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🚨 Dental Surgery in Tenerife tells
#TodayCB
: "In the past 2 weeks we have been getting a lot of bookings from Irish people, all the patients were requesting an email to confirm the appointment (which is new), and then they are not turning up"
@RTERadio1
📻 "I'm getting e-mails about re-training - I gave 35 years of my life to this business, I didn't do that to be told 'Why don't you re-train as a florist?'"
"I need help, I need assistance, & I don't need to be told 'Hold Firm'"
- Richard Jacob of
@IdahoCafe
on
#TodayCB
now
Earlier we spoke to Danielle Martins Ribeiro whose husband was due to be deported back to Brazil tomorrow - in the past hour it has been confirmed that her husband has been released from Cloverhill prison and the deportation is not going ahead tomorrow
@rtenews
Taoiseach says he doesn't think barrister Una McGurk's attendance at rally is compatible with membership of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal
#TodayCB
🎙️ "I drove around Conamara looking for needles and syringes" GP Peter Sloane, based in An Cheathrú Rua got vaccines, but no syringes last weekend.
#TodayCB
📻 Minister
@SimonHarrisTD
tells Claire Byrne it is his "very firm view" that people who are fully vaccinated and have negative PCR tests should not have to hotel quarantine, & to force them to do so "seems illogical".
#TodayCB
@RTERadio1
Retired Judge, Gillian Hussey, did not leave her home during lockdown, in case anyone would feel 'the judge thinks she's above the law', & it took toll on her health.
"I'm astounded to think ANY golf function would go ahead, but particularly this one," she says.
#TodayCB
🎙️ "I am fully convinced the virus is NOT under control... I see a lot of rules & regulations but it's a laugh for a lot of people...
"Until I can make my business safe, & the virus is treatable or there's a vaccine, I am not opening my gyms."
- Ben Dunne tells
@SarahAMcInerney
🎙️ "I really don't think that Michael O'Leary is a good source of public health advice" - Dr
@GabrielScally
reacts to the
@Ryanair
Group CEO's latest commentary on masks
#todayrte
@rtenews
📻 Noelle Brown, who was born in Bessborough Mother & Baby Home, tells
#TodayCB
extracts of the testimony she gave to the Commission arrived to her in the post this morning and it has "at least 10 glaring inaccuracies" within it.
@RTERadio1
🎙️ "I'm so disappointed, & completely puzzled...for the first time I could let my child's hand go in the park, because there wasn't traffic roaring by... I have serious questions here"
-
@neasa_neasa
Green Party TD on traffic re-opening in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
#TodayRTE
"Until we have a vaccine or an efficient treatment for those who are ill, we are going to have to be really careful about how we live, & we’ll have to continue social distancing"
- Dr Catherine Motherway, president of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland, speaking to
#TodaySOR
Confirmation from a Dublin primary school principal that a child has tested positive for Covid 19 and that the class has been sent home. The pupil did not contract the virus in school
#TodayCB
🎙️ "I haven't spoken to him, but I will invite Barry Cowen to come down here, to the cemetery where my wife & daughter are buried, & I will explain to him the serious problem with unaccompanied learner drivers"
- Noel Clancy on
#TodayRTE
, responding to Barry Cowen's statement.
🎙️ Dr
@CillianDeGascun
confirms the NPHET advice since May has been for "mandatory quarantine" at a "designated facility", for international arrivals, and this has been consistent, but he says Government has to balance legislative challenges as well.
#TodayRTE
📻 Dr Mary Favier, Covid-19 Advisor
@ICGPnews
& Member of NPHET, says it is "dispiriting" and "demoralising" for healthcare workers to see the number of people entering the country in recent weeks.
The health service has "one hand tied behind its back", she tells
#TodayCB
.
"Britain declared a trade war on themselves" says
@davidmcw
, says it's cause for optimism for Ireland:
"When your neighbour goes mad, all you have to do is do nothing"
#TodayCB
📻"Today we are expecting 2 Irish patients, but we don't know really if they'll turn up...
"Obviously as they are not turning up, we now understand it is just an excuse for a holiday... they are taking appointments away from people who need them"
- Tenerife Dentist on
#TodayCB
😷 You are at "additional risk" if you are being served in a hospitality setting, or getting your hair cut, by someone wearing a visor instead of a mask, according to Dr Mary Favier
@RosaBlackGP
.
#TodayCB
🚨 Dr Colm Henry
@CcoHse
tells
@SarahAMcInerney
he is in favour of MANDATORY quarantine for anyone arriving from a country with a high incidence of
#Covid19
.
He also says people should NOT travel abroad unless "absolutely essential, & that does not include holidays".
#TodayRTE
"I sort of misspoke, what I meant to say was productivity could be reduced by 40%... I don't think there's any likelihood of anything as mad as a 40% rise in costs [for the National Children's Hospital]" - Tom Parlon of
@CIF_Ireland
on
#TodayRTE
now.
@rtenews
📻 Josh Willis is encouraging everyone to get a Covid-19 vaccine, following the death of his wife Samantha last week.
