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This morning.
RTÉ's Morning Ireland studio and web producer Lisa Pereira tweetz:
"Whatever works, right? Thanks to Louise Byrne for the tip."
This morning.
RTÉ's Morning Ireland studio and web producer Lisa Pereira tweetz:
"Whatever works, right? Thanks to Louise Byrne for the tip."
Irish Defence forces loading and transporting vital PPE equipment after the first of many Aer Lingus flights returned to Dublin airport from China today #Covid_19 #covidireland #AerLingus #heroes pic.twitter.com/LjNJQtu2Pa
— Gary Ashe (@Gasheman) March 29, 2020
Members of the Irish Defence Forces loading PPE equipment after it arrived in Dublin Airport yesterday from China
This morning.
On RTÉ's Morning Ireland, China's Ambassador to Ireland He Xiangdong spoke to Rachael English about the shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) on their way to Ireland from China, a deal in which Mr He and his staff have been involved.
The interview followed the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey claiming they have encountered problems with Chinese-made coronavirus testing kits and protective equipment.
It also followed the first batch of PPE arriving in Ireland from China, as part of a €208million deal, yesterday and being distributed around the country from last night.
Before the ambassador spoke to Ms English, the HSE's Chief Operations Officer Anne O'Connor told Ms English that further shipments will arrive in Ireland via a total of ten flights by Wednesday this week.
She added:
"I think we have 300 flights coming with PPE over the coming weeks so that is very significant."
At the end of her interview with the ambassador, Ms English and Mr He had this exchange…
Rachael English: "People may have seen reports over the past days from the Netherlands, the Government there saying that some face masks it imported from China, that there was a problem with them. Can you reassure people that that won't be the case here?"
He Xiangdong: "I think that the HSE procurement department are working closely with the suppliers there in China. I think that we will try our best, do our best, together, to make sure that all the PPE will abide by the standards."
English: "Well, listen, thank you very much for joining us…"
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Faults in China-supplied coronavirus equipment reported in Europe (The Irish Times)
Aer Lingus flight en route to China to collect #PPE has returned to #Dublin shortly after take off. @VirginMediaNews
"EI9018 has returned to Dublin following a bird strike…. it will be assessed..upon its clearance for travel a new departure time will be ascertained" pic.twitter.com/DJxtffGJkt
— Zara King (@ZaraKing) March 30, 2020
"To be very clear to everybody in Ireland today: you need to abide by the social distancing. That means there should be 2 metres between you and other people," Minister for Health @SimonHarrisTD tells RTÉ's @MorningIreland | @rtenews #coronavirus #covid19 pic.twitter.com/gntSKKo4rF
— RTÉ (@rte) March 23, 2020
Health Minister Simon Harris speaking to Bryan Dobson on RTÉ's Morning Ireland
This morning.
Further to repeated calls from politicians and health experts for people to maintain "social distancing" of two metres, and suggestions that further restrictions on people's movement will be put in place on account of the coronavirus, Health Minister Simon Harris told Bryan Dobson on RTÉ's Morning Ireland:
"We did see, over the course of this weekend see scenes of large gatherings, the one in Glendalough perhaps might have been the one that most people were talking about.
"I'm very pleased that the council stepped in there and said 'look, we can't properly socially distance here, we're shutting down the car park, we're shutting down the food premises. That's the sort of decisive action that needs to be taken…
"To be very clear to everybody in Ireland today, you need to abide by the social distancing, that means there should be two metres between you and other people.
"If you can't do that, you shouldn't be operating. Tomorrow the National Public Health Emergency team will meet. We've been very clear, myself and the Taoiseach, we won't be making decisions based on kind of Twitter trends or political populism, we'll follow the public health advice.
"Tomorrow Tony Holohon's team will consider if there are further recommendations to be made to Government and I quite frankly expect that it's likely we're going to be receiving further recommendations from them…
"…we know that the two metres needs to be abided by and perhaps we know that there are some places where that hasn't been possible to happen. So perhaps greater guidance in relation to playgrounds and public spaces could be useful as well and perhaps greater supports and guidance for businesses too…"
Paul Cullen, in today's The Irish Times, reports that 40,000 people across Ireland are waiting for a coronavirus test.
Mr Cullen reports:
The HSE is now acknowledging people are waiting an average of four to five days to get tested; add in at least another two days for the swabbed sample to be processed and results reported back to the patients, and that gives an average delay of a week.
This is bad news for a system allegedly following the World Health Organisation advice to "test, test, test". It is also of concern that it has taken so long for the system to admit to the delays, after journalists were last week being fobbed off with non-specific answers to their questions.
…The real problem is that the delays in testing are causing knock-on delays in contact tracing, the other essential element in the two-pronged approach used by Asian countries to successfully tackle their epidemics.
…The weekend has been dominated by discourse about a minority of people not observing social distancing rules. In reality, we are more likely to need a lockdown as a result of misfiring testing and contract tracing systems than because people chose to take walks on beaches and in parks.
Coronavirus: Delays in testing and tracing are the real problem (Paul Cullen, The Irish Times)
Hueston Station, Dublin this morning
WATCH: Interview with Minister for Health Simon Harris | Read more coronavirus coverage: https://t.co/839hgCRs1u https://t.co/UXPnzhfxBm
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 13, 2020
This morning.
Minister for Health Simon Harris spoke to Bryan Dobson on RTÉ Radio One's Morning Ireland.
It followed a decision of the National Health Emergency Team last night, that people returning from Spain and Italy will be given leaflets at Irish airports in which they'll be encouraged to restrict their movements for the next two weeks, specifically to not go to work and to lessen their social contacts.
In regards to people returning from Cheltenham, Mr Harris said they will get information about symptoms.
The Health Minister also said:
"We're more likely to get this virus in our home from bad practice in terms of hand hygiene and the like, so do please follow the health advice. You have a really important role to play."
