Main Street, Bagnelstown, county Carlow today (top) and at the turn of the 20th century (above)
Steve Bowbrick writes:
Look at this scene, from Bagenalstown maybe 120 years ago (above): Six donkeys, four horses, two bicycles, two coppers, one dog and at least 50 hats. From the brilliant National Library of Ireland Flickr account…
European Medicines Agency – AZ vaccine is safe and should be used. Cannot disprove link to very rare blood clotting events. Says this rare risk should be noted in documentation. Scientific position is “this is a safe and effective option to protect against Covid 19”
— seanwhelanRTE (@seanwhelanRTE) March 18, 2021
This evening.
Meanwhile…
UK reports five cases of ‘rare’ blood clot after AstraZeneca jab https://t.co/YW9RzbsXvF
— breakingnews.ie (@breakingnewsie) March 18, 2021
This afternoon.
Earlier…
Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19
This afternoon.
Weekly HSE briefing at Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.
Ahead of a decision expected this evening from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) whether or not the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe to continue to use after incidents of blood clotting.
“We have had a number of clotting events, in which there has been no link in terms of cause and effect of those vaccinations. They may well have been coincidental but they’re under investigation.
“In any population based screening program other things will happen that will happen anyhow in unvaccinated people – illness, hospitalisation, even death.
“There have been a number of cases of clotting and none of the unusual type, and it’s to be expected with this heightened sense of awareness that there will be improved reporting on those to HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority].
It will investigate these and inform us if there’s any is any cause for concern, and none has been expressed to date.”
Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE
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Stop that.
This afternoon
Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Mallard Ducks mate at the end of their breeding season.
Mucky.
Gwen Layden’s decision to waive rents at her family-owned George’s Arcade has so far cost the business between €400,000 and €500,000 in lost income, she tells the Irish Times Inside Business podcast (above)
“We took the decision to suspend rents for the lockdown. You can’t charge rent if they’re not making money.
“It’s immoral really because they [tenants] won’t have the money to pay you, and they’ll take it from their family savings, which isn’t fair.
“We tailor the rents that are realistic and we have taken it out of our own savings. I’m not saying it doesn’t hurt. It definitely is hurting and dad [Joe Layden] is 77 and he’s been fantastic. But I don’t see any other way. The alternative is that the business closes and a shutter down is good for nobody.”
Gwen Layden, landlord of George’s Street Arcade, Dublin 2.
In fairness.
George’s St owner says charging tenants rent would be ‘immoral’ (Irish Times)
A dark comedic short by Joseph Bennet telling the story of park ranger Fiona who loses contact with her colleagues during an ice storm in Bigfoot territory.
Necks will be snapped.
Before
After
As journalist with a bloody good record I’ve always done research, due diligence, fact checking. Odd then that I went on Newstalk yesterday, said what’s in clip one, woke up today, and clip two is what they claim I said. Unethical.https://t.co/dvWhLzG2QBhttps://t.co/SsTAPMVrEw
— Ewan MacKenna (@EwanMacKenna) March 18, 2021
If @NewstalkFM has taken down, edited and re-uploaded clips after the fact without acknolwedging that for the listener, let alone informing the interviewee, this is extremely serious.
How can anyone – listener or interviewee – trust an outlet that would do so? https://t.co/r1VsFungMq— Philip O’Connor (@philipoconnor) March 18, 2021
This afternoon.
Journalist Ewan McKenna is censored by Newstalk for raising issues prompted by leaked correspondence from the Independent Science Advisory Group (ISAG) critical of covid response critics that appeared on the website Gript.
Update:
John McGuirk, Gript founder, writes:
Newstalk, since this story was published, appear to have re-instated the original interview with Ewan McKenna in full. This poses several questions that are quite serious: If, for example, the defamation lawyers working for Newstalk had insisted that the section be removed, there would be no reason to re-instate it. The decision to re-instate the section makes this look much more like an editorial decision. In other words, we can be reasonably certain that McKenna’s interview was censored for political reasons.
Anyone?
Revealed: How Newstalk “disappeared” a criticism of the Zero Covid group (Gript)
