Yearly Archives: 2014
[The new restrictions on texting while driving.]
Via Boards.ie contributor Ironclaw:
“I’m not a solicitor, but ‘between mobile or fixed numbers assigned in accordance with national numbering plans’ wouldn’t cover the likes of iMessage where contacts can be defined by email addresses and not phone numbers.
By my reading, its not an offence to use a GPS or touch the screen for other purposes. In fact, the only offence seems to be messaging (SMS, Text and Email) But I doubt any Garda will listen to you because its frankly impossible to tell from a distance what someone is doing on their phone.”
Legal Coffee Drinker has been alerted.
Meanwhile, anyone?
New Penalties For Texting While Driving Comes Into Force (RTE)
Thanks Conor
I was shocked when I heard people say,
They arrested the beard yesterday.
We’ve all made peace and,
Drawn a line in the sand,
And he wasn’t in the IRA.
John Moynes
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7f7Hk1mf54
Mountainbike trials athlete Andrei Burton tackles some of Norn Iron’s most iconic landmarks in a promo for the Giro d’Italia.
Wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time?
Don’t try this at home kids.
Stop That
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Spotted in Ashtown train station in Dublin 15 yesterday evening.
Thanks Sorcha
Moving Molly
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Dublin City Council workers remove the Molly Malone statue from its spot at the bottom of Grafton Street, Dublin last night. Molly has gone into storage to allow for Luas extension works.
She will not return and will be placed outside the Dublin Tourism Office on Suffolk Street in the “near future”.
Mmf.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Here’s Holly with the headlines.
Scenes from outside Antrim police station his morning where Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is being questioned about the abduction and murder of Jean McConville in December, 1972. He was arrested last night.
Previously: They Haven’t Gone Away
Gerry Adams Questioned Over Murder From 1972 (New York Times)
Pics: Fergal O’Brien
For the doorstep.
Three questions.
Orlaith Grehan, of the Disability Federation of Ireland, writes:
“We’ve just launched our ‘Ask Three Questions’ campaign to get disability on the agenda for the upcoming elections. Here is why we want everyone to ask three questions:
Almost 600,000 people in Ireland have a disability – that’s 13% of the population.
People with disabilities are twice as likely to live in poverty as the rest of the population – 11% experience high levels of consistent poverty.
Just 20% of people with disabilities are at work, compared to 50% for the overall population.
One third of people with disabilities leave education before intended because of their disability – 43% have not progressed beyond primary education. 75% of people who use disability services are NOT satisfied with the level of control they have over their lives.”
By Lynn MacPherson (aka Salty Philip)
Lynn explains:
“Is a whale floating in the sky not a clear enough metaphor?! I suppose not, well one of my favourite things to do in summer is lie outside and watch the stars, so I decided it would be fun to draw a whale breathing out all the stars into the night sky..then I thought…you know what this whale needs lots and lots of DETAIL! (I do like detail) Then I thought…this would be better if it moved so I turned it into a .GIF. The End.”
Fair enough.
*Popcorn*
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[Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins]
RTÉ reports:
“The Public Accounts Committee has decided to seek compellability powers for the attendance of former Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins and former board member Frank Flannery in its examination of the spending of public monies. An application to the Dáil Committee on Procedures and Privileges is expected to be made within days.”
PAC seeks to compel attendance by Kerins and Flannery (RTÉ)
Photocall Ireland