Laura writes:
Went for a walk in Sligo where I discovered some unique architecture. Health and safety? Nailed it.
Update:
Conor Foley writes:
“To add to your Downstairs Upstairs post, I actually fell out that door on a drunken weekend in Strandhill (above)….
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Of this promo for Stein Study Abroad, Lorna Buttimer, from One Productions, writes:
This pokes fun at Ireland’s useless language skills. Some Port Authority officials get floundered by a French lady and her baking soda.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
It’s kicked off here at #2014INTO as Quinn announces higher level maths requirement for teacher training in what’s a ‘feminised’ profession
— Joe Humphreys (@JoeHumphreys42) April 22, 2014
#2014INTO gen sec Sheila Nunan raises the roof defending women teachers: “the boys that did the honours maths led this country to ruination”
— Joe Humphreys (@JoeHumphreys42) April 22, 2014
Tweets from the annual conference of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation in the Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny.
Blimey.
UPDATE:
RTÉ’s education correspondent Emma O’Kelly reported on the conference on RTÉ’s News at One earlier:
“There were also times where there were mutterings of discontent, there were groans from delegates, one of those key moments was when the minister said that he wanted to see Higher Level Maths at Leaving Cert to become a requirement, a minimum entry requirement, for teacher training in the colleges. Now, to that, he was met with moans and mutterings. The minister compounded this by going off script and addressing the delegates saying “I’ll tell you why” and he went on in his explanation to refer to a “highly feminised audience and profession” and this, really, the delegates took umbrage at this. They didn’t take kindly to these remarks, there was a lot of groaning and noise in reference to that.”
“Now, when [General Secretary of INTO] Sheila Nunan was responding to the minister, she summed up a lot of that umbrage by saying, she began, in a very colourful speech, she said: “Sisters, hell hath no fury”, and she went on to say that, “we understand the simple sums, such as 30 into one doesn’t go”, of course there she’s referring to class size. She said: “The sum is that we’re looking for more funding.” And she also said: “It wasn’t the girls who didn’t do the Higher Level Maths that led the country to ruination.” She said: “It was the boys who did the Honours Maths that did this”. So this was received with rapturous applause from delegates.”
Read Minister Quinn’s prepared address to the INTO conference here
Pic: Sean Kelly
Atomic Advertising Agency’s info bomb of stats and facts from the recent 6 Nations Championship.
IRB 6 Nations Statistical Analysis
Thanks Hugh Curran
Jane McCormick writes:
I have been waiting for the right moment to send in this illustration and today might just be the day, having just read former Irish Times journalist Don Buckley’s excellent letter in response to the Irish Times/Martyn Turner cartoon debacle. I made this image in response to the involvement of Cardinal Seán Brady in the Fr Brendan Smyth child abuse cover-up in Cavan in the 1970s.
Previously: Cardinal Brady: Accused
Not A Bully – a website started in 2012 by photographer Douglas Sonders that aims to change the perception of rescue dogs including Rottweilers, Boxers and Pit Bulls often unfairly labelled as ‘bully breeds’.
Judge not, lest ye be torn limb from limb by an Old English Sheepdog.
