Public Services Card; from the Digital Rights Ireland’s website

Ciannan Brennan, in the Irish Examiner, reports:

A digital rights advocacy body is to bring the country’s first “mass action” against the State regarding alleged infringements of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the case of the Public Services Card (PSC).

Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has launched its #no2psc campaign, which will see the group make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner on behalf of citizens that cardholders’ rights have been breached en masse under GDPR.

…In order to sign up for the action, people who either have or have had a PSC can give their details, including PSC number, via DRI’s campaign portal online. They also must give their PSC number.

Rights group to bring ‘mass action’ against State over PSC (Ciannan Brennan, The Irish Examiner)

#No2PSC (Digital Rights Ireland)

An evocative three and a half-minute sequence of lightning strikes and billowing storm clouds by Arizona-based storm-chaser and videographer Dustin Farrell.

Shot over two years and edited over 300 hours, it’s a sequel to this 2017 full-screener.

colossal

Free Saturday?

In Wexford?

Ann Power writes:

The opportunity to live life in a full-scale Viking Village is on offer to the public free of charge on Saturday, September 28 in Wexford at the inaugural Viking Fire Festival.

A fully immersive Viking Village experience will take over the Wexford Quayside from 11 am as the historical town will be transformed akin to life over a thousand years ago.

Throughout the day visitors will be able to enjoy coin striking, spinning, weaving, leatherworking, metalwork and woodwork, storytelling and even some slave trading.

Gulp.

Viking Fire Festival

Tyler Murphy who died, aged 16, on August 29

Tyler Murphy, from Clonroche, Co Wexford, was 15 when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in November 2018.

He died on Thursday, August 29, at the age of 16, at the home of his grandparents with whom he lived for the final eight years of his life.

He had the developmental age of a 10-year-old boy when he died.

Tyler’s family have told journalist Saoirse McGarrigle, of the Irish Mirror, that Tyler was refused palliative care in the days before he died despite medical records, seen by the newspaper, confirming the need for palliative care and “family support at end of life care” for Tyler.

Tyler’s great-aunt Frances Redmond told the Irish Mirror:

“We got him home that Tuesday [August 27].

“The family had to travel to Wexford Hospital to get his fill of oxygen because we had no palliative care in place.

“Tyler’s veins collapsed the Wednesday morning, so he wasn’t getting his morphine because there was nobody there to fix it.

“He was getting seizures and he was haemorrhaging, passing a lot of blood.

“Nurses came in and hooked up a morphine pump in the morning and that was it.

“I was told if Tyler is still alive on Saturday, somebody will come here Saturday morning and administer the morphine and no one will be back until the Monday morning.

“It would be a double dose set up on the Saturday morning, but that would have to last until Monday.”

“… Mag [Tyler’s grandmother] was at first informed palliative care was in place and nurses would be available at her disposal when she needed them.

“But then we were informed there was no palliative care, because he was classified as an adult at the age of 16, but with his body weight he would still be seen by paeds.”

Heartbroken Wexford family slam HSE for not providing palliative care to terminally ill son (Saoirse McGarrigle, The Irish Mirror)


Staff at The Currency office; Editor of The Currency Ian Kehoe launching the website this morning; The Currency website

This morning.

Former editor of the Sunday Business Post Ian Kehoe and former business editor of the Sunday Business Post Tom Lyons launched their new subscription-only website The Currency.

You can become a member for €25 a month or €250 a year.

Too rich for our taste but what say you?

The Currency

Pics: Tom Lyons

UPDATE:

Denis O’Brien

Mattress Mick

This morning.

Donna parsons writes:

Today, Lucozade Zero announced that Mattress Mick is the new face of The Total Liberation Corporation, its zero-nonsense organization created to liberate the people of Ireland from all of life’s little woes.

Mick will be on hand to liberate fans of zero-sugar drinks from their little problems and minor grievances.

Lucozade Zero fans should message Mattress Mick with their irritations, questions and queries via WhatsApp on 085 150 3131 from Wednesday September 25 to Friday October 4.

Previously Mattress Mick on broadsheet

From top: Exposé launch, 2007; 2008;2009; 2010; 2012 and 2019 with from left: Cassie Stokes, Glenda Gilsen and Karen Koster

Entertainment and fashion programme Xposé has been cancelled after more than 12 years on the air as part of a schedule re-vamp on Virgin Media.

The show, which is currently hosted by Cassie Stokes, Glenda Gilson and Karen Koster, will bow out on October 4 with an hour-long special episode.

Xposé was originally broadcast in 2007 on TV3 and was carried over after the station’s takeover by Virgin Media.

It began as a daily programme, which was scaled back to three days a week in January. The show was reduced to one night a week in March of this year.

Xposé cancelled after 12 years on the air (RTÉ)

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