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Keith Redmond (left) and William Campbell

Libertarians don’t get much of a look in to Irish politics.

But they do have one elected politician.

On episode 66 of the Here’s How podcast, William Campbell meets Keith Redmond, a Fingal county councillor, a founder of the Hibernia Forum think tank and Libertarian with few limits.

FIGHT!

Listen here.

Here’s How

In Atlanta, Georgia.

Rob Reeves continues his vox pop-based tour of USA and meets a transgender woman who works as a security guard in the wake of Donald Trump’s transgender US Army ban.

You’ll like her.

Protesting Trump’s Transgender Ban (New York Times)

Rob Reeves Films

Last night.

A Tonight with Vincent Browne group photo as the veteran journalist departed TV3 where has hosted the nightly show for ten years.

Mmmf.

Watch last night’s show here

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Fruitless attempts to secure tickets for LCD Soundsystem at the Olympia Theatre.

LCD Soundsystem (Ticketmaster)

So as not to clash with Vincent Browne’s final show on TV3, Broadsheet on the Telly will air at our winter time of 11.45pm tonight.

The show will be streamed LIVE above and on our YouTube channel.

Our panel will chew over the departure of Vincent (above with TV3’s Sinead Desmond), Irish Water, the Disclosures Tribunal and we will have a further expert look at the RTÉ accounts.

Fight!

All are welcome.

Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly on Broadsheet

Rollingnews

Mags Gargan, in The Irish Catholic, reports:

The Government does not know the cause of death of the majority of the asylum seekers who have died in State care in the last 10 years.

“While two people are recorded as dying as a result of suicide and one resident was stabbed to death, the “suspected cause of death” of over one third of the people who have died while resident in the direct provision accommodation system is unknown.

In response to a Freedom of Information request from The Irish Catholic, the Department of Justice released figures which show that 44 people have died in the direct provision system between 2007 and 2017, including three stillborn babies and one “neonatal death”.

In 15 of the cases the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) record the suspected cause of death as “unknown” or simply “died”.

Among those listed as unknown was a 41-year-old man who was “found in room by roommate” in 2008, a 53-year-old man who was “found dead in his bed at 9am” by his roommate in 2012, a 35-year-old man “found unconscious in room and died in hospital” in 2014 and another man in 2015 “found unconscious in room and died in hospital”.

Cause of one in three deaths in direct provision system is unknown (The Irish Catholic)

I write as a homeless citizen in my late 30s. My father had a house, a car and three children when he was my age.

The Irish capitalist system has failed my generation when it comes to housing rights. The laissez-faire housing strategy has failed us.

I call for a bailout of the sizeable homeless population of Ireland and the urgent utilisation of State power to act as social entrepreneur in resolving inequality of conditions as far as housing is concerned.

Only the bypass of market forces can resolve the situation. We cannot wait any longer for social justice.

Gavin Bushe,
Clondalkin,
Dublin 22.

A bailout for Ireland’s homeless (The Irish Times letters page)

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