Of the closures announced yesterday, he said:
"They're in place now until the 29th of March, they'll be reviewed right through the process and reviewed again on the 29th of March. If they need to be extended they will be but we need see. We've taken some very, very significant measures that are asking people in our country to alter their behaviour quite significantly for the next fortnight. We'll only obviously continue those measures if it's absolutely necessary and if they're proving to have a benefit.
"So at this stage it's too early to say [if they closures be extended for a longer period of time]."
"….It is an absolutely reality that this is something that could be with us for many, many months and we have to be conscious when we're taking those measures as well, that measures we take have to be sustainable. We have to try to keep our country going, not to put our country into lockdown, we need people to go to work today and we need people to bake the bread and supply our supermarkets and we need our healthcare professionals to get to work.
"And we need to look after each other as well. So all of the measures we're taking have to be seen through that prism.
"This is not a storm that goes away after a couple of days. This is asking people to alter our behaviour and change our lives for quite a period of time ahead."
He also said:
"We have a suite of measures but we have to implement them at the right time and I think what we've now shown is a willingness to do that, to listen and to act quickly and decisively and we'll continue to do that.
"Obviously all of the measures that have been put in place could be scaled up, if the need arose so we have banned gatherings indoors of 100 people, outdoors of 500 people, there's obviously potential to do that,
"But what we won't be doing is kind of strongman, macho politics movements where you're looking like you're doing something for he sake of doing something. We'll be following the science here, we'll be following the doctors' advice, we'll be listening to the chief medical officer and we'll be acting."
"…It's very much a marathon not a sprint. Our country is not in lockdown. This is still, the same great country it was yesterday. We're just asking everybody to live their lives a little bit differently so that we can try and make a real national collective effort."
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BREAKING: British Airways has confirmed that it has cancelled all flights to and from Italy today.
Read the latest on #coronavirus here: https://t.co/fSYHwMCGMD pic.twitter.com/vI9jvij6bw
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 10, 2020
And here's another Ryanair flight about to land from Milan. Sure what could go wrong ? #COVID19ireland #todaysor pic.twitter.com/YEC7Ezp5q4
— James Madden (@jamesmadden1) March 10, 2020
A Cabinet Subcommittee meeting yesterday on Covid-19 with politicians and officials including Tanaiste Simon Coveney (left)
This morning.
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney spoke to Dr Gavin Jennings on RTÉ's Morning Ireland about the coronavirus.
He spoke about the Department of Foreign Affairs advising Irish people not to travel to anywhere in Italy while conceding that Ireland cannot "control" people travelling from Italy to Ireland.
They later discussed the immediate figure of public gatherings in Ireland with Mr Coveney indicating that fresh advice on this is imminent.
From the interview…
Jennings: "You announced packages yesterday of nearly €2.5billion to help people to stay at home. How soon will it be before more people are asked to stay at home?"
Coveney: "Well as the Taoiseach outlined yesterday, and I think [Health Minister] Simon Harris has been doing it as well, I mean there are, there are different phases here in terms of how you respond to something like this. We are currently in the initial, what's called, 'containment phase'.
"In other words, anybody who tests positive, we want to establish who they are, where they've come from and the likely source of infection. And so the vast majority of the 24 people who've tested positive in Ireland so far have come form Northern Italy and they've brought it home with them.
"And of course then our public health team have followed all of the contacts that those people have had to try to make sure that we follow any others who may have been exposed to that virus.
"That's been the focus so far which is really about containment and minimising the number of people who are exposed to the virus. But I think it is inevitable that we will move on to what's called the 'delay phase' which is essentially trying to stop the spread of a virus in a population that has no immunity and recognising the reality that we effectively have no vaccine and no treatment for this virus right now.
"And therefore the only way that we have of effectively limiting the numbers of people who contract the virus is through old public communication and of course providing comprehensive and good healthcare to people who have symptoms."
Jennings: "At what point will that happen? At what point will we move on to a 'delay or mitigating phase' and that more people are asked to stay away from each other?"
Coveney: "Well, I mean, in some ways, that's already starting. I mean we've, we cancelled, or postponed at least, a large rugby fixture, we're also cancelling, essentially, St Patrick's Day parades across the country. And if our public health team make further recommendations in relation to public gatherings, we will follow that advice and I understand that Tony Holohan, who is the chief medical officer and his team will be meeting today at the National Public Health Emergency Team and they will be looking to, to give clearer and more detailed guidelines around public gatherings. So that we can give people and organisations more direct advice on that, sooner rather than later."
Jennings: "It looks that there are kind of two choices. Lock everything down before thousands become infected or lock everything down after thousands become infected, like what's happened in Italy. Why are we waiting to make more moves here?"
Coveney: "Well, we are, I think trying to provide responses that are proportionate. So you know if you shut a country down without good reason and evidence to back that up, then I think you can cause significant damage to people's quality of life also. And so what we're trying to do is follow the public health advice that is appropriate, given the level of threat at any given time.
"And, you know, I'm a politician, a policymaker, we need to listen to experts in terms of the recommendations and the advice that they give. And I think that we need to follow that. This response needs to be health-driven and that is what we're doing, rather than politicians going off on solo runs and doing things that aren't recommended.
"We're very much working with our public health team, with the HSE and with the chief medical officer. Meetings are happening literally every day. Advice and discussions are happening at a European level and at a national level and as you saw yesterday, the Government will respond comprehensively on the back of public health advice."
Jennings: "You were on television last night [Claire Byrne Live], taking questions for some time and beside you was a doctor and an expert academic, talking about increasing social distancing. They were talking about measures like closing schools, universities, pubs, restaurants and more.
"Now you got briefings yesterday from health experts, privately, can you just explain to us what they're thinking is as to what point more social distancing, more restrictions will be introduced. We've what 24 cases in this State, 36 cases on the island of Ireland. At what point will more measures be introduced?"
Coveney: "I mean I think the direct answer to that question is when it will be effective to do that. And I think it's important to say that the Government isn't ruling out any course of action.
