Yearly Archives: 2017
This evening.
Anne writes:
Serious stretch in Cork…Taken at 19.03…
Every Friday we give away a voucher worth TWENTY FIVE Euros to allow you to indulge your musical tastes at any of the 14 Golden Discs stores nationwide.
All we ask from you is a TUNE we may play on Monday/Tuesday.
This week’s theme: New Romanticism
On foot of news that Duran Duran will be among the headliners at the Electric Picnic 2017, what eyeliner-mussed song from the ‘Peacock Punk’ canon flocks your seagull?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘While not a purist my favourite track from the new Romantic genre would have to be_________________________because____________________’
Lines MUST close at 5.15pm MIDNIGHT on SUNDAY.
No Kajagoogoo.
A Rogue Hope
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SIPTU trade union members discuss the all-out indefinite strike over Bus Éireann’s implementation of cost reduction measures without union agreement.
Bus Éireann management has warned that the strike will worsen the company’s financial situation, which it has described as perilous.
A Bus Éireann statement said:
The Board and management have twice postponed the introduction of efficiency measures – which are all within current collective agreements, and do not affect basic wages or current terms and conditions – to allow for 10 days of talks in two separate sessions at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
We sought savings of €12m from a payroll of €133m – or 9% – but Unions were only prepared to cede €0.5m on the current overtime bill of €13m.
The efficiencies we are seeking to introduce relate to work practices, which must be put in place if the company is to have a viable and sustainable future.
Earlier: Ah Here
Yesterday: Going Nowhere
Via Siptu thanks Paddy Cole
Pic Rollingnews
Pitifully little charity either.
A religious order that owes millions of euros in compensation for child abuse will retain ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital after it is built with more than €200 million of taxpayers’ money.
The new hospital will be built on the Elm Park site at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin. St Vincent’s Healthcare Group is run and owned by the Sisters of Charity, which has paid only €2 million of the €5 million it offered to contribute in reparations to abuse victims. Its most recent payment was in 2013.
The religious order will own the maternity hospital as well as a new independent company that has been established to guarantee corporate governance, but the HSE has said that its interests will be protected once construction is completed.
The HSE said the land at the St Vincent’s campus was being made available for the new hospital at no cost to the state and that “appropriate security arrangements” would be put in place to protect state interests.
Nuns who owe millions in abuse reparations given hospital (Ellen Coyne, The Times Ireland Edition)
Previously: ‘Based On The Findings Of The McAleese Report’
Floor Staff – Saviour
Floor Staff aka Dubliner Anthony Donnelly writes:
This video was shot entirely on expired Fuji film rolls, about 1700 stills in total. Shot and directed by Colum O’Dwyer, info on the shooting process here: The track was taken from new EP ‘Convictions’ due for release in mid April.
The adventures of a petulant boy and his venomous but extremely charming scorpion. A short by Grant Kolton.
Did you stay up?
A very big thank you to clockwise from top left: Johnny Keenan, Edel Brady, Neil Curran, Kyle Phiri, Mark Malone, Olga Cronin, Mike McGrath Bryan and Lucky Nkambule, our panel on last night’s Broadsheet on the Telly.
Kyle and Lucky shared their experiences of living under the Direct Provision system and a plan was cooked up – on air – to hold an Open Day to meet and greet asylum seekers in centres around Ireland.
More on that as we get it.
The show can be viewed in its entirety above.
The Movement Of Aylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) can be contacted here
If you would like to take part in future shows please send short bio to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Broadsheet on the Telly’.
Last night: Live At 11.45 Tonight