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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. In our lead story this morning, a prominent immunologist told reporter Jane Moore that they believe the Government “missed a trick” by not strongly advising the public of the importance of wearing masks before the current winter surge that is seeing record hospital overcrowding due to a rise in respiratory illnesses.
2. Kevin McCarthey was named speaker of the US House of Representatives as he quelled a fierce rebellion among his party’s ranks which forced a historic 15 rounds of voting, a deadlock not seen in well over a century.
3. Works at the former mother and baby home in Tuam is another step closer as the recruitment process for the Director who will lead the intervention at the site is due to conclude next month.
4. A man has died after the car he was driving collided with a number of stationary vehicles in Cork City yesterday.
5. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly anticipated new drug designed to slow cognitive decline in patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
6. False claims that NFL player Damar Hamlin collapsed due to a Covid-19 vaccine circulated in the days following the incident, according to the latest FactCheck from The Journal.
The pornography actor has “severe dementia” and will be declared unfit to stand trial for rape, a US newspaper has reported.
Jeremy, who has appeared in more than 1,700 X-rated films since the 1970s, had been due to go before a jury on multiple sex charges against 21 women and girls.
Comet
8. A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
9. After making his competitive start for Premier League outfit Brighton in style, nabbing goals in consecutive games, some of Evan Ferguson’s coaches from his earlier days playing have been delighting in the 18-year-old Dubliner’s progress over at The42.
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That man was a true legend. A real movie star who ate up the screen. Made a number of movies in Ireland and was never less than a real talent. Never really hit the heights but he was still cool enough to do a turn for Tarantino in Inglorious B*stards a couple of years ago. Could have watched him in anything.
I’d say the time machine would be one of his best performances when he has to face the morlocks. When I was a child they frightened the life out of me and gave me terrible nightmares. I look at the film now and laugh at how badly they look.
I had nightmares for years about the Morlocks.
‘The Time Machine’ was my own favourite.
Remember when He was on the late late show with Oliver Reed, & Gay Byrne goaded the two of them into arm wrestling on the studio floor….??
ps. Rod Taylor won.
The Late Late was mighty back then …. most of the guests were piddled !
Yeah, – like the night Oliver Reed was trying to get the leg over Susan George.
Thanks for the memories. And he was sooooo handsome to boot.
Morlocks!
Was great in the movie ‘Hotel’ as well..and in the ‘VIP’s'… old school actor who did it as it should be done.
He opened waterford city shopping centre with gay Byrne in the mid to late 70′s…remember thinking as a child ooh that’s the guy from bobcats which was shown on rte.obviously shooting one of his irish movies at the time.loved him in time machine another where he played a mercinary fighting in the Belgian Congo.
The Mercenaries, that and the Time Machine were his best movies
Great movie.
I used to love watching him in “Bearcats” years ago, what a show.
For me ” The Birds” from his movies and “Bearcats ” from his tv series.
A great old-style actor who never quite achieved the success and accolades he deserved. The Time Machine is one of my favourite films head and shoulders above the more recent remake.
The Time Machine is a movie ill always watch when its on telly, he was excellent in it. Don’t know why that descendant of H.G Wells had such a problem with it, probably more loyal to the book than his noughties version was
Sad news
Birds is it ?
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