Yearly Archives: 2013

bray logoCandy floss, ice-creams and cops on mountain bikes emptying tins of Special Brew into the sand in front of disgruntled half-cut teens.

Yes, the Bray Summer Festival 2013 in Bray, Co Wicklow, [home to several Broadsheet contributors] running from July 6– August 5.

FOUR weeks of music, chips AND an airshow spectacular.

And it’s all free.

Bray Blueshirt mayor Festival Director Mick Glynn sez:

“Bray Summerfest has grown significantly over the last number of years and is North Wicklow’s largest tourism driver with over 120,000 visiting the town during the 2012 festival and brings an economic benefit to the area of €8m.”

 

Launching tonight in the Porterhouse, Strand Road (“down at the beach”), Bray, Co Wicklow.

Bray Summer Festival 2013 (Facebook)

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On conscientious objection, the Bill still provides that no medical practitioner will be forced to carry out an abortion if they have a conscientious objection.

 

While the bill no longer includes a provision allowing an institution to refuse to provide a termination on the grounds of conscientious objection, department sources insisted this morning that this was because the provision was unnecessary.

 

 

The Bill requires the medical practitioner with the objection to provide for the “transfer of care” of the pregnant woman.

 

The Bill provides a penalty of up to 14 years in prison for the offence of destroying unborn human life.

 

This is a tighter definition than in the draft heads of the bill, which made it an offence to “do any act with the intent to destroy unborn human life”.

 

This was said to apply to anyone involved, including the pregnant woman herself.

 

Protection Of Life During Pregnancy Bill

 

Two significant changes to abortion legislation (RTE)

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Former Fox News loon Glenn Beck.

Has something to share.

“In the next 10 days, you are going to witness things in American history that have never been witnessed before,” says Glenn Beck of an announcement he plans to make “in the next 24 hours.”

He has one document, he says, that will take down the “entire power structure, pretty much everything,” and “greatly divide” the nation.

 

There goes the weekend.

Glenn Beck has news that will “rock the nation,” change “everything” (Salon)

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The official trailer for Apple’s new, totally revamped mobile operating system in which Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design Sir Jony Ive waxes lyrical about, well, design.

Androids gonna hate.

iOS 7 design changes remain in flux, likely to see major revisions before release (Apple Insider)