Yearly Archives: 2017

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This evening.

National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2

National Maternity Hospital board members, including newly-shorn acting chairman Nicholas Kearns (top right) and Dr Peter Boylan (above), arrive for a meeting to discuss the call by Mr Kearns and Master of Holles Street Rhona Mahony for the removal of Dr Boylan from the board following his criticism of the proposed agreement to hand over the ownership of the hospital to the Sisters of Charity.

More as we get it.

Earlier: Where’s The Memorandum Of Understanding?

How Deal Leaves Doors Open For Church Control

Rollingnews

Update:

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Tonight.

Rhona Mahony, Master of Holles Street Maternity and Nicholas Kearns tell media that a majority of the Board have re-endorsed last November’s ‘agreement’ with St. Vincent’s Hospital for the building of the new national maternity hospital on its campus.

Eamonnn Farrell/Rollingnews

NJ

Sunday April 30: New Jackson, Dip Djs @Button Factory, Temple Bar, Dublin 2  (€15)

Nialler9 writes:

Switching hats from singer-songwriter to electronic music, David Kitt launches his debut New Jackson album on Sunday with support from Dip Djs (who include his brother Robbie). The album of nocturnal house and electronic music was recorded during the small hours on headphones in his bedroom studio overlooking Dublin Bay while his housemates were asleep.

Streaming above is the new video for Anya’s Piano from the new album shot by NY-based Irish photographer Rich Gilligan.

The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide – May Bank Holiday special (Nialler9)

Telly

Staying in tomorrow?

Following last week’s Reefer Special (which focused on nuns in the end) Broadsheet on the Telly returns tomorrow at 11.45 with a pay day end of month spring in its step and a brew on the stove.

Topical matters will be chewed over by the panel but if you would like them to gnaw on a particular news morsel close to your belly please leave suggestions below.

Next Monday, later than scheduled, Broadsheet on the Telly hosts a Whistleblower Special featuring whistleblowers and their families and friends.

If you would like to take part in this or future shows please contact Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie.

Thank you.

Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly on Broadsheet.

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You may recall how, last Friday, Vera Twomey flew back to Dublin Airport from Barcelona, Spain, with THC-based cannabis oil for her seven-year-old daughter Ava who lives with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome and suffers multiple seizures a day.

Vera got the oil from a clinic in Barcelona with a prescription.

Customs officials confiscated the oil, which is illegal in Ireland, after Vera alerted the officials that she had the oil.

Earlier this afternoon, Vera and her husband Paul Barry, who live in Cork, spoke on Facebook Live explaining how they’ve been trying to get back the oil that was confiscated.

Paul said a person from the Department of Health eventually hung up on him.

Vera and Paul are now appealing for people to call, email or message Minister for Health Simon Harris at his constituency office and/or Dáil office and call on the State to return the confiscated oil.

There is also a petition calling on the State to do the same here

Vera Twomey (Facebook)

 

More as we eat it.

*clutches heart*

Update:

children's hospital

This afternoon.

From left: Darrell Kennedy Kiely, Devin Kennedy, Minister for Health Simon Harris, Anthony Iannucci and Ella Kennedy Kiely with a model of the New Children’s Hospital which was given the green light by Cabinet today to commence building works on the St James’s Hospital Site in Dublin.

Cocktail sausages and chips (‘overcooked’) were ‘red line issues’ to ensure the children’s participation.

Rollingnews

Thanks Bibi

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Last week we asked you to tell US why YOU should be given a free pair of FitFlop: UBERKNIT™ Slip-On High Top Sneakers from the new S/S 2017 collection.

They’re rubber soled pullovers for your feet!

You responded in your loose-loafered dozens.

But there could be only one winner (selected by an independent jury):

ZeligisJaded: “I feel I should be given at least a pair of Fit Flop Uberknit pull-on sneakers particularly this week owing to the fact that I tried to walk the Dead Man’s Pass on Slieve League [County Donegal] on Easter Weekend in an old pair of tattered trainers. The insole kept moving, and became so annoying that I gave up walking and had pints in the Rusty Mackerel in Teelin [County Donegal] instead, with an English man who also gave up on the walk. Although he had no shoes to blame. In summation, I need the Fit Flop Uberknit pull-on sneakers so I can climb more mountains (and drink less pints).”

Thanks all

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Last week: Do You Want These Sneakers?