"If this virus takes hold and starts to spread in clusters in different parts of the country, we will need to respond very firmly to that. To try to delay the spread of the virus as best we can. I mean if you look at, and I'm learning about this like everybody else is, but from what I'm told, if you look at how a virus like this spreads in a population, the challenge for us is to slow down the spread of that infection, to give health authorities the time and the space to be able to respond to that comprehensively and to give populations also the time to actually understand how they can protect themselves and their families.
"So instead of this being a dramatic peak where very large numbers of people are impacted by the virus in a very short period of time, we're trying to actually spread out that curve over a period of time, so that we can respond in the appropriate way to protect, most importantly, vulnerable citizens from this because don't forget the vast majority of people who will be impacted by this virus will get through it.
"They will have relatively mild impacts on their health but maybe up to 20 per cent of people who contract the virus will have a significant health impact and of course a small percentage, for a small percentage, it could be fatal.
"And if you have very large numbers in the population impacted, well then even small percentages can mean thousands of people losing their lives. So this is something we are monitoring on a daily basis and you know as the Taoiseach said yesterday, really the challenge for the country here, potentially, if the spread of this virus happens on a worst-case scenario basis, this is a challenge that is totally unprecedented…"
Jennings: "Yes."
Coveney: "…in Irish modern history."
Jennings: "If the challenge is that big though why not move earlier? If the Taoiseach says almost 60% of people could become infected, what grounds are there not to move to delay with mitigating measures now?"
Coveney: "Well… I think that what we're trying to do here is to respond to a crisis as it develops. And if you use all your ammunition on day one and then effectively…"
Jennings: "Do you not want to move before it develops?"
Coveney: "Yes, we are and we are doing that. That's why we have already cancelled very big events, that's why we have taken unprecedented action in relation to travel advice. That's why we are preparing now, in our health service, to add significant bed numbers to decant people from hospital who don't need to be there. So that we create space to try to deal with a problem that could become much, much worse, very, very quickly. So a lot is happening. And of course the advice will be upgraded on a daily basis.
"You know the special Cabinet committee on Covid-19 is meeting again on Friday, again on Monday after that. The national public health emergency team is meeting again today. And of course will update the Government, in relation to advise.
"So you may find that the Government moves to do a lot more very quickly but I think we need to do that on the basis of good, public health advice rather than on the back of political pressure."
Jennings: "But there may be people this morning, listening, minister, who may decide to move before Government advice, before pubic health advice. People who are organising events, people who are organising matches, people who are organising parties, public gatherings who will think 'will I wait for the advice from Government' or is the responsible thing for me to do now, to keep people away from each other where possible?"
Coveney: "Well I think, as the Taoiseach said yesterday, I think we should all think carefully about unnecessary public gatherings and I think you will get advice shortly, if not even this evening, but certainly in the next few days on public gatherings and numbers and proximity and so on.
"But we want to make sure that advice is accurate and based on as sound, on evidence-based as we can provide it. So what I would say to people is if you are organising seminars, if you're bringing people together for whatever reason, whether it's a concert, whether it's a sporting fixture, whatever it is, keep a close eye on the HSE website and we will be proving updated information on public gatherings shortly."
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— The Late Late Show (@RTELateLateShow) March 10, 2020
WATCH: Interview with Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, on the coronavirus outbreak | Read more: https://t.co/5mZCthGh5Z https://t.co/4WKmTkAqn3
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 25, 2020
From Ireland V Italy game in Six Nations in 2013; and Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical officer at the Department of Health on RTÉ News last night
This morning.
Minister for Health Simon Harris is to meet representatives of the Irish Rugby Football Union after it sought "reasoning" behind Mr Harris' call to cancel the Six Nations Ireland V Italy rugby game on March 7 because of a coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy.
Last night, the IRFU released a statement saying:
"The IRFU is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister Harris as to the specific reasoning behind calling for the cancellation of the Ireland V Italy Six Nations fixture in the context of the Government's overall travel policy to and from Italy and other affected countries.
"Until such time as the IRFU has had contact with the Minister and gets an understanding of the government's strategic policy on travel to and from Ireland and the cancellation of mass gatherings, it is not in a position to comment further.
It's been reported there have been 90 suspected cases tested in Ireland but none have tested positive for the virus.
On RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Jackie Fox spoke to Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer at the Department of Health and asked him if it would be possible for the game to be played "behind closed doors".
Dr Holohan said that would be a matter for the IRFU.
Ms Fox also asked him about St Patrick's Day.
From the interview…
Dr Tony Holohan: "This won't be the only mass gathering that we will look at. But this was one that was coming quite soon and obviously involving an area in Europe that has been added to the list of countries that you've just outlined where community transmission is taking place and we felt we couldn't make no other responsible advice or decision."
Jackie Fox: 'But there's nothing to stop the 2,500 thousand Italian fans still travelling to Ireland. Should flights have been cancelled rather the game?"
Holohan: "No, we don't think that would be a proportionate measure. The WHO is not recommending cancellation of, or restrictions on foreign travel. We make specific travel advisories available and in this country we do that through the Department of Foreign Affairs and their website there. And we make available information then through the points of entry to the country to raise awareness.
"And we'll be stepping up that as part of the decision that was taken yesterday with more information and physical presence of HSE staff and more posturing and leaflets and so on at the airport. To raise awareness of the symptoms that could occur so if you've travelled back from one of the listed areas that you've set out which are Japan, Singpore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Iran, and one of the four regions, now identified in Northern Italy, which are Lombardy and Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Piemonte alongside mainland China.
"If you've come back from any of those regions in the last 14 days and experienced flu-like symptoms such as a cough, shortness of breath, breathing difficulties or a fever, you should stay at home, make contact with your GP and be guided by your GP from there. "
Fox: "The IRFU are meeting with the minister today. If they choose not to take this advice, do authorities have the power to stop this fixture from going ahead?"
Holohan: "I think the IRFU is a responsible organisation and will be willing to work with us to ensure that a measure that we have advised like this which nobody wants to find ourselves in a position of having to to cancel or recommend not take place, I'm sure that they, as a responsible organisation, will be, just as we are, minded to act in the interests of the health and welfare, not only of their spectators but for their players."
