Yearly Archives: 2014

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At the launch of the Union of Students in Ireland Sexual Health Awareness and Guidance (SHAG) campaign in the National College of Ireland (NCI), Mayor Street, Dublin today were from left: Greg O’Donoghue, Lauren Daly, Keeva O’Neill, Aron Murphy and Jordon Nolan.

USI will distribute 45,000 ‘SHAG Packs’ to students across the country in collaboration with Durex, MSD and Think Contraception.

Each pack contains:

1) A condom,

2) Sachet of lube.

3) A ‘booklet on contraceptive options, safe sex and STIs’.

4) Feather boa.

4) Flip flops.

5) Barry White CD

6) Slim volume of Elizabethan poetry.

7) Can of Tizer.

Should you plan on getting dirrrty.

Perishing careful, legover undergraduate lust-tards.

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Pictures Conor McCabe

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0dHCb7AHHw

Tell Me What A Man Is.

Spoken word verse by Belfast poet Colin Hassard.

Colin writes:

In Valentine’s week I’ve posted up a new poem called ‘Tell Me What a Man Is’. It focuses on ideas of masculinity, adulthood, domestic violence, and what it means to be a man in 2014.

FIGHT!

Colin Hassard (Facebook)

Previously: Moral Hassard

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The soon to be renamed Old Oak, Hoghton, Chorley, Lancashire

“The proposed name, The Cromwell is inappropriate due to the offence it may cause to some residents and regulars with regards to the atrocities and land seizures carried out by Oliver Cromwell in Ireland and the subsequent famine and suffering caused to our Irish cousins.”

FIGHT!

Army Of Protest Over Oliver Pub Rename Name (Lancashire Evening Post)

Protest In English Village Over Pub Rename (Irish Central)

Journalist John Waters (left) and filmmaker John Waters

“I know about it [Pantigate] because I get the same Google alert with our names that he [journalist John Waters] probably does! Ha!

I remember giving an interview in Ireland once and at first the woman reporter was so mean to me, I couldn’t figure what the problem was but then half way through she threw her hands up and screamed “You’re not THAT John Waters” and then was really nice.

Let’s just say we don’t save each other’s press clippings…”

American filmmaker John Waters in an email to Paul Duane about the recent homophobia furore.

Earlier: It’s Not Even Gay Marriage I’m Opposed To: It’s Gay Adoption.

Thanks Paul Duane

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[Mark Kelly]

“In this State, two specific agencies, Garda Special Branch and the Defence Forces Intelligence Branch (G2) have been granted specific surveillance powers under legislation (the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 and the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009).

Since both of these agencies fall under the ultimate authority of one Minister, Mr Alan Shatter TD (in his capacities as Minister for Justice & Equality and Minister for Defence), the ICCL trusts that the Minister will provide unequivocal assurances that neither agency has been involved in spying on GSOC. In the event that it remains impossible to identify the culprits with the necessary degree of certainty, an inquiry of a judicial nature may be required.

…There is no direct Parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence activities of Garda Special Branch or Defence Forces Intelligence Branch and, under the existing legislation, ministerial and judicial oversight is very limited.  Irrespective of whether the integrity of GSOC has been compromised by agents of this State, or by other rogue elements, our national safeguards against unlawful surveillance urgently require to be strengthened.”

Mark Kelly, Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Rights Watchdog “Gravely Concerned” by GSOC Bugging Revelations (ICCL)

Kenny learned of GSOC bugging claims yesterday (RTE)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)