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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Milwaukee Health Department warns of skin disease from unlicensed tattoo operation
The Milwaukee Health Department is investigating unlicensed tattoo operations after cases of skin disease in minors emerged. The health department said it started investigating the case after a report on May 14 from a medical provider of a case of nontuberculous mycobacteria from a tattoo procedure on a minor. The health department said they found two additional cases of minors with NTM on May 20 and June 2. The health department teamed up with the Milwaukee Police Department to find one of the suspects, according to Carly Hegarty, director of consumer environmental health for the City of Milwaukee. Citations were issued against Jonathan Beasley accusing him of giving tattoos to minors without a license. He faces $614 in fines. MPD and health officials connected Beasley to two locations associated with Davinci Way Ink. NTM is an environmental bacterium that can cause a skin infection. NTM can come from tattooing if the tattoo tools aren't properly cleaned or used in unsterile tap water used to distill the black ink, according to a health department press release. According to Hegarty, the symptoms of NTM are swelling, pain, and pus and drainage near the tattoo area. While NTM can heal in two to three months, Hegarty said anyone who believes they have NTM should get an official diagnosis and treatment from a doctor. The Milwaukee Health Department is urging medical professionals to report if they see cases of tattoo-related infections and to ask their patients about recent tattoos and where they obtained them. Investigations into other unlicensed tattoo operations are still ongoing, Hegarty said. For parents or other people interested in tattoo safety, Hegarty said there are a few signs people can look for to be safe. According to the press release, licensed tattoo artists are supposed to verify the age of the person receiving the tattoo, follow proper sanitation procedures and give detailed instructions for aftercare. Hegarty said when getting tattoos, regardless of age, it's important to advocate for yourself. 'People absolutely have the right to ask, hey, can I see your City of Milwaukee-issued license? Can I see your practitioner's license? I would say good any tattoo artist would have that readily available,' Hegarty said. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Cases of skin disease from illegal tattoo operation in Milwaukee
Sky News AU
3 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
‘Doesn't stack up': Australian review of US beef considers demand
Hunter Valley Cattle Farmer Tony Hegarty reacts to US beef imports facing an Australian review, claiming 'it doesn't stack up' considering the $3.3 billion traded last financial year. 'It doesn't stack up, their prices over there are significantly higher than ours on equivalent terms, apart from freight, just the cost of it,' Mr Hegarty told Sky News Australia. 'They're demanding a lot of beef from us … $3.3 billion of beef into the US last financial year. 'It's not as if we're not allowing imports, it's 'does it make sense?', and 'do they meet the requirements?''
Irish Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Times
Gearóid Hegarty and Tom Morrissey ‘the line that sets Limerick apart from everyone else'
They made their championship debuts on the same day: June 19th, 2016. Limerick deployed Gearóid Hegarty on Pádraic Maher, as a one-man anti-missile defence. Tom Morrissey came on 10 minutes before Hegarty was replaced and scored a worthless goal in stoppage time. Tipperary played with 14 men for over an hour and still won. It was Limerick's night before Limerick's day. For Morrissey and Hegarty, their glittering futures were not a figment of anyone's imagination yet. Hegarty had begun the year on the Limerick football panel because that was the only offer on the table. Morrissey was a couple of years younger than Hegarty but some of his peers from the under-21 squad were on a faster track. After Tipp, Limerick met Westmeath in the first round of the qualifiers and Morrissey played no part. You know what happened in the end: the All-Irelands, the awards, the acclaim, the Marvel Comics stuff. In a team of difference-makers and rainmakers and Hall of Famers, Morrissey and Hegarty became essential. The yeast in the loaf. In the Munster final on Saturday, they will make their 50th championship appearance together. On every other line in the Limerick team there have been degrees of flux: different centrefield partnerships, rotation among the inside forwards, churn in the full-back line. At 10 and 12, though, Morrissey and Hegarty have stood as pillars. READ MORE 'That is the line that sets Limerick apart from everyone else,' says Barry Cleary, co-founder of GAA Insights and who has worked as an analyst with a range of intercounty teams in recent years. 