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US diplomat Meghan O’Sullivan pictured earlier at Camp Twaddell (yes) with Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine.
Irvine was recently named by BBC’s Spotlight programme as a UVF commander.
Camp Twaddell was set up as a ‘civil rights camp’ to support loyalists who have been prevented from marching past Ardoyne shops.
Meanwhile, the Parades Commission has given the go-ahead for a loyalist parade in Belfast city centre on Saturday week.
G’wan the flegs.
Parades Commission gives go ahead to Belfast flags parade (BBC News NI)
Previously: Branded A Loyalist
Pics: Claire Marie Graham
Next Sunday, the Swiss (yes, the Swiss) will vote in a referendum on whether to enshrine the 1:12 pay ratio in their constitution. In a move by the Social Democrats and Greens to combat corporate greed and income inequity (the ratio of top to bottom earners in Swiss firms has grown from about 1:6 in 1984, to 1:43 today) the intention of the bill is to:
….limit the pay of top executives to just 12 times that of the lowest-paid employees at the same firm. In other words, prevent CEOs from earning more in one month than the lowliest shop-floor worker earns in a year.
The cartoon promo above features a Swiss nurse who is astounded by the way top manager salaries have grown to “astronomical” proportions, even as hers has barely increased.
Swiss outrage over executive pay sparks a movement in Europe (Reuters)
(Pic: 1:12′ flags adorning various houses in Bern and Zurich in November 2013. REUTERS/Staff)
(H/T: Ron)
(Mayor of Tralee Pat Hussey with Sean Kelly MEP)
Pat Hussey, the mayor of Tralee, said Fine Gael’s “ridiculous” gender quotas could lead to many situations where “you could have a fantastic candidate overlooked for someone who doesn’t know anything at all about politics”. He said he was in favour of increasing female representation in politics but “they have families and if they want to be politicians they’ll have to pay exorbitant money into creches — it’s all wrong”.
And a Happy International Men’s Day to you and yours.
FG politician Hussey quits race over gender quotas (Mary Regan, Irish Examiner)
Pic: Sean Kelly
Previously: A Woman’s Place
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The Anonymous Massive on Kildare Street about an hour ago.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
(Representatives of the Sisters of Mercy meeting the Minister of Education in 2011)
Conor Ryan writing in today’s Irish Examiner shows correspondence between religious orders (including the Sisters of Mercy) and the State.
In a letter to the Minister for Education dated 29/5/2012 Cóirle McCarthy, leader of the congregation states:
In the course of several letters and meetings, I have explained our position that we are not responsible for a 50:50 cost sharing. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy has not made any agreement with the Government to pay half of the State’s expenditure in respect of the Redress Scheme and CICA (Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse). This continues to be our position.
Our voluntary contribution in response to the Ryan Report, as contained in our Contribution Document of December 2009, is not a matter for negotiation. We will not be participating in an exercise of valuation or reckoning with the State in relation to those parts of the Contribution which the State has decided to accept, or otherwise.
We are not willing to enter negotiations with Government towards its fulfilment of the commitment which it made in its Programme for Government for the tranfer of school infrastructure, currently owned by 18 religious orders cited in the Ryan Report, at no extra cost, to the State.
Conor Ryan also reveals that 66 schools worth €412m were transferred to the Ceist Trust. CEIST (Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust) includes MEP and former GAA president Séan Kelly as a member and Ronan Mullen is listed as being on its board of directors.
Its website states:
CEIST engages with all people of good will to promote a preferential option for those made poor, to take action for justice, and to exercise care of the earth in a spirit of respect and welcome for diversity.
Order told State to scrap vow on abuse redress (Conor Ryan, Irish Examiner)
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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From the photoseries ‘Alone Time’ by JJ Levine, wherein apparently hetero couples are portrayed by a single model. Levine describes himself as a:
‘…queer and trans identifying artist…I never alter body shapes or gender traits digitally. These images are convincing by no means other than costume, makeup, pose, and gesture. This technical detail further demonstrates that bodies and gender presentations can be malleable or subject to change’.
All three of Fine Gael’s female politicians on Dublin City Council are stepping down at next summer’s local elections, the Herald has learned. Councillors Clare Byrne, Edie Wynne and Mary O’Shea say the workload has lumped too much pressure on their family lives and careers. The women, who are all mothers, have decided to leave the council in what is a significant blow to party headquarters.
Anyone For The Last Of The Gender Quotas?
FG’s women trio quit council over family pressures (Niall O’Connor, The Herald)
Pic: Christine Bohan
A television clip showing a Dáil deputy writing notes while driving has been passed on to the gardaí, the Road Safety Authority has confirmed. A number of people contacted the RSA after seeing Michael Healy-Rae answering a call on his hands-free phone and writing on a notebook resting on the steering wheel.
Who grassed?
Elmo, Ya Rat!
Healy-Rae reported for writing notes while driving (Donal Hickey, Irish Examiner)
Previously: Looking After No.1