Yesterday.
Swords, County Dublin.
Name that exact model, anyone?
Thanks Don Reilly
In this short by Andrew Kasch for the Just Scare Me showcase, it’s October 31st 2020 and Michael Myers is having the worst Halloween ever, until…
Kazakhstan has adopted Borat’s catchphrase – “Very nice!” – for a new tourism campaign
Some people have thought of a plan
To lure tourists to Kazakhstan
With Borat’s catchphrase
But the problem these days
Is the Covid-based world travel ban
MORE to follow.
Thank Fred it’s Friday.
That means it’s time for another music competition. This week the question is: What in your opinion is the greatest moment in heavy metal?
A song we can dedicate to all the moshpit-missing, devil-horn handed headbangers caged in by Lockdown.
Reply below to be in with a chance of bagging a hair-tangled €25 Golden Discs voucher.
Here’s mine.
Please include video links if possible.
The winner will be chosen by my tattooist.
Lines close at 5.45pm EXTENDED until 11pm.
Nick says: Good luck!
Not So Fast
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22 v 16
The Seanad has voted this evening to seal the #MotherandBabyHome records for 30 years. Despite @DPCIreland saying this is illegal. #StoptheSeal #UnsealTheArchive pic.twitter.com/Jz8e8tb4x0
— Mick Caul 😷 (@caulmick) October 23, 2020
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman addressing the Seanad, sitting in the Dáil this afternoon
This evening.
The Irish Examiner reports:
The Government has contravened European and Irish law with regard to the accessibility of personal data by voting to seal the records of mother and baby homes for thirty years.
The Data Protection Commission was consulted by the Department of Children ahead of the drafting of the new mother and baby homes bill regarding the Data Protection Impact Assessment it had commissioned concerning the legislation.
In passing the legislation on Thursday evening, Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman said that his advice from the Attorney General was that access to the records had been explicitly restricted by the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004.
However the Irish Examiner can reveal that this is entirely contrary to the observations provided to the Department by the DPC.
Meanwhile…
If this is in breach of privacy could we see @PresidentIRL make an art 26 reference to the Supreme Court before signing?
— vicky conway (@drvconway) October 23, 2020
Fianna Fail’s Jennifer Murnane O’Connor in the #Dáil just now says she wants #UnsealTheArchive brought back before the House. Claims TDs “did not have the proper facts” when they voted last night. Couldn’t make it up 💀💀💀
— Oireachtas Retort (@Oireachtas_RX) October 23, 2020
Meanwhile…
The names of the senators that voted to seal the records of the survivors of the Mother and Baby Homes this evening.
I doubt many of those women have a vote in Seanad elections #StopTheSeal https://t.co/f3R6OkyabP pic.twitter.com/actsCw6FzI
— Mick Caul 😷 (@caulmick) October 23, 2020
More as we get it.
Earlier: “I Didn’t Want To Ask Survivors To Wait More”
Yesterday: Simon McGarr: Sealing The Archive Would Be Impermissible In EU Law