'Everyone else struggles with their half-forward line – chopping and changing. Those two lads, they're just dominant in those positions. They go up and down [the flank] and up and down. You look at other teams: they have half forwards who can come back the field but can't get back up. Then there's guys who just stay forward. Morrissey and Hegarty do everything.' [ Joe Canning: Limerick's unrivalled big-match experience gives them edge over Cork in Munster final Opens in new window ] Though their paths converged they didn't start from the same place. Morrissey captained Limerick to win the under-21 All-Ireland in 2017, and while he suffered a run of dull form in the middle of that season and was taken off in the final, scoreless, his potential was not the subject of second thoughts. For Hegarty, the problem was persuading people to look at him twice and think again. He was a gangly teenager, and like a crossword, he was full of blanks and cryptic clues. For two years he was part of the Limerick minor hurling panel, and in his second season he failed to make the match-day squad. It sounds outlandish now, but not then. It didn't represent a blind spot in anyone's judgment. The clues were obscure. In his late teens the Limerick footballers saw a blank canvass. Hegarty tells a story from his first gym session with the group in UL. The players were asked to bench press three-quarters of their body weight and Hegarty was paired with Garrett Noonan, who was about the same size. Noonan did 25 reps at 70kg and Hegarty stepped up for his turn. Gearóid Hegarty, seen here with Dan Morrissey in last month's Round 4 match against Cork in Limerick. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho 'I said, 'Jesus, this can't be too bad,'' said Hegarty. 'I got down and I couldn't even lift the bar. I was never so embarrassed in all my life. I swore to myself, 'That will never happen again'.' TJ Ryan was manager of the Limerick senior hurlers when Hegarty was eventually called up. 'How raw was he?' Ryan was asked once. 'Oh, jeepers, as raw as could be. I don't even know how you could measure it.' Hegarty, though, railed against that perception. In his mind it was like stripping down a layer of wallpaper; the blockwork was still there. 'Everyone used to say my hurling was so raw,' he told Larry Ryan a couple of years ago, 'and I'm not much of a hurler. It used to annoy the life out of me. I used to think, 'I only started playing football a couple of years ago. I was always a hurler.' I had lost a bit of the touch, but I knew it would come back.' [ Cork believe goals win games but Limerick's sharpshooting can get the job done Opens in new window ] Establishing himself took time. In the jungle, big beasts are not shielded from predators. One night at Limerick training Hegarty wandered into Tom Condon's den and flouted the house rules. 'I suppose as the corner back you'd be swinging off fellas and pulling and dragging,' says Condon now. 'Gearóid got sick of it, and he gave me a dalk of the hurley into the back. 'I turned around and I chased him around the square and I gave him a flake. Nickie Quaid nearly fell over laughing. It was a kind of 'welcome to the panel'. It was the last time he did it. In fairness to the man, he gave it, and he took it.' As athletes, Morrissey and Hegarty are different specimens. Hegarty is built like a Springbok flanker, standing at 6ft 5in and carrying more than 15 stone; Morrissey is four inches shorter and a stone lighter. 'Tom covers a huge amount of ground, but his running style is laborious,' says Niall Moran, the former Limerick forward and a clubmate of Morrissey's in Ahane. Hegarty, though, has an equine stride. Tom Morrissey after last year's All-Ireland final. 'A phenomenal leader. He demands respect and he always gets respect,' says Barry Hennessy. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho 'The first 150 [metre run] we did with Joe O'Connor [former Limerick S&C] I was beside Gearóid,' says Barry Hennessy, who was a goalkeeper on the Limerick panel for more than a decade. 'He did the first five metres in two steps. I remember trying to match him stride for stride and I died a death. I got to four [runs] out of six and I was seeing stars.' As people? Morrissey, says Hennessy, can be 'horizontal', which is a more complex state than you might imagine. 'Fun to be around,' says Moran. 'Great, great company. One hell of a guy. Well able to tune out but when he tunes in, he carries guys with him. A phenomenal leader. He demands respect and he always gets respect. 