WORLD PICTURE EXCLUSIVE! Bono Cloud spotted over Edinburgh Castle as Scotland votes. #indyref pic.twitter.com/x7DBVTwvzN
— The Poke (@ThePoke) September 18, 2014
Ah here.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Tanaiste Joan Burton
“Ms Burton also said that schools are governed by their boards and it is a matter for each individual school how they would decide how they want to use JobBridge…
“…The latest figures from the Department of Social Protection, which runs JobBridge, show that 182 people have taken up positions in the education sector over the past month. That is 18% of all JobBridge placements for the period. A further 110 positions are currently being advertised, with 43 schools advertising for 56 Special Needs Assistants (SNA)….”
Burton: Cleaning work not suitable for JobBridge (RTÉ)
(Photocall Ireland)
Storyfold – The Lost and The Lonely
Pete Murphy writes:
“Here’s the charming new video from Storyfold, all filmed in one afternoon on Dublin’s South Circular Road. We started at Kilmainham Jail, past IMMA, Rialto, Dolphin’s Barn, the old John Player factory, the boxing stadium, the Dublin Mosque, three Catholic churches, Polish shops, Lithuanian shops, African shops, Griffith College, many restaurants, pharmacies, hairdressers, cafés, butchers and grocery stores. To all those people who live there, walk the road and make it what it is, thank you. We hope you like it…”
Video “put together” by Billy Keane from WRK Productions.
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From last night’s BBC2 documentary ‘Ireland’s Lost Babies’, Sacred Heart nun, Sister Sarto Harney, [Mother Superior of Bessborough Mother and Child Home] made a reappearance.
Cathy Deasy, who was adopted, had been trying to trace her mother for years and wrote many times to Sister Sarto. Sister Sarto suggested that her mother was dead.
But Cathy discovered her mother was alive and had spent 35 years in an institution after giving birth to her in a mother and baby home.
She confronted Sister Sarto in 2002 and captured the moment on video.
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From 1996, in an RTÉ Prime Time documentary Sister Sarto said:
“I think it is the right of every individual to know their background and we help in any way we can to put people in contact with their parent of origin.”
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Earlier this year on TV3, Sister Sarto said in relation to Bessborough Mother and Baby Home that no babies were adopted or vaccinated without the mothers’ permission:
“I think it’s sad that it’s come to this. We gave our lives to looking after the girls and we’re certainly not appreciated for doing it.”
Ireland’s Lost Babies is on RTÉ One tonight at 10:15pm.
Previously: Staying In Tonight?
This afternoon.
The proudly affirmative Twitter Trend Map for the Scottish Referendum.
Real time here (scroll down for Catalonia)
Thanks Spaghetti Hoop
Meanwhile…
If Scotland votes 'NO', perhaps England should then have its own referendum on whether to let them stay in the UK.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 18, 2014
College Humor imagines what it would be like if Apple ‘gave us the features we truly deserved’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0gl18v5ouU&app=desktop
Do we?
Really?
Tom writes:
“Have you reported on Coolock’s favourite son Baldy? He films his fight talk supposedly on an iphone he pinched…Decent head of hair in fairness.”
More as Bucko gets it.
Socialist Party TD Ruth Coppinger raised the issue of repealing the Eighth Amendment in the Dáil yesterday.
Not to worry.
There’s a report pending.
Update:
This afternoon Clare Daly, Mick Wallace and Ruth Coppinger challenged the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar on the Eighth Amendment.
Clare Daly told the Minister to:
“Wise up. You’re a young man. Ireland’s abortion reality and rates are pretty much the same as they are in every other country.”
Mick Wallace asked the Minister,
“Is the Government more focused on the next election than on the suffering caused by the denial of services to women seeking abortions due to rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormality or serious risk to health?”
Ruth Coppinger suggested the referendum on marriage equality and repeal of the Eighth Amendment be held on the same day and said:
“It would be a double endorsement of progress in this country. It would be a signal to the rest of the world that the Catholic Church’s writ doesn’t run despite the wishes of the majority in society and it would be a hammer blow to the Catholic Church’s domination of many areas of life in this country.”
Minister Varadkar replied:
“I think it would be a really bad idea in 2015 if in the run-in to a general election for us to have that kind of debate happening in that millieu because we’ve been there before. That’s exactly what happened in 1983. In the run-up to a general election people were put in a position where they made commitments in the run-in to a general election where maybe they shouldn’t have. So let’s not repeat the mistake of 1983 and have all that again in 2015.
…It shouldn’t be done on foot of a tragedy or a very hard case and it shouldn’t be done on the run-in to a general election.”
Earlier: What Do We Want
What the flux?
Ciana writes:
“Happenings are screening Back to the Future (1985) in association with Dublin City Council in Merrion Square [Dublin 2] TONIGHT. There will be lots of delicious food and drinks on sale from Vintage Flair, Caryna’s Cakes and Irish Village Markets. Please bring warm clothes, something to sit on and your good vibes…”
Gates 6.30pm. Film 19.55 8.15pm. €5
Entry via Merrion Square EAST (opposite the clock tower).