TONIGHT: Friday May 5: Jellybean Benitez @ Index, Arran Quay, Dublin 1 (€10+, 11pm)
Nialler9 writes:
John Jellybean Benitez, (above right) former Paradise Garage, Funhouse & Studio 54 DJ (and early-Madonna producer) comes to town to play some classic New York disco. Kelly-Anne Byrne & Billy Scurry are also playing. Sounds fun.
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Thank you to, clockwise from top left: Mark Malone, Neil Curran, Olga Cronin and Johnny Keenan, with, not pictured: Mike McGrath Bryan (producer) and Gavin Hennessy (audio/visual effects) our panel on last night’s Broadsheet on the Telly.
Subjects teased, probed and prodded included State and Church cosiness, the Jobstown trial and what does it mean to be left wing.
The show can be viewed in its raw entirety above.
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All political persuasions welcome.
Thanks all.
Last night: Broadsheet on the Telly Tonight
Jason Collins
Gardaí are appealing for help in trying to find 15-year-old Jason Collins, who is missing since Thursday, April 27.
Jason is described as being 5’ 5’’ with black hair and of medium build. When last seen, he was wearing a blue tracksuit, a navy T-shirt and grey runners. It is believed that he may be in the Dublin area.
Anyone who has seen Jason, or who can assist in locating him, is asked to contact Portlaoise Garda Station on 057-8674100, the Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
Pic: Garda Press Office
I don’t support something that would mean abortion on demand in Ireland @simoncoveney @TodayFMNews pic.twitter.com/QEkUIcUlOi
— Juliette Gash (@JulietteGash) May 5, 2017
This morning.
Further to the results of the Citizens’ Assembly on the 8th amendment and abortion.
Today FM’s Juliette Gash tweets Fine Gael TD and Housing Minister Simon Coveney’s position on “abortion on demand” after she spoke with him at the Global Irish Civic Forum.
Listen to Ms Gash’s report here
Meanwhile…
Yesterday.
In an interview with Shane Beatty, of Kildare FM, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Mr Beatty raised the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly and Fine Gael TD Richard Bruton comments in the Dáil on Wednesday where he said Fine Gael won’t be bound by the assembly’s recommendations.
At the beginning, Mr Martin said he himself has a “pro-life disposition”.
They then had the following exchange:
Shane Beatty: “Just to be clear, if someone is raped by their father, for example, and becomes pregnant as a result, what’s your view on abortion in that case?”
Micheál Martin: “Well it’s not that simple Shane…”
Speak over each other
Beatty: “Well, someone’s either pregnant or not pregnant…”
Martin: “Sorry?”
Beatty: “Someone’s either pregnant or they’re not pregnant.”
Martin: “They are indeed…”
Beatty: “…so it’s not that complex?”
Martin: “Well it actually is in terms of the… in terms of, are you talking within 10 weeks? Are you talking about within 20 weeks for example?”
Beatty: “I’m talking about a father raping his daughter.”
Martin: “Well it’s not that simple. It’s just not that simple in terms of…”
Beatty: “She becomes pregnant as a result, you don’t see that as a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’?”
Martin: “Well I don’t actually, it’s not a simple ‘yes or no’, that depends on a number of issues. That’s why…”
Beatty: “Would there be any circumstance, would there be any circumstance where a father raped his daughter, yes, go on…”
Martin: “Seán.”
Beatty: “Shane.”
Martin: “I know people today who are alive whose mothers would have been, in one particular case, was raped and she was the outcome of that. And she gets very angry when people suggest that she should never have had a life. So this is not simple, and I think it’s an issue and I think that will be one of the issues that will come before us in the Oireachtas, to decide on that.”
Listen to the interview in full here
From top: Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Toronto this morning and excerpts of a Dáil transcript from April 1, 2014
Further to the question over whether Ireland voted for Saudi Arabia to be included in the UN Commission on the State of Women…
And demands for the Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan to reveal how Ireland voted…
RTÉ reports:
A contradiction has emerged in Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s assertion that he raised the question of women’s rights during a visit to Saudi Arabia in 2014.
Mr Kenny told journalists in Canada that he had raised the issue during a trade mission.
However the Dáil record from the time shows the Taoiseach told Opposition deputies that the subject was not discussed [see above].
The Taoiseach led a trade mission to Saudi Arabia in January 2014 – a trip which led to the signing of €65m in contracts, and the creation of 95 jobs.
There you go, now.
Contradiction emerges in Kenny’s Saudi Arabia claims (RTE)
Transcript via Kildarestreet.com
Pic: Irish Embassy Canada
Every Friday, we give away a TWENTY FIVE Euro Golden Discs voucher to use at any of the record giant’s 14 branches throughout Ireland.
