*swerve*
Yesterday.
Dublin city centre.
Business owners are preparing for new regulations on display of sandwich boards outside shops, cafés and restaurants.
Dublin City Council will licence the boards from this Sunday, levying an annual charge of €630.
Some business owners say the final cost to them could well be far higher, due to related application costs.
Punning doesn’t come cheap either.
Spotted in a recent copy of The Inis Times
Just leave it at Kathleen’s door.
We won’t speak of it again.
This morning.
Baggott Street, Dublin 2
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone promising ‘up to’ 19,000 childminders will be regulated as she launched the Draft Childminding Action Plan and Public Consultation Process.
It was reported last year almost 90,000 young children are cared for by childminders every day in Ireland but that only 120 childminders are registered with authorities.
Under the new draft childminding action plan to be launched today, support and regulation in the sector will be extended to all paid, non-relative childminders, with a “phased approach” to the reforms.
The childminders will have to be Garda vetted and be trained in first aid. They will also be required to have “bespoke” qualifications, although the department has not yet decided what level these will be at.
Can this possibly end well?
National childcare scheme: Up to 19,000 minders to be regulated (RTÉ)
Earlier: Cherish These Moments
Last night: Terry McMahon: Creche Test Dummies
.@ICHHDUBLIN has lined Dublin City Council in tents this morning after dealing with a record number of rough sleepers on Monday night; 238 pic.twitter.com/2af3E5bIsA
— Hannah Elizabeth Murphy 📻 (@HanElizaa) August 29, 2019
This morning.
Outside Dublin City Council’s offices on Wood Quay, Dublin 8.
A protest highlighting Ireland’s growing homeless and housing crisis – organised by Inner City Helping Homeless, of which Cllr Anthony Flynn (above) is founder and Andy O’Sullivan (pics one, two and three) is a volunteer – is taking place.
Top pic: Hannah Elizabeth Murphy
Yesterday: Working Rough
UPDATE:
Homes
Over
HotelsA collaborative tee with @ICHHDUBLIN. Proceeds from each sale will go directly to Inner City Helping Homeless who provide vital frontline help to the homeless people of Dublin all year round.
Buy here: https://t.co/6nUsNB8fwN
Design by @6th_realm pic.twitter.com/2n8Z3XQP65
— District (@districtmagazin) August 29, 2019
Our hearts are heavy tonight as we learn of Fr.Tony Coote’s passing. RIP Fr Tony.#frtonycoote pic.twitter.com/M6g6LpdGFz
— Walk While You Can (@walkwhileyoucan) August 28, 2019
Last night.
The news was announced of the death of Fr Tony Coote, patient advocate, charity fundraiser and the administrator of Mount Merrion and Kilmacud parishes in Dublin,
Chief Executive of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association Róisín Duffy paid tribute to Fr Coote.
She said: “From the moment he was diagnosed, Fr Tony Coote not only bore his illness with tremendous dignity, he also became a tireless advocate for everyone living with MND“.
Fr Coote undertook a 550km walk from Donegal to Cork last year, called ‘Walk While You Can’, raising €600,000.
Priest who raised funds for motor neuron research dies (RTÉ)
Hello you.
Yesterday afternoon.
Grannagh, Waterford/ Kilkenny border
Fine Gael Minister of State John Paul Phelan (above left) talking to a group of independent farmers protesting beef prices and the Mercosur Deal at the Dawn Meats plant.
Unofficial pickets have been placed on some meat processing facilities despite a High Court injunction restraining groups of protesters from blockading factories.
Meat processors are in the High Court seeking a committal order to implement the injunctions.
Tuesday: Beef Futures
Baby seagulls fed by their mother in Dublin city centre in June
We’ve taken away the herrings from herring gulls, and most of the other fish in the sea, then built on their nesting sites.
We have in fact destroyed their environment. So the gulls have had to come inshore to feed and nest.
Being a raucous and dirty bunch ourselves, we congregate in large numbers, make lots of noise to advertise our presence (particularly in Temple Bar!) and leave lots of “food” (waste) lying around on the ground, in bins and in landfill sites.
We also, conveniently for the gulls, carry it around in our hands as we walk, and lay it out on rugs and tables. The only way to reduce seagull populations in cities is to conduct a major cull of waste bins and outlaw eating outdoors, particularly while on the move.
In other countries, Japan for instance, there are no public waste bins, and eating on the street is considered particularly uncouth.
It is patronising to say that Bird Watch Ireland “has yet to catch up with the fact that […] they have become pests”.
Its role is to protect birds, not humans. Nor are herring gulls “oversized”. Many will die from starvation from a stomach full of plastic, thrown away by humans.
We need to stop the environmental destruction caused by our lifestyles and stop blaming gulls for a problem they didn’t cause.
Elaine Mullan,
Portlaw,
Co Waterford.
FIGHT!
Seagulls in Dublin (Irish Times letters page)
Related: Why it is time for a cull of seagulls in Dublin (Frank McDonald, The Irish Times)
This afternoon.
Quarry roundabout, M9 outside Waterford City.
More as we get it.
Jeremy Corbyn has requested a meeting with the Queen – Labour Party source pic.twitter.com/DYwrIFmMH7
— Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) August 28, 2019
Now he needs the monarchy.
FIGHT!
Corbyn demands to see the Queen! Labour leader explodes over Boris’ proroguing move (Express)
Earlier: Suspenseful
UPDATE:
Bloody hell – now Jo Swinson has requested a meeting with the Queen! pic.twitter.com/HDa5a57nlU
— Adam Payne (@adampayne26) August 28, 2019
This morning.
Clogherhead, County Louth.
Garda forensics officers examine cars hit by stray bullets during a shooting yesterday afternoon near the Ashling Holiday Park.
A man – 29-year-old Keith Brannigan – died around 2.50pm in the suspected gangland related attack.
Gardaí issue appeal over murder of Keith Brannigan in Co Louth (RTÉ)
