Yearly Archives: 2016

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People Before Profit and Anti-Austerity Alliance TDs Brid Smith, Ruth Coppinger, Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy outside Leinster House yesterday in support of  the AAA-PBP repeal bill (top)

Ahead of the debate on the AAA-PBP private members’ bill to repeal the 8th amendment this evening from 8pm, and a rally outside Leinster House at 5.30pm in relation to the same…

The Government has agreed to reject it, and it has released the following statement…

There are differing views within the Government on the substantive issue of the 8th Amendment of the Constitution.

The Government is moving this Reasoned Amendment because this Bill pre-empts the work of the Citizens’ Assembly, the agreed, independent process set out in the Programme for Partnership Government for dealing with this issue and approved by both the Dáil and Seanad.

The Citizens’ Assembly is currently deliberating on the 8th Amendment as its first topic and is expected to deliver its Report on the issue in the first half of 2017.

The Government will then immediately refer the Report to a Special Oireachtas Committee which will be asked to respond to the deliberations and recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly within six months.

The Government will today ask the Business Committee to set in train the preparatory work necessary for the establishment of this Committee, including its structure and work programme, in order that the Committee will be in a position to commence its work without delay once the Citizens’ Assembly delivers its Report on the 8th Amendment.

The Government will not adopt a collective policy position for the Committee deliberations and all Government deputies will be free to promote their own policy objectives during that process.

The Government has agreed that, when a decision is being made in the Dáil on the outcome of the Citizens’ Assembly and Special Oireachtas Committee processes, all members of the Government, and all deputies supporting the Government, will exercise their votes freely in accordance with their consciences.

Fine Gael also acknowledges, more generally, that its Independent colleagues in Government are not subject to a party whip and that, on matters which are not addressed either in the Programme for Partnership Government or by decisions of Cabinet, they will continue to exercise a free vote.

Reasoned Amendment

“Delete the words after “That” and substitute the following:

“Dáil Éireann declines to give the Bill a second reading in order that the Citizens’ Assembly, established by Resolutions of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann, may conclude its deliberations on the 8th Amendment of the Constitution, which is the subject matter of this Bill, and report to the Oireachtas in the first half of 2017.”

Via Merrion Street

Coalition eyes countermotion to block abortion Bill (Irish Times)

Previously: Free Tomorrow?

Rollingnews

UPDATE:

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From the Labour Party.

Meanwhile…

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25/10/2016 Pictured are demonstrators at the Repeal the 8th protest outside the Dail in Dublin tonight, calling for the 8th Amendment on abortion to be repealed Photo: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

25/10/2016 Pictured are demonstrators at the Repeal the 8th protest outside the Dail in Dublin tonight, calling for the 8th Amendment on abortion to be repealed Photo: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

25/10/2016 Pictured are demonstrators at the Repeal the 8th protest outside the Dail in Dublin tonight, calling for the 8th Amendment on abortion to be repealed Photo: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie

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This evening.

Scenes outside Leinster House where AAA/PBP TD Ruth Coppinger (pic 7)  and Nine month pregnant Helen Guinane (pic 5) of AIMS [Association For Improvement Of Maternity Services) call for a repeal of the Eighth Amendment.

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

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Cork rapper/poet Bubba Shakespeare, taking his cues from Plato in a short piece for online channel The Lab.

As opposed to Socrates, where he’d just be standing there giving the cameraman grief, in fairness.

The Lab

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Polygons – a very nifty origami-style measuring spoon that folds into four different volumes depending on how you pick it up, flattening out to allow the last sticky remnants to be scraped into the bowl.

Two different sizes, one for teaspoons and one for tablespoons.

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From top: Eerie poster; from left: Peter Dunne, Liam Geraghty and Mags Mcauliffe

Wooooh.

Alternatively…

Liam Geraghty writesL

Morb presents a Halloween event like no other, Eerie is a haunted, haunting, audio ghost experience.

Beginning your journey at Smock Alley Theatre and ending god knows where, this weird walking tour of Dublin city centre is not for the faint hearted. Will you survive these blood-curdling tales collected for your dark delight?

Immerse yourself in the audio files of an occult investigator, as he chills you with ghastly stories and the horrific history of the city.

Part petrifying audio tour, part terrifying treasure hunt, prepare to tiptoe fearfully through the maze of nightmare streets, desperately searching for clues to unlock a dark mystery…

Tickets 7 euros.

Purchase from Smock Alley Theatre [link below]. Upon purchase, a downloadable link will be emailed to your smartphone. The starting point is Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street, Dublin 2. The show can be experienced at any time of day.

Morb presents ‘Eerie’ (Facebook)

Smock Alley Theatre

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A spectacular close up of a Fiery Throated Hummingbird taken by Canadian photographer Jess Findlay in the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica.Sez he:

Several of these hummingbirds were visiting a nectar feeder. As they fed hungrily, often quarrelling with one another, occasionally one would get displaced onto a nearby branch. I waited by the branch for a couple hours, staying very still. I used a telephoto lens with a special attachment that allowed me to focus on close subjects. What made this a challenge was how fidgety these birds can be and the fact that the full spectrum of colour is only seen when they pause at a very specific angle.

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YouTuber pannenkoek2012 found what was thought to have been the last coin in Super Mario 64 in 2014, to great rejoicing from hackers and programmers obsessed with unravelling the twenty-year-old game’s secrets.

Or did he?

Allegra Frank from Polygon writes:

Somewhere in the enlarged version of the Tiny-Huge Island course lies a line of just four coins. That’s unlike the rest of the game’s rows of five coins, writes pannenkoek12 (on his second account, UncommentatedPannen). The reason for this? The invisible fifth coin spawns and gets stuck approximately “49 units below the ground.”

The whys and hows of this truly impossible coin are explained in exhaustive detail over the course of the nine-minute video. Some of this will go over the heads of any who’s never studied game design or programming, and it’s not quite as fun of a watch for the rest of us without pannenkoek2012’s trademark vocal stylings. The dedication that he has to the ins and outs of Super Mario 64 is pretty remarkable either way, though — and completionists now have another reason to dive back into the game.

Alright, so.

*blows on cartridge*

Polygon