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Free Sunday afternoon?

Johnny Keenan writes:

Jinx (above) is guarding the raffle prize for ‘6th Public Members Bill’.

For just €2 per ticket or 3 for €5 you get the chance to win this fantastic portrait of Bill (above) by artist David Heffernan.

All raffle receipts and door receipts. will go to help the great work at Bill Hicks Wildlife Foundation  and Inner City Helping Homeless.

Get on down to The Grand Social [Lower Liffey Street, Dublin 1]  this Sunday 4-7pm. Where truth love and laughter will abide.

Get your show ticket (at link below) now and be prepared to go BILLISTIC!!!

Tickets here

Previously: Great Bill

Homelessness and addiction in Dublin.

Tom Sheppard writes:

I work for Merchants Quay Ireland, the homeless and addiction charity. As everyone knows, there’s a major housing and homeless crisis going on.

What is less discussed is how homelessness is drawing people into addiction and often keeping them there.

We’ve produced this short film (above) to try and deepen people’s understanding of these issues.

It’s the first time we’ve allowed cameras into our services like this, and we did it because we think it’s an important story to tell.

Merchants Quay

This evening.

The jury found that articles published in the newspaper on March 15, 2015, meant that the story of Mr O’Brien’s borrowings and the amount of the borrowings was telling and disturbing and that Mr O’Brien was massively overstretched and faced huge financial pressure in November 2008.

But the jury found none of this was defamatory of Mr O’Brien.

They were deliberating for just over seven hours.

Mr O’Brien must now pay the costs of the case, which lasted for 17 days in the High Court.

Boom.

Denis O’Brien loses defamation action against The Sunday Business Post (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Earlier…

From top: Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe arrive at the High Court this morning.

This morning/afternoon

The High Court, Dublin.

More as we get it

Jury In O’Brien Defamation Case Given Option Of Majority Verdict (Newstalk)

Rollingnews

A season of Irish movies on TG4 in March and ‘Phone Booth’

Via TG4:

Viewers will be treated to a specially curated feast of award winning Irish films this March on TG4. From evocative & poignant dramas, to classic Irish rom-coms and Hollywood blockbusters, celebrating all that is good in Irish film…

For the month of March,TG4 has teamed up with leading Irish distribution company Element Distribution, to showcase some of the best Irish films of recent times.

Yes.

But Phone Booth, Irish?

Are you having a gaire?

TROID!

Scannáin Éireannacha ar TG4

From top: The Gibney Chronicles and irvin Muchnik

This afternoon.

American sportswriter, author and investigative journalist Irvin Muchnik’s ebook on Irish Olympic swimming coach George Gibney is now available.

The George Gibney Chronicles: What the Hunt For the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Has Told Us About the Sports Establishments and Governments on Two Continents is the culmination for Irvin of four years of reporting and a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.

The George Gibney Chronicles: is available here for $3.49.

Anyone without a Kindle-compatible device can receive an emailed PDF copy of the 30,000-word ebook by remitting $3.49 on Paypal to paypal@muchnick.net.

Monday: Bringing Gibney To Book

Yesterday.

Fingal, County Dublin

Liam Coughlan in his new home in the Peter McVerry Trust Ravenswood social housing development.

The scheme is the charity’s first greenfield development consisting of eight one bed homes together with a small community building specifically designed for single people with the most complex needs.

Top from left: Fingal councillor Anthony Lavin, CEO of Peter McVerry Trust Pat Doyle, Director of Housing Margaret Gerety, Fingal Mayor Anthony Lavin , Liam Coughlan and Peter McVerry.

In fairness.

Peter McVerry Trust

Sam Boal/RollingNews

At some point between 10pm and Midnight last Friday, two loose groupings, hithereto implacably opposed to one another, found common ground.

We don’t need to go into too many details, but the issue was Roosky and that common ground was us and not in a good way.

People who wouldn’t agree with each other on anything much were joined – on Twitter mainly but in personal correspondence also – in their contempt for the site. We were variously described as  “fascist”, “weak”, “well-funded” and “click-obsessed”.

Back when all this was green fields and lost bicycles we didn’t envisage this kind of misunderstanding.

Our main reasons for doing the site would seem too corny to be immediately credible, but If it is at all possible we would like to clear up a few misconceptions:

Agenda:
Apart from a soft spot for the Soc Dems (currently under review *cough*), we have no affiliation to any political party, movement (hard left or alt right or in between), trade union, charity or think tank. We welcome all views.

Right of reply:
Freely available to anyone who feels slighted by anything on the site.

Clickbait:
Our posts are constructed so that that the reader often needs to see the photo and read the text to understand the headline thus deterring sensation seekers. Oblique-bait perhaps, but we abandoned the enticing header clickbait model and other stuff after the events covered here. Apart from anything it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference to our bottom line no matter how many clicks we get, bringing us to…

Funding:
We are entirely broke independent. We don’t get the state ad money. We don’t get the Denis money. We don’t get the Big Pharma money. We don’t get the Small Pharma money. We don’t get the Ganley money. We don’t get the Soros money. We do get the Google ads money which just about covers the site’s hosting fee and our lawyer’s rehab costs.

Thanks all.

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