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A Toronto cop’s comments on girls’ dress sense and rape prompted a ‘slutwalk’ in the city.
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Taken on the plinth this afternoon.
The 11 members of the ‘technical group’ of Independent TDs (from left, back row) Stephen Donnelly, John Halligan, Shane Ross, Thomas Pringle and Finian McGrath TD; (middle row, from left) Mick Wallace, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, Richard Boyd Barrett and Maureen O’Sullivan, and (front row, from left) Catherine Murphy, Mattie McGrath TD and Icelandic MP Lilja Mosesdottir.
Government Rejects Call For Bailout Referendum (Breaking News)
Just Civil Partnershipped: Barry Dignam and Hugh Walshe at the registration office in Dublin this afternoon: the first same sex couple in Ireland to publicly tie the knot.
Thomas Cahalan (right) and Nicholas Nelson became the second gay couple to publicly avail of the new civil partnership legislation.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
POLICING of the Corrib gas dispute has amounted to over € 14 million to date.
This huge sum is set to rise sharply over the coming months with expected protests increasing as Shell builds the longest raw gas pipeline tunnel in western Europe. The subsea tunnel, which is through a Special Area of Conservation, will take over two years to build and will involve around 472 truck movements a day, along the narrow, winding roads in this rural area.
A number of complaints about aspects of policing have been made to the Garda Ombudsman.A report by the Frontline human rights defenders’ organisation last year expressed concern about some aspects of policing the Corrib gas dispute by both the Garda and the private security firm employed by the developers.
The report, by barrister Brian Barrington, recommended that gardaí who had been involved for long periods on the dispute should be deployed to other duties, such as community policing.
It also suggested that the Garda Siochána should appoint a trained lawyer with relevant experience in human rights issues to review police policies and practices.
Garda In CorribGate Scandal (Mayo News)
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“This week sees the first civil partnerships between same sex couples becoming official under legislation passed last year. That provides gay couples with with nearly all necessary legal provisions. many of us know people who are benefiting from this or may well in the future. To borrow a cliche, this would be a good time to declare victory and go home.
“Instead the demand now is for gay marriage on top of this, which the programme for Government commits to exploring. This is not only unnecessary, but verges on selfishness.”
A wealth of research demonstrates that the marriage of a man and a woman provides children with the best life outcomes , that children raised in marriagees that stay together do best across a whole range of measures. That is certainly not to cast aspersions on other families but it does underscore the importance of marriage as an institution.”
Richard Waghorne. Irish Daily Mail (full article here)
Excerpt from recording by confiscated video camera in a Garda vehicle on March 31, 2011, after the arrest of two women at Aughoose for public order-related offences relating to the Corrib gas project.
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Garda A: “Who is them two lassies, do you know the two of them?
Garda B: “I don’t know the second one, the first one is with blonde hair.”
Unidentified garda: “She was up on the tractor earlier on.”
Garda A: “It’d do no harm to get the second one’s name again?
Garda B: “She’s some Yank. I don’t know who the f**k she is.”
Unidentified garda: “ Is she a Yank?
Garda B: “It sounds like it, it sounds like it, the accent anyway
Unidentified garda: “Sounds like a Yank or Canadian.”
Garda B: “Well whoever, we’ll get Immigration f**king on her.”
Garda A: “She refused to give her name and address and told she would be arrested.”
Garda B : “…….and deported”
Garda A: “And raped.”
Garda B: “I wouldn’t go that far yet….. She was living down at that crusty camp [Rossport Solidarity Camp], f**k sake, you never know what you might get.”
Garda A: “Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you.”
Unidentified Garda: “Hold it there, give me your name and address there, I’ll rape you.”
Garda A : “Or I’ll definitely rape you.”
Full excerpt here
Senior Garda To Investigate Treatment Of Corrib Protestors (Irish Times)
Recording supplied by Indy Media.
Vimeo recording here
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But rather than speak of her own grief, the recently widowed nurse used the moment to issue a powerful message of defiance against terrorism.
Her day was meant to be very different. Her eldest son, Cathair, an IT security specialist for a bank in Australia, was flying back to be with her.
Ronan, 25, who passed out as a police constable three months ago, would be coming from just down the road from his new home in Omagh.
However, on the first Mothering Sunday since he moved out, this would be no less important.
To Mrs Kerr, her youngest son had been simply, her “rock”, according to friends. During her husband’s long battle with a brain tumour, which finally claimed his life in October 2008, she had given up her work as a nurse in the local hospital to care for him. Ronan, who worked in a series of hard manual jobs, remained at home supporting her.
With his mother back at work, he was himself struggling to find long-term employment and began to be attracted by the drive to recruit more Catholic officers into the Police Service of Northern Ireland — the replacement for the once Protestant-dominated RUC.
Ronan Kerr’s Death: A Mother’s Day Tragedy (Telegraph)
“Today in our land a small collection of people will be congratulating themselves, getting pats on the back, smirking that their demented “cause” is back at the top of news agendas.
“Ancient half-truths and myths will be voiced as justification for barbarous actions. They will be happy.”
