Gulp.

This morning/afternoon.

BODGER. Get in here.

Former Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris (left) and Belfast Telegraph crime correspondent Alison Morris

This afternoon.

Previously: Out Of The Mouth Of Babs

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Update:

Irish Examiner journalist Aoife Moore initiates action.

This is a drill.

This morning.

Aldi, Terenure, Dublin.

2FM’s Jenny Greene celbrates the return of Aldi’s ‘Specialbuys’ to the middle aisle…

…should you require a kettle, bicycle helmet, walking stick or a bread maker…

Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

This morning.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly speaking to media outside Reeves Day Surgery, Tallaght University Hospital, as he launched the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy & Action Plan 2021-2023.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Yesterday.

An exchange between Republican Senator Rand Paul and chief medical advisor to the American President Dr. Anthony Fauci (top) at a US Senate health committee hearing

The pair clashed over whether funding from the National Institutes of Health was used for “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The institute, located just miles from the market where the first COVID-19 outbreak was detected, previously received funding from Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Questions remain about the origins of the coronavirus and the ‘lab leak hypothesis’ – that the virus resulted from experiments in the Wuhan lab that ‘accidentally spilled over’.

Fauci and Rand Paul clash over NIH funding for Wuhan Institute of Virology (Axios)

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Monthly asking prices for rents in Dublin dropped in the first three months of this year, but increased elsewhere – according to the latest rental report from property website daft.ie.

Via RTÉ

The average monthly asking price nationally stood at €1,443 in the first quarter, up 1.7% on the same period last year.

With many people working from home during the pandemic, there has been an increased desire to live outside of the capital – and this is reflected in the report.

In Dublin, asking prices for rents were down 3.2% year-on-year, while prices in the rest of the country were 7.1% higher.

Meanwhile…

In Cork, Galway and Limerick cities, they are 6% higher than a year previously, while in Waterford they are 8.3% higher.

Outside the five main cities, asking rental prices are up 7.3% year-on-year.

Rents fall in Dublin, rise elsewhere – Daft report (RTÉ)

This morning/afternoon.

Cork city.

Earlier…

RTÉ studios in Cork City

This morning.

A protest will take place outside the Cork city offices of RTÉ organised by the Independent Campaign for TRUTH & Proper Healthcare to highlight what it calls the station’s ‘betrayal of its duty as a public broadcaster; and will protest against its biased and one-sided reporting of the current crisis healthcare and Covid19’.

Speaking for the group, Diarmaid Ó Cadhla says:

“For over a year now RTÉ has given us daily reports of deaths and of illness spreading throughout our country, people are genuinely frightened. 

However, these reports have been less than half-truths, leading us to think that thousands have died from Covid19, when the reality is barely a few hundred.

CSO reports have shown us that there was no significant change in the overall mortality figures between 2019 and 2020; so NPHET, RTÉ and the main stream media have spinning a lie.

Today we challenge RTÉ and the other media outlets to organise proper public debate, bring on the doctors and legal experts who have been silenced, bring on the Government ‘experts’, and lets hear them all debate the issue.

RTÉ, will you do that?

In Cork, we ask RedFM and 96FM, will you organise such a balanced debate?

Anyone?/Fight!

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Last night/this morning.

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Coveney calls for ceasefire as 40 killed in Gaza and Israel (RTÉ)

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