Saturday.
Café society returns to Dublin city centre.
The new old normal.
Tag Archives: coronavirus
Craic Bust
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Gotcha!
This evening.
Dame Court, Dublin 2.
After last week’s harrowing scenes…
…an unmasked man is questioned by bike mounted Gardai under new regulations to stamp out stuff that may upset people on twitter.
Last Friday: Worth The Wait
NEW: from Monday the wearing of masks will be compulsory on public transport. Regulations being signed tonight. 😷 pic.twitter.com/CllNtKEjeB
— Shane Beatty (@ShaneBeattyNews) July 10, 2020
This evening.
Compulsory maskage?
To the bikes!
Earlier: Let’s Do Some Shots
UPDATE:
This will only be following failure to comply after Gardaí are called. And the new rules will be accompanied by a public awareness campaign.
— Mary Regan (@MaryERegan) July 10, 2020
This morning/afternoon.
Barry Whyte writes:
A Dallas flight [middle pic] was scheduled at 7:35am in Dublin Airport this morning. On Tuesday , Texas set a US state record with 10,000 new COVID-19 cases. Of the 23 new cases confirmed today here, 15 were travel related. American Airlines have confirmed that from today there’ll be three weekly flights from Dallas – Dublin (see above)…
Anyone?
Pic: American Airlines
Talk To Joe
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Unacceptable that @opwireland should reverse decision on #PhoenixPark gates without consultation & only now offering to consult after reopening the gates!
Would be interested in opinions of local residents – leave comment here or email joe@joecostello.ie https://t.co/XstIML3uJZ— Joe Costello (@JoeCostelloIE) July 10, 2020
Anyone?
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly shows of the HSE/Department of Health Covid-19 tracing app on his phone yesterday
This morning?
The CovidTracker Ireland app, which has been in development since late March at a cost of €850,000, went live on Monday night.
However…
….it is the need for GPS location services to be enabled on phones using Google’s Android operating system in order for the app to work, a fact which only emerged after the application went live on Monday evening, that drew the most ire from privacy campaigners.
Android users currently represent roughly 39% of the Irish smartphone market, making it by some distance the dominant operating system here.
The HSE has stressed for two months that the app does not track location, with all elements of contact tracing operating under bluetooth ‘handshake’ functionality.
However, in order for the app’s exposure notification protocol to function on Android phones location services must be enabled so that a device’s bluetooth radio ‘beacons’ can be activated, with the app rendered useless without them.
Privacy concern over Covid tracing system (irish Examiner)
Meanwhile…
Anon writes:
The new app. has two Dublin locations: “North Country Dublin” and “South Country Dublin“. UK designers?
What a country.
Anyone?
Previously: Tracing App Report Card
Origin Story
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From top: Former Minister for Health Simon Harris outside a cabinet meeting last January; The first coronavirus briefings for Minister Simon Harris.
Thread: The very earliest #COVIDー19 briefings for Minister Simon Harris. The first dates from Jan 21 and refers to a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan: “The likelihood of importation of cases of this new virus to Ireland or other European countries is considered to be low …” pic.twitter.com/YZMxSVip0K
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 7, 2020
This afternoon.
Horribly optimistic.
Briefing documents in full here
Thanks Ken
Two days after Bobby Storey’s funeral, the Executive quietly changed the law to remove the prohibition which prevented Michelle O’Neill from attending the funeral – but did not announce that, so many other families may be unaware of it.https://t.co/uZS9tidJaP
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) July 7, 2020
[Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister] [Michelle] O’Neill insists the funeral broke neither the law nor her guidance.
However, at 5.45pm last Thursday – two days after Mr Storey’s funeral, and amid huge controversy over senior Sinn Fein figures’ attendance at that event – the Department of Health made The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020, the latest in multiple updates to the regulations as lockdown is eased.
That legislation removed regulation 5 (2) g of the original lockdown regulations in which the restriction on who can attend a funeral was contained.
However, while that means that the prohibition on most people attending funerals has now been removed, many people will be unaware of the change – because Stormont did not publicise it.
Good times.
Stormont quietly changed funeral law just 48 hours after Michelle O’Neill breach (Newsletter)
Oh.
Samantha Morris writes:
Infographic from The Heritage Council showing the effects of COVID 19 on the heritage sector