Today’s Irish Daily Mail cover

Um.

Meanwhile…

Last night.

On RTÉ’s Prime Time.

The Minister for Health Simon Harris was interviewed by presenter Miriam O’Callaghan about the August 27, 2018 memo he released last night which showed he was told of a €391million potential cost overrun related to the building of the National Children’s Hospital but didn’t inform the Minister for Public Expenditure until November 2018.

He was also asked about the nurses’ strike.

Towards the end of their interview Ms O’Callaghan asked him if he had moved his position on the nurses calls related to pay and retention of staff “one iota” since the strikes began.

He said he thinks both sides need to move their positions, to resolve the matter, but added the following caveat:

“But it has to be in the confines of the [public sector pay] agreement. Or you’ll have me sitting in this seat next week asking me about a different group. It’s about finding common ground and I’m very confident we can do that.”

Watch back in full here.

Meanwhile…

Mike Hynes tweetz:

The names of the 796 souls lost at St Mary’s in Tuam, brought back into our consciousness through this tapestry of their names that now hangs in Áras Moyola at #NUIG [National University of Ireland Galway]

Related: University launches Tuam mother-and-baby home oral history project (Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times)

Gulp.

Met Éireann tweetz:

Here’s the latest infrared satellite image from 8am. Storm Erik is clearly visible just off the northwest coast. Gusts of up to 120km/h have been recorded this morning with the strongest winds in Galway, Mayo & Donegal.

Orange warning in effect as Erik brings 120km/h gusts (RTÉ)

Meanwhile..

Yesterday: Incoming

Sold for €375,000 in April 2018.

Renting for €4,000 a month in February, 2019

Gordon’s ALIVE!

Property Watch writes:

Thought you might be interested in this for your ongoing tracking of crazy Dublin property rents/prices.

This place (top) was bought last August for €375k (Property Price Register) and credit to them they’ve done a lovely job with the refurb, but the asking rent is simply bananas!

I live in a similar property nearby, and there’s barely room to swing a cat in these houses. Mercifully it doesn’t seem to have let yet at that price and it has been up for nearly a month (extremely rare in this area), but surely no idiot(s) are going to rent this.

At that rental value you could buy the place and do it up for the same cost as 9 years rent. I keep a close enough watch on Dublin property prices and rents, but this was beyond anything I’ve seen to date. The mind boggles!

Sale Agreed: 77 Gordon Street, Ringsend (MyHome.ie)

Gordon Street, Ringsend, Dublin 4, South Dublin City (Daft)




This afternoon.

Morgan Hotel, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Models Carlha Linares (above left) and Simona Va (right)) sporting new Irish designs at the official launch of The Irish Fashion Innovation Awards 2019.

The awards ceremony and style showcase, in The Galmont Hotel & Spa, Galway on Thursday, March 14, will celebrate “10 years of showcasing the very best of Irish design”.

Irish Fashion Innovation Awards 2019

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

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