The Great Stone Face next to a Buster Keaton doll in 1937.
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From top: Michael Healy-Rae with Mattie McGrath in background; Danny Healy-Rae; Micheal Collins TD; Michael and Danny Healy-Rae
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Members of the Rural Independent group speaking to media on the Plinth as they say that delaying indoor pub and restaurant dining is like taking ‘another wrecking ball to the economy’.
This afternoon.
Oliver Bond Flats, The Liberties, Dublin 8.
Michael Conway shows mould on a wall in his flat as Oliver Bond House residents held a press conference voicing their concerns as a new survey revealed that 83% of the 1,200 residents are living with mould and damp and that nearly three quarters (74%) have drafts and poor insulation which make it ‘impossible to keep their homes warm’.
Residents have been told by Dublin City Council that it will be at least 15 years before they can expect completion of a long-promised regeneration programme.
Dublin residents campaign for better housing conditions (RTÉ)
You too can clean your glasses with your mask. This really isnt a good look @EamonRyan #TodayCB @TodaywithClaire @Independent_ie pic.twitter.com/VwYYcvW3pR
— LesJMatt (@MattLesJ) June 30, 2021
Oh.
This morning.
RTÉ Radio One’s Today with Claire Byrne.
Verona Murphy gives her doubts about the figures and models coming from NPHET and demands a peer review of their methods. She then goes on to attack the government for attempting to make vaccines mandatory by stealth through coercive discrimination. #disbandNphet #indoordining pic.twitter.com/eeRgfyAoDb
— JRD (@JRD0000) June 30, 2021
Last night.
Prime Time on RTÉ One.
Verona Murphy, Independent Wexford TD and President of the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA), raises a sceptical covid tone rarely heard in Montrose to host Miriam O’Callaghan’s visible and audible incredulity.
FIGHT!
HAVVK – Home
Home is where the art is.
Grunge-pop trio HAVVK soar away on this single from their forthcoming album Levelling, due on September 17.
The video was shot and directed by Tim Shearwood.
HAVVK are Julie Hough (pictured top on Vocals and Bass), Matt Harris (Guitar) and Sam Campbell (Drums). Julie and Matt are also the founders of Dublin-based label VETA Music – home to Maria Kelly Sive, DYVR and St. Bishop, as well as HAVVK themselves.
Julie says:
“Home’ is about the freedom of youth and being oblivious to the protections you have around you. It’s about appreciating the people who have always been there for you even when you were at your worst – even if you weren’t grateful for it – and who’ve helped you get back up again every time. I feel really connected to this song right now.
“Over the past year, we’ve all had our social structures pulled out from underneath us and we’re missing the basic nourishment of human connection. I do miss the obliviousness of normal life (and dancing, and gigs, and hugs!), but I hope I’ll go back to the world a bit more grateful – far less transactional – and really value the humans around me.”
Nick says: Home truths.
This morning.
Via RTE:
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is to import blood from the NHS Blood Donation service in England to address a shortage in blood supply here.
It said 115 units of Rh Negative blood groups – O negative, A negative and B negative – are being collected in Manchester today, adding that these stocks were under particular pressure.
The IBTS said it had not imported blood in bulk since the late 1990s, but said it does occasionally import a small number of rare blood units.
IBTS to import blood from England due to shortage (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Gulp.
Must be something going around.
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar addressing the Select Committee on Trade and Employment earlier
This morning.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar says a “corona pass” could mean avoiding another lockdown if there’s a fourth wave of Covid.
He said:
“We can use those three weeks to develop plans for a corona pass, which let’s not forget may pave the way for the reopening of not just indoor hospitality but indoor sports and live events [as well] even if there is a Delta wave.
“That’s one of the things that maybe isn’t fully understood about the decision and advice from yesterday. Option one is to not reopen indoors until we have herd immunity – and who really knows when that will be. We’d hope it would be September, but maybe not.
“Now we have this option to use a corona pass… and potentially never having to lock down again.”
Tamaiste Leo Varadkar this morning.
Earlier…
On RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland, Mr Varadkar said:
“We had initial advice yesterday from the Attorney General who believes this is lawful.
“We will obviously pass certain laws to do it, but that it wouldn’t be unconstitutional, but that was an initial advice, he wants to consider it again.
“I have to say, I am disappointed with the approach of Labour and the Social Democrats in particular.
“Up until now, they’ve always said that we should take public health advice and follow the advice of Nphet (National Public Health Emergency Team).”
Tanaiste Says Covid Pass Would Mean An End To Lockdowns (Today FM)
Behold: the Orion nebula, tidied up for your viewing pleasure by energetic stars. To wit:
Also known as M42, the nebula’s glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. The Orion Nebula offers one of the best opportunities to study how stars are born partly because it is the nearest large star-forming region, but also because the nebula’s energetic stars have blown away obscuring gas and dust clouds that would otherwise block our view – providing an intimate look at a range of ongoing stages of starbirth and evolution. The featured image of the Orion Nebula is among the sharpest ever, constructed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The entire Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano)