Bobby Storey: PSNI identifies number of ‘potential’ breaches of COVID-19 regulations at veteran republican’s funeral. https://t.co/vCYwYjnemo
— Belfast News Letter (@News_Letter) September 18, 2020
Great detective work.
Bobby Storey funeral: Mourners asked to attend police interviews (BBC)
Write your own gags, please. pic.twitter.com/2mNEYhon17
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 18, 2020
This morning.
Government Buildings, Dublin 2.
Free tonight?
Slightly Bemused writes:
Regular reades may have gathered I like Emma Langford‘s music. So much so I am on her email list – which is a little unusual for me. Normally it is just family. Anyway, she is doing a show tonight, and while she is really able to do her own social media stuff, I wondered if you might let her fans on the ‘Sheet know. Chance for new music, and all that :-)
Garda Air Support Unit on patrol in Dublin last night flying over Tallaght Stadium where Shamrock Rovers were taking on AC Milan. pic.twitter.com/C95ShYRUKM
— Garda Info (@gardainfo) September 18, 2020
Last night.
Aerial view of Tallaght Stadium, home of Shamrock Rovers and host of AC Milan in the Europa league.
Meanwhile…
Liquid football (and commentary), in fairness.
Limerick rapper Denise Chaila is the highest charting female Irish artist of 2020
Course you are.
On the Late Late Show…
…Jennifer O’Brien writes:
Actor Domhnall Gleeson will be discussing his current and upcoming film projects, as well as the importance of the work of the Irish Hospice Foundation…
Gloria Estefan, the Cuban-American singer-songwriter, will speak to Ryan about her career highs and lows, as well as giving her take on the current state of US Politics…
Hazel Chu will chat about breaking the glass ceiling as the first person from an ethnic background to become Lord Mayor of Dublin…
Ryan will be chatting with TV presenter-turned-author Dermot O’Leary about an eventful summer that saw him become a new dad, and discover he had Covid antibodies…
Denise Chaila, the Zambian-born, Limerick rapper, singer, poet, will perform her single, Chaila, and chat with Ryan about her breakthrough year…
Breakout TikTok stars, Irish dancing group Cairde will be in studio, chatting about their meteoric rise to stardom…
There will also be a special acoustic performance from James Vincent McMorrow, and Francis Brennan will be in studio, talking about the importance of keeping a diary in times of turmoil….
The Late Late Show at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.
This morning.
EPIC (Event Production Industry Covid19 Working Group) have published an open letter (top) with over 600 signatures from across the industry.
The letter, accompanied by the video ‘This Is Who We Are’ (above) voiced by Stephen James Smith, is part of National Awareness Week for the Live Entertainment & Event Industry in Ireland and follows EPIC’s spectacular Pre-Budget Submission on Wednesday.
An Open Letter from the Live Events and Entertainment Sector (EPIC)
An email sent from the HSE to parents of St Oliver’s Community College in Drogheda, Co Louth on Wednesday evening
Last night.
Emma O’Kelly, of RTÉ, reported:
Teachers at one of the country’s largest second level schools have expressed concern at what they say are mixed messages they received from the HSE in relation to being deemed a close contact of a person with Covid-19.
St Oliver’s Community College in Drogheda closed to more than half its students after more than 30 of its teachers were alerted yesterday via the Covid tracker app that they were close contacts of a virus case.
They were advised to begin isolating immediately and to await a call from the HSE to arrange testing.
The alerts came after it was confirmed that a staff member at the school had contracted the virus.
However, while some teachers were tested this morning, others were told by the HSE that they did not have to isolate after all, or do a test, and were free to go about their business.
…The teacher, who is among those who received a close contact text alert, said: “We are all beside ourselves.
“It’s the shock of getting the alert and then being told it’s a mistake without any explanation as to what the mistake is. There is this idea that schools will stay open at any cost. We feel like cannon fodder.”
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/davidtobin100/status/1306664516013486089
Anyone?
Concern over confusion surrounding close contacts at Drogheda school (RTÉ)
Today, the cabinet will decide if Dublin moves from Level 2 to Level 3 on the Government’s five-level structure for managing the pandemic
No Dubliner will want to see
The city moved to level three
As it won’t be much fun
If it has to be done
The whole thing’s a pain in the gee
John Moynes
Petrichor tweetz:
…did you lose this bike key? If it’s yours, give me your route & date of loss to prove it & I’ll bring you to it.
Daycent.
Anyone?
