Padzer Murphy writes:
Lahinch [Co Clare] this lunchtime…still a bit cool mind…
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Miq writes:
€100 for a ticket for Ireland v Netherlands at the Aviva Stadium next month. Sorry, but is that insanely high for a meaningless friendly?
Anyone?
Ailish writes:
I found these prescription glasses on Charlemont St, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, at about 8.45am this morning. The case had been run over but the glasses, which had fallen out are unharmed!
They have a pretty high prescription so someone will be looking for them on this fine day.
Anyone?
Retired judge Bryan McMahon
Former chairperson of the Working Group on the Protection Process, retired Judge Bryan McMahon spoke at an event in the Jesuit Refugee Service this morning.
It came after a review of the working group’s report – delivered last June – showed little progress in relation to the group’s recommendations.
Criticising the length of time asylum seekers have to live in direct provision, Mr McMahon called for a blanket, one-off amnesty for the 3,500 people who’ve been in direct provision for more than five years – in the spirit of 1916.
He said:
“That would be a great start, in my view, just to take the 3,500 people and say, ‘it’s not going to happen again, it’s a one-off and it’s a gesture to 1916 and the men in the GPO’.”
“No one, in my view, would object, that’s my instinct on it and, in fact, au contraire, most people would applaud us for doing something like that.”
Time to process refugee applications doubled from 15 to 30 weeks last year (Newstalk)
Direct Provision recommendations not implemented, analysis finds (RTE)
Mark Stedman/Rollingnews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzoQBIDLm3E
Grab its ring!
Amy Fitzgibbon, of the Irish farmers Journal, writes:
The Health and Safety Authority has criticised Vodafone Ireland’s ad campaign, which shows a couple entering a field with a bull, saying the way the couple avoid an attack is actually a way to provoke bulls.
Readers of the irish Farmers Journal criticised the ad……One man asked why the Vodafone ad was encouraging people to enter a field with the bull, with another reader agreeing with him, saying it was a “disgraceful” advert.
“I suffered but survived a serious bull attack seven years ago and still have health problems. That ad should be scrapped,” she wrote.
Any excuse.
HSA and Irish Farmers Journal readers denounce Vodafone bull ad (Irish Farmers Journal)
Some Dad tweetz:
On Clontarf Rd,D3. So it looks like
@IrishRail can clamp your car if you park near their bridge…
Missing Prince?
Free Friday week?
Gavin Feiritear writes:
Hollywood Babylon [Midnight movie club] and Light House Cinema [Market Square, Smithfield, Dublin 7] are paying tribute to Prince by screening Purple Rain (1984) on Friday May 6 and donating all proceeds to the Musical Youth Foundation, who work to provide every child in Ireland with access to a musical education
Screening kicks off at 10:30pm but come join us in Light House Cinema bar for a drink beforehand – OH and feel free to look FABULOUS! It is what Prince would’ve wanted…
The current tally after four counts in the Trinity College Dublin Seanad vote elections for three senate seats. compiled by staff on the college’s paper, The University Times.
Poor Maeve.
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War Is Over
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Soldiers from Nottingham, England-based regiment – the Sherwood Foresters – on Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, April 26, 1916.
So callow they thought they were in the Western front.
John Gallen writes:
[A poppy wreath dedicated to the members of one British Army regiment who lost their lives during 1916 has been removed]. It seems the Battle of Mount Street Bridge is still raging on….Beggars belief that these anyone would desecrate a memorial of 1916.
But at the same time, it’s a typical republican attitude of ‘our way or no way’ and trying to destroy any reparations between our two nations that the rest of us, the vast majority, try to encourage…
Gulp.
Tribute To 1916 British Soldiers Removed (Irish Times)
Previously: Dazed In The Hood
Stage Yes
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‘Yes’.
At The Pearse Centre Theatre, Dublin 2, as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, starring, above from left: Denise Quinn, David Grant, Andrea Cleary and Andy Gallagher.
From May 9 to Mary 14, at 7.30pm, with a matinee on May 14 at 2.30pm.
Madeleine writes:
The majority said one simple word; for a minority that word meant everything. YES captures the excitement, drama and humour of the marriage equality campaign whilst also looking under the surface of what that vote meant.
YES follows four very different campaigners as they share their personal story. Peter, a veteran gay activist; Gina, a straight woman campaigning for her gay son; Laura, a lesbian in a committed relationship; and Josh, a gay student from the country not out to his family.
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