Philip Nolan, Chair of NPHET’s Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group

This afternoon.

Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Philip Nolan said: “We’re fortunate with our very high level of vaccinations and frankly the very sensible manner in which each and every one of us is taking the precautions, we seem to have come close to suppressing what is a very transmissible virus.”

…In relation to lifting the remaining restrictions by 22 October, Prof Nolan said “we’re in a good place” and “there’s nothing in the numbers at the moment, that would change the advice that NPHET would have given Government towards the end of August”.

He said the incidence has not gone up because the very high vaccination rate of adults is protecting children by reducing circulation of the virus…

But, but.

Never mind.

Ireland coming ‘close to suppressing’ Covid – Nolan (RTÉ)

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Above from left: Ciara Garvan, founder of Workjuggle Suzie O’Neill, founder of Ayu Cosmetics and Five Star Fulfillment, Aine Kerr, host of NWED, broadcaster, founder of Kinzen, Vibeke Delahunt, co-Chair of NWED and Head of Enterprise LEO Wicklow, Jacqui McNabb, co-Chair of NWED and Head of Enterprise LEO Kildare and Sharon Keegan, founder of Peachy Lean.

This morning.

Unidentified warehouse, Dublin.

The launch of Build the Future – part of National Women’s Enterprise Day, taking place virtually on Thursday, October 7.

National Women’s Enterprise Day (NWED) is an annual initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices and is Ireland’s ‘largest female enterprise event’ featuring some of Ireland’s best-known female entrepreneurs.

Register here

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This afternoon.

To the suburbs!

“Those 27 postcodes are postcodes where the current first dose coverage rates are under 75 per cent and we’re going to try and get those up as high as we possibly can.”

Daniel Andrews., Premier of Victoria, Australia. ‘Authorised workers’ in Victoria have until November 26 to be fully vaccinated (which currently means two doses of an approved vaccine).

Victoria to target 27 postcodes with below average vaccination rates (Sky.aus)

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From top: Whelan’s, Newcastle West, Limerick; Landlord Gearoid Whelan

Gulp.

Gearoid Whelan of Whelan’s, Maiden Street, Newcastle West, Limerick.

No need for the language.

Previously: Publican says he’s ‘gutted’ he was told to close bar he reopened early (Newtsalk, July 21, Newstalk)

Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time To Die

This afternoon

Skyfall: €1.60m

Spectre: €1.32m

No Time To Die: €1.73m

Sandra Houlihan, of NBCUniversal, writes:

No Time To Die had the biggest ever Bond opening weekend in Ireland. To date the All-Ireland box office is €2.35m making it the No. 1 film released in Ireland in 2021 after just 5 days of trading….

Previously: Velvet Revolver

Kenure House, Rush, county Dublin

Built in 1827.

Demolished by Dublin City Council for ‘safety reasons’ in in 1978, leaving only the portico behind.

Kenure House and Park (Facebook)

Kenure House?

From top: The expert panel report: The former nuns’ residence at the Marianvale mother-and-baby home in Newry, county Down

This morning.

Via BBC:

A panel has called for a public inquiry to be held into institutions for unmarried mothers in Northern Ireland.

The three experts also advised that there should be immediate redress payments to survivors.

The devolved government committed to an investigation after research into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries was published.

Women said they were detained against their will, used as unpaid labour and had to give up babies for adoption.

The primary recommendation in Tuesday’s report is to establish an “integrated Investigation” by a non-statutory independent panel, feeding into a statutory public inquiry.

There are also further recommendations for supporting measures to ensure that victims and survivors can participate in the investigation, including access to records legislation.

Panel backs public inquiry into mother-and-baby homes (BBC)

Pic: BBC

This morning.

An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims from 1950 to 2020, a “massive phenomenon” that was covered up for decades by a “veil of silence.”

Via The Local:

The landmark report, released on Tuesday after two and a half years of investigations, follows widespread outrage over a string of sex abuse claims and prosecutions against Church officials worldwide.

When lay members of the Church such as teachers at Catholic schools are included, the number of child abuse victims climbs to 330,000 over the seven-decade period.

Meanwhile…

The report, at nearly 2,500 pages, found that the “vast majority” of victims were pre-adolescent boys from a wide variety of social backgrounds.

“The Catholic Church is, after the circle of family and friends, the environment that has the highest prevalence of sexual violence,” the report said.

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve had already told AFP on Sunday that a “minimum estimate” of 2,900 to 3,200 paedophiles had operated in the French Church since 1950.

Yet only a handful of cases prompted disciplinary action under canonical law, let alone criminal prosecution.

French Catholic Church inquiry finds 216,000 sex abuse victims dating back to 1950s (The Local.fr)

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This morning.

Sorrento, Italy.

A holidaying RollingNews founder Eamonn Farrell writes:

‘The day after Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger went down for over six hours, costing owner Mark Zuckerberg billions of dollars, a large private yacht arrived in Sorrento, with waiters from the city’s hotels proclaiming that Zuckerberg was on board. At the moment we are unable to verify if this is true.’

Anyone?

Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews

Earlier: Soz

 

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