'In Ahane, we haven't won a county in 22 years and Tom is the man going around saying, 'We have to win a county.' There's nothing impossible to him. There's no glass ceiling over him. Tom doesn't always conform to the common viewpoint. He'll wear his hair the way he wants to. He'll go travelling when he feels like it's the right thing for Tom to do. But he is the quintessential team player. In any other generation he would have made an exceptional Limerick captain.' Ambition is the fire in Hegarty too: 'He is a winner,' says Hennessy. 'He has a self-confidence but not an arrogance. People who wouldn't know him might say he was arrogant but he's not. He's a winner and he's very confident in his own ability. When things are going against him, he still thinks he can deliver. 'Against Tipp [in the first round of the Munster championship] people might have been saying he didn't have the best day with the ball in his hand, but his tackle count was 16 or 17. It was off the charts.' With that level of physicality comes risks and because Hegarty plays on the edge he sometimes loses his footing. In the All-Ireland semi-final and final in 2020 he committed 12 fouls and was penalised for 10 frees, without getting booked. His tackle on Joe Canning in the semi-final should have been a straight red. That was also the season when he was the undisputed Hurler of the Year. Two years later, though, he was sent off twice and on RTÉ Donal Óg Cusack said that Hegarty 'had it coming'. When he was sent off again in the first round of the 2023 championship John Kiely dropped him for the next match. This is Kiely's ninth season as Limerick manager and the Munster final will be his 50th championship match in the role; in all that time, Hegarty has only been left out three times. Morrissey hasn't been omitted since Kiely's first season in 2017. Gearóid Hegarty scores a goal in the 2022 All-Ireland final against Kilkenny. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Hegarty and Morrissey became the heart and lungs of the team. Their impact on big games became an article of faith. In the All-Ireland finals of 2020, 21 and 22 they scored 3-28 from play, between them. Hegarty has scored more goals in All-Ireland finals than any other round of the championship. At the height of their dominance Limerick strangled teams in the air and devoured them on primary ball. On puck-outs, Quaid, Hegarty and Morrissey represented the most potent triangle in hurling. In match analysis there are no secrets. Every intercounty team has equal access to RTÉ's high camera footage behind the goal. Limerick's puck-outs have been dissected from every angle and yet nobody has broken the lifeline between Quaid and his wing forwards. [ Munster final tactical analysis: Cork must be sharper with puckouts against Limerick Opens in new window ] 'In the Cork match a couple of weeks ago I was watching the way Hegarty was shaking off Rob Downey for puck-outs and he makes it look so easy,' says Cleary. 'When you talk about analysis, the most videos I'd show teams is the way Hegarty loses his man on puck-outs. He knows how to make the guy switch off for a second and then he goes. It makes you look stupid. 'Nickie [Quaid] is just watching to see the movement. There's no signals. They leave the zone open and those lads sprint to that zone. If Nickie sees a guy getting a step ahead, he'll hit to that spot. Hegarty makes it look so easy. It even looks like he's plodding and there's lads not able to keep up with him.' Condon reckons that Morrissey has been Limerick's 'most consistent' player in the Kiely years. The only stain on Hegarty's record is 2023. His form dropped to such a degree that he was the only Limerick starter omitted from the All Star nominations. A year later, he was one of only four Limerick players to win an All Star. Last winter, Morrissey went travelling for three months with his girlfriend, touring seven countries in South America. He returned a day before Limerick played Cork in the league and in the following couple of months, he struggled to pick up the pace. Against Tipp in the opening round of the championship he scored just once from five shots; against Waterford it was three from five; against Cork, five from six. Do you need a graph to see the pattern? 'Earlier this year, when guys were questioning that maybe he had come back a little late from his travels, I think he nearly thrived on people doubting his credentials,' says Moran. 'I think over the last couple of weeks he's been back to his very, very best. As good as he's ever been.' With Morrissey and Hegarty everybody knows what's coming. What can you do about it?
