Yesterday’s Business Post

Tenant purchase schemes are progressive and estates where tenant purchase has taken place generally benefit. If the property is sold on by the person who availed of the scheme the sale has to be approved by the LA. Thereafter good luck. Find me someone who wouldn’t sell on 🤔

— Billy Timmins (@Billy_Timmins) August 29, 2021

Anyone?

Investors lease former social housing properties back to state (Killian Woods, Business Post)

I have several friends/colleagues leaving their jobs b/c of vax mandates. Not one would I consider to be an antivax, rather they’re waiting for full FDA approval or have antibodies from infxn.

Is this really the respect frontline workers deserve after working through a pandemic?

— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) August 17, 2021

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RollingNews

Twitterverse, why do you think Ireland’s vaccine programme has done so much better than other countries? Was it because they were in short supply originally? Or the indoor hospitality restrictions? Or because lockdowns were so severe? Or sth else entirely?

— Laura Noonan (@LauraNoonanFT) August 9, 2021

Anyone?

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

😳😳😳😳

“95% of the severe patients are vaccinated”.
“85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated people.”
“We are opening more and more COVID wards.”
“The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out”

(Dr. Kobi Haviv, earlier today on Chanel 13 @newsisrael13 ) pic.twitter.com/2iHyahyJhb

— Informed Consent 💉💉💊💊 (@Ireland2020) August 9, 2021

Meshuggeneh.

I’m finding this new phenomenon of Covid Vaccine Breakups so fascinating.

How widespread is it in Ireland?

Are people really letting go of long and enduring friendships on the back of vaccine hesitancy?

And is it more than that? Is it a change in ideology and behaviour? pic.twitter.com/gouYC2Ndnt

— Oonagh Charleton (@CharletonOonagh) August 6, 2021

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RollingNews

Opposing views outside government buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin 2 last month during a covid response protest

Is there any point to our resistance? The data analyzed by so many, the investigative journalism, the protest movements… nothing is making difference.

Did we lose March 2020 and have just remained in denial ever since? Is there any way to stop any of this?

— Winston Smith 🇨🇦 (@GovGone) August 3, 2021

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RollingNews

Thanks KN

Slightly Bemused writes:

I have a couple of plants at the front of my house, nestled under the box shrub by the path. Every couple of years a couple of spires arise from the depths and eventually flower with white blooms. I call them my Trffids, but beyond that I do not know what they are. They tend to lean out into the path as if to trap a passing pedestrian or doggie.

I had wanted to get a picture of them upright in flower, but unfortunately they collapsed yesterday, I suspect under the weight of the rains we had. So I had to prune them, and clear the surface for the unwary.

If anyone could let me know what they are, I would be most grateful. The first two photos show them upright before they bloomed, which may help. I tried a Google Image search, but to no avail.

Anyone?

A lovely colorful sky over Galway this morning at 4:45am. Photo captured Sean Byrnes and he is wondering what the two green dots are? pic.twitter.com/f1XucS6B2i

— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) June 28, 2021

Gulp.

This morning.

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Fluffybiscuits writes:

We have flights going in and from the UK freely from Belfast, Ireland has imposed tight restrictions on anyone coming into the state from the UK and our border with the North is porous…so what is stopping people going over the border and flying out from Belfast?

Anyone?

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