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Broadsheet on the Telly returns at 10pm streaming LIVE (above) and on our YouTube channel.
Old friends, SURPRISE guests and domestic pets will devour the news of the week from home and abroad.
A packed show may include CervicalCheck scandal, PTSB bad loans, the Pope’s visit and a Tuam Mother and Baby Home update.
Some ‘bad’ language.
Sorry.
Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly
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Camping at the All Together Now Festival, Curraghmore Estate, County Waterford this weekend
Janine writes:
So we are going to the All Together Now festival in Waterford this weekend in a camper van. I heard today that we are not allowed use the gas cooker or fridge because according to the moderator on the facebook page:
“No gas cylinders are allowed on site . Any gas will be confiscated on entry” and that we will have to disconnect and remove cylinders before arrival at the festival …
This kind of defeats the purpose having paid an extra €60 for a camper van ticket.
Seeing as all campervans fridges and stoves run off gas I am wondering how they are planning on enforcing this – practically every camper will have a cylinder, It seems a bit ridiculous to me.
Has anyone ever heard of this at any other festival?
Anyone?
Houses
Houses
Are balloons now
They inflate
And conflate
Boom and burst
Houses
Are horses now
We speculate
And place our bets
A lifetime’s work
On coral haven estate
House no 2
Houses
Are flat pack now
Allen keys and spare screws
Starting lovers tiffs
Since 1998
Houses
Are everything now
But homes
Number 7: Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History by Kevin Corrigan Kearns
Selected by: Barry
First published: 1994
Available: Still in stock and at most library branches nationwide.
Why: “Kevin C. Kearns’ depiction of Dublin’s inner city slums is both harrowing and sometimes unbelievable. A society cast aside by Dublin City Council. The vision he portrays, through the stories of actual tenants from the slums, is of desperation, community and survival. A must read.”
Personal resonance: “My father gave me this book when I first moved out of home in the early 1990s. I’m still not sure if he was trying to tell me something as I burned the furniture to try and warm my one bed damp basement flat in Drumcondra. Funny but eye-openly dark.”
Who would like this? “Anybody with an interest in social history or the current minister for housing, Eoghan Murphy”
‘Great-Irish Non-Fiction’ is a reading list of 100 books chosen by YOU and highlighted over the coming weeks. If you would like to include a favourite leave your suggestion below.
Previously:
Ed Moloney
Gene Kerrigan
Bobby Sands
George O’Brien
Terence Patrick Dolan
Eamonn Sweeney
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Ah here.
James Cregan writes:
just went onto Done Deal to see if tickets for the Hurling Final were up…..thinking they would not…but low and behold (above). Is this even possible?
Anyone?
Ruth Morrissey's action v the HSE and two laboratories re incorrect reporting of two cervical smears to be adjourned until September. Court hears she has responded well to treatment to date and latest report from her oncologist gives her 'some hope'.
— Órla O'Donnell (@Orlaodo) July 31, 2018
Laboratories wanted Mrs Morrissey’s action adjourned until November, after radical radiotherapy treatment and a further scan. But Mr Justice Cross said the case had started and it would be unfair to delay it past September.
— Orla O’Donnell (@Orlaodo) July 31, 2018
Top: Ruth Morrissey outside the High Court last week
RTE reports:
“The legal action being taken by a 37-year-old woman with cervical cancer who is suing the Health Service Executive and two laboratories over the incorrect reporting of two smear tests, has been adjourned until September.
The High Court has been told that Ruth Morrissey, a mother-of-one from Limerick, has responded well to treatment so far.
Mrs Morrissey has been told that she could have less than a year to live.
… Mrs Morrissey’s lawyers wanted the case to continue in August.
But the two laboratories – Quest Diagnostics and Medlab Pathology – asked the court to adjourn the matter until later in the year.
They said it made more sense to continue the case after the result of that further scan were known.
Lawyers for the laboratories said there was now no imminent risk to Mrs Morrissey and less requirement for the matter to be heard urgently.”
Morrissey case over incorrect smear tests adjourned until September (RTE)
Previously: ‘If He Doesn’t, I Don’t Think He Should Be In The Position He’s In’
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Number 6: A Secret History Of The IRA by Ed Moloney.
Selected by: ‘Otis Blue’
First published: 2002 by Penguin with a revised edition in 2007.
Available? Still in stock and available at most library branches in Ireland.
Why? “No shinner I, but this is a revelatory and essential read about the risks taken to secure peace in the North.”
Craft: “Meticulously written and richly-detailed, for me it’s as much about what Ed Moloney doesn’t say.”
Surprising nugget: “Though not necessarily intended to be sympathetic to Gerry Adams, you sense from this book that History may yet be kind to him.”
Who would like this? “It’s one for revanchists, revisionists and realists.”
Great-Irish Non-Fiction’ is a reading list of 100 books chosen by YOU and highlighted over the coming weeks. If you would like to include a favourite leave your suggestion below.
Previously:
Gene Kerrigan
Bobby Sands
George O’Brien
Terence Patrick Dolan
Eamonn Sweeney