A survey has found a large majority of Spaniards prefer tortilla de patatas with onion

I honestly wasn’t aware
That in Spain if a cook were to dare
To rashly include
Onions in the food
Then some people’s tempers would flare

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Tonight.

Convention Centre, Dublin.

Thanks MoRhustyDilis and KN

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Tonight.

Convention Centre, Dublin.

Pics by KN

Earlier: Division Bell

Tonight.

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This evening.

MoRhustyDilis writes:

Convention centre now. Much bigger crowd. Approx 500 and growing. Rise people.

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Dr Tony Holohan during this afternoon’s briefing at the Department of Health

Um.

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This evening.

The Dail at the Convention Centre, Dublin.

Mr Donnelly praised the Irish people for their “amazing solidarity and togetherness” in dealing with the pandemic.

Closing the debate on the bill [to allow bars,restaurants and cafés to resume indoor service only for those who are fully vaccinated], Mr Donnelly said there is an opportunity to get people back to work safely, and that it is an act of solidarity to support them to do so.

“Let’s get people back to work … we need to take that opportunity. Primarily, it’s about trusting people to do the right thing“, he said, while noting that the bill does provide for enforcement of the new rules.

The bill will be voted on tonight. It will also extend the system of hotel quarantine until 9 October, with an option for a single additional extension of a further three months.

Government taking ‘sensible’ approach to indoor hospitality – Donnelly (RTÉ)

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From top: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly; Alan Kelly, Labour Party leader, in the Dáil at the Convention centre this afternoon

This afternoon.

Watch live here.

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This afternoon.

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From top: Dublin city centre last month; Tanaiste Leo Varadkar

This morning.

Further to legislation expected to be passed in the Dáil this afternoon that will see the unvaxxed denied entry to pubs and restaurants….

Via The Irish Mirror:

The legislation will see the resumption of indoor dining reopening in three phases.

Phase one will allow fully vaccinated people or a person who has recovered from Covid-19 allowed to dine indoors.

Phase two will see people allowed indoors with a negative PCR test.

Phase three will see those with a negative antigen test allowed inside pubs.

If you’ve recovered from Covid-19- you will be allowed to dine and drink indoors for up to 6 months from the original date of infection.

Meanwhile….

The Tànaiste said Gardai will not be checking every person at every table in a pub but it will be possible for enforcement officers to check log books.

He said the system is not “foolproof” and “we’re not trying to catch people out.”

Tourism Minister Catherine Martin has said Covid compliance officers [there are around 350 environmental health officers, 70 who monitor workplaces for the HSE] would be given access to pubs and restaurants …

Irish pubs update: Likely new rules as punters still won’t be able to drink at bar *irish Mirror)

Pubs told no pints at the bar but time rules may change (Independent.ie)

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Via Irish Times:

“The Government must seriously consider how impulsively laying the foundations for a system that creates an infrastructure aimed at segregating individuals based on their health could be used in the future.

“The new legislation uses the term “indoor settings” and provides for settings outside of hospitality to be brought into the system. It is also unclear how long this “temporary” system will be in place, and the Government has shown a worrying tendency to retain emergency measures throughout the pandemic.

“It seems it is intended that the EU Covid-19 Certificate will now be adapted for access to domestic indoor settings. However, the European Data Protection Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor have previously warned that any member state that uses the certificate for purposes other than facilitating free movement between EU member states “may lead to unintended consequences and risks to the fundamental rights of EU citizens”…

…The Government’s proposal also poses risks to community relations and undermines the solidarity that the Government has emphasised throughout its Covid response. Consider the rural restaurateurs who will have to ask their neighbours for private medical information and refuse or deny them access to their premises on that basis. Not to mention the staff who will be asked to work in premises they would not be allowed enter otherwise.”

Liam Herricks, Executive Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)

Rushed law on indoor hospitality recipe for disaster (Liam Herricks, Irish Times)

Yesterday: Can’t We Just Sit Down And Talk It Over?

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This afternoon.

Paris, France.

For the day that’s in it.

Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision for mandatory vaccines and passports across France.

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This evening.

Earlier: Division Bell

AIB, Ranelagh, Dublin 6

You’d lose your head if it wasn’t stitched on you would probably.

This afternoon.

Caroline writes:

I know you don’t normally do this but I was walking past AIB bank in Ranelagh at 1.20pm today and there was a smart phone left on the wall. I’ve dropped it into AIB bank if someone is missing it…

Anyone?

This afternoon.

The Coinvention Centre, Dublin

Forestry owners hold a protest outside the Convention Centre where the Dáil is sitting over a bureaucratic backlog which has rendered Ireland reduced to importing extra timber from the UK and Europe and left 6,000 forestry owners without a licence.

They literally can’t see the woods from their trees.

IFA President Tim Cullinan said:

“Farmers are being denied the right to manage their forests. They planted their land with the legitimate expectation that they would be able to thin and realise an income during its rotation, but the delays mean that this is no longer a reality for many,”

“This is jeopardising the entire industry, from nurseries to sawmilling, with hundreds of jobs already lost. The increased volume of imported timber is placing the health of the forest estate at unnecessary risk.

Not to mention the economic burden on forest owners who cannot release the equity in their forests or who are watching the value of their timber crop decrease by over €10,000/ha if they cannot get a licence to thin.”

Farmers protest over backlog of 6,000 forestry licences (Independent.ie)

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