I’ll only be a minute, Electioneering van using Disabled Bay @LorHiggins @labour #rtept #vinb #le14 pic.twitter.com/nPb1geFit0
— John Barrington (@PhuckAllCraic) May 19, 2014
Update:
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. A driver putting up posters at 8am this morning made an honest mistake. It won’t happen again.
— Sen Lorraine Higgins (@LorHiggins) May 19, 2014
[Campaign literature for Anne-Maree Quinn and notice of a pro-life campaign meeting in Blessington]
Anon writes:
I recently met an Independent local election candidate for Pembroke-South Dock, Anne-Maree Quinn. She seemed quite nice, so I had a quick search to see what she stands for. It turns out she’s very involved in pro-life campaigning. She’s much more reticent about this on her website. I’m not advocating a witch hunt against her, but it would be very easy for a pro-choice person to vote for her in the belief they’re supporting an independent voice.
Might this be the same Anne-Maree Quinn who wrote to the Irish Times in November 2007 opposing marriage equality?
It might not be accidental that this exclusive focus on emotional gratification coincides with a high divorce rate…”The question is not whether gay people should have relationships. The only question is whether this should be done in the specific context of marriage.”
Of course, the most important cross-cultural and historical function of marriage as an institution is raising children.
Previously: Opus Dei, You Say?
Nisan Greenwich writes:
Moore Street [Dublin 1] yesterday …[top]
Moore Street today …[below]
Save Moore Street!
Previously: Meanwhile, On Moore Street
Political parties received €12.9 million in state funding for 2013, according to figures released today by the Standards Commission. The attached table shows the amounts received by qualified political parties for 2013 under the Party Leaders Allowance and the Electoral Acts legislation.
The amount payable to each such non-party member of Dáil Éireann during 2013 was €41,152 and the amount payable to each non-party member of Seanad Éireann during the same period was €23,383. The total paid to non-party members was €878,389 (of which funding amounting to a total of €617,279 was available to non-party members of the Dáil during 2013 and funding amounting to a total of €261,110 was available to non-party members of the Seanad during 2013).
Until the 2014 legislation comes into effect, non-party members of Dáil or Seanad Éireann are not required to furnish to the Standards Commission, or to any other authority, a Statement of Expenditure in relation to the allowance.
Exchequer Funding and Party Leaders Allowance received by Qualified Political Parties (SIPO)
A stop-motion video for Moving On by James animated in yarn by BAFTA-winning director Aislie Henderson.
Life, death…the fabric of existence.
Mmf.
Behold the glory of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (Royal Portuguese Reading Room) in Rio de Janerio, built between 1880 and 1887 by architect Rafael da Silva e Castro, it contains the largest (350,000 volumes) and most valuable collection of Potuguese books outside Portugal.
The limestone facade was carved in Lisbon and transported to Brazil. The interior is a Neo-Manueline extravaganza of ornate pillars, arches and bookcases stretching up to the ceiling.
(Pix: Ruy Barbosa Pinto)
Dublin mothers without homes launching a housing action group at Leinster House, Dublin this afternoon. They came together after finding themselves in homeless accommodation due to rent increases and lack of social housing. Housing lists around the country have grown “an average of 42% in the past year”.
From top: Philomena Deans and her daughter Layla; Maggie Stapleton and her daughter Milani; Tamara Kearns and her son Paul; Tami Cronin and her son Mason; group shot including Socialist Party Dublin City councillor Ruth Coppinger (right)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
A new animated interview from the PBS Blank On Blank series.
The great Gene Wilder in conversation with Ms. magazine founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin in 2007
Full interview here.
Previously: Get Out Of The House (John Updike)
This morning.
Dublin Labour MEP Emer Costello (centre in red) with women from “across the academic, arts, journalism, music, theatre and political spheres” supporting her re-election bid at Buswells Hotel, Dublin.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
