http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbaAf4aSIQQ
Rejjie Snow – Snow (My Rap Song)
NSFW.
Ciaran le Cool writes:
The new video/song from Rejjie Snow (the Drumcondra rap-spitter who briefly topped both Kayne West and J. Cole in the itunes hip-hop charts with his last EP, Rejovich). He’s backed by Noisey, Vice’s music channel and about to move to London full time. As you can see by the video, he’s a long way from Dublin 9 now. Swag.
Debenhams UK
Debenhams Ireland
€47 = £30
Hmm.
Thanks Raygun
Dr Peter Boylan, (above) consultant obstetrician and former master of the National Maternity Hospital gave his reaction this morning to Father Kevin Doran’s comments that abortions could not be performed at the Mater, Dublin, top, because of the hospital’s “ethos”.
Here is some of what Dr Boylan had to say to Newstalk’s Breakfast presenter Shane Coleman:
“Well I suspect that Father Doran is speaking in a rather personal capacity and not representing the views of the hospital and I certainly hope that is the case. The whole purpose of a hospital is to save people’s lives and Father Doran is proposing that a woman in an intensive care unit in the Mater Hospital is denied a life saving operation because it goes against his personal ethos or what he would say is the ethos of the hospital, then that is an extremely disturbing thing to say”.
“You can imagine a scenario, say the Mater, for example is associated with the Rotunda Hospital. So supposing a woman who gets seriously ill is transferred to the intensive care unit in the Mater Hospital and needs a termination in order to save her life, and is Father Doran going to stand by her bedside in the intensive care unit and prevent the doctors from giving the care she needs to save her life? I mean it’s really..it’s just not on.”
“Well I can understand Father Doran’s personal view and one has to respect his personal view but he’s not a doctor and there’s too long of a history of the Catholic Church interfering in the care of women, particularly in the area of reproductive health in this state and they really need to back off and leave it to the doctors. It’s absolutely intolerable that a hospital would deny somebody life-saving treatment in the 21st century in a Western country. It just beggars belief to be honest with you.
Would he prefer for both of them to die? For the baby and the mother to die? A lot of people against this Act miss the point that if the mother dies, the baby dies also. So are they happy to stand by and watch a woman die and be denied life-saving treatment because it goes against their personal beliefs which are not shared by the doctors looking after the woman or by the woman herself or by her family? It really, you know we really need to move on from this sort of interference.”
Listen here
Earlier: Nothing Really Maters
Previously: Right To Reply
Dr Peter Boylan and Breda O’Brien: The Transcript
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
County Dublin today.
Laura McDermot writes [via Android app]:
I know you don’t normally do this….But, this little kitten arrived on our doorstep last night. Only about 6-8 weeks old, female and very friendly.
She sat on the step for hours crying to be let in. We took her in for the night but we can’t keep her (I’m allergic). Would love to return her to her rightful owner.
Lucan area, near Superquinn (or should I say SuperValu :/)
Anyone?
A 3m tall four-armed mecha suit made for WIRED by monster makers Stan Winston Studios and Legacy Effects (which created the Jaeger effects for Pacific Rim).
Premiered last month (with the help of Adam Savage) at San Diego Comic Con, (top) the second video shows a recent ‘walk test’ where the suit is being piloted by its creator Bruce D. Mitchell.
Ir Psych writes:
The crime is repeated in the article itself.
Katie Dawson tweetz:
1 year on from Olympics euphoria we should reflect on this – it’s not enough to just share their glory then forget.
Interview with Katie Taylor: In the clearing stands a boxer (Johnny Watterson, Irish Times)
A Breaking Bad parody by Aaron Simpson for Youtube’s Geek Week in which:
A terminal cancer diagnosis sends Steve Jobs into beastmode, and into the lab with Jony Ive to cook up the most addictive substance known to man.
It’s in terribly bad taste. But you could always cut it with a little smack.
Swimming Cities – a half art project, half utopian experiment by street artist Swoon (aka Caledonia “Callie” Curry) – is a wonderful, ramshackle flotilla of ‘hoboboat’ rafts made from recycled materials that floated down various US canals and rivers (including the Mississippi and Hudson), stopping off to gather building materials, play music and generally freak out squares along the way.
