Yearly Archives: 2017

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Lorraine Culligan writes:

I know you don’t normally do this but we need some help. This beautiful boy was found in the Phoenix Park today – no collar, no microchip, very friendly and well looked after. Someone has to be missing him. We can’t keep him so, if we can’t find his owners, we will have to bring him to the pound which we really don’t want to do… please share for us. Call 087 7454828.

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Martin Austermuhle tweetz:

Not a joke: There is a stream of people coming to get free marijuana in Dupont. Organizers guess ~8,000 free joints... The pot is being given away from a jail cell. Advocates say it makes a point about need for legalisation… “I know no other inauguration where I got free weed,” says person standing in line for a free joint in Dupont.

Rolling protest: Pot advocates plan inauguration joint giveaway (WTOP)

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On Tuesday, January 31st.

At the Irish Writers’ Centre on Parnell Square, Dublin 1.

From 10am.

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) will host the second Newsocracy conference, entitled ‘Media Ownership Concentration in Ireland and Europe’.

The ECPMF writes:

Ireland is falling far below European standards for press and media freedom.  There is widespread concern at the implications for media diversity and plurality at the concentration of media ownership and a growing recognition that the ownership structure is a significant factor in undermining journalism and democracy.

This conference explores the implications for the work of journalists and places a focus on the difficulties they face where access to the media is restricted by concentration of ownership.

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) invites international stakeholders, politicians, unionist, academics and journalists, to talk about ownership structures and their implications on access to media, working conditions for journalists and the influence on news and public opinion.

Dr. Roderick Flynn from Dublin City University, author of the Media Pluralism Monitor Ireland, explains in a keynote the current status of media ownership and media pluralism in Ireland.

Other speakers include: Lynn Boylan, MEP for Dublin, Sinn Féin/GUENGL; Dr. Elda Brogi, CMPF/EUI, Italy Seamus Dooley, General Secretary NUJ; Anton McCabe, investigative journalist, Northern Ireland; Catherine Murphy, TD, Social Democrats; Gemma O’Doherty, investigative journalist; Renate Schroeder, Director European Federation of Journalists, Belgium; Olaf Steenfadt, Project Coordinator Media Ownership Monitor (MOM), Reporters Without Borders, Germany; Nora Wehofsits, Advocacy Officer, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Germany.

 

The event is open to the public and free but those interested in attending are asked to register here or send an email to conference@ecpmf.eu

Read more here

Previously: Press Reset

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Kincora Boys’ Home, Belfast

A series of children’s homes run by church and charity in Northern Ireland were the scene of widespread abuse and mistreatment of young residents, the chair of the region’s historic abuse inquiry, Sir Anthony Hart, has said.

In one case a sex offender was found to have been moved from one home to another school. He said in one instance there was “systemic abuse, humiliation and sexual abuse“.

At the notorious Kincora boys’ home, where there were numerous allegation made of abuse, Sir Anthony said if an adequate RUC investigation had been carried out “those sexually abused after 1976 would have been spared their experience.”

The inquiry investigated persistent claims that intelligence agencies covered up the crimes committed by a paedophile ring in the home in the 1970s in order to blackmail some alleged high-profile abusers from within the British Establishment.

HIA sex abuse inquiry: Proper RUC Kincora investigation would have spared victims from abuse (Belfast Telegraph)

A “bleak, harsh and cruel” atmosphere was described by alleged victims at two properties in Belfast run by the Sisters of Nazareth.

Children were shipped off to Australia as migrants like “baby convicts”, witnesses said, and their names were changed once they arrived.

There were tales of violence perpetrated by members of religious orders.

But some of the gravest allegations involved sex attacks.

Police said sex abuse at Rubane Boy’s home in Co Down was rife.

And the inquiry heard that notorious paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth told a doctor he had sexually abused hundreds of children.

HIA inquiry evidence heard children treated like ‘baby convicts’ (Belfast Telegraph)

Previously: A Boys’ Home Story

20/1/2017. Donald Trump banners. Pictured is Donald Trump banners on Hapenny Bridge in Dublin.Today Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration was marked by the dropping of a banner from the Ha’penny bridge which reads “BRIDGES NOT WALLS – Love Trumps Hate. The events is one of scores of similar events across 3 continents in solidarity with people in the US who are likely to be the targets of the hate which has become associated with the Trump campaign.The action is coordinated by the European Network Against Racism Ireland (ENAR Ireland) and is supported by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and other ENAR Ireland network members. Photo:Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
20/1/2017. Donald Trump banners.  (L to R) (wearing hearts) Maria Schaler and Siona Cahil from Union Students of Ireland with protesters at the Hapenny Bridge in Dublin. Today Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration was marked by the dropping of a banner from the Ha’penny bridge which reads “BRIDGES NOT WALLS – Love Trumps Hate. The events is one of scores of similar events across 3 continents in solidarity with people in the US who are likely to be the targets of the hate which has become associated with the Trump campaign.The action is coordinated by the European Network Against Racism Ireland (ENAR Ireland) and is supported by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and other ENAR Ireland network members. Photo:Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
20/1/2017. Donald Trump banners. Pictured is Siona Cahil from Union Students of Ireland at the Hapenny Bridge in Dublin. Today Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration was marked by the dropping of a banner from the Ha’penny bridge which reads “BRIDGES NOT WALLS – Love Trumps Hate. The events is one of scores of similar events across 3 continents in solidarity with people in the US who are likely to be the targets of the hate which has become associated with the Trump campaign.The action is coordinated by the European Network Against Racism Ireland (ENAR Ireland) and is supported by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and other ENAR Ireland network members. Photo:Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

This morning.

Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin

Members of the European Network Against Racism Ireland (ENAR Ireland), the Immigrant Council of Ireland, The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), including Siona Cahil (above) the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and other ENAR Ireland network members protest the inauguration of US Presidential-Elect Donald Trump today.

Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie