Yearly Archives: 2014

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A photograph from the launch of the new National Children’s Hospital at St James’s Hospital in Dublin in February

Breakingnews.ie reports:

The head of the Jack and Jill Foundation has said he has been sent two anonymous letters which he says proves the site of the new National Children’s Hospital is inappropriate.

The letters, which are purported to be from senior officials, set out details of an overspend in the planning and design process at St James’s Hospital in Dublin.

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The Jack and Jill Foundation’s Jonathan Irwin said he is concerned about one of the letters’ claims that the same architects involved in the failed bid to build the hospital at the Mater are once again involved at St James’s.

Anyone?

Charity claims to have anonymous letters telling of overspend on Children’s Hospital (Breakingnews.ie)

Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

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Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor Michael O’Brien

The Irish Examiner is reporting that Mr O’Brien has been arrested at a protest against Greyhound in Coolock this morning.

It reports:

Anti-Austerity Alliance Councillor Michael O’Brien was arrested on the Greencastle Road as protestors blocked a Greyhound bin truck into an estate.

Dublin city councillor arrested in Greyhound protests (Irish Examiner)

Previously: A Tipping Point

Pic: Anti-Austerity Alliance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jpAVB1JuMc

What you may need to know:

1. Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was imprisoned and brutally interrogated for 118 days while reporting for Newsweek on the 2009 Iranian presidential elections.

2. Bahari’s interrogator would only identify himself as ‘Rosewater’, hence the title.

3. The film has been adapted from the bestseller memoir ‘Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity and Survival (2011)’ by Jon Stewart of the Daily Show. Stewart is also making his directorial debut here.

4. The Daily Show has another connection to this story. This interview between Bahari and Jason Jones, the comedic foreign affairs correspondent for the Daily Show, was used as evidence of Bahari’s association with American spies by the Republican Guard.

5. It’s a young Che without the motorbike.

6. Iranian State TV have described the film as “an ultra-formulaic movie commissioned by his masters, a story of the American-Israeli sedition in 2009”, as “anti-Iranian propaganda” and says Stewart’s clearly being manipulated by the “Zionist lobby.”

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Not comedy central

Release Date: TBC

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Tara Whelan writes:

“My Bray [Co Wicklow]-reared sister, currently living in Toronto, is showing and selling her work at Fan Expo (Toronto) this year. There’s a selection of Game of Thrones-inspired sculpture and artwork on offer, including a series of six “What if” Stark children and direwolf prints. Also available from her Etsy site [link below]. A plug would be great-  trying to keep her at her art…”

Saraphis Creations

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