Clockwise from top left: Neil Curran, Marco Dias, Vanessa Foran and Derek O’Donoghue
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Jab happy medic, Professor Luke O’Neill (above), professor of biochemistry in the school of biochemistry and immunology in Trinity College is joining us tonight to share his views on Covid, vaccines and bespoke, bubble-based, live entertainment.
EU leaders have voted to fast track vaccine passport legislation, which the European Commission dubs “Digital Green Certificates”, to try to “facilitate travel and revive the tourism sector”.
Debates have grown over ethical dilemmas surrounding the concept, including fears of discrimination in linking free movement to health benefits and privacy concerns. But the Commission claimed that it had considered such concerns.
Meanwhile…
We raised my serious concerns over Vaccine Passports today in the Dáil.
Creating a two tear citizenship and brow beating people is wrong.
Also introducing a Vaccine Passport when people who want vaccines can’t get them is a kick in the teeth to people who suffered enough. pic.twitter.com/T3Oi7zKRxK
‘Berlin Brutal’: the uncompromising architecture of mid 20th century Berlin captured by Felix Torkar.
From top: Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, Fehling+Gogel, 1966–74; Isothermische Kugellabore, Horst Welser, 1959-6;Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedä chtniskirche, Egon Eiermann, 1957–61; Kirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (heute: Mor-Afrem-Kirche), Alfons Boklage, 1964–66 and St. Agnes, Werner Düttmann, 1965–67.
The deal that legislative leaders brokered with NY Governor Andrew Cuomo calls for a 13% sales tax, 9% of which would go to the state and 4% to the localities Distributors additionally would collect an excise tax of as much as 3 cents per milligram of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, with a sliding scale based on the type of product and its potency.
The governor’s office estimates that a legal cannabis program could pull in about $350 million a year once fully implemented.
Last week, to mark World Sleep Day andf with a €20 voucher redeemable at any Currys PC World store on offer, I asked for your favourite song whose lyrics reference sleep or sleeping?
You answered in your fully awake dozens.
But there could be only winner.
Third Place:
Ali Baba by John Holt
F_Lawless writes:
‘My dream last night was about Ali Baba and the 40 thieves..’
“I love Holt’s vocal delivery on this rocksteady track – laid back, silky-smooth but also at the point of cracking. I’d say more than a few smokes were had beforehand.”
Runner-up:
Sleep Instead Of Teardrops by Del Amitri
Fairyqueen writes:
“Oh it just has to be Del Amitri’s ‘Sleep instead of Teardrops’ (supposedly written for a girlfriend whose Dad had died). – It’s one of those songs that punches right you in the gut (IMHO) – especially if you have lost someone – with lines like ‘ ..as each consoling kiss remains on your face like a stain.. and ‘time is the greatest healer, but it’s a murderer today’ .”
Winner:
Sleep by Into Paradise
Tarfton Clax writes:
‘And no one ever dreams of you, and you never want them to
No one ever sleeps with you, and you never need them to,
Sometimes when you sleep beside me, my love grows cold,
I can’t believe, I can’t believe in myself… anymore.’
“The soundtrack to many evenings in the Underground or the Rock Garden, drinking cans and smoking rollies and basking in the misery of the late night walk home because you had no money and there were no taxis anyway…”
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