Cape Town, South Africa
President Higgins with Thulani Mabaso, a political prisioner at Robben Island from 1986-91 and known by fellow detainees as ‘Bobby Sands’ because of the hunger strikes he took part in during his captivity, in Nelson Mandela’s Cell during a visit to Robben Island, Cape Town, on the 19th day of the Presidents 22-day official visit to Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa.
(DFA/Photocall Ireland)
Update:
Squee and Thulani in the prison yard at Robben Island.
(DFA/Photocall ireland)
Meanwhile…
“The [Irish] system of Direct Provision by which they [asylum seekers] are put in to places of accommodation and may remain there for eight to ten years is totally unsatisfactory, almost in every aspect of it. I believe that we desperately need a revision both of the process and of the law….”
“…It is more than just an Irish case. If you take the founding treaties of the European Union and the position of the freedom of movement within them, to what extent then is any government free to contradict what is a commitment to the act itself. So, it is a problem.”President Higgins speaking yesterday in South Africa
thats ooofside aright oter half just came in with cames so its ocitaperints t nite
+1
cue The Specials christmas re-release
Squeee-eeee Nelson Mandela
I’ll get me coat.
Níl sin Mandela
…a contender for headline of the year.
MDH should stay there. Another bankster lackey who abandoned his duty to the people as soon as his fat arse hit the Áras.
We didn’t miss you when you stopped posting recently.
I did.
Pity you’re still here though.
G’wan Michael D. Can I be the first to welcome his support for a truncated appeals process and quicker deportations.
Does he permanently stand in the leaning back position? Can’t be good for his spine…
The man released from prison was an impostor.
The real Mandela died years ago
End of apartheid my backside.
The White man kept all the wealth and live in white ghettos
You eyein’ me, son?