Yearly Archives: 2014
Further to reports of deaths linked to green ecstasy tablets with a Rolex or apple symbol being sold in Ireland, Concerned Citizen writes:
“Old media are in the throws of hysteria today. Any chance broadsheet could counteract the “just say no” line from HSE and government and put some real info out there and maybe kickstart a decent discussion that’s not all half truths and scaremongering.
PMA (or sometimes PMAA) adulterated ecstacy are what is causing deaths. Vice did a good article on this a while back, good overview for the uninitiated: “You’ve got so many complicating factors in a prohibitive market that it makes harm reduction almost impossible. When you have no quality control and, at the same time, no enforcement, this is the likely outcome. Sadly, this is the kind of thing that will continue to happen.”
People will continue to die until something is done, the government need to wake up and get real with proper harm reduction strategies for all forms of drug misuse and abuse. Prohibition is killing these kids.
The numbers are way off skewed as well because a lot of families will keep it hushed for obvious reasons if someone dies from taking an illegal drug. I know of at least one family that did this. The stigma attached is causing the true numbers of deaths to go unreported.
Kids are not going to stop taking these drugs at the weekend, particularly given the fact that what is being thrown at them from the papers is rubbish and they know it. Why should they believe any of it?”
MORE: Killer Pills: Myth Or Murder (Mixmag)
PMA – the ecstasy and the agony (Guardian, October 2013)
(Pic: Vice)
Oh.
Thanks F
Meanwhile…
Former FG-turned Independent Local Election candidate in Dublin..
Norm sez:
“The candidates are at it now…’
The Washington Post goes behind the scenes at the Washington Ballet where six professional dancers demonstrate the most difficult moves in their repertoire.
Dudes, Abide
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Crimeline
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Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie (jpegs if possible please)
Former Irish Independent journalist Eimear Ni Bhraonain, top, and the front page of the Irish Daily Mail on September 26, 2012
You may recall an Irish Daily Mail front page story about how Environment Minister Phil Hogan had written to some of his constituents in Kilkenny, telling them a Traveller family – Patrick and Brigid Carthy and their seven children – would not be moved to a house near them.
Phoenix magazine is this week reporting that former Irish Independent journalist Eimear Ni Bhraonain had the story for 10 days before the rival paper.
But her editors held off from printing it and only did so when the Irish Daily Mail was on the verge of publishing it.
The magazine adds:
“The Indo then received a dossier – from somewhere in the Kilkenny area – on the alleged crimes of Carthy (of a minor nature) and Ni Bhraonain was asked to pursue this angle with vigour. She declined, having already determined from Gardai and social workers that the Carthys were not a problem family and because the newspaper, she believed, were trying to turn the real story on its head.“
Ms Ni Bhraonain is now taking a case of constructive dismissal at the Employment Appeals Tribunal against INM.
Previously: Big Phil’s Fat Gypsy Prejudice
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Dublin’s Google Docks, formerly known as the Montevetro building, in the heart of the Dublin’s ‘Silicon Docks’ in the Grand Canal Dock
Solocheck.ie writes:
Our latest figures show that 185,881 Irish companies are trading as normal as company start-ups exceed closures by 21% in 2014.
This year has seen the number of companies trading as normal in Ireland rise from just over 183,000 (at the end of 2013) to 185,881.
One factor that has played a part in this is the rise in company start-ups to almost pre-recession levels.
Over 7,000 new Irish companies have already been incorporated in 2014 – 16% up on the same period in 2013 (6,088).
This rise in start-ups is part of the reason that we’ve seen 10,599 individuals become a director in an Irish company for the first time this year.
5,807 Irish companies have been dissolved in 2014 which means that for every five company closures that have taken place this year we’ve seen six company start-ups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y45q0lfEHfg
What you may need to know
1. It’s a new comic book adaptation from Matthew Vaughan, who did
Kick-Ass (2010) and X-Men: First Class (2011).
2. @ 1’17, or thereabouts. It’s Mark Hamill. Seriously. Hamill cameos in
the original comic as himself. But doesn’t play himself in the movie.
Confused?
3. We can’t quite believe that Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson have
never starred in the same movie before. They’ve already done another.
NB: This should offer a handy shortcut next time you play Six Degrees
Of Kevin Bacon.
4. Here‘s a shot by shot breakdown, for geeks.
5. Bonus Point for attempting to make The Doors cool again.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Avengers (1960s TV) meets The Avengers (2012)
Release Date: October