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This afternoon.

Participants in the ‘We Own Our Hospitals’ march, organised by Parents for Choice, Uplift, the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Justice for Magdalenes, make their way from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 to Leinster House.

The march coincides with the Uplift petition – currently signed by 103,840 people (above) – against the decision to give sole ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital to the Religious Sisters of Charity.

RTÉ reports that “up to 1,500” people are taking part in the march.

The petition can be signed here

Protest over religious ownership of new National Maternity Hospital (RTE)

Pics: National Women’s Council of Ireland, Laura Hogan, Donal Adams, Paul Quinn, Natasha Duffy, Uplift, Kate Brennan Harding

 

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Clockwise, from top left, Pauline McLynn, Lorcan Cranitch, Sophie Jo Wasson and Daryl McCormack 

Tonight.

On the Peacock stage of the Abbey Theatre.

Starring Pauline McLynn, Lorcan Cranitch, Daryl McCormack and Sophie Jo Wasson.

It’s the final night to catch the current run of A Whisper Anywhere Else by playwright Jimmy Murphy, as part of the Abbey Theatre’s What’s Happening Now series – a series of plays that aim to provide “an urgent response to an urgent issue”.

Based on public sources, statements, inquiry reports, media reports and Dáil records, A Whisper Anywhere Else meticulously traces the troubled history of An Garda Síochána, the controversies it has survived, disturbing allegations made by unnamed male and female gardaí and the organisation’s treatment of these whistleblowers.

Those name-checked include Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, her husband Chief Superintendent Jim McGowan, former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan, Independents 4 Change TDs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, Sgt Maurice McCabe and former Garda John Wilson.

A Q&A with Mr Murphy will take place after the performance.

Couldn’t be more timely, in fairness.

Tickets are €8 and can be bought here.

A Whisper Anywhere Else (Abbey Theatre)

Yesterday: The Garda Whistleblower Play

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TONIGHT: Friday May 5: Jellybean Benitez @ Index, Arran Quay, Dublin 1  (€10+, 11pm)

Nialler9 writes:

John Jellybean Benitez, (above right) former Paradise Garage, Funhouse & Studio 54 DJ (and early-Madonna producer) comes to town to play some classic New York disco. Kelly-Anne Byrne & Billy Scurry are also playing. Sounds fun.

Nialler9’s Gig Guide (Nialler9)

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Did you stay up?

Thank you to, clockwise from top left: Mark Malone, Neil Curran, Olga Cronin and Johnny Keenan, with, not pictured: Mike McGrath Bryan (producer) and Gavin Hennessy (audio/visual effects) our panel on last night’s Broadsheet on the Telly.

Subjects teased, probed and prodded included State and Church cosiness, the Jobstown trial and what does it mean to be left wing.

The show can be viewed in its raw entirety above.

If you would like to part in future shows, please send a short bio to broadsheet@broadsheet.e marked Broadsheet on the Telly.

All political persuasions welcome.

Thanks all.

Last night: Broadsheet on the Telly Tonight

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Jason Collins

Gardaí are appealing for help in trying to find 15-year-old Jason Collins, who is missing since Thursday, April 27.

Jason is described as being 5’ 5’’ with black hair and of medium build. When last seen, he was wearing a blue tracksuit, a navy T-shirt and grey runners. It is believed that he may be in the Dublin area.

Anyone who has seen Jason, or who can assist in locating him, is asked to contact Portlaoise Garda Station on 057-8674100, the Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.

Pic: Garda Press Office

This morning.

Further to the results of the Citizens’ Assembly on the 8th amendment and abortion.

Today FM’s Juliette Gash tweets Fine Gael TD and Housing Minister Simon Coveney’s position on “abortion on demand” after she spoke with him at the Global Irish Civic Forum.

Listen to Ms Gash’s report here

Meanwhile…

Yesterday.

In an interview with Shane Beatty, of Kildare FM, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Mr Beatty raised the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly and Fine Gael TD Richard Bruton comments in the Dáil on Wednesday where he said Fine Gael won’t be bound by the assembly’s recommendations.

At the beginning, Mr Martin said he himself has a “pro-life disposition”.

They then had the following exchange:

Shane Beatty: “Just to be clear, if someone is raped by their father, for example, and becomes pregnant as a result, what’s your view on abortion in that case?”

Micheál Martin: “Well it’s not that simple Shane…”

Speak over each other

Beatty: “Well, someone’s either pregnant or not pregnant…”

Martin: “Sorry?”

Beatty: “Someone’s either pregnant or they’re not pregnant.”

Martin: “They are indeed…”

Beatty: “…so it’s not that complex?”

Martin: “Well it actually is in terms of the… in terms of, are you talking within 10 weeks? Are you talking about within 20 weeks for example?”

Beatty: “I’m talking about a father raping his daughter.”

Martin: “Well it’s not that simple. It’s just not that simple in terms of…”

Beatty: “She becomes pregnant as a result, you don’t see that as a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’?”

Martin: “Well I don’t actually, it’s not a simple ‘yes or no’, that depends on a number of issues. That’s why…”

Beatty: “Would there be any circumstance, would there be any circumstance where a father raped his daughter, yes, go on…”

Martin: “Seán.”

Beatty: “Shane.”

Martin: “I know people today who are alive whose mothers would have been, in one particular case, was raped and she was the outcome of that. And she gets very angry when people suggest that she should never have had a life. So this is not simple, and I think it’s an issue and I think that will be one of the issues that will come before us in the Oireachtas, to decide on that.”

Listen to the interview in full here