Category Archives: Misc

 

Minister of State for the Department of Education, with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion, Josepha Madigan

 

Last night/this morning

Via RTÉ News:

The Minister of State for Special Education has called a meeting of stakeholders this afternoon to discuss a controversial proposal to accommodate children with autism and other disabilities in the Dublin area in special temporary education centres from September.

Autism campaigners and school principals have reacted with shock to the decision, which was announced on Twitter by Minister Josepha Madigan.

Details of the plan – designed to address a severe shortage of school places in the capital – emerged last night.

Adam Harris of the charity AsIAm has said he is “truly shocked” by the plan which will mean “the segregation of autistic children from their peers”.

Mr Harris said his organisation estimated that there were at least several hundred autistic children across the country who have been unable to find a suitable school place for this coming September.

Stakeholder meeting called over school plan for children with autism (RTE)

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‘The Only One On The Coast’ (1970)

This morning.

He painted matchstalk men and a public convenience.

Will Derham tweetz:

This is very cool – who knew the famous British artist, L.S. Lowry once visited and sketched my home town of Skerries? If anyone has a spare £12k, you can buy it for me here…

Meanwhile…

L S Lowry?

This morning.

Via The Irish Times:

The “Russian state-affiliated media” designation by Twitter appears on Mr Galloway’s profile and on tweets posted on the network. Mr Galloway said in a statement that Twitter’s “unjust labelling of honestly held political views is the New McCarthyism and it must be held accountable”.

He rejected Twitter’s assertion and denied that he was ever “Russian state-affiliated media”. Being labelled as such was “perverse, unjust and highly damaging”, he said.

George Galloway sues Twitter in Dublin over ‘Russian state-affiliated’ label (Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

Um.

This morning.

Dublin Airport.

Anyone?

Yesterday: Terminal 2: Fight’s On Time

Meanwhile…

Good times.

Minister for the Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan (left) with Brian Crowley, Curator of Collections, Kilmainham Gaol Museum inspect the ‘Banner of the Patriots’ carried into Portobello Barracks in 1922 (top)

This afternoon.

Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan visited Kilmainham Gaol Museum to view the `Banner of the Patriots’ as it went on public display in the Museum for the first time.

The exhibition will also feature a number of objects and letters connected with the men whose names appear on the banner, carried by troops of the new National Army/Free state Army, as they marched into Portobello Barracks  on May 17, 1922.

Exhibition honouring War of Independence dead opens in Dublin (RTE)

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

This afternoon.

London, England.

Purple-haired harlech woman.

FIGHT

This afternoon.

Trinity College Dublin.

Winners of 68th Texaco Children’s Art Competition, including Dan Killackey (above) with his painting titled ‘Isolation’, who has been chosen overall winner.

Belfast’s Royal Ulster Academy of Arts is hosting an exhibition of the top 126 winning paintings from this year’s competition from May 31 to June 30.

Leah Farrell/RollingNews