Enniscorthy, county Wexford.
By Solus.
Bringing balletic boxing to the masses.
Thanks Terry Rickard
This morning.
Robert Brady in the Irish Examiner, writes:
I am 19 years old and have spent 15 months in a psychiatric unit in Dublin. I was admitted as an involuntary patient.
There, I received a diagnosis of schizophrenia. I was on my own when I received this news as I was unable to see family due to Covid. To this day, I find it hard to believe. I was told I was extremely unwell.
My path was long and gruesome until medication could be found that was suitable and worked to get me stable. I was told my next step would be intense rehabilitation after being in hospital so long and due to the illness I lost all my skills.
My memory was affected and a referral to one of the only two inpatient rehabilitation centres in Ireland was made by my team.
I was then made a voluntary patient and I awaited my rehabilitation acceptance but bad news came. They refused me as I was not chronic enough in my mental illness for the programme.
My illness is lifelong, and my hopes were dashed. I was discharged back to my community. My days are spent lying around my house.
I feel that for young people like me we could be given a chance of a better outcome for our future if we had rehabilitation beds.
I am at lost how to handle this diagnosis I have been given and would like to be in a rehabilitation unit where I could gain independence, living skills, and the tools to help me live the best life possible with my illness.
Robert Brady
Walkinstown
Dublin 12
Pic: HSE
Overcast
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This afternoon.
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Science-loving, climate change campaigners gather outside Leinster House as a ‘landmark’ report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is released warning ‘strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide’ are required to limit damage to the planet.
Could do with some warming up this week.
Pause.
How dare you.
Yesterday evening.
Tuam, county Galway.
Catholic activists Eugene Jordan and Brian Nugent applaud the findings of the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation while standing on a burial ground at the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home, where the remains of 796 dead babies and children were left in a sewage tank underneath and still await exhumation.
Meanwhile..
‘There was no physical abuse, there were no starving babies’ He claims that because the final report told him so. The damage caused by the misuse of our personal testimony allows these conspiracy theorists to thrive. https://t.co/4DvpoSlPEN
— Annette Mckay (@AnnetteMckay15) August 9, 2021
Thanks Breeda
Portland Row, Dublin 1 yesterday
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ
The lightweight boxing Olympic champion is travelling with her team and the remaining Irish Olympians and is due to touch down in Dublin Airport tomorrow afternoon.
However the athletes won’t be coming through the normal arrivals area and members of the public will not be permitted into the airport for their arrival.
Talks are continuing between Dublin City Council and locals about how Covid safe celebrations can be held to allow her family and the community in Dublin’s north inner city mark the homecoming of only Ireland’s third Olympic boxing gold medallist.
Meanwhile…
Dublin City Council say no formal civic reception can be held at this time but An Post has painted a postbox (above) on Portland Row gold to mark her achievement.
Harrington home tomorrow but public celebration on hold (RTÉ)
The memories are golden.
After many great years and stacks of free vouchers, the good folk at Golden Discs have decided to depart sponsorship duties on our Friday music competition mainstay.
I think I speak for everyone when I say they it’s been a blast.
A big thank you to all at Golden Discs and Sinéad and everyone in Presence PR.
All outstanding winners will receive their vouchers this week.
Nick adds: May all your days be gold, my friend.
Saturday afternoon.
Croke Park, Dublin.
Waterford (blue and white) and Limerick (green) fans arrive for the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final under the ‘new normal’, almost indistinguishable from the ‘old normal’ if truth be known.
The game, won by Limerick, was delayed after a hay spill on the M7 in Kildare.
THis afternoon.
Clonea Strand, county Waterford.
Aifric Murray writes:
View towards Helvick Head. This end of the strand is known as The Castle End to the local sea swimmers.
More fanciful wildlife watercolours by French artist Steeven Salvat – from bejewelled beetle carapaces to entanglements of wild flora – inspired by 18th century engravings and biological illustrations, each piece the result of hundreds of hours of painstaking linework.
Previously: Shield Bugs
Absolute destruction on this French TV debate:
“You are telling me I’m a health risk because I’m unvaccinated, but you are health risk because you are obese.” pic.twitter.com/ONlMYirlFj
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) August 9, 2021
Eau.
*wobble*
France implements Macron’s Covid pass despite protests (RTÉ)