Fox: "But could they, for instance, play the game behind closed doors?"
Holohan: "Well, that will be a matter for them."
Holohan: "It is an unfolding infection. We don't know everything about it. We know that the pattern of severity in relation to it, based on the information about it out of China and other places that have experiencing significant number of cases can be severe, that in 20% of cases, approximately, people have a severe illness. And in a small percentage of cases but it would be substantially higher that is currently the case with 'flu, unfortunately deaths are occurring at a rate of about 2%. But that is not insignificant and it would be nothing other than irresponsible of us if we weren't to respond fully with the containment measures that we now have in place to try and limit the spread of that in the first instance and prepare ourselves fully in the event that we do have community transmission taking place in this country to minimise the impact on the population here."
Fox: "Briefly, can I just ask you briefly about the next mass gathering that's due here, on St Patrick's Day. Are there plans or is that being looked at at the moment?"
Holohan: "Mass gatherings of all kinds take place all of the time as I'm sure you know from small meetings to large conferences and sporting and other fixtures. So as well as the decision that we recommended in relation to the rugby match, we've set up a process to enable anybody, any organiser of a mass gathering to get in touch and for us to consider, according to the guidelines I mentioned, the guidelines that would have informed our decision yesterday in relation to the match, to give that advice in relation to those mass gatherings.
"It can be difficult to predict for something that's a number of weeks away because we could find ourselves in a situation where other regions of the world are affected. Italy was not an area of concern for us a week ago and it's now the reason why we've made this recommendation. So this is a fast-changing situation so it's impossible to make a prediction now as to where we might be for a an event that could be, you know, five, six weeks, or more weeks away."
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Previously: La Forza De Destino
From top: Apple CEO Tim Cook greets Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at an IDA Ireland event in the National Concert Hall last month to mark Apple's 40 years of investment; Aidan Regan
On RTÉ' Radio One's Morning Ireland.
Dr Gavin Jennings asked rhetorically why most people who voted in the general election, and who responded to RTÉ's exit poll, said "they didn't believe they benefitted from the country's economic recovery".
He told listeners:
"Ireland's economy is growing richer, faster than most European countries and there are more people working than ever before."
Dr Jennings then interviewed Associate Professor at University College Dublin's School of Politics and International Relations Aidan Regan, who writes a column in the Business Post.
Dr Gavin Jennings: "You were writing in the Sunday Business Post, as far back as 2017 that the economic boom was setting up a political timebomb that could stoke a Brexit-style backlash. What did you mean and do you think you were right?"
Aidan Regan: "I mean, broadly speaking, yes. Perhaps not as quick as has appeared to have happened. But what's meant by that, and of course, I don't pick the headlines for these things…what's meant by that is that Ireland is very dependent on one or two key sectors and in particular, and increasingly so, on the ICTC sector, let's say big tech, right, for your listeners."
"And that foreign direct investment and big capital for technology companies has been beneficial right? It has ultimately lifted the economy out of the recession. It has generated computer service exports and in that sense has enabled the Government in the austerity years to implement an internal adjustment without effectively crashing the entire economy.
"But, in terms of the kind of job and income growth and productivity gains that comes with that, it's very narrowly concentrated in a very small section of the workforce.
"And those work in these high-tech, high-income sectors, or more concretely, in these firms, like think about Dublin City here where we are, Google is the biggest…"
Jennings: "Apple, Cork, yeah."
Regan: "….biggest private employer in the city. You know, if you're working those companies, of course you don't feel, you don't, there never has been a recession. There has been no austerity. But you do obviously feel the effects of under investment in public service infrastructure.
"So the point of that article and the point of that research suggested was 'look this is not sustainable'. When you have an economy that's so dependent on one or two key sectors, and the net gains of that increasingly are concentrated, in addition to the fact that there's a lot of funny money floating around.
"The headline figures look a lot better than they are. It does not provide the fertile ground for political and electoral sustainability."
Jennings: "There has been a rise in wages nationally. But it's an uneven rise in wages."
Regan: "Yes, I mean. So overall in the economy, and particularly in the past couple of years, overall earnings have gone up. People's wages have improved but some people's wages have improved by double digit figures on a year-on-year basis for a couple of years.
"When you have that type of wage growth, it obviously creates, that's to say, puts upward pressure on the price of non-tradeables as you would say, basically housing, rent, restaurants, etc. And so therefore, if you're earning those higher incomes, in those particular sectors, you're in a position to, well, afford to pay the cost of living within the city that you would live in.
"But not everybody earns those types of wages.
"So whilst there has been a growth overall in our earnings and wages, it has not been equal. And, effectively, if you look at the income distribution, break it down by earnings. It doesn't look as healthy as is often assumed.
"I mean the median wage in this country is about €36,000. Gross income, it's stripped out. If you include earnings and non-earnings, 85 per cent of people in this country have less than €50,000. That's not a huge amount of money to be able to afford those things in this country which are expensive, housing, health, education."
Regan: "It's estimated that 70 per cent of people who work in Google are non-Irish which would suggest that they don't have a vote in the national elections. The public policy regime in Ireland is increasingly tailored to, you know, the high-tech, higher income earners and that's understandable which would make sense in most countries, given that those same people would have a vote and they would typically support, in this case, the centre, centre-right parties.
"And that's what you would expect. But in this country, that's not the case because these people don't have a vote. So it's a very volatile growth regime. It's a very volatile growth model that's dependent upon not just inward investment from US multi-nationals but also the free movement of workers from the European Union."
From top: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy at the Housing Summit in the Custom House, Dublin in 2017; architect Orla Hegarty; Morning Ireland clip on Soundcloud
This morning.
On RTÉ's Morning Ireland.
Dr Lorcan Sirr, lecturer in Housing Studies at Dublin Institute of Technology, and Orla Hegarty, architect and assistant professor at the school of architecture at University College Dublin, spoke to Audrey Carville about the housing crisis in Ireland.
