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Richard Chambers
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@VirginMediaNews Correspondent | #Bohs member 🔴⚫️ | The Group Chat 🎧 | Author 📖 | Posting elsewhere.
Jun 29, 2023 • 40 tweets • 4 min read
🚨 "It appears to me that this was an act designed to deceive".

RTÉ Chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh's opening statement says she's appalled by the recording of accounts at the broadcaster. PAC just kicking off now.
Jul 22, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
TDs Michael Collins, Mattie McGrath and Danny Healy Rae are at AIB HQ “demanding a meeting with senior management” over the move to make 70 branches nationwide cashless. Live from Nakatomi Plaza… I mean, Molesworth Place.
Jul 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Leitrim football champions with a 🔥🔥🔥 statement on GAA-sponsor AIB's move to turn 70 branches cashless. Another very important point

Jul 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sunak vs Truss for the Tory leadership.

Liz Truss - on polls - looks the front runner to be the next UK PM YouGov poll of Tory members yesterday

Sunak v Truss
Sunak: 35%
Truss: 54%
Apr 12, 2022 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
#BREAKING

Wow.

United States offering a reward of up to $5,000,000 for information leading to the disruption of the Kinahan organisation - or the arrest and conviction of the three leaders of the Kinahan group. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris says he hopes today will be a crippling blow to the Kinahans.

He says the OCG is believed to have made over €1bn in revenue.
Apr 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
#NEW

The US Government has imposed sanctions on senior members of what it describes as the 'Notorious Kinahan Organized Crime Group'

home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel… A major, major step by Gardaí and law enforcement in the US and UK against the Kinahan group.

The US sanctions mean American institutions can't work with the Kinahans or associated businesses.

Property and credit lines blocked, cards frozen, can't fly with American carriers.
Mar 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“My husband is still in Ukraine. I want to go back to him.”

Watch this.

Tetiana and her kids Varvara and Platon are from Kyiv. They arrived here yesterday.

They’ve been separated from Anton - who has stayed to fight for his home.

@VirginMediaNews

Pavlo, their host, is a Ukrainian who has lived in Dublin for a while,

He’s hosting Tetiana and her two kids and another family of five.

The first Ukrainian refugees here are being hosted by friends and family
Jan 12, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
📖 Book 1 of 2022 Image 📖 Book 2 of 2022 Image
Dec 10, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
No cybersecurity lead at the HSE is described as "highly unusual" for an organisation of the HSE's size and nature. The HSE is subject to about 50 attempted breaches on average per week.

Since the #HSEcyberattack - there have been 'at least ten' attempts that could have caused serious issues.
Dec 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Damning review from PWC into HSE cyberattack.

⚠️ HSE's "frail" IT system lacks the ability to prevent cyberattacks.

⚠️ Nor does the HSE have the relevant expertise to prevent attacks.

⚠️The HSE never conducted contingency planning for such attacks or loss of infrastructure.
Dec 3, 2021 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
Leo Varadkar: We're facing a peculiar situation... "We're tightening restrictions at a time when hospital numbers are dropping and deaths are at a low level. The decisions today are going to be hard to understand..."
Dec 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“My message this evening is a difficult one… we have received stark advice… that requires the reintroduction of a number of restrictions.” Taoiseach Taoiseach: "As a country we pulled it back... our hospitals held. We are among the best in the world in vaccination rates. By tonight close to 950k of our must vulnerable will have received a third dose."
Aug 30, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
🚨 Discussions at Sub-Committee suggest Government plans to end all Covid restrictions by October 22 - subject to virus stability.

@VirginMediaNews Masks to continue to be worn in certain settings.
Jul 28, 2021 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
#Latest

1,408 new cases confirmed.

152 in hospital. 26 in ICU.

@VirginMediaNews #COVID19ireland Dr Tony Holohan: "2% of cases are being hospitalised."

This is significantly down on previous waves due to vaccination programme.
Jul 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🇮🇪 Ireland has its first medal in Tokyo!

#Bronze for Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh and Emily Hegarty in the Women’s Four - the first Irish women to take home a medal in rowing.

A fantastic achievement

As ever, lovely stuff in the anime-influenced art commissioned by the Irish Embassy in Japan. #Olympics
Jul 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Delighted to see this taking place after all. I thought it was toast. They wanted to hold it earlier this year but the plans went a rye.
Jul 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yerra, sure I was doing similar* on the kerbs of Rush in 2003 By similar*, I mean I could land a Pop Shove-It, an Ollie and a couple of 180s and not much else.
Jul 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
⚡️ Indoor hospitality reopens today for fully-vaccinated customers and those who have recovered from COVID within the past 6 months.

Some pubs which closed on March 15 2020 will open their doors for the first time since then.

Here’s how it works 🆔 All adults show their photo ID along with proof of vaccination (mostly the COVID digital certificate).

🧒 Kids don’t need proof of vaccination when accompanied by parent/guardian.

🚪 Staff will be present on doors of all premises.

🕦 All premises must be clear by 11.30pm.
Jul 22, 2021 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
HSE presser underway.

Paul Reid: All key indicators of the virus are going up. 5 day average up 95%, 7 day average up 93%. 🏥 95 in hospital. 23 in ICU.

"We haven't seen the worst impact of what we've seen modelled in the coming weeks. We're in the early stages."

Thankfully, he says, we are coming off a low base.
Jul 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🔆 Status Yellow High Temperature warning issued by @MetEireann.

Daytime temperatures of 27-30°.
Night temperatures of 17-20°.

@VirginMediaNews Image We’ve now got an ORANGE warning for Cavan, Monaghan, south Leitrim. Roscommon, Longford and Westmeath.

“EXCEEDING 30 degrees… with overnight temperatures no lower than around 20 degrees”!

🥵 Image
Jul 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1,017 new cases confirmed.

@VirginMediaNews #COVID19ireland 101 in hospital. 20 in ICU.