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Yearly Archives: 2016
Last month, the actor donated his voice for free to a viral for OneClickGiving. the ad revenue goes to Save the Children and the UK Refugee Council.
Mmf.
Pro-refugee demonstration in Dublin, September 2015
When we offered a helping hand,
To thousands from a foreign land,
We expected plenty,
But only got twenty,
The rest said “Don’t bother, you’re grand.”
John Moynes
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
MORE to folly
Economic refugees. How are ye?
Niall McCarthy writes:
“Ireland has the highest percentage of people living abroad out of all OECD countries. One out of every six Irish-born people currently resides in another country, illustrating the devastating and enduring impact the global financial crisis has had on the country. Emigration has fallen slightly in Ireland but remains high with 35,300 people leaving in the 12 months to April 2015, a 13 percent drop on the previous year…”
The Countries With The Most People Living Overseas (Statista)
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin
Patsy McGarry, in the Irish Times, reports:
Speaking at a Mass in Lucan Co Dublin marking the 10th anniversary of suicide support organisation Pieta House, [Archbishop Diarmuid Martin] said it would not be right not to accept the church’s role in fomenting such taboos.
“It would not be honest for me to stand here this afternoon and not recognise that the Church in Ireland and farther afield contributed greatly to the level of taboo which surrounded suicide,” he said.
He continued that “a Church which loses the sense of the priority of mercy gets trapped in a priority of rules, and loses the meaning of those rules. The preaching of Jesus was constantly directed against those who imposed burdens on others and never lifted a hand to help.
“That rigidity and hypocrisy remains always a temptation. It will not be combated simply by homilies and critique, no matter how important they are.”
Church ‘contributed greatly’ to taboos on suicide – Martin (Irish Times)
Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie
Spud Wiser
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Gulp.
Potatoes and stout.
Mick Skelly writes:
After months of prep some friends of mine at Postcard Brewing Company will be launching their third beer, a 6% potato stout, this Thursday in Harry Byrnes [Howth Road] in Clontarf from 7pm. I didn’t even know potato stout was a style, but if it’s a patch on their last two beers it’ll be a knockout!
Fight!
Dublin Port. 4.15 this afternoon.
Michael O’R writes:
One of the joys of where I work (Ringsend) is the view of the fascinating goings on in Dublin Port. Today, I noted a visitor to the port. Several times, these grey ships can be seen calling here, and what they are doing, I never know. Usually foreign flag ships, likely just picking up supplies, possibly dropping men off for medical reasons, who knows? But given the year that’s in it, I can’t help wondering what is really going on. Especially when they do not show up on the wonderful Marine Traffic tracking website [lower pic with mystery berth ringed]….Admittedly, our own ships never show up on that either, so probably nothing, but never let that get in the way of a good conspiracy theory…