In Bealnamorrive, Coachford, Co Cork.
On Tuesday night.
Jason McCarthy writes:
“Not one customer, not sure if Shane Ross understands what he has done to rural Ireland. Shame on him.”
Thanks Diarmuid McCarthy
Chubby chopped Russian mog Hosico – deftly rendered with a few strokes of the brush.
He almost looks real.
A bipartisan bill before the US Congress threatens to open access to the prized E3 visa class to Irish workers, a prospect that has sparked an intense lobbying campaign by Australia’s ambassador to Washington, Joe Hockey, to block the move.
….The legislation to expand the E3 visa scheme to Irish immigrants was introduced to the US House of Representatives at the end of October and is due for debate in coming weeks.
Many members of the US Congress have Irish ancestry, and are sympathetic to the idea of making it easier for Irish professionals to work in America.
But Australian officials have launched a diplomatic battle to preserve the exclusive right to the visa, fearing that opening up the scheme to the Irish would lead to a stampede of other countries seeking to gain access to its special provisions.
FIGHT!
The Irish are muscling in on our special US visa, so we’ve ‘gone nuts (The Age)
Thanks Mark Geary
Like to stay up late?
You may like to catch South.
On RTÉ One, on Sunday morning.
At 1.25am.
Director Gerard Walsh, who also brought you A Day Like Today, Is This It?, and Bound, writes:
I directed a feature film and it will get its television premier this Sunday on RTE one. The only problem is, we have no marketing budget and we need as much help getting people to watch/record it.
It’s on at 1.25am on Sunday morning, so that really doesn’t help.
The film was made on a shoestring budget, we managed to get it in cinemas and travel the world with festival screenings.
We dont know if RTÉ have an advert for South just yet, so we created one (above) in the meantime.
Dont forget, set your boxes to remind and record, it only takes two minutes.
In fairness.
South on RTE One on Sunday at 1.25am
Previously: Gerard Walsh on Broadsheet
Stewarts Special School, Waterstown Avenue, Palmerstown Lower, Dublin 20.
Many pupils.
No playground.
Laura writes;
Stewarts School is a special education primary school that caters for children with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, many of these children have severe and profound disabilities and need specialist care and equipment.
The school is moving to a new building in 2019 order to increase the capacity of students they can look after, but this move is leaving them without any playground or useable outside yard area.
As many of the students have physical disabilities they need a playground that includes very specialist equipment and the cost of an inclusive playground that will allow all the students the chance to play – regardless of their abilities or disabilities – is going to cost €200,000.
Stewarts is receiving no government funding at all for the playground so the mammoth task of raising 200k is being left to the families, teachers and special needs assistants of the 120 students.
These past few months the school has been working insanely hard trying to fundraise, doing everything they can from backpacking to marathon running and hosting various events, but they still have only made a small dent in their target.
I am hoping you might be able to share this video and their story, and help them reach their target.
Donate here
Soggy Bottom
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@DubFireBrigade remain at the scene of a huge fire at ‘Bottom of the Hill’ pub in Finglas. Locals say it’s a sad day for the village. pic.twitter.com/8524aBbKPv
— Kevin Purcell (@KevinPurcell_) November 15, 2018
This morning.
Main Street, Finglas Village, Dublin 11
The charred scene after Dublin Fire Brigade attended a blaze at the Bottom of the Hill pub during the night.
Emergency services were alerted to the fire before 1am, which is thought to have started in an office over the pub. There were no injuries reported.
Charged
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John McClean charged with multiple counts of indecent assault. This was @GemmaOD1‘s article in March’s edition of Village magazine
https://t.co/NWZvWb1Jff— Village Magazine (@VillageMagIRE) November 14, 2018
Yesterday at Dublin District Court, former rugby coach John McClean was charged with more than 30 counts of assaulting schoolboys at Terenure College between 1973 and 1989.
Mr McClean, a former director of UCD’s rugby academy, is charged with indecent assault on nine boys over a 17-year period.
The charges were prompted by work from investigative journalist Gemma O’Doherty, who spoke to a number of Mr McClean’s alleged victims in Village magazine in the past year.
The reports claimed some gardai were aware of allegations against Mr McClean for decades.
Ms O’Doherty covered the matter last night on her Livestream with court correspondent Tom Tuite. Watch here.
Terror-nure (Gemma O’Doherty, Village)
Rugby’s Dirty Secret (Gemma O’Doherty, Village)
Pic via Village
Monsoon
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A stunning time-lapse compilation of clouds dumping their payloads of rain, captured by storm chaser Mike Oblinski.
Previously: Breathe
Taylor Hynes – IOU
Ted writes:
Fantastic official video for Ireland’s Junior Eurovision 2028 entry I.O.U. featuring two familiar faces [Ireland’s 2018 Eurovision representative Ryan O’Shaughnessy and 1993 Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh] to Irish fans. Hope they keep this 7Os theme for the stage in Minsk! #nopenneysjumpers…
Fight!
Previously: A Song For Europe
Environmental stories take up less than 1% of airtime on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland – one 13th the airtime devoted to sport
This morning.
Via [environmental NGO] Gluaiseacht:
Gluaiseacht analysed two weeks of Morning Ireland broadcasts, separated by six months, in April and October.
It found environmental stories were covered for only 0.92% of the time, while sports news accounted for 12.41% of the broadcast time, dedicated business news was covered for 5.57% of the time, and Brexit coverage accounted for 10.69% of the broadcast time.
Only one feature story over the two weeks carried an environmental angle, a story about new research into how dandelion seeds fly….
Gluaiseacht member Eoin Ó Leidhin said,
“RTÉ and in this case Morning Ireland are failing to inform the public on environmental and climate change stories. We have seen from the aftermath of the BBC’s Blue Planet II series and the subsequent plastics campaign what public service broadcasting can achieve in mobilising the population for the common good. Yet RTÉ haven’t even had a standalone environmental correspondent since 2010, while in comparison they have lots of sports correspondents”.