This afternoon.
Jervis Street, Dublin 1.
Shoppers rush to complete Christmas shopping before Level 5 restrictions come into effect from Midnight tonight.
No Oppo
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Labour Party Leader Alan Kelly TD this afternoon
.@SocDems co-leader Catherine Murphy queries international travel. Asks why someone can’t travel outside 5km of home but flights still coming in and out. Says government need to act at airports. pic.twitter.com/oSgFCZqbpO
— Ciara Phelan (@ciaraphelan_) October 20, 2020
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Any Level 5 pushback?
The Social Democrats said the prospect of some normality at Christmas is an incentive to work hard, but this time must be used to devise an agreed medium-term strategy, while Labour leader Alan Kelly said the hope of some Christmas celebrations will build social solidarity…
Oh.
Meanwhile…
Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald
Last night.
Speaking on [Newstalk’s] The Hard Shoulder, [Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald] said: “I accept that measures up to and including Level 5 may sadly be necessary.”
Anti masker.
You’re on your own.
Cabinet agrees to allow 25 mourners attend funerals during Level 5 (RTÉ)
Mary Lou McDonald Says ‘Restrictions May be Necessary’ (Newstalk)
Former Fine Gael European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton with her husband, and former Fine Gael senator, Paul Bradford in 2013
My husband got Covid@ end April after 6 wks of lockdown.Neither of us interacted w. anyone – just supermkt & petrol pumps. Zero Covid is unattainable &economic devastation is now certain.There is no strategy to live with the virus. We will be back here in February. Infuriating😡
— Lucinda Creighton (@LCreighton) October 20, 2020
Zero covid19 is attainable if we put our minds to it.
— Tom Cotter (@ProfTomCotter) October 20, 2020
This afternoon.
FIGHT!
Previously: ‘Revise Current Policy And Consider An Alternative Strategy Tailored To Our Nation And Its People’
International works by French street artist Mantra, who has a thing for butterflies – their richly hued scales, their delicate antennae – whether depicted pinned behind the trompe l’oeil of glass display cases or sunning themselves on the side of buildings, as if poised to take flight. Colossal sez:
…the focus on butterflies revolves around his artistic ambitions because the vivid creatures allow him to experiment with color, shape, and texture. Each specimen is rendered freehand before the artist adds detail and the illusory shadows that make them appear three-dimensional. By painting various Lepidoptera species again and again, the artist is “repeating a mantra,” a detail of his practice that informs the moniker he works under.
New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin
This morning/afternoon.
Via BBC:
A top US legal analyst has been suspended by New Yorker magazine after he exposed himself on a Zoom call. Jeffrey Toobin, 60, also a prominent CNN commentator, has been in demand as the US election campaign intensifies. The incident, first reported by Vice News, happened during an election simulation involving the New Yorker and WNYC radio last week.
New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin exposes himself in Zoom call (BBC)
Meanwhile…
‘…This piece has been updated with more detail about the call. The headline has been updated to reflect that Toobin was masturbating.’
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Masturbating on Zoom Call (Vice)
Meanwhile…
An amazing part of the episode: “All the while, participants continued as if nothing were wrong, one person on the call said.”
But I’ll bet the back-channel chat was going mad.
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin After Zoom Incident https://t.co/7IXBGYaTZP— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) October 20, 2020
#Hempland will remain open as usual. 🇮🇪 We never closed and never will. ✅ #NEW #HempCafe outdoor area is officially open from today 12-3pm!!! #Dublins first #MASKFREEZONE #Hemptea #CBDcoffee Masks are NOT required in store. @Niall_Boylan @TraceyOMahony81 @broadsheet_ie @bl_byrne pic.twitter.com/ffJAD3FtP7
— Hempland.ie (@hemp_land) October 20, 2020
This morning.
Abbey Street Upper, Dublin 1
Stoner-filled breeding ground for the lurgy?
Or oasis of sanity in a world gone hatstand?
Only YOU can decide.
Previously: Free Your Mind
Floods in Cork @TodaywithClaire pic.twitter.com/smuMB9pkhO
— paul moran (@paulmor21190726) October 20, 2020
Save the hooch!
It’s Murphy’s.
Let her go so.
FIGHT!
Earlier: But It Pours
This morning.
Crumlin, Dublin 12.
Officers from the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) conducted a search operation at a ‘compound’ earlier resulting in the seizure of 10 motorcycles, three cars and a sum of cash. Two people have been arrested.
Name those beasts (left to right), anyone?