Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Probe as pair fall from ferry into Irish Sea
AN investigation is ongoing after a woman and child went overboard from a Stena Line ferry in Belfast Harbour.
The woman and 11-year-old girl were rescued at 6.45pm on Thursday.
A rescue operation was launched and the pair were recovered from the water by an emergency response crew from the Stena Superfast VIII vessel, which was in the location at the time.
The child was taken to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and the woman to Royal Victoria Hospital’s Emergency Department.
A PSNI spokesman said: “The full circumstances of the incident are still being established.”
I wasn’t surprised to hear this Government tell football clubs they can only let crowds back into grounds in small numbers for the final game of the season. Even less surprised to hear there will be no limit on numbers allowed into most of the events in the “social season” – that time in the upper-class calendar when unemployed chinless wonders bray “bottoms up” at each other, while pretending to watch the sport going on outside Pimm’s tents.
The Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon, Cowes Week, Glorious Goodwood and the grouse-hunting season all fall after June 21. Meaning the real season has been saved.
Which feels not so much like bottoms up as it does Jacob Rees-mogg lifting the flap on the back of his deckchair-striped Savile Row blazer, dropping his pristine flannels and showing us his naked jacksie.
Something weird is happening to the over-60s who haven’t yet been offered a Covid vaccine: jab envy. As I found out when I got a date for mine and a mate who lives in the same city, who is still waiting for his, said: “You’ve got no underlying health issues and you’re not overweight. Are you one of those queue jumpers suffering from that newly-found disease?” “What disease?” I asked. “Liarbetes,” he replied. It’s not true, I swear.
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There are growing calls to make June 21, when all lockdown restrictions drop and the pubs reopen, a bank holiday. I’m all for it. Especially as it falls on the midsummer solstice, meaning there will be more light that day than any other. Let’s call it National Going On The Longest Ever Bender Day.
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