It's possibly the calmest conversation aired about housing so far in this election.
From their discussion:
Audrey Carville: "How do we get to a point where we're building the number of houses that we need?"
Lorcan Sirr: "There's a huge confusion, Audrey, about the number of houses that we need and the number of houses that the private sector, in particular, can supply.
"So when you listen to the experts, like the ESRI, they will tell you that you need something like 34,000 houses a year. And they're absolutely right, when you look at the demographics of Ireland, and if houses were free, we could give out 34,000 houses tomorrow and they would all be taken up.
"The problem is the market, there isn't a market there for 34,000 houses, by which I mean there aren't enough people out there, mortgage-approved, who will buy 34,000 houses.
"Typically, in any year, only about half the houses that are built come on the market for sale. One quarter go for social housing, one quarter are one-off houses and the other half then come to the market.
"In 2018, we saw about 10,000 or 11,000 houses come to the market and last year we built about 21,000 houses, just over half of those will come to the market. Already, prices are slowing down which means there isn't a market for 34,000 houses.
"So the problem, builders are obviously not going to build when there isn't a market there and we see the rate of housing output slowing down every year from 2017 to 2019.
"So the difference between the 12, 13, 14,000 houses that the private sector can supply and the 34,000 houses that we need is the issue for Government and that's probably where some sort of concept like public housing comes in.
"We didn't have this issue before because we didn't have macro-prudential rules that limited the amount of money effectively that people could buy. Now people are much more limited in what they can borrow. So therefore the amount of people out there available to buy is less. So that's a huge issue…"
Carville: "Ok."
Sirr: "…around the housing output."
Carville: "And I do want to talk about the availability of land and those issues that are actually involved in getting houses built but Orla, to you, will increase in supply make houses affordable?"
Orla Hegarty: "It's not possible to make housing more affordable by just increasing supply because there are capacity constraints in the construction industry and we would have heard that earlier in the programme in terms of skill and our boom/bust cycle actually exacerbates that because people with skills lose their skills or they leave and we don't train apprentices.
"So we're now in a situation where the industry is effectively at capacity but that capacity is all concentrating into the niche markets where there are high returns.
"So what we're seeing is the median price of new housing in the country is up at €350,000 even though the target about four years ago was to have this sort of starter homes in Dublin at around €260,000 so the costs have gone out of control but that isn't to do with the construction sector making more money or construction costs being out of line.
"That's got to do with what's going on in the land market and the amount of disruption with all the changes in planning have been brought into it.
"I mean on the department's own construction figures, for example, we can see that in Dublin, we could be providing housing under €250,000 for people. And that would give so many people some choice. It would give them control and it would mean they didn't need subsidies.
"So that type of housing, whether it's three-bedroom houses, or two-bedroom apartments would meet an enormous need in Dublin.
"Obviously some people will always need some subsidy on their housing but this has broader implications for, generally, for the economy. Because what's happening in the new supply is it's happening in three areas really.
"It's high priced rentals that are owned by institutions in Dublin city. There's very little else coming to market in Dublin city…"
Carville: "And rental security as well?"
Hegarty: "Security is important but the next wave of supply that we're seeing at the moment is more commuter-belt housing which is contrary to all of our broader Government policy to do with climate change and transportation and engagement in the workforce.
"Students and people are commuting long distances. It's a barrier to women staying in employment.
"It means more infrastructure has to be built, to get people to work. And all of that is a policy in housing that is pushing people out into the periphery and causing other problems in the economy."
Carville: "Lorcan, some of the parties talk about the availability of public land for social housing and who will build it and they argue that the land is there, it's owned by the State, it's public land, the local authorities should use it to build and they can do it for much cheaper than the private developers who do it for profit.
"So what's the obstacle to more of that happening and building houses, as Orla says, so people can buy for €250,000 which is still an awful lot of money."
Sirr: "In theory, Audrey, the State could build houses for X and sell them for X and the State doesn't really need to be making profit and we have hundreds of thousands of acres of State land out there, available and ready to go, or ready to go with very little input.
"There is an ideology, I think, on policy-making level against competing with the private market.
"And I think that's a big one where the Government are afraid to start building houses at any scale because then you're starting to compete with private sector and that would be an ideological barrier from the Government's perspective.
"They have set up a thing called the Land Development Agency [launched by the Government in September 2018 with the promise of building 150,000 new homes by 2038] whose remit is to go and take land, public sector land and use it for lots of things, including housing.
"The problem there is that they, of course, want to involve the private sector, and do partnerships with the private sector and when you bring the private sector in, the profit motivation of the private sector is not compatible with providing housing that's affordable for your average household.
"So between the ideology and the way they've set up this new Land Development Agency which, in theory, is good but, in execution, is not going to provide housing that is affordable for most people is going to be a problem."
Carville: "Do you agree with that, Orla?"
Hegarty: "I think a lot of people would see the LDA as being a new venture that could provide affordable housing. In fact, they have no remit for affordability. The remit for the LDA is to return a profit in some ways in the way that Nama was so what that means is: in the short term, it may return a profit to the State from the land value. But all of that will be paid back, over time, by the people, the residents…"
Carville: "So from your point of view, what are the key areas that the next Government that takes office, later this year, will need to address urgently?"
Hegarty: "Well what we have in our favour is we have a lot of land compared to a lot of cities that have a housing crisis, we have a lot of land. We also have a lot of vacancy. A lot of money, up to a billion next year, this year, will be spent on rent subsidies into the private sector.
"By moving that into more efficient means, and that would mean using vacancy, using EU funding for energy upgrades and commercial vacancy – every town in Ireland has vacancy. That would start to free up some funding for seed capital.
"And the important thing with housing development is, it's not like university building or a children's hospital. You don't need all of the funding. You need the money to start because housing is built incrementally.
"And if it is phased, the first billion can do a certain amount, that can roll over into the next phase. So it's a strategic approach. A finance to procurement and a design that's going to be important now."
