Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, in the Department of Health at a NPHET press briefing this evening
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From top: The Hairy Lemon, Stephen Street, Dublin 1; The Red Parrot, Dorset Street, Dublin 1; Doyle’s, College Street, Dublin 2, and The Boar’s Head, Capel Street, Dublin 1
Burly, presumably ‘no nonsense’ Sky News host Paul Murray on how Australia’s state premiers – after delivering often conflicting Covid guidelines – are coping with criticism.
Last week, with a €50 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store on offer , I asked for your favourite song about Summer or whose lyrics refer to Summer.
You answered in your dozens – providing a Factor 50-resistant playlist of sun-soaked gems.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
That Summer Feeling by Jonathan Richman
Stephen Moran writes:
“From the pen of the eccentric incurable romantic that is Jonathan Richman (minus the Modern Lovers here) comes an infectiously sunny ditty “That Summer Feeling”. It’s a sort of American Graffiti like pathos infused homage in song to memories of summers past filled with a mix of nostalgia & regret
“I recall seeing him in Whelan’s about a quarter century ago when a chap requested this classic cut & Richman started strumming the intro. The guy then shouted out could he wait until he got back from the jacks & Jonathan duly obliged & played ” I Was Dancin’ in a Lesbian Bar” while we awaited our hero’s return from his call of nature. “That summer feeling’s gonna haunt you the rest of your life…”
Runner-up:
Summer Wine by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Sten writes:
“Summer Wine by Nancy & Lee is the perfect song. It’s got the boy/girl duet, a story that keeps you hanging till the end, the double meaning to the lyrics and all wrapped in a crackin tune with duelling Spanish guitars.”
Winner:
The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy
Scottser writes:
“When I was 12 I went camping with my big brother and his mates on the dunes in Portmarnock. There were illicit cigarettes, my first sip from a warm can of Harp and observations on ladyparts that made no sense.
“There was a mission that morning to steal milk, juice and yoghurt from local doorsteps at 5am. There was unlicensed craic. the stereo played The Who, The Stones, The Ramones, AC/DC and, in particular, Thin Lizzy’s ‘Live And Dangerous’. And from that album the one song that captured the freedom, camaraderie and invincibility I felt that night was ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’. Since then, it’s not summer until that album gets played in full, outdoors in the evening with beer in hand.”
Icelandic photographer Jan Erik Weider’s portraits of molten rock flows from the Fagradalsfjall volcano who spent three days earlier this year getting as up close and personal as humanly possible. To wit:
I was absolutely blown away by how quickly the lava field changed. Apparently, cooled lava broke open, and thick, fresh lava flowed out and formed new shapes and “sculptures,” which were then destroyed again by new lava a few minutes later. This simultaneously beautiful but also brutal transience was the charm for me. A surreal landscape that in just a few minutes will no longer be visible to anyone.
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar explains the government’s digital covid pass strategy. To wit:
We do expect that within the next three weeks, hundreds of thousands of people will receive their digital Covid cert, either electronically or perhaps even by post.
“We’re working out now whether we can use that domestically.
“It was only ever intended for international travel and border check control people checking these passes is a very different thing from your local pub or your local restaurants and that’s what needs to be worked out.”
Sounds promising.
Meanwhile…
“Leo Varadkar said people will receive the Covid certs either electronically or by post.” Is whole idea that it should be digital? Or are people going to have to carry around a piece of paper to pubs https://t.co/LBdkOl28zh
The Pandemrix vaccine was distributed to GPs by the HSE during the 2009 swine flu pandemic
Yesterday.
The High Court, Dublin.
Via BreakingNews:
A 16-year-old boy who sued claiming he developed a rare sleep disorder after receiving a swine flu jab has settled his High Court action for €900,000.
The teenager who cannot be named by order of the court was five years of age when he received the Pandemrix vaccine in November 2009.
The boy’s counsel Jonathan Kilfeather SC told the High Court the boy suffered sleep disturbance and loss of concentration and in August 2016 a diagnosis of narcolepsy was made.
The latest settlement follows on the case of another 16-year-old boy who settled his action in November last year. That groundbreaking settlement paved the way for the resolution of 80 cases over the Pandemrix vaccine.
It was agreed under the terms of that settlement that 50 per cent of the settlement figure would be paid out. Mr Kilfeather told the High Court today the €900,000 settlement in the latest case represented 50 per cent of the full value of the case.
‘As someone who developed an incurable autoimmune disease after taking this Pandemrix “swine flu” vaccine, I feel for this poor lad. When I was offered this jab at work, no one mentioned anything about the possible side effects.
It’s unconscionable that this was allowed to happen. In a normal functioning society this case should ring alarm bells all over the media.
Yet it has made no impact. Instead the authorities are in a mad rush to vaccinate the whole country with an untested experimental gene therapy whose clinical trials don’t end till 2023 – and to re-organise society into a de facto medical apartheid, with the unvaccinated reduced to the status of second-class citizens.
The campaign to demonise those who believe in bodily sovereignty as a pariah to be shunned by “polite society” chills me to the bone. We are moving into very dangerous territory.’