Samantha was just 35 years old, but had not been vaccinated, and she died shortly after giving birth to their daughter.
Josh joins
#TodayCB
now.
@RTERadio1
🎙️ "Dara Calleary has set the bar" - Sinn Féin's Health Spokesperson
@davidcullinane
tells
@SarahAMcInerney
there should be further resignations today, following Oireachtas Golf Dinner. He says Commissioner Phil Hogan, and Supreme Court Judge Seamus Wolfe, must resign.
#TodayRTE
How many TDs are landlords, and how much do they earn?
Our producer
@ali_mcconnell
crunched the numbers, and we debated whether this was a conflict of interest for the TDs, with
@BridSmithTD
,
@Damien_English
and
@LorcanSirr
Here's what we found:
🎙️ On Killarney: 'There will always be people who do stupid things... we also shouldn't decide that it's just one generation when we talk about parties. There were no students in Clifden' Minister
@SimonHarrisTD
#TodayCB
🎙️ Owen Keegan, CEO of
@DubCityCouncil
tells
@SarahAMcInerney
that "unless there is some unanticipated adverse consequence" of a 4-weekend pedestrianisation trial for 5 city-centre Dublin streets, he is "very confident that this will become a permanent feature".
#TodayRTE
Bishop Kevin Doran tells
@TodaySOR
'Catholics who voted Yes should consider coming to confession, where you would be received with the same compassion as any other penitent'. He says voting Yes was a 'sin'.
#8thRef
@RTERadio1
Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
tells
@TodaySOR
that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin advised him in the wake of the controversial 'sinning priest' comment: 'Next time you’re looking for an example of hypocrisy, maybe use your own profession'.
#TodaySOR
@RTERadio1
Seamus Mallon, veteran political leader of the peace process, tells
@MiriamOCal
we have seen too many false dawns to be optimistic about latest NI talks & that Karen Bradley isn't the right SoS to drive progress: "She has proved she hasn't a clue what she's doing here".
@rtenews
"His suitability as Taoiseach comes into question, he's been seen as weak he's been seen as arrogant"
@MaryLouMcDonald
on Leo Varadkar's handling of the current political crisis
#TodaySOR
📻 "I think we should go ahead with a cautious reopening on the 5th of July, and I want to see a challenging public discussion about what is 'acceptable risk'"
Prof
@SamuelMcConkey1
, Infectious Diseases Consultant, tells
#TodayCB
Q -
@SarahAMcInerney
: "Was it justified for the IRA to kill people?"
A -
@MaryLouMcDonald
: "It was justified to take on the British state...I'm not justifying every action at all, & I absolutely understand the horror & pain that was visited on people"
#TodayRTE
@RTERadio1
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🎙 “I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty tired. I'm only human. It’s been one of the harder grand tours I've ever done.“
- Sam Bennett
@Sammmy_Be
spoke to
@TodaywithClaire
as he faces into a gruelling final week of the
#tourdefrance
🚴♂️
"I've worked all my life, so I know nothing else" - Eamonn Duffy, 84-year-old GP who started his Monaghan practice in 1965, tells
#TodaySOR
he is unable to retire as a replacement for his job has not yet been found.
@rtenews
@RTERadio1
📻 "We're relying on the EU for vaccines... but to protect 5m people, I won't mind going outside the rules of that club, as others have done - we need to reach out to our friends"
"The Government is not doing enough"
- Fianna Fáil TD
@JMcGuinnessTD
tells Claire Byrne.
#TodayCB
🎙Public Health specialist
@marietcasey
tells Claire about a workplace outbreak: 1 colleague asymptomatic, quick meeting in a room with little ventilation, no masks. All 8 infected.
#TodayCB
It's not all down to house parties and young people, says
@Rheum2improve
. We need to think about brunches, lunches, dinner parties, Communions too. We have to be able to personalise the message and modify our behaviour
#TodayCB
BREAKING: Majella Moynihan, whose story was told on the
@RTEdoconone
on Saturday, tells
@TodaySOR
she "welcomes and really appreciates" the Garda Commissioner's offer to meet her and apologise in person. She joins us in studio now, listen on
@RTERadio1
.
#TodaySOR
@rtenews
Green Party former Gen Election and EU Parliament candidate
@saoirse_mchugh
confirms that she will not vote for the Programme for Government
#todayradio
John Mc Guinness: "There is a consensus across the country that has grown since polling day, within the membership and indeed unspoken within the parliamentary party that would say we do need now to talk to others, including Sinn Féin".
#todayrte
"They couldn't care less about Ruth, or me or our children or our families, they only care about saving money" Emma Mhic Mhathuna discusses the
#cervicalcheckscandal
with
@MiriamOCal
now
#TodaySOR
📻 Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
dismisses as "nonsense" a statement from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry that the forced diversion of a Ryanair plane was legal & in line with international rules:
"We all know what happened here", he tells
#TodayCB
@rtenews
On Min Barry Cowen: 'We now find ourselves in the extraordinary situation that a government minister is contradicting, it seems, a garda report. That is not a sustainable position at all'
@MaryLouMcDonald
#todayrte
📻
@TJRyan_77
of
@ISAGCOVID19
tells
#TodayCB
schools are only safe when the community is safe, & they should reopen county-by-county.
