The Shannon Key West Hotel, Rooskey, County Roscommon earmarked for Direct Provision; the hotel following a suspected arson attack last Thursday night.
Leitrim and Roscommon United against Racism write:
An anti-racist gathering will be held tomorrow at 12.30 pm in Rooskey [County Roscommon] at the Shannon Key West Hotel.
The gathering is intended to give people from the Leitrim Roscommon area an opportunity to condemn the arson attack on the Hotel and to reject the kind of casual racism that is increasingly directed at members of ethnic minorities, asylum seekers and refugees.
Those organising the event want an end to the Direct Provision system which incarcerates and isolates asylum seekers.
They are also opposed to the manner in which Direct Provision centres are imposed without consultation on small communities.
However the existence of the system cannot be used as an excuse for racism and for arson.
Anti-Racist Gathering In Rooskey (Facebook events)
Thanks Eamonn Crudden
Laura Slattery, in The Irish Times, reports:
Independent News & Media (INM) is seeking about 35 redundancies, with the majority of the job losses expected to come from the editorial side of its operation.
The newspaper and website publisher is understood to have opened up a voluntary redundancy scheme with the expectation that about 25 journalists will leave the company as a result. A spokesman for INM declined to comment.
News publisher INM seeks about 35 redundancies (The Irish Times)
Singer Peter André
On the Ray D’Arcy Show.
Fergus McCormack, of RTÉ, writes:
Australian 90s pop legend Peter Andre will be chatting to Ray about his life and career…
Straight-talking weight loss expert Dr Eva Orsmond will join Ray to talk about her new book which aims to help people take control of their Type 2 diabetes….[and] her ‘health hotel’ project in Portugal…
Award-winning writer Emilie Pine joins Ray to talk about Notes to Self…
Comedian David McSavage joins Ray to talk about his new live show, National Treasure, and working with George Clooney on his upcoming mini-series Catch-22.
And Ray is joined by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra who will perform some of ABBA’s greatest hits including, Mamma Mia and Dancing Queen.
The Ray D’Arcy Show is on RTÉ One tomorrow night at 9.45pm.
Pic: Hello!
Up to 37,000 members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation are to go on strike on January 30, as well as February 5, 7, 12, 13 and 14.
The Psychiatric Nurses Association has also said its 6,000 members are also to take industrial action by refusing to work overtime on January 31 and February 1, 5, 6 and 7 February; before striking in full on February 12, 13, and 14.
They intend to strike over pay and staff shortages.
Ahead of this…
Nurse Maylena McEvoy (above) has tweeted about some of her experiences as a nurse…
Previously: Stricken
Dublin Rental Investigator tweetz:
Shook! €1,900pm for a ‘studio’ in East Wall. The photos contradict the bed arrangements. Potential breaches in A.7. Housing Regs. Is there planning permission? There’s actual houses for this price in the D3 area.
Boolavogue Road, East Wall, Dublin 3, North Dublin City (Daft.ie)
‘Dropped’ earlier.
Westlife’s comeback single, Hello My Love.
More cowbell/Brian.
Previously: Brian Dropping
https://vimeo.com/268756205
A very impressive experimental short by Boris Labbé, who draws inspiration from sources like Hieronymus Bosch, Francis Bacon and Dante’s The Divine Comedy to create an impressionistic tale of Biblical proportions.
Voted the best animation of 2018 in a Cartoon Brew poll.
Online for a limited time only, so see it while you can.