Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly says the advice he has is that antigen tests ‘shouldn’t be free’. He says there were no controls over how free tests were being used in the UK, adding ‘they’re very very expensive’. | Read more: https://t.co/i7mkkrsIMXpic.twitter.com/0QwQnh7S5S
Last week, with two new beautifully screen printed Geebags by HomeBound (above) at Jam Art Prints on offer, we asked you to share interesting word origins.
It was an etymological spree worthy of a boozy soiree around Samuel Johnson’s gaff.
But alas, only one winner.
Rapscallionsnatches gets the pair of Geebags with these intriguing word roots:
“Slogan comes from the Irish for war cry.
“Nazi isn’t short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. It’s a pre-existing term for a country bumpkin that plays on the rural Catholic preponderance for Ignatius of Loyola. Anti Nazis just borrowed it.
“Tanks (land based Ironclads) are tanks thanks to Churchill (in part). The code name for the top secret development project was supposed to be Water Containers for Russia. Churchill said the military would shorten it to WCs for Russia and changed Container to tanks. The Russians changed sides and the military did indeed shorten it. To tanks.”
Lisa Hannigan featuring The Theodora Byrne Ensemble – We, The Drowned
Other voices.
Fresh from being honoured by An Post with her own stamp, Lisa Hannigan (top) gives a first class delivery of her single with the help of ace musician and arranger Theodora Byrne and her amazing virtual choir.
Theodora writes:
“Thank you to the 34 wonderful singers who contributed their talents to this recording, it couldn’t happen without you, and thank you Lisa for a little piece of magic.
“Arranged by me, recorded by Joe Furlong and Oisin Clarke, and mixed by Joe Furlong.
“Featuring the voices of Alma Kelliher, Amy Ellen, Caoimhe Barrett, Catherine Smyth, Ciara O’Connor, Colleen Heavey, Cormac Curran, Dearbhaile Maclean, Eithne MacSweeny, Eppie Claffey, Evelyn Finnerty, Fiona Harte, Hannah Hoban, Helen Murray, Jane Patterson, Jay Rankin, Joe Furlong, Julie Murphy, Katie Ryan, Laura O’Sullivan, Lisa Gorry, Lisa McCabe, Natalia Laguens, Natalie Turner, Nile St. James, Niamh Hinchy, Raphaelle Smyth, Rosie Timmon, Saoirse Kavanagh, Shane Gough, Stephen Bishop, Steven O’Brien, Theodora Byrne and Wendy Glennon.”
Education minister Norma Foley (top) has asked parents to consider cancelling their children’s birthday parties
This morning/afternoon.
Via RTÉ News:
People should reconsider hosting and attending birthday parties or play dates for children, Minister for Education Norma Foley has said.
She also asked people to “hunker down” in light of the rise in Covid-19 cases.
Ms Foley was speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne programme after the Government announced a series of new measures in a bid to curb a rise in Covid-19 cases.
“We are in a different setting now,” she said.
“There is a window of opportunity to reassert ourselves and do the right thing.”
Taoiseach Micheál Martin says he ‘learned something’ about Alan Kelly yesterday which he won’t forget. ‘I’ve never seen the likes of it before,’ he says, referring to Mr Kelly’s claim that he told him teachers would be exempt from isolation rules. | https://t.co/cBQxDwNmsbpic.twitter.com/6He8NRqsGT
Alan Kelly putting on record what he says the Taoiseach told him yesterday about teachers apparently being excepted from the five-day restricted movements. He invites the Taoiseach (in his reply) to call him a liar if he sees fit.
