Redditor JoDiegoJo sez:
This is the letter my best friend made me when I was in ICU with short term memory loss. She also took leave from her job and stayed at my house with my children so that my husband could be at the hospital with me.
Now that’s a best friend.
Two nuns who were involved in running Magdalene laundries have hit back at criticisms of the four congregations which operated the 10 such institutions in Ireland up to 1996.
In interviews to be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s The God Slot at 10 o’clock tonight “Sister B” said: “All of the shame of the era is being dumped on the religious orders.”
When asked whether an apology might be appropriate after the McAleese report on the laundries, “Sister A” responded, “apologise for what?”
Now, now, don’t dress it up in vague platitudes, sis.
Previously: Result!
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Richard Cantwell asks:
Has the Drimnagh microwave swanned it over to the S.C.R.?
It would appear not.
Still. Mmf.
Previously: The Ballad Of The Drimnagh Microwave
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Via Mike Hogan, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Joe Donnelly.
Anti-abortion and pro-gun.
Youth Defence’s contribution to Facebook today.
(Thanks Conor Farrell)
Ahead of International Women’s Day tomorrow, Minister for Social Protecton Joan Burton (centre) helped launched a new android app developed by Safe Ireand to help keep women and children safe from domestic violence.
Last year an iPhone version of the app, which lists refuges, care workers, etc, for women in distress, was released
At the launch outside Leinster House, Dublin, today were, from left: Senator Susan O’Keeffe, Sioban O’Brien Green, of SAFE Ireland, Jacinta Carey, Chair SAFE Ireland and Senator Ivana Bacik.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
The original Iron Man 3 trailer hilariously recreated shot-for-shot on a budget by CineFix
And here’s the side-by-side comparison to prove it.
The property tax whatsit.
They’re calling it the government DEATH CERTIFICATE.
Probably.
Via Fergal O’Brien (Today FM)) who tweets:
Expect to see one of these coming through your letterbox someday very soon!
Diets laden with pies, sausages, and ready meals can lead to an early death, a major study has shown.
Research involving half a million people highlights links between processed meat and heart disease and cancer. It also shows that people who eat a lot of the meat products have a significantly greater chance of dying prematurely than those consuming low amounts.
High processed meat consumption led to a 72 per cent increased risk of dying from heart disease, and an 11 per cent increased risk of dying from cancer.
Overlooked but full of love.
From Dublin SPCA:
SPECIAL APPEAL: Jane Eyre has been in the shelter for a few months now and would really love to be in a home giving love and affection to her new owners. We would love to see her going to a new home soon especially before kitten season arrives and she is over looked.
Anyone?
