This afternoon.
In the Dáil.
Gavan Reilly tweetz:
Eamon Ryan’s summer wardrobe is… summery.
Headline H/T: Sinn Féin
From top: Gary Gannon; The former Magdalene Laundry, Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1
Dublin City Council Social Democrats led by Councillor Gary Gannon have secured agreement on the development of “a multipurpose site of conscience” at the former Magdalene Laundry on Seán McDermott Street.
Cllr Gannon said:
“During my last term as a City Councillor, Dublin City Council stopped the sale of the last surviving Magdalene Laundry in State ownership…
I am immensely proud to say that as part of the Dublin Agreement, which will be Council policy for the next five years, we have secured an agreement on the development of a multipurpose site of conscience…
Work has already begun in listening to the views of survivors, their families and women’s groups to develop plans for the site that recognise the social, cultural and personal history that it symbolises.
“This opportunity allows us to repurpose this building into a physical space where future generations can touch the walls and know that what occurred in these institutions were not exaggerated.”
In fairness.
Previously: Gary Gannon: The Last Laundry
Saint Brigid’s National School, Greystones, County Wicklow
….the school will allow boys to wear skirts or girls to wear trousers from next September.
Chair of the Board of Management Tom Sherlock said the council approached the principal earlier this year with a well thought out case.
He told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that the board’s initial reaction was “why didn’t we think of it ourselves?”
Jonny O’Malley, founder of funding hub Go Raffle It, writes:
We are running a raffle in aid of a not for profit Homeless organisation called Friends Helping Friends…
They do awesome work supplying hot meals on the street for the homeless and less fortunate people and also supply their other basic needs too such as clothing and toiletries.
Tickets (at link below) are only €10 each (you can buy multipe) to be in with a chance of winning a €500 All4One gift voucher. Thanks for your help folks ….
Friends Helping Friends 500 One4All Gift Voucher (GoRaffleIt)
We will be proud to welcome Former President Mary Robinson to Blackhall Place for a special @iwla_ie event on Climate Justice: https://t.co/bysDJ8nB54 pic.twitter.com/1ctsrFYPYD
— Law Society Ireland (@LawSocIreland) June 20, 2019
Barbara writes:
Anyone know what has happened to Princess Latifa since Mary Robinson’s ‘mercy mission’? Are we meant to pretend all that didn’t happen?
You would think the Law Society and in particular the Irish Women Lawyers’ Association might be concerned but, alas, no.
Anyone?
Previously: Oh Mary
Hatch Hall, Lower Hatch Street Dublin 2
Last night.
RTÉ reported:
“The Direct Provision Centre Hatch Hall, which is situated in Dublin city centre, will close next month.
“The Department of Justice says it is due to circumstances beyond the control of the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA).”
According to the Reception and Integration Agency, as of October 28, 2018, 223 people were living in Hatch Hall.
Meanwhile…
Oireachtas #DirectProvision hearings are remarkable. One company, Bridgestock, is paid about €6m/year to run two centres. About €100m since 2000. But majority shares transferred to a company offshored in the British Virgin Islands, so no public scrutiny of accounts or profits.
— Conor O’Neill (@conoraon) June 19, 2019
Meanwhile…
This evening…
Stop Deportations, End Direct Provision Demonstration (Facebook)
UPDATE:
Today’s Irish Daily Mail
This morning.
Skeptik writes:
Interesting to note that the British have quietly shelved the age verification system, the same one plastered all over today’s Irish newspapers as being “the saviour of our children”…
Anyone?
Cabin Fever
at
Um.
This is a 4 bedroom wooden cabin made up of 2 wooden railway carriages, that stands on a circa 800 square meter (0.197684 of an acre) elevated site that overlooks the communal grounds within Eagans Field.
Stephen C writes:
A literal shed in a mans field is now 200k…
Free Saturday?
Dublin Music City Fair writes:
100s of quality second hand LPs, singles for sale in our June pop up record fair in the very centre of Dublin City.
6 Traders, free admission, 1st floor, 2 lifts, fancy library bar and in the middle of Dublin’s finest record shop trail. Best little fair in Dublin.
In fairness.
Mairead McGuinness (right) canvassing during the European Elections on May 25, 2014 with Avril Doyle and then Taoiseach Enda Kenny a week after winning her claim against a car hire firm for an incident that left her with ‘severe and debilitating’ injuries
“I’m meeting the Competition Commissioner Vestager in July in Strasbourg, because as you know she is investigating the motor insurance issue in Ireland.
And you won’t even disclose YOUR OWN claim. Fine Gael are despicable.
https://t.co/CrGctbfCaK— Marie Tess (@TesstessToron) June 19, 2019
McGuinness, 60, told the Irish Mirror last night: “I don’t even remember the details of it and I’m not going to discuss it because I’ve given you my comment about the Vestager (EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager) issue.
“Look, I’m not going to discuss the case with you.”
The former RTE journalist and Ear to the Ground presenter claimed to have suffered “severe and debilitating injuries” according to court reports in the Irish Times at the time of the civil action in Castleblayney.
In the civil bill, issued on 14 May 2004, the MEP said her injuries were severe and debilitating and “interfered with her enjoyment of life and all routine and other activities”.
This was less than a month before she won a seat at the European Elections that June.
Compo claim Fine Gael MEP now says she forgets details of insurance settlement (Irish Mirror)