Last night.

Mother and baby Home activists Breeda Murphy, Eunan Duffy and Frank Brehany discuss the latest developments on the fall-out from the Mother and Baby Home report and the reaction to the discovery of burial sites in Canada.

Eunan shares the research that led to the revelations in last week’s Sunday Times (above) that the bodies of at least 27 children were donated for medical research without consent to Queen’s University Belfast including from Mother and Baby homes.

This is the 19th in a series of shows with Breeda, Eunan and Frank looking at issues surrounding the publication of the Mother and Bay Home Commission of Investigation report. They can be viewed here.

Bodies of 27 children donated to Queen’s University for medical research (Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times)

Behold: the BMW CE 04 – virtually unchanged from last year’s concept – now set for actual production in 2022.

Designed as a nippy urban commuter bike with a 42bhp electric drivetrain, it’ll do 120km/h with a 130km range. There’s a 26cm TFT screen for navigation and connectivity and a vented USB-C charging compartment for mobile devices.

Yours next year for about €13,650

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Francie Conway – Staycation

Holiday in the sun*.

Kerry stalwart Francie Conway (top) is back with a summer song bestolling the virtues of the Emerald Isle as a great place to spend the holiers.

In fairness, who wouldn’t want to be on that beach right now?

The band comprise: Vivienne Boucherat & Chris White (Vocals); Dom Torche (Hammond Organ); Peter Miklos Erdai (Bass); Matt Kelleghan (Drums & Percussion); Rory Conway (Vocals and shaker).

Francie’s latest album Hidden Gems is out now.

Nick says: It would be so nice.

Francie Conway

 *Terms and conditions apply

This afternoon (1.40pm).

Via Ciarán Bolger

Earlier…

Labour TD Duncan Smith in the RDS during the count for the Dublin Bay South by-election this morning

This morning.

Gulp.

Earlier…

This morning.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

A layer of protective perspex in front of ballot boxes and tellers in the RDS, as the count begins for the Dublin Bay South by-election.

More to follow.

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Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

Further to plans to re-open indoor dining and drinking only to the vaxxed…

…via the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)

‘ICCL has opposed the idea of vaccine passports since they were first mooted in early 2021. A system of vaccine passports for access to goods and services will discriminate against people on the grounds of health status.

Such a system would also set a precedent of requiring people to share private medical data to gain access to services…

…Up until less than two weeks ago, the Government also agreed that these human rights and civil liberties concerns were too serious to consider introducing vaccine passes. The idea that allowing indoor dining and drinking this month is so urgent that these concerns should now be dispensed with – via emergency legislation and without meaningful debate – is frankly incredible.’

ICCL’s Executive Director Liam Herrick said:

“We cannot set a precedent whereby government can declare that problems with its own re-opening timetable constitute some sort of parliamentary emergency, which would justify ignoring serious and complex issues of workers’ rights, equality law, privacy, and data protection. Human rights law is there to protect us all. We cannot dispense with it when faced with political dilemmas.”

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Earlier: Clean And Unclean

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This morning.

Outside Naas, county Kildare.

Eamonn writes:

From gardens to public spaces and roadside verges, Ireland is seeing a surge in the growth of wild flowers and fauna as city and county councils, home owners and farmers, cut back on the trimming of gardens, parks, roadside verges and fields. Suddenly across the country, wild flowers are popping up in a glorious splash of colour, reminding us of times gone by and that left to its own devices nature knows a thing or two about colour coordination.

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A pleasing short by Paul Bush in which hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by frame in a stop motion homage to the iconic motorcycle design and culture of the 1950s and 60s. To wit:

A rider prepares his bike and departs on an idealised journey into the countryside and into the future.

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