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Patrick Kinsella writes:
Hairdresser in Lalinde, France. Time for a rebrand perhaps?
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Heidi O’Sullivan at Dubliun Zoo writes:
Dublin Zoo is delighted to announce the arrival of a southern white rhinoceros calf. The male calf, who is yet to be named, was born to mother Ashanti and father Chaka at 1.45pm last Thursday and weighs approximately 60kgs.
The youngster joins the rest of the herd – Sam, Reni, Chaka, Zanta, Nyala and of course his mother Ashanti (top left) – at the African Savanna.The newborn is Ashanti’s fifth calf and is another significant success for Dublin Zoo as part of the European Endangered Species Programme established to assist the survival of the near threatened southern white rhinoceros….
…The children of Ireland are invited to suggest a name for the newest arrival based on his African origin. Name suggestions can be submitted here…
Tonight.
On RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
The first episode in a five-part series called Keeping Ireland Alive: The Health Service In A Day.
Gareth Naughton writes:
The clip [above] features Naas man Tommy McCormack, who is living with dementia, and his wife Annette as she brings him to take part in one of the highlights of his week – singing with the Kildare Pastimes Choir, which works with people living with dementia, their families and carers.
Keeping Ireland Alive: The Health Service In A Day brings viewers the health service as they’ve never seen it before. Filmed over one 24-hour period in May with 75 cameras at locations throughout the country, this five-part series pushes beyond the headlines to tell the human stories at the heart of this often controversial but most vital service.
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Dunboyne Castle Hotel is a hotel and spa in Co Meath but a section of the older part of the hotel used to be Ard Mhuire Mother and Baby Home.
The home was run by the Good Shepherds from 1955 until it closed in 1991 – when it was sold.
On Saturday, RTÉ journalist Brian O’Connell accompanied several mothers, who had lived in the mother and baby home for a time, and who revisited the building at the weekend.
The visit had been organised by Irish First Mothers.
One of the mothers whom Mr O’Connell spoke to was Emer, who would have been one of the last mothers to enter the home, in 1989, when she was in her early 20s and had a baby boy.
She has since met her son.
She now lives in Scotland and returned to Ireland to give evidence to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes the day before she met with Mr O’Connell.
In an item broadcast on the Today with Sean O’Rourke Show earlier this morning, Emer told Mr O’Connell:
“I was one of the older mothers, I was 23/24 when I came here. I go over it and over it and over it and over it in my head and I think: you know, I’m capable of making my own decisions and how on earth did I come to be here?”
“Coming here is like having that feeling of having this dark cloud over you that’s going to take away your baby when it’s born.”
Speaking about meeting her son for the first time since she was in the home, she said:
“He looks like lots of my family. He came into the room and I wanted to put my arms around him but I thought ‘that’s not fair on him, maybe he doesn’t want to, maybe he wants to hit me’. I just thought why, why have we been kept separate all our lives. I didn’t do anything wrong, he didn’t do anything wrong.”
About giving evidence to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, she said:
“[It was] difficult but useful, to be able to actually tell your story. I would like people to understand how difficult it was for women and what they had to go through. I would like to get an apology for what was done to us.”
Previously: ‘They Exclude And Stall While We Die’
Nom.
Who first created “the most ordered fast food item in Ireland”?
Liam Geraghty writes:
On RTE Radio 1’s The Business, I attempted to solve Ireland’s greatest mystery – who invented the Spice Bag?
Listen here
Previously: Emma Doran on The Spice Bag
Two gardaí in this car arrived unannounced at the home of journalist Gemma O’Doherty (top) last night
Yesterday evening, a male and female Garda, dressed in plain clothes, arrived unannounced at the home of journalist Gemma O’Doherty.
She had just arrived home, had parked her car and she was entering her house when they approached her.
They said that they were members of An Garda Siochana and mentioned a communication Ms O’Doherty had made with the Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan.
Finding the situation intimidating, Ms O’Doherty immediately asked them to leave.
Ms O’Doherty believes it was in relation to her ongoing investigation into allegations of malpractice in the Raonaid Murray murder investigation.
They refused to leave a number of times despite being asked and it was only when Ms O’Doherty said that they were being recorded and that she would be seeking legal opinion, that they left.
Ms O’Doherty legal team have been informed of the incident and she has also written to the Minister for Justice and a number of other Dail deputies.
Their visit followed a complaint made by Ms O’Doherty to the Data Protection Commissioner some months ago – after the Garda Press Office gave Ms O’Doherty’s private email address to a garda from Dun Laoghaire Garda Station.
In relation to that complaint, after some months, the Data Protection Commissioner eventually found that the guards had no case to answer and that it was acceptable for the Press Office to hand over private details of a reporter to other sections of the gardai.
Ms O’Doherty maintains it was not.
Ms O’Doherty feels the arrival of the two guards last night to her home was an act of harassment and intimidation.
Previously: Gemma O’Doherty on Broadsheet
Pic: Gemma O’Doherty
Rollingnews
Tapt – Donegal-developed and published rhythm game
What you may need to know…
01. Because not all musical endeavour involves bands and artists, presented for your consideration: Tapt, an Irish-developed rhythm game for iOS.
02. Developed and self-published by Donegal man Stephen Coyle, the game focuses on rhythm rather than melody, unlike a lot of similar endeavours, and encourages attention to detail in listening to said tunes.
03. Streaming above is a playthrough of the first stage by French mobile-game YouTuber First Stage, demonstrating its capabilities.
04. Get it at the App Store, and check the various expansion packs. Every purchase helps fund Coyle’s development of an educational edition of the app.
VERDICT: An interesting concept that should rightly help a lot of people with the basics of rhythm, and provide a satisfying puzzle-game experience on the way.
All Irish music tech/app-related projects welcome to submit to the column, please, to the usual email address. No charge.
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Yesterday.
Along the quays, Dublin.
(Thanks Thom McDermott)