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Monthly Archives: May 2013
In October 2008, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission began investigating allegations of collusion between certain gardaí and convicted drug dealer Kieran Boylan, above, against whom further drugs charges were dropped in July 2008.
The dropped charges involved six charges in connection with the seizure of €1.7million of cocaine and heroin in 2005. At the time of the seizure, he was on bail.
The GSOC probe ended in December 2012. A file had been sent to the DPP but the DPP directed for no prosecution.
In a report released today, the Garda Ombudsman criticised the following:
– Favouritism shown to one garda unit.
– Leaking of information to journalists.
– Significant delays in the handing over of information, by certain gardaí.
– Failure to keep make and retain contemporaneous notes by certain gardaí.
From the report:
Read the full report here.
Ombudsman says gardaí delayed investigation into Kieran Boylan case (RTÉ)
Pic: Sunday Times
Box of Frogs, the funny, life-affirming play about the darkness of mental health, starring Mary McEvoy, Dil Wickremasinghe and John Moynes opens in Galway this evening at the Town Hall Theatre.
It Kicks off a Summer tour of Box of Frogs, directed by Caroline FitzGerald and written by Isobel Mahon in collaboration with the cast, taking in the venues (above).
The show is supported by See Change and aims to “de-mystify, debunk and ultimately have a laugh with what really goes on inside our heads.”
Through the medium of story, comedy and song.
No limericks, alas.
Pictures of the sun coming up over the South Pacific Ocean, the Aurora Australis and bright lights tracing the River Nile and its delta in Egypt.
Taken from the International Space Station.
Breathtaking.
A HD copy of Robert Morgan’s wonderfully creepy award-winning 2001 short film ‘nabbed off Stage 6 before it went under’ by Youtuber HonorNecris.
The tale itself was inspired by a recurring nightmare experienced by the director’s older sister.
Full screen. HD. Lights off.
Sweet dreams.
The Miami Herald has created an interactive graph showing the rise in hunger strikers in Guantánamo, the US detention centre on the island of Cuba.
They are reporting there are now 100 detainees refusing food.
Of those 24 are being force fed.
Tracking the hunger strike (Miami Herald)
Meanwhile, how they force feed.
“When the military doctors force-feed Guantánamo Bay detainee Fayiz al-Kandari with a tube shoved into his stomach there are three stages to the pain.”
“First, there is the sensation of the tube passing near his sinuses as it is pushed through his nose and into his throat, which causes his eyes to water. Then there is an intense burning and gagging sensation as it goes down the throat. Finally, when the tube enters the stomach there is a strong urge to vomit.”
“The experience, described by al-Kandari to his lawyer Carlos Warner, has one final grim humiliation. Once the tube has delivered food inside him, it triggers the most painful moment of all: the return of feeling hungry. “He says that can be the worst thing,” Warner said.”
How Guantánamo’s horror forced inmates to hunger strike (May 4, Guardian)
Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world’s most controversial prison (April 25, Guardian)
Pic: Presstvir
A dude being awesome on Kildare Street, Inns Quay, Dublin , this afternoon
Met Éireann are forecasting temperatures of 5 to 8 degrees and “northwest winds backing west [which] will be fresh and gusty.
They’ve also issued two marine yellow warnings.
We’re totally amped.
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
Minutes ago.
The ‘Ballyhea Says No’ group are holding a press conference in the Dáil committee audio visual room to outline bank-debt writedown proposals.
Via Diarmuid O’Flynn