All we ask from you is a tune we can play at some unspecified time next week.
This weeks theme: Ultimate Irish supergroup.
What fantasy line up of quality, home made musicians would constitute your ultimate Irish supergroup? And what would they be called?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘My ultimate Irish supergroup would comprise_______________ [on vocals, guitar, bass, drums, etc.] and I would call them___________________________’
Lines MUST close at 5.45pm Midnight SUNDAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EckihpYAcIU
Returning after a long break, Mario and Fafa take a look behind the scenes of the web’s best puppet show.
Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan with two mounted gardaí this morning outside Farmleigh House as she met school students who have made projects related to policing matters for the BT Young Scientist competition
You may recall how, in March, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) received a 44-page Garda Internal Audit Section (GIAS) report on serious financial irregularities at the Garda College in Templemore.
It also received a further 13-page interim audit report in relation to how the recommendations of the GIAS report were being implemented. This was carried out by the head of internal audit Niall Kelly.
Readers will recall how the GIAS report was the subject of an article by John Mooney, of The Sunday Times, on January 22.
Yesterday, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan’s appeared before the PAC to field questions on these reports.
Further to this…
Conor Lally in today’s Irish Times reports:
At the PAC meeting, which lasted more than five hours, the Commissioner said that in July 2015, she was having a cup of tea in a room in the Templemore college when [director of Garda human resources, John] Barrett informed her there were problems.
The meeting was brief and it was the first time she knew of any concerns in relation to spending at the Garda training college, she said.
However, Mr Barrett then contradicted her evidence. He said the meeting lasted for more than two hours.
He produced notes which he said he had taken at the time he met her and in which he had recorded the start and finish time of the meeting, as well as who was present, the issues discussed and the order in which people had walked into the room.
Nóirín O’Sullivan in new crisis over Garda college finances (Conor Lally, The Irish Times)
In addition, RTÉ reported yesterday evening:
The head of An Garda Síochána’s internal audit system has told an Oireachtas committee he believes he was “duped” when he was told that action would be taken in relation to financial irregularities at the Garda College in Templemore.
Speaking before the Public Accounts Committee, Niall Kelly said there was a different culture in the force and he said he got caught in “circling the wagons” as late as 2015.
Mr Kelly said in his view certain laws were broken; procurement legislation was breached but these issues need to be further investigated.
Head of garda audit system says he was ‘duped’ over Templemore (RTE)
More to follow.
Previously: Free At 2.30pm?
‘I Knew Full Well It Hadn’t Been Discussed At PAC Because I’m A Member Of PAC’
Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie
UPDATE:
This lunchtime.
Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan held a press conference, in light of yesterday’s PAC meeting.
At the meeting, differences emerged between her and the director of human resources John Barrett’s account of when and how he raised concerns with her about the Garda College. She said he raised his concerns in a brief meeting over a cup of tea while he said it was a two-hour meeting, in which he took notes.
There were also questions over whether she told the Department of Justice, as she was required to do and had been given legal advice to do so, and over head of An Garda Síochána’s internal audit Niall Kelly claiming that he felt he was “duped” when he was told action would be taken when financial irregularities were found and that he faced the “circling of wagons” regarding the same.
On RTÉ’s News At One, Paul Reynolds reported on the press conference with a clip from Ms O’Sullivan saying:
“Well, you know, regardless of how long the meeting took place on the Garda College, I think the issues and facts speak for themselves. Mr Barrett, absolutely as line manager in the college, when he became aware of issues, which raised alarms for him, he raised them with his line manager. His line manager raised those issues with myself and the two deputy commissioners on the 27th of July. On the 28th of July, there was a group formalised which the CAO had been working on and that group met thereafter.”
“The important thing here is there is always full transparency around this issues. So on the 28th of July, the date after that meeting, this group was formalised and it was put into place. There were representatives from the Department of Justice on that group. The objective was to make sure that a) that the matters were dealt with, that there was full transparency in relation to the matters dealt with and that we understood fully what the complexities of the issues were. And, again, we have to remember, this is something that is going on for over 30 years.
“The funding model in the college dates back 30 years. There were several reports as we have heard into the way these matters needed to be regularised. The important thing is, in July 2015, when I, as accounting officer, found out about these issues, we immediately took steps to begin to address it. Those steps have led to revised administrative structures in the Garda College. Assurances from the line managers there, including the chief administrative officer and the head of internal audit, that what happened then cannot happen now.”
“And we will make sure that that continues to be robustly put in place and we make sure that the assurances that we all need, that the practices which we are totally unacceptable and cannot happen again.”
Listen back in full here
Pic: Rollingnews.ie
UPDATE:
Yikes.
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