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Former FAI CEO John Delaney and Sports Minister Shane Ross
This morning.
Sports Minister Shane Ross gave an interview on RTÉ Radio One's Morning Ireland when he was asked if was "bailing out" the Football Association of Ireland.
In response, he said:
"I hate that sort of expression. What we're doing at the moment is we are looking after the €2.9million which we give, which we have been giving to the FAI. We've withdrawn that funding and what we're going to do there, is ensure that that gets to the small clubs.
"We're going to absolutely ensure that that gets to the players, to the grassroots, and that it doesn't go near the FAI because the FAI… bail-out is a very pejorative word. But it's a basket case.
"And to ask the Government to come in and bail it out, when we don't even know the extent of the black hole there, it's an appalling vista and to ask us to bail it out? No. That's not going to happen.
"We want to protect taxpayers' funding. We also want to protect the grassroots. They're the important people. We're interested in football, not so interested in the FAI.
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RELATED: Where was Shane Ross in 2017 when he could have done something about the FAI crisis? (Neil Cotter, The Irish Sun, October 8th, 2019)
Yesterday: Vanessa Foran: Let's See That Again In Slow Motion
Previously: At The End Of The Day: €55,067,472
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From top: All 15 doctors overseeing CervicalCheck's colposcopy services are considering resigning; University Hospital Waterford, where two out of three nurse colposcopists have resigned; Dr Nóirín Russell
This morning.
On RTÉ's Morning Ireland.
Dr Nóirín Russell, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital and lead colposcopist with Kerry Colposcopy Service with University Hospital Kerry, spoke to Bryan Dobson.
It follows an article in today's Irish Examiner by Catherine Shanahan and Elaine Loughlin in which they report that all 15 doctors overseeing the CervicalCheck's colposcopy services are considering resigning.
The services they oversee are for women requiring further investigation following a smear test.
They reported that, at University Hospital Waterford, two out of three nurse colposcopists have resigned.
Dr Nóirín Russell told Mr Dobson what it has been like in the clinics since the CervicalCheck scandal broke in April of last year. She said:
"The last 18 months have been, first of all, incredibly difficult for women. Women have been absolutely terrified by the reporting, by the news, by the discussions about CervicalCheck.
"There was a lot of anger, especially at the start because women believed that they may have cervical cancer and that their doctors didn't tell them.
"There was a lot of anger when the waiting lists became a problem. When all the extra smears, all the out of programme smears, were performed, that led to long delays, waiting for results and women were ringing, almost daily, for results.
"And that anger often led to quite, I mean I think 'abuse' is probably a strong word but there was a lot of abusive language used against staff admin and especially administration staff and nursing staff in clinics around the country.
"Before April 2018, it's important to note that 98% of women were seen within eight weeks when they were referred to colposcopy. We didn't have a waiting list, it worked really well.
"Because of the huge increase in referrals, we now have long waiting lists for referrals and that, it's really important not to underestimate how stressful it is for women waiting for an appointment we are unable to tell them when it will be because of these lists.
"I'll just give you an example – in my own service in Kerry, we saw 57% more women in 2018 than in 2017 but this was without extra resources….so you've got a perfect storm, you've got really anxious, worried women, ringing regularly and staff who are really, really under pressure."
"…We don't want to leave the service, we believe in cervical screening, it works, it leads to a reduction in cervical cancer, that's what we care about.
"We really want to see this programme flourish, we want to see it supported because we know that screening and HPV vaccination are the best ways that we have to achieve our goal of eradicating cervical cancer in Ireland.
"But that support, we need that support as medical professionals, we also need the support of the media, the politicians, the Department of Health, the HSE, and very importantly, we need the women, the 1.2million, who are eligible for cervical screening to support the programme, to attend when they receive that information letter about cervical screening.
"Currently only 80% attend. We need all of the women to attend and they will only attend if they trust the service and have confidence in it. And that's what our goal is.
"We don't want to abandon the service but there have been many discussions during the year, amongst colposcopists, nurse colposcopists and medical colposcopists, querying, where is the future for cervical screening.
"We hope it's bright, we hope that support is there but we don't, we need that to be the message from today."
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'Mass distrust': Cervical Check losing staff due to stress (Catherine Shanahan, Elaine Loughlin, The Irish Examiner)


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This map series is an expansion to the other woodland encounters. It has 20 40x40 maps that are all of similar style and allows for great customization and use for your fantasy encounters. You can do games like warhammer 40k or other RPGs that can enjoy the benefits of these maps.
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Pronunciation of Combine
/kəmbˈa͡ɪn/, /kəmbˈaɪn/, /k_ə_m_b_ˈaɪ_n/
Antonyms for combine:
disjoin, disconnect, separate, sever, divide, dissociate, divorce, detach.
Synonyms for combine:
Sense 1
fruitful, linkup, conjoin, Terraced, fold in, fertility, fertile, vertical integration, amalgamation, hang together, scarecrow, concentrate, organize, root crop, crop circle, interpenetrate, consolidate, plowshare, haystack, go in with, conjugate, rick, milking machine, new-mown, growing season, cultivated, paddy, maize, joint venture, gather in, arable, limited partner, duopoly, sleeping partner, buy out, Terracing, straw, Demerge, sheaf, uncultivated, stubble, the green revolution, haymaking, scramble, contract out, stir in, faction, hayrick, monoculture, market garden, crop rotation, spray, pull together, cultivator, cultivation, unproductive, cash crop, shade into, fallow, trading partner, plantation, harvester, mix up, truck farm, BROS, granary, demerger, rice paddy, farm out, interweave, combine harvester, merger, stir into, vineyard, silent partner, tractor, emulsify.
Sense 2
cream, reap, irrigate, friendly, add, plow up, associate, interlace, till, make up, glean, vested interest, failure, tie up, fail, conspire, cultivate, ticket, tie in with, work in, swallow up, go together, plow, stable, rotation, furrow, fasten, jumble, partner, infertile, jibe, gobble up, prepare.
