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The 9 at 9 Olympic gold for Ireland, restaurants dealing with a coordinated campaign of abuse

GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news that you need to know about as you start your day.

Gold for Ireland 

1. Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan secured Ireland’s first-ever rowing Olympic gold medal after they won the men’s lightweight double sculls final in Tokyo.

The Skibbereen pair produced a brilliant performance to finish first in a time of 6:06.43.

Congratulations 

2. President Michael D Higgins led the messages of congratulations to McCarthy and O’Donovan on their “tremendous” achievement, while Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the win will “inspire generations to come”.

One-star reviews 

3. The government has been told that pubs and restaurants have been the subject of coordinated online abuse and fake reviews this week by those opposing the use of Covid-19 vaccine certs to attend indoor dining, Gráinne Ní Aodha writes in this morning’s lead story.

A Facebook page with hundreds of members which opposes the use of vaccine certificates has seen users post the names of businesses that have reopened indoor dining and resulted in hundreds of comments being left on businesses’ Facebook posts announcing their reopening. When asked about the page, Facebook said it does not violate its rules.

Ageism 

4. Ireland’s ‘endemic’ ageism was unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report from seven older persons organisations.

The report found that if discrimination against the elderly had not been so prevalent in Ireland the effects of the coronavirus crisis on older people would have been less severe.

The research noted that older people died disproportionately during the pandemic and it found that frequently their end-of-life wishes were not sought or honoured.

NI protocol

5. A UK House of Lords committee has found that both the United Kingdom and the European Union have taken a “fundamentally flawed” approach to finding solutions to the problems created by the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The freshly released report notes that first Brexit and then the Protocol have once again brought borders and questions of identity in Northern Ireland to the fore.

Dusty Hill

6. ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues-rock trio’s famous bearded figures, has died at the age of 72, the band said.

In a Facebook post, guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard said Hill died in his sleep at his home in Houston.

A load of rubbish 

7. A nationwide study carried out by Irish Business Against Litter has found that the majority of beaches and harbours across Ireland are falling short of receiving ‘clean’ status.

While 40% of 32 coastal areas surveyed were deemed ‘clean to European norms’, there was a rise in areas branded ‘littered’. Cigarettes, alcohol cans and disposable masks were some of the most common items dumped on our coastlines.

Steven Avery

8. A US appeal court has rejected a request by Making A Murderer subject Steven Avery to hold a hearing on fresh evidence he wanted to present for a new trial.

Avery is serving a life sentence for the 2005 killing of photographer Teresa Halbach, a case that became the focus of a popular Netflix series whose creators raised questions about the convictions of Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey.

Biobank 

9. The Data Protection Commission confirmed it has “reached out” to the Health Research Board about the new Irish Covid-19 biobank that will store collected Covid-19 samples.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly updated Cabinet yesterday on a €2 million investment in the biobank, which will be set up in August.

 

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    Apr 9th 2021, 7:59 AM

    My goodness that is amazing how far medicine has gone

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    Apr 9th 2021, 8:17 AM

    @FlopFlipU: on the flip side, it could have been a flop

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    Apr 9th 2021, 11:48 AM

    @BatMon: There’s still time. To be realistic, its very unlikely that her husband was a perfectly compatible tissue match, so she will need major anti-rejection meds… and as any transplant patient would tell you, with that comes the delicate balance of preventing rejection, versus infection

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    Apr 9th 2021, 6:02 PM

    @FlopFlipU: well done fantastic doctors save live patient new lungs donation, covid destroy his old lungs

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    Apr 9th 2021, 10:04 PM

    @Brian Flavin: true and that’s also a good alternative headline Brian! :)

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    Apr 9th 2021, 9:20 AM

    Outstanding story. I wonder if stem cells could have been used, but then again they would need weeks to become lung tissue.

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    Apr 9th 2021, 12:27 PM

    @Neil Neart: loads Is stem cell research as the solution to covid lung damage is the same as that for COPD and it has been ongoing for many years. However, there are clinics in the USA using blood stem cells which are not effective (and I believe were taken to task by US regulators for their advertising standards). In China they are looking at lung stem cells. I read that some trials show that lung tissue can be generated this way. However there is still many years to go and, from reading about the covid and COPD lung damage and trials and tests it could be a few years yet. Hopefully this will speed up as lungs so not repair damage and do not currently regenerate.

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