Monthly Archives: March 2012

Two support groups for people affected by hepatitis C from contaminated blood products spent more than €250,000 on weekends away, golf trips, pool table hire and conferences in 2010, documents released by the HSE reveal.

Transfusion Positive and Positive Action are both funded by the HSE and receive about €860,000 between them annually

….Documents received by The Irish Times under a Freedom of Information request reveal that Transfusion Positive spent €132,856 on five weekends away for its members and non-infected family members in Ireland in 2010.

Oh.

Two Hepatitis C Support Groups Spent Over €250,000 On Trips (Pamela Duncan and Martin Wall, Irish Times)


Shitter is a new startup that offers to turn your tweet stream into four rolls of toilet paper for $35. Founder David Gillespie sez:

“Obviously this is fairly tongue in cheek, but we’re reasonably pleased we monetized Twitter in a way that avoided advertising”

Get Shitter here

Turn Your Tweets Into Toilet Paper With The New Startup – Shitter (venturebeat)

(Hat tip: Miranda Wrights)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wBxf-NIbbI

3D projection mapping – normally associated with large scale architectural displays – is perhaps even more effective on a smaller scale. Here, in a promo for their new dual SIM smartphone, Samsung Portugal engaged Lisbon agency Excentric to use the human face and upper body as a canvas.

awesomer/animal

Internal Department of Education documents obtained by RTÉ under Freedom of Information legislation show that the Department of Education gave guarantees that Catholic children in the new schools would receive a full separate Catholic religious education, even though it was already clear that Catholic children would be in a minority in the new schools.

New Details Of State Guarantees To Catholic Church Over Primary School Education (RTE)

 

In 2007 the effects of unprecedented levels of immigration plunged the education system here into crisis. Suddenly it was clear that there were not enough Primary school places to cater for all. It was also clear that our traditional, largely Catholic primary school system needed urgent reform.

The then Minister for Education Mary Hanafin announced a brand new kind of school called the Community National School. Its aim; to educate all comers, from all religious backgrounds and none.

But, according to papers obtained by RTE:

State gave Commitments To Catholic Church On Education (RTE)