Sense 3
ally, coalition, match-up, party, ring, wed, corn, alliance, go with, synthesize, planter, bloc, partnership, organization, gang.
Sense 4
crop, grain, couple, marry, affiliate, stack, terrace.
Sense 5
harvest, drill, tie, yoke, relate, lean, stir, bind.
Sense 6
complement, match.
Sense 7
Sense 8
run together.
tie in with.
Sense 1 (noun)
consolidate, buy out, BROS, demerger, couple, contract out, Demerge, amalgamation.
Sense 3 (noun)
ally, cultivated, arable, bind, crop rotation, crop circle, crop, cash crop, affiliate, associate, relate, corn, cultivate.
Sense 4 (noun)
go with, league, hang together, match-up, complement.
Sense 5 (noun)
milking machine, cultivator, planter, harvester, plow, combine harvester.
combine (noun)
combining, coalesce, trust, unite, aggregate, conflate, cartel, compound, blend, meld, immix, pool, fuse, corporate trust, flux, merge, commingle.
change (verb)
co-act (verb)
cooperate, interact, concur, synchronize, coincide, unite, co-act.
combine (verb)
brew, amalgamate, compound, blend, compose, conglomerate, infuse, assemble, incorporate, concoct, mix, fuse.
compose (verb)
construct, fabricate, compile, form, include, embody, embrace, invent, constitute.
connect, integrate (verb)
synthesize, commingle, cooperate, compound, merge, associate, link, bind, league, join, amalgamate, couple, incorporate, coalesce, unite, pool, mingle, unify, relate, marry, conjoin, fuse, mix, wed, blend.
contact (verb)
mix (verb)
mash, meld, intermix, merge, decoct, mingle, stew.
stative (verb)
Usage examples for combine:
- As these likewise were in opposition to their Queen, it was objected that one sovereign ought not to combine with the subjects of another. - "A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)", Leopold von Ranke.
- Patricia's idea of a " treat" was a variety of all sorts, but never a thought had she as to whether the articles that she chose would combine well. - "Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore", Amy Brooks.
- Peggy is surprised to find how difficult it is to combine dinner- getting with baby- tending. - "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories", Various.


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Cala de Deia is a Charming beach on the west coast of Mallorca.Cala Deia is one of the few beaches on the west coast of Mallorca.
There are a number of terraces which are popular with artists as they set up their easels for a day of painting.
Cala de Deia is sheltered by high cliffs that lead into pine forests. The sea is wonderfully clear and perfect for cooling off in on a hot summer's day. The water here is a beautiful clear turquoise, but a beach is mainly made of rocks and rock pools, so you might need to bring a chair or a lilo to lie on. The beach is only six metres deep, although it does stretch for 70 metres.
The crystal clear waters of Cala Deia and the rocky nature of the cove sides are ideal for some snorkelling or diving. Coasteering, kayaking, canyoning and climbing are very popular on the west coast of Mallorca
The beach is served by two excellent restaurants serving fresh seafood and traditional Mallorca food where you can sit and enjoy the spectacular surroundings.


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MIZE, MS (WLBT) - Monday night, two Dollar Generals were robbed at gunpoint. One of the stores was in Mize, Mississippi and the second was less than 30 minutes away in Soso, Mississippi.
The break in at the Mize store happened just after the store closed at 10:00 p.m.
According to Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpson, a masked man in a hoodie shot out the front glass door, went inside and held the two female employees at gunpoint.
He got out with an undetermined amount of cash from the register.
Surveillance video shows a driver outside in a getaway car.
35 minutes before this armed robbery, the store in Soso was robbed. The employees at this store were also robbed at gunpoint.
Officials have reason to believe the two suspects who entered that Dollar General were the same men who robbed the store in Mize.
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Effects of Consumption of Orange Juice on Vascular Protection and Immune Function: Clinical Study on the Specific Contribution of Citrus Flavanones (FLORIDE)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00983086
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 23, 2009
Last Update Posted : September 23, 2009
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Epidemiological studies have firmly established the health effects of high intakes of fruits and vegetables and in particular in regards to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Citrus fruits are the most widely consumed throughout the world, mainly as juice. Citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C but also in various plant micronutrients which are the most abundant polyphenols. Several in vitro studies and animal models suggest that the polyphenols of citrus are involved in the protective effects of citrus vis-à-vis the cardiovascular diseases. However, profits in health associated with taking these polyphenols are unknown and so far no clinical studies have been conducted to determine the contribution of polyphenols of citrus in this protection.
The main objectives of this project are (1) to characterize the effects of single dose and made repeated consumption of orange juice on vascular protection and the immune response and (2) to assess the specific role of polyphenols present in citrus fruits in this protection. To do this the investigators will conduct a clinical study, randomized and crossover, among healthy men 50 to 65 years that are slightly overweight. These volunteers, who continue to follow their usual diet, should consume daily for 4 weeks (1) orange juice or (2) an isocaloric control beverage or (3) the same drink spiked with a dose of polyphenols similar to that given by orange juice.
|Condition or disease
|Healthy Volunteers
|Drug: Flavanones of orange juice
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|24 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Double (Participant, Care Provider)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Effects of Consumption of Orange Juice on Vascular Protection and Immune Function: Clinical Study on the Specific Contribution of Citrus Flavanones
|Study Start Date :
|August 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2008
- Drug: Flavanones of orange juice
The main objective of this study is to evaluate, in healthy volunteers with young children (50 and 65) and slightly overweight according to their usual diet, the effects of single dose (in postprandial period) and made repeated orange juice or orange flavanones purified on vascular function. The selection criteria for age and weight should, within a healthy population to select individuals who exhibit cardiovascular risk factors, and thus for which it should be a priori easier to identify a beneficial effect of dietary factors on the parameters associated with cardiovascular risk.