“The B117 variant is more infectious to children. It's not true that the only risk is parents moving around schools"
🎧⬇️
📻 "I would see at least 5, 6 even 7 emails and calls from young Irish people - normally they are older - but now they are young and they clearly just want a holiday"
- Tenerife Dentist tells
#TodayCB
they've been receiving Irish appointment requests in past 2 weeks.
@RTERadio1
"We'd like to thank people for staying at home, & saving lives. We have increasing numbers coming out the other end of moderate & severe symptomatic Covid19, and even walking out of hospital. We can continue doing that as long as we don't hit capacity" -
@EoghandeB
on
#TodaySOR
Master of Holles Street Professor Shane Higgins tells us that over the next week or two the NMH will be allowing birth partners into the hospital more frequently for longer periods of time
#todayrte
@RTERadio1
Later at ten we'll speak to
@GabrielScally
about border security, the Boris Johnson address last night and cancer screening - it's the same SOR team with Sarah Mc Inerney in the chair.. you can email todayradio
@rte
.ie and tweet us
@TodayRadioRTE
📻 Brendan Ó Dufaigh Snr, whose son Ogie, captain of the Monaghan U-20s football team, died in a car accident last month, joins
#TodayCB
now, ahead of his month's mind this weekend
@RTERadio1
📻 "I was in India when a tsunami struck, I was in an ED after a plane crash in Sudan, when dead bodies flooded in - but this is by far the scariest experience"
Dr Ahmed El Samani tells
@evelyn_orourke
about calls to fast-track citizenship for foreign front-line workers
#TodayCB
🎙️ "The wind was so strong nobody could hear us scream" - Ellen Glynn, one of the paddleboarders rescued off Galway Bay yesterday, is on
#TodayRTE
now.
@RTERadio1
🎙️ On Dr Anthony O'Connor leaving Twitter, Min for Health
@DonnellyStephen
says: "I'm a big fan of Anthony's, he's a phenomenal advocate for healthcare... This was a private message from one citizen to another... it had nothing to do with me".
#TodayCB
📻 Thousands of people from Donegal will march on Dublin next week, amid growing anger over the Mica Redress Scheme
@BarryLenihan
reports for
#TodayCB
🎧⬇️
"It's all about Britain for
#DanielKinahan
now, & it's up to the British media, who sadly have been quiet so far. We're blue in the face, now it's time for British journalists to step up & ask hard questions."
-
@IsFearrAnStar
Crime Correspondent
@MickTheHack
tells
#TodayRTE
🎙️ "At one FG meeting... somebody had gone to the effort of getting a sod of turf... and she was going to present it to me, in front of people... that's designed to diminish... 'you're not from here'":
Former FG TD Kate O'Connell
@campaignforkate
#TodayCB
📻 Minister for Health
@DonnellyStephen
tells
#TodayCB
he "can't answer definitively" whether the Taoiseach has the authority to sack a FG minister.
He says "this is a coalition, & in a coalition govt one party does not tell another party who they can & can't have at Cabinet"
🎙️ "Unless someone puts a bit of research in front of me to tell me that those blocks will be fine... then the only thing that I can suggest, if they're pointed out to be deleterious, is to take them out"
Dr Ambrose McCloskey, Structural Engineer on
#MICA
#TodayCB
Earlier
@DrMikeRyan
Executive Director, WHO Health Emergency Programme told us that pubs here may have to re-opened on a county by county basis
@rtenews
🎙️
@SarahAMcInerney
: "Are you telling me in relation to the Green List countries that you should not travel there?"
🎙️ Tánaiste
@LeoVaradkar
: "No… the virus doesn't know if you’re on essential or non-essential business. But the safest thing is not to travel at all"
#TodayRTE
Dr
@GabrielScally
tells
#TodaySOR
Stormont politicians who have read
@TheSundayTimes
Insight article "must surely re-evaluate their adherence to Whitehall advice, they've got it seriously wrong on several issues...it looks like the UK could have the highest deaths in Europe"
According to the latest available Register of Members' Interests for Dáil Eireann (for the year 2018):
🔴 35 TDs in the current Dáil are landlords
🔴 That's 22% of the 158 sitting TDs
🎙️ 26 out of 28 residents in a nursing home in the West have tested positive for Covid 19. Speaking to GP
@DrMartinDaly
now. Nurse is 72 hours on duty with three other staff.
#TodayCB
GAA President John Horan tells
#TodaySOR
he is "shocked" to hear reports that inter-county GAA players could be permitted to train: "At no stage have we discussed the return of inter-county training, with any Government department... I'm aghast as to where this has come from."
📻 Trainer Ted Walsh tells Claire Byrne that Gordon Elliott losing his stable stars, such as Envoi Allen, will hurt more than any licence penalty he could receive from the IHRB
🎧Listen back to the full interview here ⬇️
#TodayCB