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Anyone?

Via Anthony Flynn of Inner City Helping Homeless

Anon writes:

“So. It’s a thing now…”

Luashenge via Hopeless Surfer

Yesterday: ‘They Each Have A Function, There Are No Empty Boxes’

UPDATE:

This just in.

Would you like to milk the dole?

Via The Irish Farmers Journal:

The Irish Farmers Journal can exclusively reveal that a new programme is to target social welfare recipients to work on dairy farms.

­ This programme aims to address the labour shortage in the dairy sector and could see some participants earn up to €5,000 without affecting their current level of social welfare payments

With average dairy farm incomes predicted to reach €80,000 this year, the shortage of workers for expanding farms has hit crisis levels.

This initiative is aimed at people who are currently out of work, or are working part-time, or who are currently farming full-time but want to earn extra money.

This radical new plan is to be launched in mid-August – piloted in Waterford and Kilkenny initially. If successful, the programme will then be rolled out nationally in September.

­People who have no skills or experience of farm work will be trained up and placed on farms.

FIGHT!

€5,000 for dole workers to milk cows ( Catriona Morrissey, Irish Farmers Journal)

Thanks Jamie Leonard

Tonight

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin

B Bop writes:

Late evening fishing from the West Pier. Cranes in city – (We’re Back Baby & Save Poolbeg)

Meanwhile…

Last night.

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin

Thanks Ruth Kelly

Kevin Myers

Now that he is available please bring Kevin Myers back “home” to The Irish Times. Some of your long-suffering readers need a counterbalance to the opinions of Fintan O’Toole, Una Mullally, etc.

John Kenny,
Monkstown Valley,
Co Dublin.

FIGHT!

Meanwhile

This morning.

Emma Barnett of BBC 5 Live interviews Kevin Myers about his sacking.

Controversy over Kevin Myers’ article (Irish Times letters page)

Previously: ‘I’m Sorry This Has Happened’

Thanks Judith

Rollingnews

‘sup?

Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin 8, writes

Some very exciting news to bring you today… Christ Church Cathedral is pleased to present the newest member of the team; Laurence Magnificat!

Laurence comes to us from Dún Laoghaire and is just over four months old. When he’s a little older he’ll be with us in the cathedral during the day, welcoming tourists and making sure the organ scholars are practicing sufficiently!

Best of all you can follow his exploits on Twitter! Follow @ChristChurchCat for all his latest goings on….

Christ Church Cathedral (Facebook)

The first six episodes expanding on director Steve Barker’s superb and unexpectedly poignant 2013 short, The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & ¾ in which a peculiar man searches for love in a dark and troubling world.

You can folow Desmondo on Twitter.

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