Tag Archives: masks

This morning/afternoon.

O’Neill: ‘Collective leadership’ needed on masks at Croke Park (RTÉ)

Mask via Redbubble

Meanwhile…

Um.

From top: Minister for Education Norma Foley outside the Department of Education in Dublin earlier; A carbon monoxide monitor for classrooms

This afternoon.

Via RTÉ:

…an order of carbon dioxide monitors for schools has arrived and will be distributed in the coming days.

Minister for Education Norma Foley said the monitors are “an additional tool” to aid ventilation and the recommendation is that they should be portable and shared between classrooms at different times of the day.

Anyone?

Meanwhile..

Ms Foley said that pilot antigen testing is being carried out in the childcare sector and at third level, and said should it be recommended that antigen testing be rolled out in schools, she will be happy to comply with that….

Ms Foley said the Department of Health has recommended the continued use of masks at secondary level and not primary.

Minister ‘confident’ of measures in place for school reopening (RTÉ)

Sam Boal/RollingNews/Honeywell

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Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

Boyband impresario Louis Walsh helps Minister Foley launch the Arts Programme for Schools for reasons that remain unclear.

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

‘Masks’

A short film about the pandemic.

Emma writes:

‘Saoirse rides a train into the city, determined to get a pint, but also determined to ward off her own melancholic existential thoughts. In the pub, we meet a host of characters; a woman waiting for a date, two good friends and their bored girlfriends, a waitress who’d rather be anywhere else but there. A sense of magic hangs in the air in this pub. Little moments seem grand and strange as Saoirse considers making contact with the guy sitting at a nearby table.

Written, directed and produced by Conor Tobin.

Starring Angel Hannigan and Donal C Courtney

“Screw your freedom. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. You cannot just say, ‘I have the right to X, Y and Z.’ When you affect other people, that is when it gets serious.”

Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘You’re A Schmuck!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger Unloads On Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers (Huffington Post)

Anyone?

Retrospective – Clannad and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (RTE Player)

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Anyone?

Irish people should continue to wear face coverings even after the worst of Covid is over, says Anthony Staines (above), a professor of public health at Dublin City University

This morning.

“I would continue to wear a mask well after Christmas. To make it unnecessary we need to bring viral transmission and case numbers down a lot.

“A shift to outdoor culture and more mask wearing and working from home are not bad things. Mask wearing could be a permanent change in our behaviour like the Asian culture.”

Zero covid advocate and medical academic Anthony Staines

Fight!

Coronavirus Ireland: masks ‘will be needed well beyond Christmas’ (Independent.ie)

This morning.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Independent candidate Professor Dolores Cahill (above left) after being refused entry to the Dublin Bay South count centre.

Earlier…..

This morning.

RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Independent Dublin Bay South candidate Dolores Cahill, a professor at the school of medicine at the University College Dublin, is denied entry to the by-election count centre without a face covering.

More as we get it.

Earlier: Meanwhile, At The RDS

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Saturday.

Kildare town.

Andy Pipkin writes:

Surely this can’t be legal, to refuse entry because they can’t wear a mask due to medical conditions and the Gardaí stating it’s nothing to do with them? If this is where we’re heading good luck!!

Anyone?

This afternoon.

#TakeOffYourMask.

Or not.

Only you can decide.

Previously: Reveal The 8th

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On the streets.

Vaxxed but still masked.