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Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, featured in the divorce referendum post earlier, with Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions, Padraig Mac Lochlainn TD with leaflets explaining that…
…From 1 May 2013 over 180 additional publicly funded organisations will be subject to independent oversight by the Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly This means that the Ombudsman will be able to examine complaints from members of the public about the administrative actions of public organisations including Universities, Vocational Education Committees, the Student Grant Appeals Board, FÁS, the National Treatment Purchase Fund, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), and the Family Support Agency, among many others.
[Emily O’Reilly said] “Today is a landmark day for accountability in Ireland. Almost 25 years since it was first proposed the remit of the Ombudsman has been extended so as to include almost all publicly funded organisations that deal with the public.”
Ombudsman can now examine complaints against 180 additional public organisations (Ombudsman.gov.ie)
Pic:Ombudsman
He/she’s out there.
An ordinary decent guard with a dodgy calculator and bad intentions.
The Garda Commissioner has issued a strongly-worded statement in relation to comments by Garda Representative Association President John Parker about crime statistics being massaged.
Commissioner Martin Callinan [above] said there was no information or evidence for these allegations.
He called on Mr Parker to clarify his position and provide any information and evidence he may have concerning the matter.
*holding-cell-sized tub of popcorn*
Garda Commissioner questions claim crime statistics being massaged (RTE)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Three trailers in a row just “dropped” for Grand Theft Auto V.
If this was a film. Straight to video Best film Oscar written all over it.
Bit of Freddie action too.
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The Snapzoom Phone Scope Adaptor – a brilliantly simple concept you could easily have come up with yourself but instead was invented by Hawaiian brothers-in-law Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen.
Currently overfunded on Kickstarter, the design attaches any smartphone to any binocular, telescope or microscope eyepiece.
It will almost certainly be a thing you can buy soon.
Scenes from the divorce referendum of 1995 (withj black and white images from the divorce referendum of 1986).
The last great fear-mongering culture war before instant fact-checking.
Including, from top: No campaigner Peter Scully (pic 3) Mick Lally and Roddy Doyle (pic 4), Bono with Nell McCafferty, (pic 5) both images taken in the Right to Remarry campaign office in Dublin; Final pic: Emily O’Reilly with John O’Reilly (no relation) of the anti-divorce campaign at the 1986 referendum count centre in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Frida Kahlo (and friend, snubbed cat in background), Salvador Dali (with his pet ocelot, Babou); Pablo Picasso (with Minou); Gustav Klimt (with Katze); Ai Wei Wei (with Lai Lai – one of his 40 cats); Jean Cocteau (with Karoun); Henri Matisse (with either Minouche or Coussi) and Andy Warhol (who once owned 25 cats, all called Sam.)
Martin McGuinness mixed up the IRA with the IFA (Irish Football Association) in the Northern Ireland Assembly today.
Answering a question about efforts to combat sectarianism in football.
Watch here.
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That bus goes everywhere with Lucinda.
From top: Eamon Gilmore, Simon Coveney and Enda Kenny, all outside government buildings this morning and Lucinda Creighton arriving at the Chartered Accountants Leinster Society Luncheon in the Westin Hotel, Dublin.
Meanwhile, from RTE:
It is understood that the heads of the Protection of Maternal Life Bill 2013 being discussed at Cabinet propose three procedures.
One doctor will be required to certify a termination of pregnancy in a medical emergency.
Two doctors will be required in the case of a non-emergency.
In the case of suicidal ideation, three doctors will be required to certify that a woman is entitled to a termination of pregnancy.
The heads of the bill also provide for an appeals process.
Three procedures proposed in abortion legislation (RTE)
(Laura Hutton and Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Bench heart-warming.
Redmum writes:
Someone has taken the trouble to paint bottle tops with cute and funny statements before pressing them into the screws on the boardwalk along the Liffey opposite the Clarence [Hotel, Wellington Quay].