much time. To wit:

We long to get all our work done in order to have free time. But we should be very careful with leisure. Having nothing left to do work-wise can be a very dangerous challenge for our psyches: it can  bring on despair and self-loathing. It may be that always having projects on the go can insulate us from mental unwellness.

Previously: Come Out Of The Cupboard You Boys And Girls

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From left:  Simon Coveney, Leo Varadkar, and Vice-President of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness MEP

One of his own?

But who?

YIKES.

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

Dan Boyle: Phil The Fluter’s Other Ball

Rollingnews

Course you are.

Acclaimed documentary ‘Land Without God‘ receives its Irish TV premiere on RTÉ One.

Co-directed by abuse survivor and Dublin City Councillor Gerard Mannix Flynn (whose story the film tells), Maedhbh McMahon, and Lotta Petronella, – Land Without God examines the legacy of Institutional abuse by the Irish Church and State over the last century.

Land Without God on RTÉ One on at 10.10pm.

Land Without God – examining the legacy of Institutional abuse (Mannix Flynn, RTÉ)

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