Marian Finucane and Rachael English
This afternoon.
Following the death of broadcaster Marian Finucane.
Via RTÉ:
The Marian Finucane Show will be presented by Rachael English on Saturday morning [at 11am]. The two hour programme will feature tributes from Ireland and around the world from colleagues and friends and we’ll be reflecting upon some of her best moments in broadcasting. Brendan O’Connor will present on Sunday morning…..
Yesterday: Marian Finucane Dies At 69
Ah here.
Stephanie writes:
Bono described as a ‘prophet’, alongside Gandhi, and this is being taught in Catholic schools as part of the religious curriculum.
I was so incandescent with rage, I kept the homework handout and wrote a letter of complaint.
A tax avoiding hypocritical bellend in Cuban heels??
Gulp.
This afternoon.
Swan centre, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
The shuttered entrance to the ‘loss-making’ Fallon & Byrne store after the outlet was suddenly closed yesterday. Some staff claim they were told the store was being closed for ‘maintenance’.
The location was the company’s largest one, but it remains trading from two other outlets in Dublin city centre and Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.
We are back, aren’t we?
Yesterday: Fallon Gone
Fine Gael Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O Connor
Approved 20 new female ONLY professorial posts. Game changing for Irish academia.This intervention will ensure a swifter gender re-balance at the highest levels in 12 Higher Education Institutions. @IUAofficial, @Thea_irl, @HEA_irl @IrishTimeshttps://t.co/7uLEK5Z8OV
— Mary Mitchell O’Connor (@mitchelloconnor) January 3, 2020
Everyone stay cool.
Twenty women-only professorships to be established this year (Irish Times)
Settle this: What’s the best seat on the bus? pic.twitter.com/Uy2D727crd
— FM104 (@FM104) January 3, 2020
But if I was: 19.
FIGHT!
This morning.
On Cork’s 96FM Opinion Line with PJ Coogan.
Deirdre O’Shaughnessy spoke to Catherine Sutton-Brady, originally from Winter’s Hill in Cork about the rescue from the Australian bush fires of her son Oisin (arrowed in green hat above in a photo taken during the mission by the Australian Navy yesterday).
Yesterday: With A Slack Jaw And Not Much To Say
Thanks Fergal Barry
Pic: Mary O’Malley and Ryley Gray
This morning/afternoon
The Government has given the go-ahead to the the development of a Grand Canal Innovation District (GCID) at Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.
The €1bn plan will ‘encompass’ some of the biggest companies operating here including Google, Facebook, Stripe, Twitter, LinkedIn and Huawei. The district will be developed over a 10-year time span with €150 million state investment.
Via TCD:
Trinity College Dublin plans to create a Grand Canal Innovation District in Dublin, involving a collaboration of business, Government and the university sector.
At the heart of the planned innovation district is a planned €1bn campus which will be built and financed by Trinity in collaboration with industry, debt funding entities and other sources of funding.
The development is an exciting opportunity to build a world-class innovation district where companies, researchers and entrepreneurs link up, to identify new products or services and discuss how they might be brought to market.
The development of the District will also offer opportunities for the local community with open spaces, new retail spaces and services as well as creating educational and employment opportunities for all those living in close proximity to the district.
FIGHT!
Grand Canal Innovation District for Dublin gets green light (Jack Quann, Newstalk)
Free Sunday?
Retro Vision – the live comedy show about terrible movies – returns to Anseo, Camden Street, Dublin 2 at 8pm.
Caroline Swords writes:
After 2 sell-out shows, get ready for Retro Vision Part 3! Join us for an evening of great comedy and terrible movies at Ireland’s last remaining VHS-only video rental store.
Stand-up and host Brian Cheatle will be joined by comedians Paul Marsh and Allie O’Rourke, as they return long-overdue videotapes and discuss some of the worst movies you’ve probably never seen.
Get your free tickets on Eventbrite [at link below] NOW…
Book Free tix here
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Pray Away
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From top: Minister for Health Simon Harris speaking to reporters yesterday; Pro-life protesters outside the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin on January 1
Yesterday, it was suggested by Minister for Health Simon Harris that local authorities could be given powers to impose exclusion zones outside maternity hospitals preventing pro-life protests.
Further to this…
As someone who has carried a tiny white coffin out of Holles Street, I can attest to the anguish caused by the wilful insensitivity of the protesters who assembled there on New Year’s Day.
The lack of Christian kindness and basic human empathy displayed by these people reveals the truth of their oft-cited claims to “Love Both”.
While there is a right to peaceful protest, there is also a right to access legal healthcare without intimidation, and a right to provide care without being subjected to harassment.
Our Government must now act and legislate for safe access zones to protect medical staff and their patients from such interference.
Can we truly consider ourselves a secular democracy while the Vatican has a say in the ownership of our National Maternity Hospital and religious fundamentalists dominate the footpaths outside?
Bernie Linnane,
County Leitrim
Harris Mulls Abortion Safety Zones (Irish Examiner)
Abortion: Minister warns of exclusion zones after hospital protests (Irish Times)
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