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news as it is happening-ish

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A plane full of thirsty journalists flying from Moscow to Cuba teetotal while their quarry heads for Ecuador.

Edward Snowden due to quit Moscow in Ecuador asylum bid (BBC)

Via Matthew Molehouse

BNc_nzkCYAApAhi31/3/2010. Special Needs Protests 31/3/2010. Special Needs Protests 31/3/2010. Special Needs ProtestsA demonstration against SNA cuts from March 2010 when Fine Gael and Labour were in opposition.

All the gang’s there; Bottler, Enda, Hayeser, James Bannon, Eamon, even Willie Penrose.

They even had a Private Members Motion put forward by Brian Hayes.

Fine Gael Special Education Needs Motion – Dail Eireann 31st March 2010 (Dan Neville, Fine Gael TD)

Millions for the banks but only cuts to Special Needs Assistants (John O’Mahony, Fine Gael TD April 2010)

Top pic via SpNeedsParents

(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)

24/5/2013 Third National Patient Safety ConferencesBottler.

He simply can’t help himself.

All the money so far provided from a funding boost for autism services announced by Minister for Health James Reilly last year has been spent on cutting waiting lists for children with the condition in his political heartland in north Dublin, newly released documents show.

Just €300,000 of the €3 million promised over three years by Dr Reilly in January 2012 has so far been allocated, all of it to north Dublin, according to the documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Dr Reilly’s announcement in January 2012 of an additional €3 million in funding for children with autism appears to have taken his own officials by surprise, the documents show. One told a colleague in an internal email that it was “news to me” while another referred to the matter as coming “out of the blue”.

 

All the money.

All €300,000 allocated from autism fund spent in Reilly’s north Dublin heartland (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

Analysis: Minister’s indecision blocked €3m autism support (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

Meanwhile, why does Dr Reilly’s personal website reilly.ie forward to the Department of Health’s site?

Anyone?

Any excuse

(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)

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On Thursday night, a group of delivery men in China’s Zhejiang province caught a toddler who fell from the window of a fifth floor apartment, having crawled out after waking from a nap.

Coming together in a ‘human safety net’ to cushion the two and a half year-old’s fall, BBC News Asia reports, two of the men suffered impact injuries to their arms. The little girl, named Qiqi, survived with just a minor wound on her face.

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