Brazen pup.
An Outrageous Request For A Car (Gumtree)
Thanks John Connolly
Yearly Archives: 2013
Ze Smith, top and a cyclist, above, at the outdoor exhibition of RNLI outdoor sea rescue photography at Grand Canal Square, Dublin yesterday.
The Lifeboat Courage on our Coasts exhibition [running until December 2] showcases over 50 images captured through by RNLI lifeboat crew member and award-winning professional photographer Nigel Millard. He’s really good.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
(Mayor of Tralee Pat Hussey with Sean Kelly MEP)
Pat Hussey, the mayor of Tralee, said Fine Gael’s “ridiculous” gender quotas could lead to many situations where “you could have a fantastic candidate overlooked for someone who doesn’t know anything at all about politics”. He said he was in favour of increasing female representation in politics but “they have families and if they want to be politicians they’ll have to pay exorbitant money into creches — it’s all wrong”.
And a Happy International Men’s Day to you and yours.
FG politician Hussey quits race over gender quotas (Mary Regan, Irish Examiner)
Pic: Sean Kelly
Previously: A Woman’s Place
(The Central Remedial Clinic, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf)
Further to reports that Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital is getting a ‘privately funded’ top-up of €45,000 in addition to her salary and allowances of more than €236,000….
Figures obtained by the Irish Independent also reveal that the Central Remedial Clinic in Dublin is paying its chief executive Paul Kiely more than €135,000 in salary and allowances from its own funds on top of his HSE-funded salary of €106,900.
The clinic is also paying private allowances of at least €32,000 to four other executives. The organisation, which has a range of services for children and adults with physical conditions, has a fundraising department and a large number of corporate donors.
Master of Holles Street gets €45k top-up to her €236k salary (Independent)
Pic: Rate My Area
(Top: Russian Special Forces boarding the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in September)
John Dunford writes:
I’m a long time reader from Mayo living down in Auckland [New Zealand] and I’m working on the digital campaigns team for Greenpeace. I’m not sure if you’re aware of the situation with our activists and crew being detained in Russia. Unfortunately, Greenpeace hasn’t had a
presence in Ireland since the ’90s and I’ve been trying to think of ways to spread info about our work and what’s happening to these peaceful protesters in Russia to an Irish audience. This (below) is an update…
Thirty people from around the world are being held in prison in Russia. It has been nearly 2 months since the Russian authorities boarded their ship, the Arctic Sunrise and now they are facing piracy and hooliganism charges which carry a possible total sentence of 22 years.
Their ‘crime’ was taking part in a peaceful protest against risky oil drilling by Gazprom in the Arctic.
Over 2 million people globally have spoken out about this injustice. Celebrities like Russell Brand, Stephen Fry and Thom Yorke have supported the Arctic 30.
Now it would be fantastic if we could raise the profile of this injustice in Ireland and Irish people showed their support for these peaceful climate defenders.
We’ve had documented problems with crackdowns on environmental protesters in Ireland in recent years but the response of the Russian authorities goes far beyond anything we’ve seen at home.
If you care about protecting the Arctic or even just feel that hanging a banner in protest on an oil rig should never result in years in prison, please send a message to the Russian Ambassador in Dublin.
You can send your message here.
Anything you can do to help spread the word is really appreciated. Please SHARE this, tweet about #FreeTheArctic30 and if you would like to offer other help in publicising this then please get in touch with me on twitter.
Thank you
John Dunford, Greenpeace New Zealand
Pics: Greenpeace
(The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin)
Apparently now there’s a dearth,
Of women prepared to give birth,
The thought of the joys,
Of young girls and young boys,
Isn’t worth the increase to one’s girth.
John Moynes
(Joe Dunne/Photocall ireland)
Mourne Mountains, Co Down moments ago.
Thanks Eoin Banahan
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To the trucker who hit bridge, failed to report it & left scene: we have your reg & company you drive for. Talk soon, lots to discuss.
— Iarnród Éireann (@IrishRail) November 19, 2013
Google Street View
A sea cavern near Benagil Beach in Algarve, Portugal, courtesy of Reddit Earthporn.
Artist Sonia King, daughter of the late photographer H. Warner King recently discovered a box marked ‘November 1963’ among her father’s possessions.
The photographs inside, unseen for five decades, were taken moments before Kennedy’s assassination by the Mafia/Illuminati/Repubicans/CIAspooks/aliens at Dealey Plaza.
MORE: Never-Before-Seen Photos of JFK’s Final Minutes in Dallas (TIME)