The Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (‘Little Belt Railway’) in Paris, built in 1852, largely abandoned since 1935 (aside from one increasingly underused section), lovingly documented since 2011 by photographer Pierre Folk.
As local developers eyeball the land for new apartments and office blocks, Parisian railway enthusiasts want it preserved, possibly transformed into a series of urban parkways like the nearby Promenade Plantée which inspired New York’s High Line.
Top: Tom Manly, a 13-year employee, beside his wife Caroline, Veronica Murray (right), a wife of a Greyhound employee and supporter Susan McDonagh.
A public rally today in support of the locked out Greyhound Workers at the Greyhound Depot on Crag Avenue in Clondalkin, Dublin.
The workers have been outside since June 17 when they were informed that unless they accepted a 35 percent pay cut and a reduction in other terms and conditions they would not be allowed to start work. They were replaced with minimum wage-paying agency crews.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
From 1989, an ad for Cawoods Coal featuring the late Gerry Anderson.
Gerry is credited with coining the term ‘Stroke City’ to describe his hometown Derry-Londonderry.
He was used to coming home to a real fire.
FIGHT!
Previously: Gerry Anderson Dies At 69
Daragh and his Epic Mountain bike
Brighid O’Connor writes:
“Please help! This is my lovely late husband Daragh on his Specialized Epic mountain bike. He loved his bike. I have been keeping it for the past 3 years until my son would be big enough to ride it and I handed it in to Tramore cycle services [Broad Street, Tramore, Co Waterford] on Thursday 14th August for a service. It was waiting near the door for collection and an unknown young man collected it on Wednesday/Thursday 20th/21st.. He told them his aunt had dropped it in. Needless to say we are really upset because of the sentimental value involved….”
Anyone?
Thanks Emma Dwyer
Lidl’s new ‘Approved By You’ campaign definitely has a bit of a masonic thing going on: pic.twitter.com/ZpVlB1VZwa
— James Kelleher (@etienneshrdlu) August 25, 2014
Mount Trenchard direct provision centre in Foynes, Co. Limerick
RTÉ reporter Brian O’Connell on the latest from Mount Trenchard direct provision centre in Foynes, Co. Limerick.
Previously: Meanwhile, In Limerick
“We Want To Be Heard By The Irish People”
A new work in Paris by Spanish street artist Pejac.
Justine McCarthy, of The Sunday Times, addressing the Trailblazery ‘We Need To Talk About Ireland’ conference in March
In 1992, the judges of the Supreme Court heard evidence that Ms X, the pregnant 14-year-old girl, had told her mother she wanted to throw herself downstairs and had contemplated jumping in front of an oncoming train. Anti-abortion advocates have rubbished the court’s landmark judgment in the X case, on the grounds that it heard no expert psychiatric evidence. So what should the judges have done? Told the girl to get a grip, go home and give birth to her rapist’s baby? Medieval as it sounds, this is precisely what the Irish state will continue to tell rape victims after the current bill has passed into law. Should they attempt to terminate their pregnancies on Irish soil, they will be liable to arrest, trial and 14 years in prison.
Ms McCarthy in her Sunday Times column on June 30, 2013, before the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act was signed into law.
This weekend, as one of his predecessors is mourned, [Taoiseach Enda] Kenny should note how the encomiums to Albert Reynolds ring with tributes to his political courage. That personal quality helped deliver the 1993 Downing Street declaration and the IRA’s 1994 ceasefire, the early shoots of lasting peace on this island. Reynolds was the taoiseach for only 33 months but his guts won him an eternal place in history.
Kenny has demonstrated his own political valour. Now he has the opportunity to apply it to resolving an issue that has caused more than 150,000 females to sneak abroad for abortions since the 1983 referendum and that has caused others physical and psychological trauma, and even death. If he can bring an end to this 31-year horror, he too will have his place in history. More immediately, he could reap a reward in the next general election.
Ms McCarthy in her Sunday Times column (behind paywall) yesterday
The poindexters who work in Met,
Eireann have issued a threat,
There’ll be a big flood,
So watch out or you could,
End up angry and freezing and wet.
John Moynes
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)