Last night.

Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin.

Concerned residents protested against serial sex attacker Robert Melia who they say is terrorising a quiet street of houses where he has been staying since his release from prison.

Melia told authorities he would stay at a hostel near the Phoenix Park but instead went to Finglas. Protesters stuck posters to a property where they believe Mr Melia is living.

Relief as serial sex attacker Robert Melia flees Finglas but locals fear he may return (Dublin Live)

Rollingnews


Up to 40 previously unknown monuments from the Bronze Age have been discovered near Newgrange

A top archaeologist, Steve,
Has said stone age people would leave
Just outside Newgrange
An incredible range
Of structures he couldn’t believe

John Moynes

Pic: University College Dublin

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

…In Brussels, the European Commission insisted it was open to talks but made clear Theresa May’s Brexit agreement was “the best possible deal” Britain was going to get.

That position was underlined by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who insisted that the Withdrawal Agreement, including the backstop, could not be re-opened.

The latest exchanges followed reports from Brussels that EU officials had concluded that Boris Johnson’s new government had no intention of negotiating and that its “central scenario” was a no-deal break on 31 October.

The fight over no-deal Brexit: how might the crisis pan out? (The Guardian)

The fight over no-deal Brexit: how might the crisis pan out? (RTÉ)

Rollingnews

This afternoon.

Smock Alley Theatrte, Dublin

Professor Brian MacCraith talks to the media about the series of events within the HSE CervicalCheck Programme that occurred following IT issues in Quest Diagnostics relating to the HPV test results for a number of women.

Prof. MacCraith found the provision of Quest Diagnostics Chantilly Laboratory as a CervicalCheck test facility took place without proper operational due diligence and risk assessment,

The report also found there was a gross underestimation of the scale and implications of the problem.

The primary casualty was communications with the women and GPs, with the breakdown in automated results generation, it concluded.

The report said there was a decision not to communicate with women, about the IT problems and its implications for a full six months in 2019.

Professor Brian MacCraith has said that between February and last week, there was no communication with the majority of women involved.

“Throughout this review there was a constant theme of women frustrated by poor service and lack of information, their information,” Prof MacCraith said.

Lab was added to CervicalCheck programme without checks (RTÉ)

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

There’s a special tribute show to the late, great Elliott Smith in Whelan’s, Wexford Street, Dublin tonight to celebrate what would have been his 50th birthday.

One of the greatest songwriters of his generation, Elliott, who died in 2003, checked out way too early.

I Heart Elliot Smith (Whelan’s)

Meanwhile…

A short by Slovenian animator Dusan Kastelic that takes the phrase ‘to think outside the box’ and reverses it. To wit:

This is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it.

curiousbrain

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