Sitting comfortably?
Dublin singer-songwriter Jesse John Heffernan covers country folk classic ‘Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness’ by John Prine, who passed away on April 7.
Thanks Alan
Course you are.
At 8.30pm.
Will Keane will host a Facebook live quiz in aid of Women’s Aid.
He writez:
“Since the start of this lockdown, I have been running table quizzes for charity on Facebook Live. Over the last two weeks we have raised €5,000 for Daffodil Day and the Children’s Medical and Research Foundation in Crulim.
“Tonight we are raising funds for Women’s Aid, the domestic abuse charity which has seen a dramatic increase in calls to their helpline since the start of the lockdown.
“Expect questions, dingbats, a live music round and tonight’s theme is “The Mad Hatter”. We are encouraging players to wear the silliest hat they can find or make their own!!”
Name those bands, anyone?
Line will CLOSE at 3pm
Via Tim Bolton
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is out of intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Playing Churchill can seem like more fun
Than actually getting work done
Then a virus arrives
And starts threatening lives
And you have to rely on the Hun
John Moynes
Getty
‘Sup?
Old Ireland in Colour writes:
“Countess Markievicz, born Constance Georgine Gore Booth, Irish politician, Easter Rising revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, first female cabinet minister in Europe.
With Poppet and Fianna Éireann officers [Theo Fitzgerald, Thomas McDonald]. Waterford. 1917.”
Related: Statues of Dublin: Constance Markievicz and Poppet, Tara Street (Come Here To Me!)
Original picture by A.H. Poole (National Library of Ireland)
At the gates of Croke Park which is being used as a drive-thru Covid-19 testing centre
This morning.
Eoin English and Daniel O’Connell, in The Irish Examiner, reports:
Concerns have been raised as testing for Covid-19 two of the State’s largest testing facilities has ground to a halt, despite official claims that daily sampling is being ramped up.
…HSE staff at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork have taken just a handful of swab samples from people who have been referred for testing in recent days. The facility operates for just a few hours a day.
Limited activity was observed at Croke Park yesterday by the Irish Examiner.
Covid-19 testing grinds to a halt at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Croke Park sites (The Irish Examiner)
Meanwhile…
Letterkenny yesterday 🤷🤷🤷 pic.twitter.com/vYdKc64gz1
— Bernard doherty (@BernardD66) April 10, 2020
Anyone?
Of course you are.
On Sunday evening at 6pm.
Live on YouTube.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will give a solo performance from Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy.
Don’t fear coronavirus, says Andrea Bocelli before Milan concert (The Guardian)
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe
This morning.
The Irish Times reports:
Euro zone finance ministers reached a compromise on Thursday to break days of stalemate over how to respond to an economic downturn that threatens to be the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Under the deal, which amounts to €500 billion in a range of tools, states can borrow from the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund to finance spending needed to overcome the crisis.
…But it dashed the hopes of Italy, Ireland, Spain and six other member states that had called for eurobonds to bring down borrowing costs and send a signal of unity as the continent confronts a health crisis that threatens to become an economic disaster.
Meanwhile, RTÉ reports:
He said it is very possible that Ireland will need to access funds from the European Investment Bank to help fund companies and will consider whether to access the programme to help fund wage subsidy schemes.
It is hoped that it will not need to use the fund from the European Stability Mechanism, he [Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe] added.
He said a new Government in Ireland must have a stable majority but must reflect the hopes and fears of the electorate when they voted.
Ireland may need limited access to new EU Covid-19 rescue package, minister says (RTÉ)
On Wednesday.
At Seapoint Court in Bray, Co Wicklow.
Socially distanced neighbours come together for a samba workshop with Dave McFarlane of Teamsamba Ireland.
In fairness.
Thanks Dave and Terri McFarlane