Data in these reports should be interpreted in context of vaccine coverage. As vast majority (90%) of adult population in Ireland is fully vaccinated, even with a highly effective vaccine, we expect to see more deaths in vaccinated group than much smaller unvaccinated group.
— HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) (@hpscireland) November 16, 2021
This afternoon.
It means it’s working.
Full report here
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‘Rudolf’s Red Nose Radar’ has been ‘installed’ on the roof of Shannon Airport
Here’s Shannta!
Nandi O’Sullivan writes:
Shannon Group has announced that a special seasonal flight to the Arctic Circle will lift off this December from Shannon Airport.
To celebrate the airport is launching a special competition for a fairy-tale trip for a lucky family on Thursday 2nd December to Santa’s home in Lapland over 4,000 km away.
Online entry forms are available on the Shannon Airport website from November 17. To win all you need to do is fill in the competition form and say why you would like to win and what you would like for Christmas.
To ensure all competition entries get to their destination in warp time, the latest technology has been installed at the airport. Thanks to this revolutionary technology entries will be beamed direct to the North Pole through the world’s first Rudolph Red Nose Radar system which has been specially installed on the roof of the airport terminal building…
Seems legit.
This afternoon.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman (above) has sent the government’s Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions and details of the long-delayed Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme to survivor groups.
It will distribute up to €800 million among an estimated 34,000 survivors.
Minister O’Gorman writes:
The Payment Scheme will operate as follows:
1. All mothers who spent time in a Mother and Baby Institution will be eligible for a payment, increasing based on their length of stay.
2. All children who spent six months or more in an institution, and did not receive redress for that institution under the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (RIRS), will be eligible for payment based on their length of stay.
3. There will also be an additional, work-related payment for women who were resident in certain institutions for more than three months and who undertook what might be termed commercial work.
4. An enhanced medical card will be available to everybody who was resident in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution for six months or more.
5. Applicants will qualify solely based on proof of residency, without a need to bring forward any evidence of abuse nor any medical evidence. In certain limited circumstances, sworn affidavits may be required.
6. Those survivors and former residents now living overseas will qualify for a payment on the same terms as individuals living in Ireland, and will have the choice to receive an enhanced medical card or a once-off payment in lieu of the card as a contribution towards their individual health needs.
The legislation required to establish the Scheme will be developed by my Department as a matter of priority…
However…
…Although work has already commenced, it will take some time to make arrangements for this Scheme and it is hoped that the Scheme will be open for applications before the end of 2022.
Report here
Thanks Breeda
Get all the information on Coal, August 1985! pic.twitter.com/XatUEPftQg
— Photos of Dublin (@PhotosOfDublin) November 15, 2021
1985.
O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
Name those jammers (and bus models), anyone?
This morning/afternoon.
Greystones, county Wicklow.
Mourners arrive at the Holy Rosary Church for the funeral of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick. From top: former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm (left); former INM Chairman Leslie Buckley and Denis O’Brien.
Earlier: In Memoriam
Revellers at the Tramline nightclub, Dublin last month
This morning/afternoon.
The Cabinet has agreed that midnight will be the new closing time for bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday midnight.
RTÉ Political Correspondent Mícheál Lehane reports that the Cabinet has agreed that work from home advice will take effect from Friday.
The Cabinet has agreed that midnight will be the new closing time for bars, restaurants and nightclubs from Thursday midnight. Work from home advice for employees will take effect from Friday.
Covid passes will be required for cinemas and theatres but not for gyms and hairdressers.
In a change of policy, household contacts of a person with Covid will have to restrict their movements for five days and take three antigen tests.
Senior Government figures privately fear further restrictions might be needed in a few weeks’ time.
Austria 🇦🇹 today: Police stopping people and checking their papers to make sure the unvaccinated are not hiding among the vaccinated.
2021. Unbelievable.pic.twitter.com/KJKInsZ88E
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 15, 2021
Gott im Himmel.
Meanwhile…
Italy 🇮🇹
People are banned from going to work if they don’t have a vaccine passportAustria 🇦🇹
Lockdown for the unvaccinated with police enforcementUK 🇬🇧
Healthcare workers to be sacked unless they are jabbedIf you are comfortable with this, you are part of the problem.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) November 16, 2021
Meanwhile…
Gibraltar; the most vaccinated region on Earth (100% fully vaccinated, 40% boosted) has now cancelled Christmas due to “exponential” rise in cases.
Are we allowed to admit that the vaccines failed to end the pandemic, yet?https://t.co/VKZXN4TWpF
— PLC (@Humble_Analysis) November 16, 2021
Saturday’s Irish Times
In reference to your obituary column in Saturday’s Irish Times: poster-boy banker with semi-detached relationship with ethics, as you state, receives four written columns.
While a life devoted to serving the Irish people with personal courage receives two written columns.
Tom Meaghar,
Athlone
Meanwhile..
Sadly we don’t need Global Trends 2021 to tell us what we have become. Your obituaries page on the same day does the job with chilling efficiency.
Lavishly illustrated with a roguish photograph, exuding his “clubbable (whatever that means?) relaxed, warm bonhomie”, Seánie Fitzpatrick, disgraced banker and wrecker of homes, businesses and lives, dominates three quarters of a page. Pushed into the margins is the “significant political impact both sides of the Border” figure of courageous and diligent Austin Currie.
Lunatics and asylums come to mind, anyone?
Kieran Fagen,
Killiney.
This morning.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly arrives for a cabinet meeting to discuss covid restrictions.
Via Irish Examiner:
Mr Donnelly said he expects the use of Covid-19 booster vaccines to be extended significantly as the evidence for boosters is “incredibly strong”.
In addition to extending boosters to those aged 50 to 59, shots are also to be approved for thousands of people under the age of 50 who have underlying conditions.
Mr Donnelly said that it is “all hands on deck” in rolling out the booster shots.
Meanwhile…
The meeting of the Cabinet’s Covid sub-committee heard significant criticism of the HSE from ministers over delays in the booster campaign, and Defence Minister Simon Coveney offered the use of the army to aid in the battle against the current surge.
Earlier: is This Necessary?
Jan 2019. I spent 12hrs on a trolley in an A&E department in a large Dublin hospital. Bursting at the seems with elderly people. I had a 5 min chat with doctor & told nothing they could do. Went private sorted in 1 wk. Where is the explainer for that year?
— leannemac (@leannewhelan8) November 16, 2021
Anyone?
