This morning.
Drogheda Pier, Drogheda, Co Meath County Louth.
Scenes from a garda exercise involving members of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) freeing two hostages from a ‘terrorist gunman’ holed up in a port warehouse. Members of the ERU also boarded a trawler on which they discovered ‘explosives’.
Inside job.
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
Hup sup?
Sarah Lennon Galavan writes:
Thought you might be interested in this video of master trad musicians and Hothouse Flowers Liam Ó Maonlaí and Fiachna Ó Braonáin performing a haunting duet in Doolin, Co. Clare
Fiachna and Liam feature on the season premiere of TG$’s Hup, a fresh take on traditional music visiting festivals across the country to showcase Ireland’s finest musicians.
Upcoming episodes will feature legends such as Tommy Emmanuel and Frankie Gavin and visit festivals in Baltimore, Kilfenora and Armagh, to name a few…
Some beardage, in fairness.
Hup 10pm Sundays on TG4
Camouflage – one of a series of works by Spanish artist Pejac at a disused powerplant in Rijeka, Croatia (a tribute to the silhouetted birds favoured by René Magritte) completed as a part of a residency with the city’s Museum of Modern And Contemporary Art.
Previously: Downside Up
At the makeshift refugee camp in Calais, France
Further to reports of several hundred unaccompanied child refugees being left unregistered with nowhere to go in Calais, France, following its demolishment…
Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance Tanya Ward writes:
The Irish Government made a pledge to take 4,000 refugees and to prioritise unaccompanied minors in its International Refugee Programme. To date, only one unaccompanied minor is being relocated to Ireland under the Programme.
We know that unaccompanied minors have been exposed to serious abuse. They have no schools to attend and many are being exploited by ruthless child traffickers. We know from media reports that children as young as eight have been found unaccompanied in the Calais Camp.
Tusla (the Child and Family Agency) has considerable experience meeting the needs of unaccompanied minors or separated children. Ireland is well-placed to play a central role in supporting the relocation of these children. We are calling on the Government to urgently act to protect these children.
Meanwhile…
Information now reaching us is that any people (children or otherwise) face arrest after 2pm today if they don’t have a wristband. #calais pic.twitter.com/7IWY4xaveI
— Refugee Info Bus (@RefugeeInfoBus) October 27, 2016
Head of CRS #calais just informed us he’s now finished for the day & cannot personally guarantee safety or protection for anyone anymore. pic.twitter.com/bQBagxXqCh
— Refugee Info Bus (@RefugeeInfoBus) October 27, 2016
Concern for children as Calais camp cleared (RTE)
Previously: Separation In Calais
Pic: CNN
Teneo is a company co-founded by New York-based Irish PR consultant Declan Kelly (top with Bill Clinton in 2011) and currently embroiled in the ongoing Wikleaks dump.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski unpicked the latest leaked memo from Mr Kelly’s Teneo co-founder Doug Band revealing the “intersection” of the Clinton’s charitable and personal income.
Writing in 2011, Mr Band said Teneo partners had raised “in excess of $8 million for the foundation and $3 million” in paid speaking fees for Bill Clinton and secured contracts for the former president “that would pay out $66 million over the subsequent nine years”.
Good times.
‘Bill Clinton, Inc.’ Memo Reveals Tangled Business, Charitable Ties (Time)
Meanwhile….
Right so.
From Mr Band’s memo.
Full document here
Thanks Johnny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCZVL3otrss
Fail Army’s montage of Halloweenies (and random other prankfails).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLi62KMYJyk&feature=youtu.be
Tom will do the carving.
Broadsheet social media manager-turned-pumpkin magnate Tom ‘Dylan’ Dillon will be showing his pumps to the world on RTÉ One’s farming flagship programme ‘Ear To The Ground’ tonight at 8.30pm.
Reporter Ella McSweeney joined Tom at his patch in Fordstown, Co Meath where Halloween is Christmas and Easter rolled into one big scary squash plant.
From top: Artist’s impression of the Mary Robinson Presidiential Library in Ballina, Co Mayo; Mary Robinson
Staying in tonight?
Grab a tay.
Laura Fitzgerald at RTÉ writes:
Tonight RTÉ Prime Time will feature a special report delving into the funding of the new Mary Robinson Centre project. It’s estimated it will cost almost €8.5 million to develop a Presidential library in the former President’s home town of Ballina.
A number of concerns have been expressed about the cost of the centre, it’s location and the fact that papers of a former President will not be housed in many of the existing archive departments in universities.
Traditionally the papers of former Presidents have been donated to University College Dublin or Trinity College Dublin. Controversially, Mrs. Robinson has applied for tax relief for making the donation.
Mayo County Council has also been officialy designated as an institution to which donors can now contribute items of Heritage value, which would entitle them to tax relief. NUI Galway is the academic partner for the Centre, the Department of Arts & Heritage has given a grant of €2 million and Mayo County Council has committed €1.5 million.
The establishment of a separate Presidential Library in Ireland is unprecedented.
The Chairman of the Oireachtas Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs Committee Peader Tóibin speaks on tonight’s RTÉ Prime Time, he tells the programme;
“At our next meeting I will be putting it to the committee that this is a serious concern and I will be asking the committee for their backing to send a letter to those three groups so they will come before us and shed light on the process they are involved in. We just want to make sure that the money is spent properly.
We simply want to make sure that the State is not on the hook for money into the future and we don’t have a crisis like we had in the Picture Palace in Galway and the only way to do that is to create transparency and that is the objective of the committee.”
Mr. Tóibin has also raised concerns about the role local politics has played in the state funding of the project.
He said:
“I think when a Taoiseach is involved in a particular project in his own county. When a Taoiseach gives his backing to a project before a decision is made within the Department, then there are major concerns then you would ask the question – is it being proceeded with for the greater good or is it being proceeded with maybe for local parish pump politics reason”
FIGHT!
RTÉ Prime Time tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.
Pics via Mary Robinson Centre
