A demonstration against SNA cuts from March 2010 when Fine Gael and Labour were in opposition.
All the gang’s there; Bottler, Enda, Hayeser, James Bannon, Eamon, even Willie Penrose.
They even had a Private Members Motion put forward by Brian Hayes.
Fine Gael Special Education Needs Motion – Dail Eireann 31st March 2010 (Dan Neville, Fine Gael TD)
Top pic via SpNeedsParents
(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)
Photographer Diane Dodd’s pictures of a trapper’s pickup in a Savannah Georgia parking lot, adorned with the pelts and stuffed carcasses of his prey (including an obligatory bullfrog sucking on a bottle of Jack Daniels)
Bottler.
He simply can’t help himself.
All the money so far provided from a funding boost for autism services announced by Minister for Health James Reilly last year has been spent on cutting waiting lists for children with the condition in his political heartland in north Dublin, newly released documents show.
Just €300,000 of the €3 million promised over three years by Dr Reilly in January 2012 has so far been allocated, all of it to north Dublin, according to the documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Dr Reilly’s announcement in January 2012 of an additional €3 million in funding for children with autism appears to have taken his own officials by surprise, the documents show. One told a colleague in an internal email that it was “news to me” while another referred to the matter as coming “out of the blue”.
All the money.
Analysis: Minister’s indecision blocked €3m autism support (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)
Meanwhile, why does Dr Reilly’s personal website reilly.ie forward to the Department of Health’s site?
Anyone?
Any excuse
(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)
You’ll recall the thatched smoking room under construction at the Man O’ War pub in Fingal.
Well it’s complete.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
(Thanks Eoin Darby)
Ballycotton, Co. Cork via John Finn
Bulloch Harbour, Dalkey Co. Dublin and Vico Road, Dalkey looking to Bray Head via Daragh
Kinsale, Co. Cork via Cian Walsh
From Kildare at 1am.
The insanely bright perigee moon over Ireland tonight. You won’t see a moon like it for another 14 months.
Thanks Atticus
Conor McBride writes:
…just wanted to drop you a note to let you know a little documentary I directed came second at the Brooklyn Short FIlm Festival this week. ‘
G’wan the Conor!
Untitled’ directed and edited by myself, a Kerry expat in New York of 4 years, profiles an artist turned drag queen in Brooklyn. The film, originally commissioned for Accent Magazine, explores how the life of artist Matthew de Leon has changed since he gave rise to his drag persona, Untitled, 12 months ago. Giving a humanizing insight in to the world of drag the film questions the role art plays in entertainment and vice versa. I hope you enjoy it!
The Kennedy love-in continues.
Scenes from New Ross, Wexford, today at events to mark the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.
Enough already (even the hot ones).
Bring on the Nixon-in-kildare festivities.
From top: Seamus Heaney with a bust of the late Senator Edward ‘Good Senator, bad date’ Kennedy; Jack ‘Hottsberg’ Schlossberg (JFK’s grandson); Max Kennedy (RFK’s grandson); The Air Corps perform a fly past over the Dunbrody Famine Ship on the quays of New Ross, Co Wexford; the JFK ’emigrant flame’; the emigrant flame monument; Caroline Kennedy, Enda Kenny and jean Kennedy Smith, and Harper Petitgout (Ted Kenndy’s great granddaughter).
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Live from de Spar.
More to follow
Meanwhile,
In the Sunday World
Donabate beach, Dublin.
“….perverts’, you say?
Hmm.
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