I won every poll from last nights Presidential Debate – except for the little watched @CNN poll.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2016
Fight!
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
Hot Wheels
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The Mercedes-Maybach 600S Pullman Guard – the 6.5m long, 5 tonne, bulletproof, bombproof, 530bhp, V12, twin turbo bourgemobile your despotic regime has been waiting for.
Wall to wall leather, four reclining rear seats facing one another as you cruise past the favelas, laughing with your wives.
This afternoon.
Outside Leinster House on the first day of the Dáil term after the summer break.
Gardaí at the gates of the Dáil.
And members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, SIPTU and the Psychiatric Nurses Association calling for “the restoration of incremental credit for nurses and midwives who graduated between 2011 and 2015”.
Those protesting included nurses Maria Phelan, Christine Gibbons and Eimear Byrne from Kilkenny Mental Health Services (above).
Pics: Sam Boal/Rollingnews and Mick Caul (second from top)
This afternoon.
Outside the Children’s Court in Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Paul Murphy tweetz:
The juror barred from Seanie Fitzpatrick trial speaking in support of
#JobstownNotGuilty.
Court asked to dismiss charges against teenager in Jobstown case (RTE)
Previously: ‘Juror 791’ Writes
Update:
Crowds outside the children's court in support of teen charged over #Jobstown protest. Case adjourned til 21/10 pic.twitter.com/2Vy9KEMmIV
— Ruairi Carroll (@RCarrollTV3) September 27, 2016
Hey, God
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Highly derivative of Pixar’s Wall-E but still very cute, this highly accomplished short by VFX graduate Shawn Wang (his Communication University of China graduation thesis film) tells the tale of two exploratory rovers sent to trial plant growth on a potentially inhabitable planet.
Following on from some posters he made marrying the worlds of the Legend of Zelda video game series and Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.
Artist Matt Vince has animated his work and developed a trailer for a fictional Zelda flick as animated by the legendary team.
Music: Kyle Landry
Vet Shane operates on Oober, who’s been hit by a car.
Mmf.
The Pet Surgeons, tonight at 8.30pm on RTE1.
Ah Cumann
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From yesterday’s Irish Independent
You may recall a post yesterday by Saoirse McGarrigle about the victims of paedophile Bill Kenneally – an accountant from a well-known Fianna Fáil family and basketball coach in Waterford – who want a Commission of Investigation.
They believe senior gardai, members of Fianna Fáil, members of the Catholic Church and staff at the South Eastern Health Board failed to act when told about the abuse.
Kenneally was convicted earlier this year, after victim Jason Clancy came forward in 2012, but Gardaí knew about the abuse as far back as 1985.
Kenneally’s uncle was the late TD Bill Kenneally, who died in 2009, and who was succeeded by his son Brendan Kenneally.
Brendan Kenneally was told about the abuse by a Waterford woman in 2002 but he didn’t tell gardai. Instead, he spoke to another uncle and local priest – and current chairman of the board of management at Holy Cross National School in Tramore, Co Waterford – Monsignor John Shine – and arranged counselling for Bill Kenneally.
Brendan Kenneally did not report the matter to the gardaí.
The article by Ms McGarrigle, a broadcast journalist with South East Radio, followed a piece in the Sunday Independent by Damien Tiernan, of RTE.
Further to this, the Irish Independent yesterday ran a story about Kenneally’s victims calling for a commission of investigation with a double byline containing the names Conor Feehan and Saoirse McGarrigle – even though the newspaper didn’t print the copy McGarrigle submitted.
In addition, the article included a picture of Brendan Kenneally with the caption:
“Brendan Kenneally is reportedly no longer a Fianna Fáil member.”
Further to this…
Last night, Ms McGarrigle tweeted:
Brendan Kenneally is still a member of Fianna Fáil – in fact he’s Hon Sec of the Thomas Clarke Cumann.
There you go now.
Saoirse McGarrigle can be followed on Twitter here
Previously: Protected For 30 Years
Pic: Gemma O’Doherty
UPDATE:
Monsignor John Shine
In today’s Irish Mirror, Ms McGarrigle reports:
Victims of paedophile Bill Kenneally are calling for a parish priest to resign as chair of a primary school board of management.
Monsignor John Shine is an uncle of Bill Kenneally and heads up the Holy Cross National School in Tramore, