District magazine’s ‘Living Hell’ tee front and back

Been there?

Now buy the t-shirt.

District Magazine writes:

We’ve spent the past year highlighting the worst kips on Daft in Dublin in our series, Living Hell.

Though our bi-weekly pieces rip the piss out of sheds for rent in people’s back gardens, we’re deadly serious about making a change.

That’s why we’ve released a new Living Hell t-shirt complete with our new logo to raise vital funds for charities in Ireland that tackle homelessness.

50 per cent of the proceeds will go straight to the organisations providing support for people across the country without a roof over their heads, with the remainder going towards campaigns that raise awareness about the crisis.

And they’re designed by Paul Smith!

Paul ruddy Smith.

Purchase here

District Magazine

Update: A different Paul Smith. Sorry.

This afternoon.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (above) has declared July 19 ‘Freedom Day’ in Britain

This afternoon.

Neil writes:

A poem written in advance of the full lifting of Covid restrictions on 19th July, a decision that seems to owe more to our PM’s dog-whistle populism than scientific analysis or concern for mortality rates.

Freedom Day

Take the mask off and throw it away;
two fingers up to the two-metre rule.
Smile and wave, folks – it’s freedom day.

Leading scientists in utter dismay:
new outbreak at a rest home; a school.
Take the mask off and throw it away!

Flock to the beach and soak up the rays;
pile en masse into a swimming pool.
Smile and wave, folks – it’s freedom day.

Go out on the lash, join in the fray,
the bigger the crowd, the more you look cool.
Take the mask off and throw it away!

Summer in Borisland. Come out and play
urge tabloid hacks who crackle like ghouls:
smile and wave, folks – it’s freedom day.

Reason’s lost, common sense gone astray;
cheap sloganeering wins over fools.
Take the mask off and throw it away;
smile and wave, folks – it’s freedom day.

Neil Fulwood

Neil lives and works in Nottingham, England. He has three collections of poetry out with Shoestring Press: No Avoiding It, Can’t Take Me Anywhere and Service Cancelled. He is married with no children but has secured a ‘timeshare on next door’s cats’.

Pic: SkyNews

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 HSE’s National Lead for testing and tracing, Niamh O’Beirne this afternoon

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

HSE weekly briefing

Niamh O’Beirne [HSE National Lead for testing and tracing] said “we are in surge, exceeding 20,000 tests per day.”

She said the positivity rate over the last week was 5.9% across community test centres. Yesterday it was 7.8%, she added.

Ms O’Beirne said “at some sites it’s as high as 15%”.

She said the number of close contacts is “around four per person”.

She urged people to “take the calls from contact tracers and give all of your contacts”.

“You need to give all of the names so that we can text them regularly and so that they can be referred for testing.”

Covid-19: ‘Vulnerability’ to Delta reduced by vaccines (RTÉ)

Leah Farrell/Photocall ireland

This morning.

Iveagh House, Dublin  2.

Simon Coveney, Minister for Foreign Affairs, with Belarusian democratic opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is challenging President Alexander Lukashenko for power in Belarus.

Ms Tsikhanouskaya, who spent her younger Summers in Roscrea, county Tipperary on a programme for children affected by the Chernobyl disaster, will address the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs later.

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Iveagh House, Dublin 2.

Simon Coveney, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, with his Slovenian counterpart, Foreign Minister, Dr. Anže Logar, during an official visit.

Slovenia has supported sanctions against Belarus following the forced landing of a Ryanair Lithuania-bound flight to Minsk and the arrest of an opposition activist and blogger critical of President Lukashenko.

Julien Behal Photograph/RollingNews

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