The City Remains – The City Remains

Any Red House Painters fans in the house?

Then the new project by Liam Kirkpatrick and Paul McAllister should resonate with you.

Formerly of Kildare band Scale The Heights, the duo released their eponymous debut album last month on the new Project 2 label.

Songwriter Kirkpatrick conjures melody and melancholy beautifully, and the London-set video captures the mood.

Nick says: Here comes a City.

The City Remains

Violet Gibson: this lady shoots fascists

On this day.

In 1926….

Via Ireland in Colour

Irish woman Violet Gibson shoots [Benito] Mussolini in the nose as he walks among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in RomeBorn 1876, Dublin…Daughter of Irish lawyer/politician Baron Ashbourne…Lived rest of life in St. Andrew’s Hospital…Died 1956.

The Irishwoman Who Shot Mussolini (RTÉ Documentary on One Podcast)

 

This afternoon.

Rob Reeves writes:

“As you may be aware, Gal Godot and some of her other millionaire friends came together a short time ago to sing a rendition of ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon to do their bit to help out with the Coronavirus pandemic.

“Myself and a group of other Irish lads and lassies came together (in solitude) to make a reply to Gal.”

Previously: Rob Reeves on Broadsheet

Last night.

On RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live.

Ms Byrne put it to Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer at the HSE, that the official figures may not reveal the “whole story” about the prevalence of Covid-19 in Ireland.

Ms  Byrne suggested that because of the delays and changes in testing criteria, and because Ireland isn’t testing people who are asymptomatic, there must be a lot of unknown cases in Ireland.

Dr Henry admitted that Ireland could “never, ever” pick up every single case of Covid-19. He said the purpose of testing is to trigger public health actions which are designed to stem or halt the transmission of the virus.

During their discussion, they had this exchange.

Claire Byrne: “I suppose my question is how do we know we’re bending the curve, when we don’t know how much of this virus there is out there?”

Dr Colm Henry: “Because our modelling takes so much more into account. It takes in, as I said, data coming into acute hospitals. I takes into account trends in intensive care units, we know, looking at the trends in admission to intensive care, it is not as steep as we feared a week or two ago. It is too early to say it Claire, how sustained that will be.

“And again that message is there, that each and every one of us have the power to save lives, to prevent people getting critically ill and to avoid healthcare workers getting sick when we need them.”

Watch back in full here

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

Hic.

Dublin-based comedian, writer and impressionist Liam Hourican with another ‘character in isolation’.

Liam writes:

‘Sammy Stockport’ embraces self isolation…

Liam Hourican

Previously: Off The Cough

Kitchen Nightmare

Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during the presidential election campaign in 2018

This morning.

Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell, who lost her seat in the last general election, spoke to KFm about the recent Seanad election, during which no female Fine Gael candidate won a seat.

Eleven senators will eventually be nominated by the incoming Taoiseach.

Speaking about a resistance to the progress of women, Ms O’Connell said:

“This stems down, it’s a domino effect from the local elections. But also there was a massive pushback from certain sectors and I’m speaking about my own party because that’s what I have knowledge of.

“When there is progress from women there is pushback from some elements within the party usually the younger, Young Fine Gael wing.”

Anyone?

Listen: O’Connell Says There Is Push-Back From Some In Fine Gael, Against Female Candidates. (KFm, Ciara Plunkett)

Previously: Bay Of Tears

Rollingnews

Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 this morning

This morning.

Anyone?/FIGHT!

Rollingnews

Health Minister Simon Harris speaking to journalists outside government buildings. merrion this morning

No.

This afternoon.

Breakingnews.ie reports:

Restrictions on movement will not be lifted on Easter Sunday.

While the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) have yet to make a formal recommendation to extend the measures, the Health Minister says its highly unlikely they will be relaxed.

NPHET is meeting today to discuss restrictions but will not make a final call until Friday.

‘We know they are working’: Harris says ‘highly unlikely’ restrictions will be lifted on Sunday (Breakingnews.ie)

Pic: Gavan Reilly

Meanwhile…

Restrictions are being slowly lifted across Europe

This morning.

Tis lifting.

Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz has become the first European leader to provide specific dates for the end of lockdown measures.

He said the aim was to let smaller shops re-open as soon as April 14, with larger ones and shopping malls opening on May 1 if all goes well.

In Spain, which after Italy has seen the highest number of deaths in Europe, Prime minister Pedro Sanchez has said that some economic restrictions could be lifted after Easter.

European countries to follow Italy with plans to lift coronavirus lockdown in days with schools and shops reopening (The Sun)

Graph via The Sun

However…

Eau.

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