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Right now.

Outside the Alexander Hotel on Fenian Street in Dublin 2.

Current and former employees of Independent News and Media (INM) and their supporters demonstrate against significant pension cuts at INM. The protest is being organised by Siptu and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

The protest is taking place as, inside the Alexander Hotel, INM shareholders hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM).

Pic via Irish Congress of Trade Unions

Earlier: Free At 1.30pm?

UPDATE:

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Ken Powell tweetz:

Suitably frosty reception for #Redacted at Alexander Hotel…

Update:

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From top: Former Irish Independent journalists Claire Grady and Lise Hand; Seamus Dooley of the National Union of Journalist; the scene outside the Alexander Hotel, Dublin 2/

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

Related: How can INM buy up companies while it cuts staff pensions to pieces? (Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times)

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Of this Terry Gilliam-inspired luridness, Cavan-based designers (and guaranteed Irish stocking filler) Wordbird tweetz:

 Our tribute to GAA Legend Marty Morrissey

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.

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Former Irish swimming coach George Gibney

You may recall US journalist Irvin Muchnick’s ongoing efforts to obtain former Irish swimming coach George Gibney’s full US immigration file – parts of which have already shown he received a certificate of character from the Gardaí to support his application for an American visa.

Gibney was charged with 27 counts of indecency against young swimmers and of carnal knowledge of girls under the age of 15 in April, 1993 – but sought and won a High Court judicial review in 1994 that quashed all the charges against him. The judicial review was secured after a landmark Supreme Court decision.

Readers will recall how the aforementioned Garda certificate was issued on January 20, 1992.

The Murphy Report – which was set up to look at abuse in swimming in 1998 – states a parent from a swimming club other than Trojan Swimming Club, where Gibney coached, was told by an assistant coach of Trojan in November 1991 that the gardai and the ISPCC were informed of the allegations in relation to Gibney.

Further to this…

Journalist Irvin Muchnick writes:

[Today] is the deadline on the 30-day window US District Court Judge Charles Breyer gave the federal government and this reporter to try to work out an agreement around the court’s tentative order for release of additional materials from George Gibney’s immigration records in my Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.

In his November 2 opinion, Judge Breyer said he was “prepared to rule (largely) in Muchnick’s favor” over the remaining 20 disputed documents, covering 43 pages, that he had reviewed in camera. At that time, the court forwarded, only to the government, suggestions on redactions that should be reversed.

More as he gets it.

Government’s Response to Court’s Order on George Gibney FOIA Documents Is Due Monday (Concussion Inc)

Previously: A Tentative Order

George Gibney’s Green Card

The Chief Justice, Her Brother And How George Gibney Got Away

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulp5OgFDg0s

A Star Trek-themed video from the Abortion Support Network in England – in which it appeals for donations.

The group has been helping to provide information, financial assistance and accommodation to women from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man who have to travel to England for a safe and legal abortion since 2009.

For more information and to donate to the ASN, visit here

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Staying in tonight?

TV3’s Tonight with Vincent Browne will broadcast an interview Mr Browne has carried out with Jonathan Sugarman at 11pm.

Mr Sugarman is a former executive at Unicredit Bank Ireland in Dublin’s IFSC who resigned in September 2007 after giving a detailed account of enormous liquidity breaches at his bank a year before the financial crash.

Previously: Who Is Jonathan Sugarman?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn6RM0a9FDM

Right now.

In London.

The four-day UK Supreme Court hearing – into whether British Prime Minister Theresa May has the right to trigger Brexit without a parliamentary vote – has begun.

All eyes focus on UK Supreme Court over Article 50 (Financial Times)

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Agro Phobia – DIY Limerick noise

What you may need to know…

01. In 1981/1982, teenagers Brian Hartnett and Barry Warner didn’t have much in the way of musical equipment with which to take out their frustrations. So they improvised.

02. AGRO PHOBIA was the result of the two lads bashing out noises on piano, Stylophone, and whatever household implements were handy at that moment. Rhythm tracks were recorded into one tape recorder, which was then played back as ambient backing audio for the duo’s improvisations.

03. Streaming above is Waiting Room, the first song to be publicly released from the duo’s FIRST CASSETTE, a compilation of the duo’s hitherto unreleased body of work.

04. FIRST CASSETTE releases digitally this week through The Unscene, a marked shift into noisier climes for the doggedly DIY hip-hop label.

Verdict: A time capsule, alternately harsh in its sparse, detached nature and poignant in the toll time has taken on the recordings, comforting in its layers of tape distortion.

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