Yearly Archives: 2014

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Halls Creek

ABC News reports:

An Irish backpacker has been charged with hiding the body of her newborn while travelling in a remote part of Western Australia. The 25-year-old was charged with “concealing the birth of a child that died before or after birth”, WA police said.

The law requires all births to be reported, even if the baby has died of natural causes.The woman had been travelling through the Kimberley region with friends and had not realised she had fallen pregnant, police said.

She gave birth one night in May, while at home alone in the town of Halls Creek.

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She appeared in court in Kununurra at the end of last month, when the case was referred to Perth, and she is due back in court later this year. The charge carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail.

It is understood the woman has had to remain in Perth while the court case proceeds.

Irish backpacker charged with concealing death of newborn in outback WA (ABC News)

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Trinity Online writes:

Trinity has launched its first free online course, Irish Lives in War and Revolution: Exploring Ireland’s History 1912-1923 in partnership with FutureLearn. This free, online 6-week course will start on 1st September 2014.

Irish Lives in War and Revolution: Exploring Ireland’s History 1912-1923 (Trinity College Dublin)

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12 Mile from Tall Story media.

A culinary movement to find great produce sourced within a 12 mile radius of your front door?

What freshly-produced madness is this?

Kevin from Sage Restaurant writes:

The lush farmland and dedicated farmers of Midleton [Co Cork] and its hinterland enables us to source all our meat from within this radius. All our poultry is reared by “12 Mile” farmers and is free-range. Our fish is trawled and line-caught by East Cork fleets in Irish waters.

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“I hope my old business card will go to another fellow Apple enthusiast with a sense of humor and the desire to help raise some money for a good cause. Although the auction is for my business card alone, I have framed it alongside my old uniform [as seen in the picture] and I will arrange to courier it [frame, t-shirt and lanyard included] to you….”

Former Apple employee Sam Sung (above)

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UK-based photographer Thom Atkinson’s series Soldiers’ Inventories – an attempt to explore “the mythology surrounding Britain’s relationship with war.”

With the help of historians, reenactment specialists, collectors and private soldiers, the series (featuring soldiers’ kits laid out and documented in detail here) span 948 years from Hastings to Helmand Province.

Above: typical soldier’s kit from the Battle of Hastings (1066), Siege of Jerusalem (1244), Agincourt (1415), Bosworth (1485), Malplaquet (1709), Arnhem (1944), The Falklands (1982), Helmand (2014).

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