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The scalpers are back again. £1250 for 308 Hogan.
Yearly Archives: 2017
The boys in black are back.
Therapy? return with a six-date run around Ireland in April, their most extensive bout of home touring in years, extending their European acoustic jag, previewed in the video above, accompanied by a snippet of live tearjerker Gone, newly re-recorded as part of an acoustic album available exclusively on these dates.
The band released album #14 last year, setting a record for Irish acts, and aside from a busy year of touring, turn their attention to platter number fifteen later this year.
Tickets available here. Cork and Dundalk on sale now, the rest going out Thursday.
One In Seven
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Hughie Daly, aged 11, who uses the services of the Rehab Group in Tullamore, helps to launch a campaign calling on the Government to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Martin Grant, of the Rehab Group, writes:
Ireland first signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities a decade ago, in March 2007, but have as yet not made it legally binding by failing to ratify it.
Ireland is the only country in Europe not to ratify this vital international agreement, which would afford people with disabilities the same basic human rights as everyone else.
Ireland is also currently on a par with North Korea, Egypt and Ethiopia in not ratifying the CRPD.
Failure to ratify is preventing people from enjoying the everyday freedoms that people without disabilities take for granted, such as the right to choose where to live, the right to appropriate supports to achieve an education and employment, the right to engage in a sexual relationship.
This means one in seven of us are continuing to live with discrimination.
A petition calling for the CRPD to be ratified can be signed here
UPDATE:
In the Dáil on January 17, 2016, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny raised the matter with the Taoiseach.
They had the following exchange:
Gino Kenny: “When will this country ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities? I have raised this many times with the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Finian McGrath. It is like waiting for Godot at this stage. People with disabilities and other members of the public are awaiting a decision by this Government. The convention has already been ratified by 156 countries and Ireland must ratify it without further delay. A protest will be held outside the Dáil on Thursday at 12 noon by people with disabilities. People are awaiting a decision and they want it now.”
Enda Kenny: “I thank Deputy Gino Kenny for his good wishes. The relevant Bill was published before Christmas. It is now awaiting Second Stage and will move through the various Stages. The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, along with many others, has done a lot of work on it. I hope it moves through…”
Gino Kenny: “Is there a specific date?”
Enda Kenny: “I do not know. It will be a matter for the Business Committee to decide when it comes in here in terms of the ordering of business. Obviously, we must follow through with a number of Bills before we can actually ratify the convention but it has moved into a much better place now.”
Gino Kenny: “That is a very poor response.”
Enda Kenny: “I will ask the Minister of State to contact the Deputy directly.”
Transcript via Oireachtas.ie
Joe Dole
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YIKES!
Rathmines, Dublin 6 yesterday.
Thanks Ciaran Le Cool
Ganglions – math-pop-punk with a Cork accent via Sheffield
What you may need to know…
01. Based in Sheffield, but sporting a pronounced Cork accent via vocalist Eimear O’Donovan, as well as drummery from Clonakilty man Brian Scally, Ganglions’ crossovers of pop, punk and math-rock make for a busy noise.
02. Eagle-eyed Irish music observers may remember O’Donovan from her time with Cork pop band KVX, and her memorable contributions to Bantum’s first album, on singles Oh My Days, and alongside Owensie on Roll Pt. 2.
03. Streaming above is the band’s self-released debut E.P., FETCH!, put out in February of last year and available for streaming and download.
04. The band plays Quarter Block Party, on the first weekend of February. Time and venue to be confirmed on release of the festival’s brochure. This follows their Irish debut at Cork’s Fred Zeppelin’s in December, in support of Terriers.
Thoughts: Bright, bristling, surfy, tappy, intricate, high-energy power.
Would you like to play chess with other women?
Your move.
John McMorrow, of the Irish Chess Union, writes:
I know you don’t normally do this but… The Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club have generously offered to become the host to Irish Women’s chess meetings every two weeks with a launch event at 2pm on Sunday, January 22nd. .
It will feature a blitz event, the presentation of the new Irish Women’s Championship perpetual trophy to current champion Monika Gedvilaite, a lecture from Grandmaster Alexander Baburin as well as other events.
SGHC will provide complimentary tea, coffee and sandwiches to all attendees. The launch event is open to any women who are welcome to bring a plus one.
They’re back.
Are Ya Having That writes:
‘LeatherJacketGuy’ & ‘JohnnyBS’ teach you ‘how to insult Canadians’
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Last night.
On RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars.
Contestant Hughie Maughan , left of host Nicky Byrne (above), went blackface.
He spoke to Ryan Tubridy on RTE Radio One this morning.
From their discussion:
Hughie Maughan: “I didn’t think it was going to be like, so many, one of the top trending things on Twitter and be in all the newspapers and…this morning I got a, I’d seen a clip, there’s a channel in America, and there’s a chat show and they spoke about my tan on the chat show.”
Ryan Tubridy: “And how do you feel about that?”
Maughan: “I think, that’s just weird because that was a genuine mistake. If I’d planned something probably nobody would speak about that. Cause I’d never be clever enough to speak about..it was a genuine mistake, it was like trying to make a bad situation better and then it just got worse.”
Tubridy: “The producer of the programme said ‘Hughie is like a hyperactive child. He can’t sit still or concentrate on one thing for any length of time. Everything he does is over the top, including his tan. I don’t know what he’ll be like next week. Maybe he’s going for a sponsorship deal with Ronseal‘.”
Maughan: Laughs.
Tubridy: “That’s from Larry Bass, of Shinawil, according to Melanie Finn, in the Herald this morning.”
Maughan: “Yeah, I know who he is. He’s just em… he’s really nice. But yeah, like…There’s people forgetting that I came from the Big Brother house. I’m not one of these, I’m not a professional athlete or something. I came from a trashy reality TV show. And I’ll probably go to another trashy reality TV show after Dancing with the Stars…”
Later
Tubridy: “Well, you’re adding to the entertainment factor of the programme, no doubt about it. You’re a good sport to get up for us this morning and take our call. I appreciate it…”
Watch Dancing with the Stars back here
Listen to The Ryan Tubridy Show back here
Pic: Bibi Paloma