- Determine the effects of repeated consumption of orange juice or purified flavanones in immune function [ Time Frame: after consumption of orange juice ]
- Measuring the impact of consumption of orange juice or purified flavanones on acid-base balance [ Time Frame: after consumption of orange juice ]
- Evaluate the effects of chronic consumption of orange juice or purified flavanones on gene expression by a global transcriptomic approach in mononuclear cells from peripheral blood [ Time Frame: after consumption of orange juice ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males
- Age: 50 to 65 inclusive
- Body mass index of 25 to 30 kg / m² (inclusive
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hypertriglyceridemia or known hypercholesterolemia, treated or not
- Serology HIV and / or HCV positive
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00983086
|Principal Investigator:
|Claude Dubray, PU PH
|University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
|Responsible Party:
|Patrick Lacarin, CHU Clermont-Ferrand
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
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|First Posted:
|September 23, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 23, 2009
|Last Verified:
|September 2009
Flavanones and vascular function


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Commentary: Healing art from a sinister soul?
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 9, 2012 - Most artists I know are rather leery of being called healers. More to the point, they don't think of their art as medicine.
In their view, art provokes. It elicits ideas. It pleases the eye or ear (without titillating or entertaining, which distinguishes pornography or television, respectively, from finer forms of art). It incites or sometimes soothes, but healing is something many contemporary artists would eschew.
Art, some even believe, has no real purpose at all. It is only distinguished from other human-made objects by the fact that it isn't done for any utilitarian purpose.
Music, I argue, is different. It is medicinal. It does in fact heal. This isn't just the conjecture of a music-obsessed clergyman, but a well evidenced scientific hypothesis. The assertion was made as far back as Plato ("music, particularly harmony, is … meant to correct any discord which may have arisen in the courses of the soul, and to be our ally in bringing her to harmony and agreement, and rhythm too was given by God for the same reason." Timeaus.)
It is also easy to find this idea in the Hebrew Scriptures (David's lyre healing Saul's "demons," for example). But now, we have empirical evidence.
Musical therapy was started in the 20th century. The first academic study of music's medicinal properties was published in 1948, following the practice in World War II. There is now evidence that musical therapy can aid those suffering from brain degeneration regain some physical movement. And other studies show it increases cooperation among people. There is even a clinic in Germany that has experimented with using music in lieu of anesthesia!
Of course most of us don't need scientists to tell us that music can affect you emotionally – often in very therapeutic ways.
But there is a problem for those of us who love music. I call it the Richard Wagner/Michael Jackson dilemma. Some of the best music every written or performed has been done so by very sick persons. In the case of Wagner, it strikes me (and many others) as very odd that some of the most extraordinarily beautiful, provocative and healing, music ever written was composed by a very vile man.
Wagner, 1813-1883, produced what many believe to be the greatest work of art by any single person. His "Ring Cycle" is approximately 17 hours of music – vocal and instrumental – divided into four operas (originally a trilogy with a prelude called Das Rheingold). It was a revolutionary piece and is, now 150 years later, still selling out theaters. The Metropolitan Opera did three cycles last spring to sold-out houses. The Met will do the same this spring. Hundreds of thousands travel great distances and go to great lengths to sit through these 17 hours. I've done it twice. I'd gladly go again tomorrow.
But, again, there is a problem. Richard Wagner was not a good man. He published, more than once, anti-Semitic diatribes. He spent much of his life running from creditors. He, more than once it seems, seduced the wife of a friend. He had issues. Some would call him evil. And standing as we do on the other side of the Holocaust it is difficult not to use the word evil about men who had his opinions.
And yet, 200 years from his birth, we are still talking about him. I have no way to verify this with certainty, but it is said that only Jesus and Napoleon have had more books written about them. And this is because of his music.
It was revolutionary in its chord structure. He forever changed the way conducting was done. Opera would never again be the same. And even contemporary movies ("Star Wars" being a prime example) bear his influence in the use of musical motifs to signify characters. Before the famous melody of Darth Vader, before Tolkien's "Ring," there was Wagner's Wotan, the god of the Valhalla and the ring of the Nibelung.
So how do I deal with the Wagner/Jackson dilemma? Given that millions love Jackson in spite of his rather significant character flaws, maybe it's not an issue for most. But Wagner, post-Nazi Germany, is a special case. My answer is twofold. One is to recognize that, though he was a deeply flawed man, when it comes to Nazi Germany he has suffered guilt by association. And second it is to recognize that great art has often been produced by very flawed people. Maybe it is their soul's need for healing that elicits the artistic output. I think the latter helps to present a few facts in support of the former.
Hitler loved Wagner's music, excepting Wagner's last opera "Parsifal," which was ultimately banned in Nazi Germany. And so it is assumed that his music was the theme for that era. But nothing is further from the truth. In the year Hitler came to power (1932-33) there were 1,837 separate performances of Wagnerian operas. In 1939-40 there were 1,154.
There is a telling story from an early party rally in Nuremberg, when Hitler brought in the Berlin orchestra to play "Die Meistersinger." Tickets were given to all party officials, who instead attended beer halls and cafes. Hitler, infuriated, sent patrols to gather up the party functionaries. The next year he issued a command for attendance. But when they crowd "yawned and snored" their way through, even Hitler gave up on the idea, never again making the opera obligatory.
A number of Hitler's contemporaries were clever enough to know that Wagner's operas were in direct opposition to the Nazi philosophy. And while those of us who love Wagner's music don't particularly find comfort in Hitler's passion for the music, it's worth nothing that Hitler loved many things we still consider OK to love.
If you aren't certain, come and hear for yourself. Union Avenue Opera is performing the first of Wagner's Ring Cycle ("Das Rheingold") on August 17, 18, 24, 25. Don't expect it to cure your cold, but it might just set your soul at ease. Or set a soul at ease on edge, which sometimes is another form of healing. Either way, come to be moved and surprised yet again that "straight licks are hit by crooked sticks."
(Scott L. Stearman is senior pastor of Kirkwood Baptist Church and will be giving two talks on Wager for Union Avenue Opera on Aug. 9 & 16. His wife will be singing in the production as well. See http://unionavenueopera.org)