Oh.
This morning.
Jervis Street Shopping Centre, Jervis Street, Dublin 1.
Pic by Nick
Meanwhile…
Well done Dunnes Stores – make it clear ! Think official Covid signs should say same … pic.twitter.com/mXLPjXzTbe
— Mary Mulvey (@ecoireland) September 22, 2020
Um.
Noel Gallagher refuses to wear a mask: “There’s too many fucking liberties being taken away from us” https://t.co/d8sp8p6z08 pic.twitter.com/OPyg34Xrco
— Stereogum (@stereogum) September 15, 2020
“I don’t wear a mask, no. The whole fucking thing is bollocks. You’re supposed to wear them in Selfridges but you can fucking go down to the pub and be surrounded by every fucking c**t. Oh well, actually, we don’t have the virus in the pubs, but we have it in Selfridges, oh alright.”
Noel Gallgher.
Over to you, Jedward, ‘Our Kid’, etc.
Noel Gallagher Refuses To Wear A Mask (Stereogum)
Earlier: Burn Before Reading
“It’s Very Clear People Don’t Want This Conversation To Happen”
Meanwhile…
If you think wearing a mask “does nothing” you must find the whole idea car windscreens, hats, nappies and coats to be a complete “load of bollocks”.
— Jarlath Regan (@Jarlath) September 15, 2020
A comedian, eh?
We are having an open discussion on my show on @RTE2fm tomorrow about face masks. Do you have strong opinions on wearing them or not wearing them ? I’d love to hear from you. Mail me jen@rte
— Jennifer Zamparelli (@JenniferMaguire) September 14, 2020
This morning.
A planned discussion on mask-wearing on RTÉ 2FM’s Jennifer Zamparelli Show has been scrapped following criticism on Twitter.
Via Independent.ie:
The presenter sounded clearly wounded on the show, as she announced: “Yes, I put out a tweet without thinking about the words I used,” but she added: “The intention of my tweet was very different to what was interpreted. I wanted your reaction on the weekend [protests].”
The presenter said she understood that her using the word “discussion” had “set off anger and hurt” adding “but to be honest it [anti-mask views] really shocked me, it shocked me as someone wearing a face mask since before we had to.”
“It’s very clear people don’t want this conversation to happen,” she said. “Judging from the reaction, we will not be doing this item today.”
Pic: RTÉ
Yesterday: “They Demand The Freedom To Walk Around Without Restrictions – That Is A Tiny Minority View”
This morning.
Ireland is among the most obedient countries in the world when it comes to muzzling up, according to research by financial comparison website Finder.com.
Singapore (76%), New Zealand (71%) and Australia (58%), had the lowest face mask ownership rates while the United Kingdom ranked number one (97%), followed by South Africa (90%), the Philippines (87%) and Mexico (85%).
Ireland ranked 5th for face mask adoption.
…Susannah Binsted writes:
The global study included a poll of 1,211 Irish adults, revealing 84% – the equivalent of 3,078,085 adults – own a specified face mask.
Cloth face masks are the most popular mask type in Ireland, with 42% of the adult population possessing one, followed by blue surgical masks (32%), homemade masks (11%) and medical grade masks (11%)….
Well done, everyone.
FIGHT!
Face masks and coronavirus in Ireland (Finder)
Meanwhile…
Hmm.
At the weekend.
Traveling maskless, mechanic Dara Flaherty is taken to a garda station and arrested for public order offences after refusing to wear a face covering on a bus in Renmore, Galway.
Mr Flaherty, who describes himself as a Nationalist Irish Republican, has urged others to buy a Day Saver ticket and make their own videos.
Earlier: That’s The Way
This morning.
Great Denmark Street, Rotunda, Dublin 1
Belvedere College Principal Gerry Mooney (navy suit) at the doors of the secondary school checking for pupils not wearing masks.
The boys kindly refused to point out Mr Mooney’s fetching but medically inadvisable ‘mask with a valve‘.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
This afternoon.
Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Protestors demonstrating outside RTE’s studios against the station’s covid coverage and the arrest by Bray Gardai of Gemma O’Doherty for alleged public order offences last Friday.
Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue (top right) with Micheal Martin and former Minister for Agriculture Barry Cowen in 2016; McConalogue is the third person to take on the role of Minister for Agriculture since the Government came to power in June.
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ News:
Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue has been nominated as the new Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the Dáil this afternoon. James Browne will succeed Mr McConalogue as Minister of State at the Department of Justice….
Charlie McConawhonow?
McConalogue was born in October 1977 and is from Gleneely in Co Donegal.
From a farming background, he was educated at Carndonagh Community School before going on to study at UCD where he studied Economics, Politics and History.
Mr McConalogue became involved in politics in UCD.
After working in Fianna Fáil’s headquarters for a number of years, as well as working abroad in Australia, he returned home to work on the family farm in Donegal.
In 2009, he ran for political office when he was elected to Donegal County Council. He was elected a TD for Donegal North East in 2011.
McConalogue to succeed Calleary in agriculture post (RTÉ)
Meanwhile….
This afternoon.
The Dáil at the Convention Centre, Dublin returns.
From top: Taoiseach Michael Martin; Green Party ministers Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin; Fianna Fáil TD Damine English; RISE TD Paul Murphy and Sinn Fein’s Louise O Reilly TD.
Meanwhile…
Don’t mind us.
Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins
Flip flopper.
If Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande can deliver THESE live vocals through full futuristic headgear you can survive wearing a cloth mask to go to the store Karen. #VMAs pic.twitter.com/A0nctB6eZQ
— Joey Nolfi (@joeynolfi) August 31, 2020
Last night.
The VMA Awards.
If it encourages young people to muzzle, it’ll be worth all the autotuned, transhuman gyrating.
Meanwhile…
Study of 750 people shows those refusing to wear masks are more likely to be narcissistic, Machiavellian and psychopathic. https://t.co/Lnhz2YqgJw
— Philip Boucher-Hayes (@boucherhayes) August 30, 2020
Heh.
This afternoon.
Montrose, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Anti-maskers, within close proximity to each other, gather outside RTÉ studios protesting at what they claim is the station’s ongoing ‘one-sided’, ‘government-biased’ and’ ‘fear-mongering’ coverage of the rona.
