TASC tweetz:
Just gearing up for the 3:00 launch of “Cherishing All Equally 2019” – stay tuned for newest data on #inequality in Europe and Ireland.
Inequality in Ireland and Europe – Cherishing all Equally 2019 (TASC)
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Halfahead writes:
A very limited data allowance on Irish Rail Wi-Fi. YouTube works just fine… but not for long!
Anyone?
Aftershock
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atIn the background of this 1960 grainy photograph of Corporation Buildings is a Van owned by the the Dublin Docker who was secretly helping families get their children out from Industrial Schools. pic.twitter.com/EVJyMEgAd6
— Terry Fagan (@Monto22) February 18, 2019
Docker and industrial school system foe Jemmy Gunner was known as the “Oskar Schindler of the North Inner City'”.
Related: Jemmy was ‘Schindler’ hero for boys fleeing institutions
#OireachtasTV – Leaders’ Questions have started in the #Dáil – watch proceedings LIVE here #Seeforyourself – Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019 https://t.co/An9kvzpIQr
— Oireachtas News (@OireachtasNews) February 19, 2019
Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger (top) speaking in the Dáil last month
This afternoon.
At 2pm.
Leaders’ Questions will get under way at the Dáil.
Dublin West Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has said she will be raising issues which women have contacted her about in relation to accessing abortion services.
Watch Dáil proceedings live here
Previously: “Her Words To Me Were:’This Is Not What I Voted For'”
UPDATE:
Ruth Coppinger raising the cases of women denied abortions for medical reasons (in similar vein to the Coombe case she raised last month). Offers detail of one case with only a 15% prospect of safe delivery; as she was beyond 12 weeks she couldn’t access termination here
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 19, 2019
Varadkar reluctant to comment on individual cases but does point out that the Oireachtas drew a distinction between allowing abortion in cases of fatal abnormality, versus those of *severe* abnormalities or conditions causing disability
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 19, 2019
This morning/afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2
Leafers of the Labour Party and Sinn Féin take to the plinth to discuss the no confidence motion in Minister for Health Simon Harris, tabled by Sinn Féin and now supported by Labour. From top: Labour’s Brendan Howlin with Senator Kevin Humphreys (L) and Senator Ged Nash; Mary Lou McDonald.
Fight, etc.
Labour to support motion of no-confidence in Simon Harris (RTÉ)
Behold: the Chapel Of Sound – an outdoor concert hall disguised as a prehistoric megalith in a valley north of Beijing.
Constructed from concrete and crushed minerals from surrounding formations and shaped to enhance the acoustics of musical performances, the structure includes an open-air amphitheatre, outdoor stage, and a viewing platform overlooking the mountainous landscape and the nearby Great Wall of China.
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This morning.
The High Court, Dublin
Businessman Denis O’Brien arriving for further hearings in his case against The Sunday Business Post over articles published in the newspaper on March 15, 2015, which detailed a 2008 report by accountants PwC into Ireland’s banks and their top 22 borrowers.
Legal arguments are currently taking place without the jury present.
The ‘sheet‘s Olga Cronin is live tweeting from the High Court and can be followed here.
More as we get it.
UPDATE:
