Tag Archives: coronavirus

Um.

This afternoon.

Thanks, Ursula.

Meanwhile…

FIGHT!

Elderly?

Living abroad?

Read on.

Darragh Doyle writes:

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum has developed a Stay At Home Library curated especially for older Irish people abroad who are cocooning.

Featuring the best of Irish documentaries, dramas, music, podcasts, sporting highlights and more, this is an online resource curated to bring a real taste of Ireland to anyone who loves the country or the culture.

Anyone abroad who is missing Ireland should find this entertaining and useful. It is our hope that people with elderly relatives abroad will share this link with them, especially if recent times have forced them to become more internet literate than before.

The RTÉ Player, RTÉ Archives, TG4 Player and GAA Now have shared their programmes available internationally. We have also included poems from Poetry Ireland, concerts with The Ruby Sessions, the National Concert Hall and more.

Stay At Home Library (EPIC)y

Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health Dr. Tony Holohan at a press briefing last night; charts at last night’s briefing.

 

Last night.

We’re moving without movement.

Data suggests people starting to increase movement, says chief medical officer (Belfast Telegraph)

Rollingnews

Meanwhile…

That special friend…

Rob Reeves writes:

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in quarantine, it is to let the people in your life know how you feel about them. I have had something I’ve needed to tell my best friend for a long time.

Wait for it…

Rob Reeves Films

The Beacon Quarter, Sandyford, Dublin 18 this morning

Fluffybiscuits writes:

I am writing this with a great degree of worry for those who are living under lockdown.

I have a big enough circle of friends and some of them are suffering from mental health issues due to them being alone or looking after elderly parents.

There are tears and frustration, loneliness and despair.

Some of them are longing to see their parents or their family and others are aching for physical contact.

These people are prepared to go through the social distancing but at what mounting cost?

There must be many like me at home concerned about loved ones catching the virus and those whose mental health is going downhill. Any advice?

Rollingnews

This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2.

The Dáil reconvenes to debate coronavirus measures and the lockdown.

From top: Fine Gael minister Josepha Madigan; Green Party leader Eamon Ryan; Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins; from left: People Before profit TDs Brid Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny; Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan

Rollingnews

Our Insect overlords.

Are they multiplying?

Tipperary-based apple farmer and horticulturist Cornelius Traas writes:

I Had a van driver delivering to me yesterday. His van was covered in squashed insects (see above). He said he hasn’t seen the likes in 25 years. I was noticing the same a few days ago.

Our chat ensued about how this was mostly just because many less vehicles on the road at the moment. Then we went on to discuss how many more are probably now surviving due to less traffic. And then to how much of a factor traffic is in insect decline.

And conversation then went to possibly mathematically modelling the contribution of traffic to loss of insect life in Ireland. Always felt it was a major factor. This looks like evidence.

Anyone?