A US job listing seeking an account manager who is “preferably Caucasian” was removed on Sunday following uproar online

An IT firm in the Deep South
Wrote a job ad that’s rather uncouth
They want a new face
But from just one race
It’s high time that they shut their mouth

John Moynes

U17 Irish soccer international Tega Agberhiere, burns on Tega’s face, impact of substance on Padraig O’Sullivan’s leg; clip of Damien Tiernan’s interview with Tega’s mum

Last night.

It was reported by WLR FM journalist Damien Tiernan that three youths were attacked in Earlscourt estate, Waterford city, last Thursday.

Mr Tiernan reported that “acid” was thrown over the youths.

One of those attacked was Tega Agberhiere, an Irish soccer u17 international, who has suffered first-degree burns on his face.

On RTE’s Morning Ireland this morning, Irish Mirror journalist Saoirse McGarrigle reported that the substance was also thrown on the leg of one of the other youths, GAA player Padraig O’Sullivan, who has played for Waterford.

Ms McGarrigle also reported it was thrown on the back of another youth, a promising rugby player.

She reported that it’s believed the attack was a case of “mistaken identity”.

Meanwhile, Damien has said he will broadcast his full interview with Tega’s mum Christy during his show Deise Today later today (between 10am and noon).

Innocent Ireland underage soccer star and pals suffer savage burns after shocking acid attack (Irish Mirror)

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UPDATE:

Last weekend.

Near Laragh. County Wicklow.

Ben Taylor writes:

The Glenmacnass Waterfall (Irish: Gleann Log an Easa, meaning “The glen of the hollow of the waterfall”) is a waterfall on the Glenmacnass River and constitutes the beginning of the Glenmacnass valley.

The valley ends near the village of Laragh in County Wicklow and can be easily traversed by the Military Road joining Sally Gap to Laragh. Video shot on DJI Spark and edited in Adobe premiere pro…

In fairness.

Music by the TinWhistler

 Ian Ritchie (right), creator of the Dublin Spire (top), and proposals for Notre Dame (left)

Ian Ritchie – who is best known for designing the Spire of Dublin, – plans to submit a competition entry including a spire that would be “a refracting, super-slender reflecting crystal to heaven.”

The structure, which would be made of crystal, stainless steel and glass, Ritchie said, would “get to touch heaven’s clouds in a piece of celestial gothic acupuncture.”

“I think it would need to be perforated — at least 50 per cent empty space to eliminate wind loads — and could be a beautiful contemporary tracery of glass crystals and stainless steel,” he added…

France launched a competition for designs to rebuild Notre-Dame (Insider)

Ian Ritchie, creator of the Spire in Dublin—one of the most vacuous large monuments in the world—said that the Notre-Dame spire should be “a refracting, super-slender reflecting crystal to heaven,” a glass version of his Dublin monument, in fact.

If French president Emmanuel Macron had any sense, he would forbid any modernist British architect from coming within a radius of 100 miles of Notre-Dame—not that French modernist architects are any better, of course.

The Egos Are Landing in Paris (Theodore Dlarymple)

Fight!

Theordore Dalrymple?

At the weekend in Ballybunion, Co Kerry.

The annual Women In Media event was held at Kilcooly’s Country House Hotel.

On Saturday, there was a panel discussion about homelessness involving journalist and political correspondent Justine McCarthy, of The Sunday Times; Fr Peter McVerry, of The Peter McVerry Trust; Junior Minister for Housing and Fine Gael TD Damien English; and Labour TD Jan O’Sullivan.

The discussion was chaired by Mary Dundon, Head of Journalism at the University of Limerick.

During the discussion, Ms McCarthy pointed out that when Opposition TDs raise homelessness in the Dáil and ask the Government to stop providing tax incentives to developers and land owners, Government ministers or TDs usually respond by way of one of three defences.

She said they either say the Government is doing a “great job” but the problem is just getting worse; Government TDs say they don’t have any ideology about homelessness – insinuating that the Opposition does; and they say the Opposition is being “too emotional”.

In regards to the first answer, Ms McCarthy said the homelessness problem has been highly visible on the streets of Dublin since 2011/2012; and as for the claim the Government has no ideology, Ms McCarthy said this is “stark, ravingly untrue”.

As for the claim the Opposition is “too emotional”, Ms McCarthy said:

“If you’re not emotional about homelessness, there’s something deeply wrong with you. Our homes are our sanctuary, they’re where we go for love and shelter and security.

“They’re places that are full of emotion and feeling.

“And the very idea of being without that refuge is horrific.”

She added:

“Mary Robinson says ‘there is a time to be disruptive’ and if we can’t be disruptive about homelessness, if people don’t go out and march and protest and shout – there is no hope for us.

“But I always think, as a journalist, the most reassuring thing in my career has been knowing that the vast major of people are good and the vast majority of people care.

“And we showed that in the last general election, actually. Homelessness was a huge issue on the doorsteps and I think it will be again this time.”

A national protest on homelessness will be taking place in Dublin on Saturday, May 18.

Meanwhile…

Ms McCarthy congratulates RTÉ’s Political Correspondent for RTÉ Current Affairs Katie Hannon after Ms Hannon was announced as the winner of the Mary Cummins Award for outstanding journalism.

Killarney photographer Valerie O’Sullivan (above middle) received the Joan Kennelly Award and Celine Crawford (above right) won the event’s social influencer award.

Pics: Women in Media Ballybunion (Facebook)

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