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Yearly Archives: 2014
Screenshots from RTÉ’s Nine News last night showing emergency accommodation for 20 homeless people being set up in the Civil Defence headquarters at the Esplanade, Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7.
Cathal Morgan, the director of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, told RTÉ:
“Tomorrow [Friday, December 12], our colleagues in the Civil Defence will be opening up 20 beds. That means 70 beds out of the 260 promised will be in place. By the 23rd of December, we will have those 260 beds in place.”
According to a report on the Civil Defence website, the beds will “be made available only by reference from the [Dublin] City Council’s freephone helpline service” and they’ll be in operation until March 2015.
Last week – after the Government announced it would provide extra beds – homeless campaigner Fr Peter McVerry told RTÉ News:
“I would have a question about the quality of the beds. Currently much of the emergency accommodation is dormitory style and if the new 200 beds are going to continue to be dormitory style then you’re going to have a lot of homeless people who will just refuse to go into them because they feel they are too dangerous and they will continue to sleep on the streets.”
Fr McVerry also said he hoped rough sleepers would be given a bed for a week or a month at a time, instead of the present situation whereby homeless people have to ring a freephone number every evening to see if there is a bed available.
There you go now.
Watch last night’s RTÉ report in full here.
Taoiseach and mayor meet homeless people in Dublin (December 5, 2014, RTÉ)
Previously: Help Is On Its Way
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Sarah M writes:
Xmas was just too overwhelming for Cookie. She took refuge in the tree.
Shiela writes:
This is Jade, who belongs to my friend Sue who has had to pick the tree up four times since Saturday as it keeps fainting ;) Last I heard she’s getting a cage to keep the tree in. Festive!
Sue O’ writes:
Bailey Boo getting all festive…
Meanwhile…
AH writes:
Rogue and Princess send some good advice.
They LOVE this time of the year. Your pet at Xmas to broadsheet@broadshset.ie marked My Pet At Xmas. Festive rabbits, hamsters, goldfish, snakes, etc. welcome.
MORE to folly.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Meliosa Fitzgibbon (Irish Daily Mail); Mick Crowley (Irish Times); Dermot Ahern (Irish Examiner); Paul Murphy (Irish Sun); Nick Sutton (UK papers)
Keywest – Hallelujah
Dublin busking veterans Keywest bring Leonard Cohen’s hymn to Grafton Street raising money and awareness for the Merchants Quay Centre for the homeless.
Available on iTunes here
Zounds!
Alan writes:
Bought this book of maps for my nephew. Just realised Ireland is not in it! Shakespeare’s not Irish!
The “UK’s best and worst” accents.
David Higgins writes:
Was it for this? (spoken in a smooth Dublin accent)
New Research Reveals The UK’s Sexiest Accents (And Ugliest) (Unilad)
It’s just what I’ve always wanted.
With two Irish-flavoured Christmas tees from the excellent Savage Christmas Tee range on offer we asked:
What was the worst gift you have ever given?
You answered in your tens.
Runners up:
Nessy: “The worst present I have ever given was a bunch of garlic to my friend who was moving to France to study. If I win, I would redeem myself by offering the t shirt to them.”
Gary Byrne: “The worst present I have ever given was a onesie to my dad. Not sure what i was thinking.”
ReprBertie: “The worst present I have ever given was a copy of Magnolia to my very strict Catholic father. I meant to get Memento and can just imagine his face when Tom Cruise started his ‘Respect the cock’ presentation.”
Frilly: “The worst present I have ever given was a giant stick of rock (Blarney) to me Nanna Lulu. She hadn’t a tooth in her head. The noise it made off her dentures has me laughing like an eejit here. T’was like a set of castanets …The oul’dote was drunk as a skunk and didn’t know what she was doing.”
Schweddy: “The worst present I have ever given was a cheap plastic onion dicer gizmo to my mother. And of course it didn’t work.”
Mr T: “The worst present I have ever given was a William Shatner spoken word version of Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP to my office Secret Santa.”
i, scooperman: “The worst present I have given was a smashed delf teapot to my mam. I got it in a pound shop and broke the spout off. She also knew my dad had given me 20 quid to buy her a present. She was genuinely upset. I was a little sh1t.”
Janet: “The worst present I ever gave was to my Da. A classy hand-made (by me) lumpy, ceramic swan ashtray every year for 10 years, God bless his patience.”
Clifford Killeen: “The worst present I have ever given was a creme egg to my mother for her birthday, because I had bought the egg for myself, come in the door to be reminded about her birthday, and just handed it to her, cool as cucumbers.”
Shane: “The worst present I have ever given was a mint-flavoured rope bone to my ex-girlfriend’s dog. The dog swallowed the bone and had to have his stomach pumped.”
Winners:
Tommy: “The worst present i have ever given was a yearly gift of pound shop aftershave to my brothers in law. Classy stuff called “Ferrari” and “Musk”. The lads dutifully took them home before binning them, apart from Alan, bit of an asshole to be honest. My sister divorced him last year, unrelated to my sad tale I think.”
Inopro: “Soaps to my mother before I knew what a sound one she was.”
Thanks all
Previously: Oh Christmas Tee
What you may need to know:
1. Who said that Hollywood was running out of ideas? Amirite?
2. Not even the once-mighty Lloyd Dobler had the stomach for this. Parks and Recreation’s Adam Scott is filling in for John Cusack.
3. Lisa Loeb jokes were old 20 years ago.
4. Rob Corddy’s Lou must be the most repugnant movie character since Adolf Hitler in Triumph of the Will (1935).
5. If you’re reading this, Kim Jong-un, I’d love to get a peek at the emails behind this.
6. At some point in the future, a T-800 will probably be sent back in time to prevent this from ever seeing daylight.
7. Broadsheet Prognosis: Nope.
Release Date: April 10, 2015.
Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie