A BBC story has shown
The shape of the new Toblerone
Now it’s copping the flack
In an online attack
Oh why can’t they leave it alone?
John Moynes
Pic: BBC
*Eye Roll*
at
Recognise it?
Abaí writes:
I know you don’t normally do this but I found a shopping bag sitting in a Dublin bike basket on Parkgate Street [Dublin 8] last Thursday, November 3, at around 7.30pm. If anyone is missing this bag I have your goods and happy to return!
Anyone?
MORE to folly
.@Glen_Hansard supporting @FocusIreland and teaming up with The High Hopes Choir to play a special rendition of Hey Day pic.twitter.com/8yJ4Ms2UUt
— Focus Ireland (@FocusIreland) November 7, 2016
This afternoon.
Focus Ireland, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Glen Hansard and members of the High Hopes choir, including top, from left: Kathleena Twomey and Emma Richardson helping to “put human faces to the homeless crisis:’ with a special visit to the Focus Ireland coffee shop.
Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews
Suddenly
at
The Sudden Club Weekender, a massive three-day throwdown featuring some of the best new music from Ireland and the UK, presented by the good folk of the Southern Hospitality Board, at the Kino in Cork City, December 9th-11th.
Tickets as priced in each pic, available now.
Also, next month, a fundraiser for the Abortion Rights Campaign at the same venue. More on that this week.
Snappy
at
This evening (4pm)
Spiddal, County Galway.
Not much ‘stretch’ left this year.
Thanks Mary Faherty
At Souda refugee camp on Chios island, Greece
Further to the EU-Turkey deal which was struck in March…
According to the most recent UNHCR figures, there are now 61,584 refugees and migrants held in Greece.
Further to this…
The Irish Times reports:
Members of two Syrian families detained in Greece after fleeing the beseiged city of Aleppo have taken an unprecedented action in the Irish courts against the European Council, EU and Ireland over alleged breaches of their human rights.
The core claim of the families is that the EU-Turkey deal on migration agreed on March 18th by the European Council – the 28 EU Heads of State including Taoiseach Enda Kenny – was made outside the EC’s powers and breaches EU law. The deal allows Greece return to Turkey “all new irregular migrants” arriving there since March 20th.
That deal, and Ireland’s sanctioning of it, is incompatible with Ireland’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and breaches various EU Treaties, including the Treaty on Functioning of the EU (TFEU) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (CFREU), they claim.
….The plaintiffs say they are entitled, under the EU Dublin III regulations of 2013, to be transferred to Germany to join their family members who have secured international protection. They claim they are unlawfully prevented doing so because of the EU-Turkey deal.
The case came before the High Court on Monday via applications by the plaintiffs for a preliminary trial of EU law issues and/or to decide if issues should be referred to the Court of Justice of the EU.
…Mr Justice Paul Gilligan adjourned the pre-trial matters to November 22nd.
Syrian families held in Greece sue Ireland, EU over rights breaches (Irish Times)
Previously: Turkey Basting
Pic: I’ll Dig With It