The last Le Cool Dublin cover for three weeks.
By Waterford-based, Dublin designer Lee Grace.
Who sez:
I don’t get to visit Dublin as much as I would like to, so when I do, I take as much of it in as possible. This keeps it fresh for me in another perspective as I don’t get numb to the overall bustle and flow of the city. The illustration is an exaggerated version of me doting over the cityscape.
A Fianna Fáil senator has been accused of reaching a new low after he said allowing abortions in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities would be “depriving future Special Olympics athletes of being born”.
Brian Ó Domhnaill said allowing terminations in such circumstances could lead to babies with Down’s syndrome being “left to die on sterilised trays”.
Labour’s Aideen Hayden said it was “incredibly low” to suggest there is any link between disability and fatal abnormalities — especially as the House was preparing for a discussion last night on the Special Olympics.
Senator: Abortions would deprive future Special Olympians of life (Mary Regan, Irish Examiner)
Previously: Fada Shortage
Pro-Life’s ‘Lunatic fringe’ And The Special Olympics
Pic: brianodomhnaill.ie
Oscar.
He’s out in the wild.
Jenny McCarthy writes:
My dog Oscar has just gone missing in the Bath Avenue [Sandymount, Dublin] area. He has a bald belly and leather collar. He is microchipped and my details are on his collar. If anyone has found or seen him please leave details below [Or contact broadsheet@broadsheet.ie]
Anyone?
Michael Woods
The June 2002 deal between Fianna Fail (above) and 18 religious orders, brokered by Michael Woods while serving as Minister for Education, awarded indemnity against all legal claims if…
…they paid €128m in cash and property.
Total liability was estimated at €300m even though no detailed analysis was carried out by any government department. The Government estimated there would be 2,000 claimants. In the end, there were more than 14,000.
Total liability is currently estimated at €1.2bn
The indemnity deal at a glance (irish Independent, May 22, 2009)
AmIStillOnThisIsland writes:
A few points about the Indemnity deal
It was never run past the Attorney General of the day [Michael McDowell].
It was finalised outside of a dissolved Daíl and no vote ever taken on it.
It could be repealed in the morning with few grounds for legal challenge
A bill was presented to the Daíl in 2009 to repeal the deal but got nowhere.
Less than 70% of the monies owed by the Church has been paid, example the Christian Brothers have paid 4 Million of a total 42 owed.
So if Enda was serious about being a ‘Catholic but not a Catholic Taoiseach’, he would repeal the bill in the morning and open all of the religious institutions to a liability to pay for their crimes.
(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUFn-keQns
Pat Rabbitte in Doheny and Nesbitt’s, Merrion Row, Dublin, last night.
Toner’s so.
Thanks all
A pre-festival ‘best-of’ CGI teaser for the computer graphics and interactive tech conference SIGGRAPH 2013 which opens this weekend in in Anaheim, California.
Song: Disintegration by Monarchy
See?
You can get good design in this town.
Unless…
it was done ‘abroad’.
*reaches for pitchfork*
Eamon Dunphy Set To Publish Autobiogrpahy (RTE Ten)
(Penguin)
What you may need to know:
1. We can barely remember the last Spider-Man movie. No, wait, Rhys Ifans wanted to turn the world into lizards, or something. We were too distracted by Martin Sheen’s teeth.
2. This is a Comic-Con teaser of new Spidey villian Electro, played by Jamie Foxx.
3. He’ll always be Motherfucker Jones to us.
4. Truth be told, we’re more excited about Paul Giamatti as The Rhino.
5. Broadsheet Prognosis: I like the way you fry, boy.
Release Date: Summer 2014
Brynmor Pattison writes:
Further to your stories about bike-related news, I figured I’d send in my first piece of journalist [bike hate] mail that I received yesterday.
Among other things, the author claims that the “corrupt bastards in our ‘police’… are turning a blind eye to anti-social criminal cyclists who are allowed to break every traffic law that they damn like”.
Hardcore.
