This afternoon.
Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Mmmf/Wedgie
Thanks Ultan Mashup
This afternoon.
Outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
A protest by the The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) to highlight to Government that “a complete reversal of FEMPI [measures under The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015] without preconditions is now the only option that will be accepted by General Practice”.
All yours, Si’.
*washes hands*
Meanwhile…
Hello you.
An atmospheric, beautifully lit GOBELINS film school graduation short by Parisian animator Arthur Chaumay in which a discussion between two boys on the shore of a deserted lake forces one of them to face the truth about himself.
Gnarlaí
at
Righteous boarding.
In Irish.
Seán Ó Ciardha writes:
We published a skate video yesterday on [TG4’s] BLOC, following on from our coverage of the skate against suicide last week. The video is a real love letter to Dublin, and counter culture, and is beautifully shot and edited…
Tá stoked orm.
Previously: Skate For Life
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2
Members of the Connolly For Children’s Hospital group, including Edel Kilillea (above) asking the government to build the new Children’s Hospital at a greenfield site at Connolly beside the M50 instead of pushing ahead with the budget-ballooning, city centre St. James’s site.
Makes sense.
Doomed so.
Connolly For Children’s Hospital (Facebook)
Earlier: No ‘Early Warning Signal’
Off World
at
The deep space visions of science fiction illustrator and ‘world builder’ Pascal Blanche.
This morning.
RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Miriam O’Callaghan and Lorraine Keane (pic 4) head up a galaxy of Irish slebs to launch Fashion Relief 2019, a nationwide fundraiser in aid of Oxfam.
Maia Dunphy, Noel Cunningam, James Patrice, Clémentine MacNeice, Joe Conlan, Triona McCarthy, Sarah McGovern, Laura Woods, Mo Kelly, Cathy O’Connor, Caroline Morahan, Teo Sutra and Joanne Northey are among those who who have donated garments for the cause.
Events will be held at City Hall, Cork on Sunday, February 17: from 11am – 5pm; RDS, Dublin on Sunday, March 10: from 11am – 5pm, and Galmont Hotel, Galway on Sunday, March 31: from 11am – 5pm.
The green boots are MINE.
Pics: Brian McEvoy
From top: CervicalCheck logo; Dr Gabriel Scally; a letter a woman received on Monday informing her she needed to have a repeat smear test as a consequence of a test she had in the summer of 2016
Yesterday, we reported about the letters from the HSE sent out to 6,000 women informing them that they need to have a repeat smear test.
Their previous tests, some taken as far back as 2015 and which would have tested positive for low-grade abnormalities, were not subsequently tested within the recommended time limit for HPV by Quest Laboratories.
The HSE stated it was first notified of this issue with HPV testing at the end of November…
A woman who received one of the letters, writes:
“Was Dr Scally [Dr Gabriel Scally, whose scoping inquiry of the CervicalCheck screening programme was published last September) aware of the 6,000 women when he made this recommendation: ‘The Scoping Inquiry considers there is no reason, on quality grounds, why the existing contracts for laboratory services should not continue until the new HPV testing regime has been introduced.'”
Anyone?
Previously: CervicalCheck: Two Lists
Ultan Conlon – In The Blink Of An Eye
A new single from Galwegian singer-songwriter Ultan ahead of his first Irish tour.
Pete Murphy writes:
‘In the Blink of an Eye’ was written by Ultan over the Christmas holidays and produced in January in Sun Street Studios Tuam by John Douglas (Trashcan Sinatras) and Boo Hewerdine. The single was mixed in the US by six-time Grammy Award winning producer Vance Powell (Jack White, The White Stripes).
The result is a buoyant tune that belies the stoic nature of the lyrics and the underlying message that despite our individual troubles we all suffer and recover in essentially the same way.