In three months coverage after bank guarantee on Morning Ireland & Breakfast 93% of interviewees were men. From my paper at #IAMCR13 today.
— Kevin Rafter (@kevinrafter) June 28, 2013
Lecturer in politics and media at Dublin City University Dr Kevin Rafter is at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in DCU today.
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The Sinn Féin Summer School in Ballyvourney, Co Cork tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.
Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade and Irish Independent columnist Alison O’Connor will be discussing the topic: ‘Media ownership – does it matter?’ on Saturday afternoon.
Should be interesting.
A woman who broke her hand in a fall while “dirty dancing” in Copper Faced Jacks has lost her case for damages against the club
— Dyane ConnorTV3 (@DyaneconnorTV3) June 28, 2013
Woman loses claim after ‘dirty dancing’ at Copper Face Jacks (Mary Carolan, Irish Times)
Previously: Nobody Puts Baby In Plaster
Limerick’s Rebecca Barry and that goal.
Up for an ESPY for ‘best play’
Edward writes:
Rebecca Barrys’s hockey goal you featured a while back, has just been nominated in the ‘best play’ category at ESPN’s ESPYS awards. Probably the first Irish nominee?
Rebecca is up against Khalil Edney’s ‘Buzzer Beater’ in the NBA.
Vote here (click through for ‘Best Play’)
The 32-county tee.
As gaeilge.
Only $12.
Kevin Carter writes:
designed a T-shirt of all the counties made up of their names in Irish with a few towns thrown in for good measure.
I think your readers might like it and I need to get at least 50 pre-orders before It gets the go ahead to be printed.If you felt like sharing that would be awesome but no pressure. The campaign is here
Mr [Billy] Timmins (above), in a parliamentary question, asked how many girls in State care were “taken” to Britain or elsewhere for an abortion “following a court decision, following testimony from a psychiatrist for the State that she was suicidal”.
Yesterday Mr Timmins described the response [Six under-18s since 1992] as “worrying” and asked: “If this legislation is about saving women’s lives, why was the treatment not provided in Ireland?”
The Department of Health has said the issue of consent for minors for access to medical treatment is not covered in the Bill, “but is one which needs to be addressed separately”.
Why indeed, Billy?
Timmins to vote against abortion Bill (Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times)
(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)
I expect that some whingers will whine,
At this latest genetic design,
But they’ve no cause to fret,
For they knew what they’d get,
When they voted for Vic Frankenstein.
John Moynes
(Rex)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSkB3M3DkXU
A blazing housefire in Russia is extinguished in an instant by a massive ‘waterbomb’ dropped by an amphibious Beriev Be-200 Altair.
A timelapse by Art Animation showing the enviable freehand drawing skills of Korean artist Kim Jung Gi as he creates a poster (without outlines, references or preliminary sketches) in celebration of the Korean Independence Movement.
Although it might look underwhelming, the once-revered Daihatsu Charade has disappeared from the many roads it once travelled. The 1.0L, 3 cylinder diesel had a reputation for bulletproof reliability and economical motoring. The sporty GTti and GTxx were known for the punchy 1.0L turbo engines and are much sought after today. The Charade was also available in the even rarer small saloon body shape.
The BMW 635CSi demonstrates all I loved about the marque’s styling techniques in the late 70s and up to the early 90s. An aggressive “shark-nose” which peters back to a luxurious yet sporty rear end – the reason why it’s probably the most beautiful production car I’ve ever seen. This one had an automatic transmission, which I don’t fancy, but I’ll own one some day!
What might look like a slightly modded Opel Kadett/Vauxhall Astra is, in fact, the range-topping GSE model. My guess is that it is a post-1988 model and, therefore, fitted with the bigger 2.0L engine (previously 1.8L before emission regulations forced a change). I found this seemingly forgotten example near O’Brien’s Bridge close to Limerick city.
Pics and text: Patrick ‘Carspotter’ Cummins