Irish Examiner
4 days ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Buyers from 'The Pale' flock to sunspot Ballycotton as village marks first €1m+ house sale
IS Dublin, and Leinster, doing to East Cork's Ballycotton what American buyers are doing to Kinsale, driving prices up a gear, or several? Recent and just agreed sales would indicate an unqualified 'yes.' 5 Atlantic Terrace is new to market with agent Adrianna Hegarty: it dates to the early 1800s They include sale terms agreed after a swift and unrelenting bidding war at €1.1m for the refurbished Troy House, our May 10 Property & Home p1 and internal feature of a home done to the n-th degree by an interior designer owner Troy House is sale agreed at €1.1m, the strongest price to date in East Cork's Ballycotton : it soared past its €695,000 AMV, being bought by a Leinster purchaser, with a US bidder at the same €1.1 sum failing to get to view before the vendor accepted the Irish offer from within The Pale. Interior of Troy House Also just sale agreed is the diminutive boathouse, a wreck in stones on a tiny footprint by a secondary pier used by local fishermen: the old boathouse went for sale in April, guiding €70,0000 and is been bought by a Dulin bidder for €205k, to local amazement, with the buyer reportedly 'loving a project,' says selling agent Adrianna Hegarty, who says he hasn't disclosed if he plans a residential bolthole right by the water, or some commercial use. Ballycotton's old boathouse sale agreed at €200,000 'The holiday home here has taken off, people have waited years for supply here,' says Ms Hegarty as her June 2025 launch of 5 Atlantic Terrace at €395,000 (it's an executor sale) already has bidding on the c 700 sq ft quaint two-bed at €425,000 late this week, and is still climbing. View from 5 Atlantic Terrace With sea and pier views, and dual aspect/access, the compact early 19th century home has a wood-burning stove, double glazing and central heating, but still scores a F BER. Living room at 5 Atlantic Terrace Ms Hegarty notes sales on the charming terrace are uncommon, and attributes the current demand for the seaside village to a number of factors: She includes the proximity of Ballymaloe House, its cookery school and the Castlemartyr Resort; the impact of local entrepreneur Pearse Flynn whose Sea Church music venue, and just repositioned Cush restaurant (ex Pier 26) as well as the Blackbird pub and café has massively broadened the profile and driven visitor numbers to new heights. Daughter Niamh Hegarty of the same Midleton-based agency agrees: she says that relative proximity to Cork city and the airport also aids access - while parts of West Cork can be two or more hours from the city; she adds that online social media such as TikTok and Instagram reels are boosting Ballycotton's profile, beaches and beauty even further, with a number of major UK and US influencers adding to the overall lifestyle picture. 'The surprise isn't that it's happening to Ballycotton, the surprise is it's taken so long,' Niamh Hegarty says simply.
Irish Independent
29-04-2025
- Health
- Irish Independent
Kerry initiative lends support to festival encouraging neighbours to come together and eat
Healthy Kerry, a council programme, was recently announced as one of the partners of the fifteenth edition of Street Feast, a nationwide celebration encouraging neighbours to come together for cups of tea, park picnics and street parties to build community. The Kerry organisation is funding packs for communities to hold playful games and activities at their Street Feast gatherings. Almost 75,000 took part in the celebration last year, with 96pc of participants reporting that their sense of belonging has increased since the event. Deirdre Hegarty, Healthy Kerry co-ordinator, said that partnering with Street Feast was an excellent fit for her organisation as the initiative offers an opportunity to create a sense of community that lasts far beyond a single afternoon. 'It's a chance to meet the people living right next door, to celebrate diversity, and to spark the kind of neighbourly relationships that make our towns and villages thrive,' Ms Hegarty said. 'This year, Healthy Kerry are funding play packs to support communities to include playful games and activities as part of their Street Feast events. 'We are proud to support this brilliant initiative and look forward to seeing colourful, creative, and joyful Street Feasts popping up across County Kerry.' Street Feast is also supported by the Department of Rural and Community Development, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth, local authorities, Dr Oetker Ireland and other partners. Street Feast founder Sam Bishop said every year, thousands of neighbours pass each other by without ever saying hello and this festival aims to change that. 'By hosting a Street Feast, you can help make your neighbourhood a happier, healthier and more connected place,' Mr Bishop said. Those interested in getting involved in Street Feast can register to host a gathering and receive a free party pack, complete with bunting, stickers, invites, posters and a DIY guide, at
