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Free January/February?

Dorothy Murphy writes:

The hilarious hit comedy ‘A Holy Show’, presented by Verdant Productions, is going on tour across Ireland in January, February and March 2020 following on from the critical success of the Edinburgh Fringe and Dublin Fringe.

A nostalgic comedy based on a very Irish hijacking of the 1981 Aer Lingus plane by an ex-Trappist monk with a bottle of water as his weapon, the Pope as his nemesis, and a burning desire to know The Third Secret of Fatima.

From 23 January 2020 ‘A Holy Show’ is going on a full nationwide tour, with dates announced for Galway, Limerick, Laois, Wicklow, Cavan, Carlow, Cork, Longford, Clare, Belfast and Tipperary as well as a host of Dublin dates and two dates in Paris [details at link below]

A Holy Show

From Simon Communities of Ireland’s 2018 annual report (click to enlarge)

Today.

Simon Communities of Ireland is launching its 15-page annual report for 2018.

It found there was a 26% increase in number of people turning to the group’s services throughout Ireland in 2018 – 16,776 up from 13,304 in 2017.

It follows the Department of Housing releasing the latest homeless figures on Tuesday evening which show there a record high of 10,514 people (6,688 adults and 3,826 children) were living in emergency accommodation in the final week of October.

Read the report in full here

Previously: 10,514 But Confidence Remains

Update:

This morning.

Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

CEO of Galway Simon Community Karen Golden with National Spokesperson for the Simon Communities, Wayne Stanley, speaking at the launch of the Simon Communities of Ireland launch Annual Report.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Naas, County Kildare.

Members of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) started a 12-hour beef price protest at an Aldi distribution centre. The farmers are blocking the exit and entrance gates of the centre.

Farmers blockade Aldi distribution centre over beef prices (RTÉ)

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

Earlier….

Um.

Farmers blockade Aldi distribution centre over beef prices (RTÉ)

Pics: Barry Cassidy and IFA (third pic)

This evening.

Aidan Regan tweetz:

Just cycled the entire length of the quays, from the IFSC to Heuston station.

What an absolute nightmare.

I have seen better cycle infrastructure in the poorest of the poorest part of the city centre in Eastern Europe.

It’s a miracle someone has not been killed biking here.

Earlier: Don’t Stop Pedalling

Dublin Rental Watch tweetz:

A €1,200pm studio found on the Irish Examiner [website]. A studio to the rear of 32 Church Road [East Wall, Dublin 3]. There is no cooking facilities bar a microwave. This property as photographed would not meet many of the Minimum Standard Requirements.

Church Road, East Wall, Dublin 3€1,200 / month (Irish Examiner)

Monday night.

On Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin city.

Coats and jackets were displayed for people to take (and drop off) as part of an initiative by a Facebook group called Warm For Winter.

They say:

“Warm For Winter is about helping the people most in need during the hard winter months. The pictures will give you an idea of how this works. We hang the clothing up in a suitable dry location that many people in need would know and walk away.”

Warm For Winter

Yesterday: ‘Need A Coat? Take One. Want To Help? Leave One’

Stephen Teap, Vicky Phelan and Lorraine Walsh outside Leinster House after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar apologised to the victims of the CervicalCheck scandal in October

This afternoon.

Lorraine Walsh spoke to Ray D’Arcy on RTÉ Radio One about her resignation from the CervicalCheck steering committee.

At the end of her interview, she sent a shout-out to Limerick mum-of-two Vicky Phelan who is currently receiving treatment in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.

Ms Phelan was diagnosed with terminal cancer following a cervical smear test error.

She settled a case against Clinical Pathology Laboratories Inc, Austin, Texas, for €2.5million in April of last year.

Ms Phelan’s refusal to sign a gagging order about her case led to the knowledge that more than 200 women diagnosed with cancer were not informed of an audit which revised their earlier, negative smear tests.

Just as her interview with Mr D’Arcy was about to wrap up, Ms Walsh said:

“Before I go, can I just say one last thing. I want to say hello to our very good friend, Vicky Phelan, who is listening from St Vincent’s Hospital today and is one of the women, as you all know, is caught up in the middle of this.

“But, you know, she’s in having treatment today. She was also in hospital yesterday so, you know, we forget sometimes that Vicky is fighting a battle and we’re behind you 100 per cent, Vicky.”

Listen back in full here

Earlier: “I Spoke To The Minister For Health About My Concerns”

Previously: ‘Tell That To My Children, And The Children Of Emma Mhic Mhathúna And Ruth Morrissey’

Rollingnews

This holiday season.

Put that imaginary telly licence to some use.

Sandra Byrne writes:

RTÉ has unwrapped its Christmas line-up with a feast of home-produced programming across television, radio and online. From the best in Irish-made documentaries to big Irish music specials, home-grown comedy, lifestyle programmes and movie premieres, along with a New Year’s Eve party extravaganza from Dublin, there is sensational selection of programming for all tastes this holiday season….

YOU decide!

This lunchtime.

Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

A demonstration against the withholding of tips from staff at ‘top’ people’s nosherie The Ivy organised by Solidarity with Ivy Workers “Stop Tip Theft” and Communities Against Low Pay.

Ivy Workers Protest

Previously: Ivy Tillsy

Thanks anon