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Yearly Archives: 2013
Debt activists Mark Malone, top and below right, and Lisa Patten, above, outside the Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin celebrating Not Our Debt Week, a jubilee-style global movement to coincide with annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF being held in Washington, October 8-15.
Nessa Ni Chasaide from Debt and Development Coalition Ireland said
“We join with campaigners across the World this week and say to the lenders meeting in Washington it’s time to stop, illegitimate debts are not our debts “.
Debt And Develoment Coalition ireland
(Sam Boal/Photocal Ireland)
Vast, lonely and full of Tories right?
This weekend.
The London Irish Comedy Festival at the London Irish Centre, Camden Square, NW1
A total of SIX gigs, featuring some of Ireland’s top comedians.including David McSavage, Barry Murphy, Paddy Cullivan, Grainne Maguire and Captain Gingerbread. Top price tickets are just £17 (€20.31).
Laugh?
We nearly emigrated.
London Irish Comedy Festival (programme and tickets)
Thanks DD and N
(Consultant Obstetrician Dr Katherine Astbury who treated Savita Halappanavar, at Galway courthouse during Savita’s inquest in April)
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) report into the death of Savita Halappanavar released today found:
Of the care provided [to Savita] there was a:
General lack of provision of basic, fundamental care, for example, not following up on blood tests as identified in the case of Savita Halappanavar
Failure to recognise that Savita Halappanavar was at risk of clinical deterioration
failure to act or escalate concerns to an appropriately qualified clinician when Savita Halappanavar was showing the signs of clinical deterioration.
The consultant, non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) and midwifery/nursing staff were responsible and accountable for ensuring that Savita Halappanavar received the right care at the right time. However, this did not happen. The most senior clinical decision maker involved in the provision of care to Savita Halappanavar at any given time should have been suitably clinically experienced and competent to interpret clinical findings and act accordingly. Ultimate clinical accountability rested with the consultant obstetrician who was leading Savita Halappanavar’s care.
Dr Astbury is the doctor, who according to Praveen Halappanavar, refused to terminate Savita’s pregnancy telling her “this is a Catholic country“.
During the inquest it was reported:
Mr Halappanavar accused consultant obstetrician Katherine Astbury of dismissing three separate requests for a termination because the foetus was alive.
“The consultant, Dr Astbury, came in,” he told Galway coroner’s court about the third request.
“Savita asked her ’can you terminate the baby?’
“Dr Astbury said ’unfortunately I cannot. This is a Catholic country, we are bound by the law. We can’t terminate because the foetus is still alive’.”
“Mr Halappanavar said his wife, who was 17 weeks pregnant, cried and told the doctor she was Hindu and not an Irish citizen.”
“Dr Astbury said ’sorry’ and she walked away,” Mr Halappanavar added.”
“The widower claimed a midwife also told his wife and her friend she could not have a termination because of the ‘Catholic thing’ after calling the consultant.”
“Barristers for the hospital and the medic told Galway coroner, Dr Ciaran MacLoughlin, that the consultant denies the allegations and disputes she ever made reference to the words ‘Catholic country’.”
HIQA report on Savita Halappanavar case finds ‘basic care’ failures (RTE)
Consultant accused of refusing Savita demands on ‘Catholic country’ grounds (Breaking News, April, 2013)
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
Elderly, blind and distressed.
Dublin SPCA writes:
Do you recognize this dog? He is a short coated gold coloured terrier mix. Quite old and seems to be totally blind. He came into us today found in the Tallaght/Firhouse [Dublin] area. He is very distressed as he does not know where he is……..please if you know him contact us straight away on 01-4994700 or email lost@dspca.ie.
Update:
DSPCA writes:
“Great news the owner has just been on and is coming straight up to collect him. thank you all for sharing we believe it was Facebook that that led the owner to us…”
A Star Wars LEGO Millennium Falcon cake which won a silver award in the novelty carved cake category at the Galway Bake Fest 2013 in aid of ACT for Meningitis.
Vinny Coyne writes:
My mum made this awesome cake…
Earlier this afternoon, Aine Ní Chonaill spoke to Joe Duffy on Liveline.
Ms Ní Chonaill launched the Immigration Control Platform in Ennis, Co. Clare in January, 1998. A few months prior to that, the West Cork teacher stood in the June 1997 general election on an anti-immigration ticket, gaining 293 votes in Cork South-West.
She also ran for Dublin South Central in the 2002 election, above, where she gained 926 votes.
Ms Ní Chonaill featured on show as a follow-up to yesterday’s programme, during which an asylum seeker from Syria, called Ali, talked to Joe about the six years he lived in an accommodation centre in Dublin.
From their conversation:
Áine Ní Chonaill: “Anyone who abuses the asylum system, just as a way to get to the West, and it is massively abused, is an invader of our country.”
Joe Duffy: “An invader?”
Ní Chonaill: “Anyone who barges their way into your country, against your will…”
Duffy: “Now it’s not my, your country. I mean who’s country is it?”
Ní Chonaill: “This is the country of Irish people. Do you think I’m making some exception of myself…”
Duffy: “You don’t own it?”
Ní Chonaill: “I beg your pardon?”
Duffy: “We don’t own the country, when you say ‘your country’.”
Ní Chonaill: “We most certainly do own our country. If you think we don’t own our own country, Joe, you’ve got a very big problem.”
Duffy: “Maybe I have. They’re invaders?”
Ní Chonaill: “Anyone who is an illegal immigrant, ‘i’ ‘double l’, illegal, or I add on an asylum abuser is such a person.”
Duffy: “OK. What is the purpose of this invasion?”
Ní Chonaill: “To get to live in the West.”
Duffy: “Yeah, and do they want to rob anything off you or me or pillage or rape or…”
Ní Chonaill: “Well, excuse me, they want to rob from…”
Duffy: “Because invaders usually come because they want to rob, pillage, rape, overthrow…”
Ní Chonaill: “I beg…If you want to use that kind of language, go right ahead.”
Duffy: “But what do invaders do?”
Ní Chonaill: “Invaders are people who say, effectively, I’m coming into your country whether you like it or not.”
Duffy: “To do what? To do what?”
Ní Chonaill: “To be here.”
Duffy: “In your house?”
Ní Chonaill: “In our country.”
Duffy: “In your house?”
Ní Chonaill: “In our country which is our communal home. Are you trying to say that the country doesn’t have the right to say who comes into the country?”
Duffy: “Of course it does, of course it does.”
Ní Chonaill: “Well that’s all I’m talking about.”
Duffy: “I’m just saying…I’m trying to get a glimpse, cause you’re coming across with phrases like ‘invader’, I’m trying to get a glimpse of what you’re saying, what you actually think of Ali and people like it.”
Ní Chonaill: “Well, obviously, I don’t know any circumstances, what I do know…”
Duffy: “Well, we heard them, we heard them yesterday, directly from his own mouth.”
Ní Chonaill: “No, no, no. Excuse me, Joe. Excuse me Joe. We never on what basis Ali asked for asylum. He came in 2006, when Syria was…”
Duffy: “Because he wanted to get out of Syria.”
Pencil drawings by Spanish artist Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez.
Pencil. Drawings.
Unbelievable Colored Pencil Drawings by Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez (My Modern Met)
Rain, Rain
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At the Irish Management Institute conference in Sandyford, Dublin today were (second pic from left): Herb Hribar, CEO of Eircom; Enda Kenny; Ireland Rugby coach Joe Schmidt and CEO of the IMI Dr Simon Boucher.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)