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In a Channel 4 News exclusive, Cordelia Lynch spoke with the mother of the 7 year old child from Tallaght taken into care by Gardai this week.
When the child’s mother is asked if there is a problem with the way Irish people view Romas, she replies:
“No we don’t have a problem with them but they do. We don’t know why, we haven’t done anything. We haven’t done crimes but they just hate us. Just because we’re wearing dresses and we’re Roma people. We haven’t done anything bad.”
Second Roma child taken by Irish police for DNA test (Channel 4 News)
Previously: Fears Of Racial Profiling
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Breaking: The LE Emer has sold at auction in #Cork for 320.000 Euro @defenceforces #Tv3News.
— Paul Byrne (@PaulByrne_1) October 23, 2013
Pic: Irish Defence Forces
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NI Health Minister Edwin Poots has failed in his attempt to challenge the British Supreme Court’s ruling to grant adoption to gay couples in Northern Ireland. Currently, a single gay or lesbian person can adopt in Northern Ireland but a couple in a civil partnership cannot.
The Health Minister has also tried to prevent gay people from becoming blood donors. An online petition calling for his resignation currently has almost 8,500 signatures.
Previously: James And The Gay Blood Ban
Patrick Touher, collapses while protesting with fellow senior citizens outside Leinster House this afternoon.
From Photocall Ireland:
According to [photographer] Laura [Hutton], Patrick was helped up. They sat him down, he was conscious, and an ambulance came for him. We don’t know if he got in or if they just tended to him there. Though according to people who were at the protest, despite it being a big event for old age pensioners, there were absolutely no medics on site…
Patrick is the author of The Fear of The Collar about his childhood in Artane Industrial School.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Update: Patrick was back on his feet after being tended to by ambulance staff.
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Sir Alex Ferguson speaking earlier at the launch of his autobiography on Roy Keane and his exit from Manchester United:
“For one reason or another he decided to go and criticise his team-mates, so most of you have not seen that video but you couldn’t release it. We couldn’t release it…
..We decided we had to do something. The meeting in the room was horrendous I just could not lose my control on this particular situation, and if I had, the players would have viewed me differently much more differently than I would have liked to be judged. For Roy overstepped his mark, absolutely overstepped his mark and there was nothing else we could do.”
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— Ian Guider (@ianguider) October 22, 2013
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