Yearly Archives: 2017

Enjoy yoga?

Are you pro-choice?

Free this Saturday?

Read on.

Aisling Twomey writes:

11 women a day travel from Ireland to the UK to access termination services because the 8th amendment renders abortion unconstitutional in Ireland.

That’s 11 women who have to pay for tickets for ferries or planes, as well as the hefty cost of food, internal transport and possibly hotels. It’s a fortune, especially for someone who doesn’t have it.

This is one yoga class held to help those women. You don’t have to be a gymnast (you don’t even have to touch your toes)- this is about getting bums on mats to help women who have been abandoned by the Irish state.

Tickets are £12. All proceeds go directly to the Abortion Support Network, a charity which helps woman cover the cost of travel when travelling to access an abortion.

Yoga for Choice at The Tram Depot, 38 Upper Clapton Road , E5 8BQ on Saturday (August 19) at 10am.

Yoga For Choice 

Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan

Sarah Bardon, in The Irish Times, reports:

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has informed the Government that she will not be standing aside to take up a major role with the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol.

The Irish Times understands Ms O’Sullivan was in the running for a senior position in the area of specialist operations but was unsuccessful in her candidacy due to her lack of experience at a senior management level.

The role sought candidates with up to 15 years of such experience but Ms O’Sullivan has only been commissioner since 2014.

…Senior Garda figures insisted she was eager to come back to work in September and participate fully in the Charleton Tribunal, which is examining allegations of a smear campaign against whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

Nóirín O’Sullivan fails to secure top Europol post (The Irish Times)

Previously: ‘Europol Post Becomes Available In November’

Rollingnews

Pulling Out All The Stops.

The second episode of Meet Your Maker, the podcast about the people who make things YOU love.

Presented by Liam Geraghty, who writes:

This week on Meet Your Maker, we go on a road trip with An Klondike music composer Steve Lynch (top left) in search of a harmonium and end up finding a priest in Cavan, Fr. Darragh Connolly (top right) who is a self confessed harmonium restoration “geek”.

You can subscribe to the Meet Your Maker onApple Podcasts, Casts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts…

Meet Your Maker

 

Independent Senator Gerard Craughwell

Independent Senator Gerard Caughwell has said there must be an election for the position of President of Ireland .

Craughwell took to Twitter on Sunday night to say he was putting his name forward to ensure there is a contest.

A presidential election is due to be held in October 2018. However if no-one contests the election, current president Michael D Higgins could be given a free run at a second term.

During the 2011 presidential election, Higgins repeatedly pledged that he would only stand for a single seven-year term. However since being elected, the president has refused to rule out the possibility of a second run for Áras an Uachtaráin.

Fight!

The result of a year’s work assembled from footage captured in Ireland and Poland which, according to Sligo-based, Poznan-educated artist Páraic Mc Gloughlin:

…explores an abstract interpretation of choice, decision, consequence, circumstance, time, among other things, a personal perception on how we try to find whatever it is we are searching for. The film looks at similarities in various environments, the interrelations of people and our connection with one another in the very similar yet very different paths we share.

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Monday, August 15, 2017

Finn: 38, smoker, looking for a gaff/room in the Dublin 5 area at a reasonable price. Full time employment, decent skin, references available and all that jazz. Can pay: €750

Cycling couple: Female & Male, 31 & 27, looking for a one-bedroom place in or near town (Dublin). Artsy, cyclists, sound tenants. We might get a cat. Can pay €1000

Contact these decent tenants (using their handles in bold) to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

If you are looking for a place or want to rent a gaff  Place your FREE ad to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Decent Gaffs’.

List will be posted at Midday every weekday.

Previously Decent Gaffs on Broadsheet