The Tesco Community Fund box in Tesco, Thomas Street, Dublin
B writes:
“Looks like Tesco on Thomas St is going to donate €500 to UCKG, the money laundering, tax evading neo-Pentecostal sect (there’s another word for it…) implicated in Victoria Climbié’s death in London. There’s a good cause…”
Anyone?
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald at the citizenship ceremony in the Convention Centre in Dublin on Monday
Further to RTÉ reporter Brian O’Connell’s recent interviews with female asylum seekers who say they have turned to prostitution, to supplement the weekly €19.10 they receive from the State, Ms Fitzgerald told the Dáil yesterday:
“I do not accept it is inevitable that women in direct provision must resort to prostitution. I have asked for reports from the Garda on any harassment that might be taking place. If there is information available to show that women are being solicited or put under pressure, that must be examined and managers in local centres must be highly sensitive to it. Certainly, I do not see it as inevitable.”
And, in relation to the recent protests held by asylum seekers at different accommodation centres across the country, she said:
“Protests are taking place throughout the country at present. I appeal to people not to take part in such protests. I am of the view that the way forward is by means of legislation and through the efforts of the working group we are establishing to deal with the issues.”
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“I hope NGOs are not organising protests outside direct provision centres. I would be very concerned with regard to the impact of this on both the children and families of the protesters…It is one thing to draw attention to the problem. I again call on people not to protest in a way that makes it impossible to run the centres, to have them cleaned and to have food delivered to them. I am concerned with regard to what is happening. Changes can be made without the need for such protest action.”
Transcripts via Oireachtas.ie
Previously: “He Took Me Around Some Bushes”
“I Will Certainly Be Asking For A Report”
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“We’re back Mortimer.” pic.twitter.com/lLKC19yqV4
— Warren Swords (@warrenswords) September 25, 2014
Glug.
Previously: How Many?
A short film by Cirque de Soleil (in collaboration with ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios) featuring an eerie dance with ten computer-controlled quadrotors.
Cinefix present seven behind the scenes facts about David Fincher’s 1999 classic that you may not know.
Or may well know but were never allowed to talk about.
Phil Hogan
You may recall how Independent MEP Nessa Childers wrote to all the members of the Social Democrats group – 191 members – of the European Parliament, in which she said she had “serious reservations” about Mr Hogan getting the EU Commissioner post.
Ms Childers specifically wrote about how Mr Hogan, as Environment Minister, had written to some of his constituents in Kilkenny, telling them a Traveller family – Patrick and Brigid Carthy and their seven children – would not be moved to a house near them.
During an interview on September 10, Mr Hogan told RTÉ Ms Childers assertions were ‘absolute rubbish’ and suggested they may be dealt with in the courts.
Mr Hogan is set to go before the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture to be questioned about his suitability to become the next Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Further to this, RTÉ reports:
“Mr Hogan’s solicitors have threatened legal action against Ms Childers if she did not withdraw her allegations within five days, and challenging her claim that as an MEP she enjoyed parliamentary privilege.”
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“Last night in a letter, seen by RTÉ News, Ms Childers wrote to the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European parliament requesting that the chairman reassure MEPs that they can, quote, discharge their duties of scrutiny without hindrance or fear of legal retaliation.”
Hogan threatens legal action against MEP Nessa Childers (RTÉ)
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Charles Spencer, brother of the late Princess Diana
The Irish Times reports:
The late Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer is to appear at the Dublin Festival of History tomorrow night. Earl Spencer has written a book about the execution of Charles I following the English Civil War in 1649, Killers of the King:The Men Who Dared To Execute Charles I. He will be interviewed by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s professor of modern history at Trinity College Dublin.
The interview will take place at 8.30pm in Printworks, Dublin Castle. Admission is free but reservations are essential.
FIGHT!
Book here
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Brother of Princess Diana to appear at Dublin Festival of History (Irish Times)
Taoiseach Enda Kenny on RTÉ’s Nine News last night, after it emerged that Fine Gael’s candidate for the Seanad by-election, John McNulty, was appointed to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art a week before his nomination, and that Mr McNulty was not on Fine Gael’s national executive’s three-women candidate shortlist for the vacant Seanad seat.
In Rhode Island, RTÉ’s Washington Correspondent Catriona Perry spoke briefly to Mr Kenny about the matter.
Catriona Perry: “Would it be usual though, if you’re given a list of three people, that you don’t pick any of them and you pick a fourth?”
Enda Kenny: “No it’s the right of the leader of the day to make the, to decide who should be nominated. I have to, I have to verify all the nominations, of all the candidates for general elections and for, and for the Seanad. So, from that point of view, the process is one that Fine Gael have always followed down through the years.”
Meanwhile…
In addition, in relation to the three women – Stephanie Regan, Samantha Long and Councillor Kate O’Connell – who were shortlisted by Fine Gael’s national executive, Mary Regan, in the Irish Examiner, reports:
A mischievous rumour was put out around Leinster House yesterday that Labour did not want Regan — a potential election candidate in Dublin Bay North — or Long in Dublin South East in case they posed an electoral threat. “Labour didn’t want any of them running. And we are depending on their votes so we obliged them,” a Fine Gael source said. This was dismissed as a “creative” rumour and “completely off the wall” by Labour sources.
Hmmm.
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John McNulty appointment: A Stroke in Art (Mary Regan, Irish Examiner)
Previously: “It’s The Old Boys’ Club In Action Again”
http://vimeo.com/106800693
A cavalcade of special effect shots from the science documentary series Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey by international VFX company BUF. Directed by producer and Star Trek supremo Brannon Braga.
