In Ireland the Left’s long been blighted,
For it’s parties are never united,
But if you’ve got the hots,
For working with Trots,
Then this news will get you excited.
John Moynes
Clare Daly (top) and Joan Collins, founders of ‘United Left’.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
When will Irish Health Minister James Reilly pull his finger out and sort out Ireland’s archaic, damaging abortion laws? They must change.
— Dr Christian Jessen (@DoctorChristian) April 23, 2013
Bewildered writes:
Twenty one years on and still a small band of fundamentalists are embarrassing the country on the international stage.
The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution in 1992 was a failed proposal to disregard suicide as a reason for an abortion.
This was followed by the proposed Twenty-fifth Amendment in 2002 which also failed on the same terms.
Numerous opinion polls have shown popular support for legislation for the X case and yet here we find ourselves…
Fine Gael TDs at “war” over abortion (Fiach Kelly, Irish Independent)
(Channel 4)
What you may need to know:
1. It’s written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who won an Oscar for writing The Decendants (2011). The latter plays the Dean on Community.
2. It reunites Steve Carrell and Toni Colette, last seen together in Little Miss Sunshine (2006).
3. @ ’52 Sam Rockwell – always a good idea.
4. @ 1’12 Maya Rudolph – another good idea.
5. We do love a good coming of age movie.
Release Date: Summer
Fionnan Sheahan of the Irish Independent appeared on last night’s ‘Tonight with Vincent Browne’ with the proposed draft legislation for the ‘Protection of Maternal Life Bill 2013’.
To wit:
Lovely.
Watch here (scroll to 30:20)
Finally.
The Eurozone’s new €5, which comes into ‘circulation’ on May 2.
Including NEW security features.
Compare and contrast with the ‘old’ fiver here.
For the premiere that’s in it, Cinema Sins takes the pedantry cannon to what will probably remain the best film of the franchise.
Previously: Everything Wrong With Transformers
The cracks that suddenly appeared on Tuesday afternoon in the Rana Plaza building were large enough to send workers fleeing into the street.
They made the television news that night, but the building’s owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, told reporters the sudden appearance of cracks was “nothing serious”.
He did not say that police had ordered him to shut the factory. Nor did he mention that the top four floors of the building, in Savar, north of Dhaka, were constructed illegally without permits.
So on Wednesday morning, as workers gathered outside, unsure whether they could go in, factory officials appeared carrying megaphones, telling them the factory was open, and that their pay would be docked if they did not return to work.
Mr Rana was there again too. He reportedly told his workers of his factory: “It will stand for another 100 years”.
They went inside and began work, sitting at rows of sewing machines making jeans and shirts and jackets for the US and Europe.
Just after 9am, the eight-storey building collapsed without warning, all of it, save for the first floor, crashing in on itself.
Owner forced workers into doomed factory (Collie Mail)
Savar Toll 175 (BangladeshNews24)
(Pic: CNN)
100 Years Later: an ‘aged technology’ project by artist and childrens’ book illustrator Maico Akiba who applies fake rust and moss to simulate the aging of apparently excavated relics.
Last week, it was reported three men had been expelled from Saudi Arabia for being too handsome.
Now one of those three has been allegedly revealed as Omar Borkan Al Gala (above).
We are currently awaiting Bodger’s verdict.
In the meantime, YOU decide.
Saudi Arabia deports ‘irresistible’ men deemed ‘too handsome’ to women (Daily Telegraph)
