Fine Gael Midlands-North-West MEP Mairead McGuinness

 

Independent European Election Candidate and patient rights activist Olive O’Connor.

FIGHT!

Olive O’Connor

Last night.

RTÉ One broadcast its final live debate with MEP candidates – this time with candidates from the Midlands-North-West constituency.

Taking part in the debate were Green Party candidate Saoirse McHugh, Independent candidate Peter Casey, Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy, Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness, Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith, Solidarity–People Before Profit candidate Cyril Brennan, and Independent MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan.

At one point, Ms McHugh, 28, from Achill Island, responded to comments about migration made by millionaire businessman Mr Casey, 61, saying:

“Millionaires blaming migrants is an old trope and it’s boring.

“There’s real repercussions to this absolute nonsense.

“Go on Dancing With The Stars if you want attention.”

In fairness.

Watch back the debate in full here (when it’s uploaded).

Green Party’s Saoirse McHugh tells Peter Casey ‘to go on Dancing With The Stars if you want attention’ on RTE Prime Time debate (Lauren Kelly, The Irish Sun)

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

Trinity College Dublin tweetz:

Yes they may steal your sandwich in College Park and they screech through your phone calls on campus but many of the gull types that frequent campus are in fact on the amber and red endangered list. #BiodiversityWeek

There you go now.

Basciville – Post-Youth

Wexford siblings Cillian and Lorcan Byrne follow their 2016 EP ‘Blues In Red’ with a highly atmospheric shot of gothic r’n’b humming with passion and intensity. Take note, too, of Darragh Nolan’s impressively moody production.

Basciville say:

“Sometimes we’re too quick to disregard and chase the mystery up out of our lives.”

Nick says:‘Post-Youth’ is not wasted on the young.

Basciville

Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey and the swings at the Dean Hotel, Dublin

“It would appear that 55 years after Belfast City Council unlocked the swings on Sundays, the proposition is being put in court that there should be supervisors for swings when adults are using them and that it is a matter of civil liability if there isn’t.

It does occur to me that we live in a strange world where civil liability can exist in such circumstances but maybe we are only hearing a portion of the evidence.

If the Government is serious about driving down the claims culture, we cannot stand idly by when adults lose their seat with two objects, one in each hand, and fall off a swing and then claim there should have been a supervisor looking after them.

Especially when it comes from somebody who has so much public influence and clearly influence over Government policy in these matters.”

Senator Michael McDowell yesterday.

Fine Gael TD criticised in Seanad over swing lawsuit (RTÉ)

Japan’s foreign minister Tara Kono will ask foreign media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is standard in Japan

Taro Kono will shortly proclaim
That when writing a Japanese name
Give the last word a shunt
Till it gets to the front
And you’re winning the nominative game

John Moynes

Pic: Getty

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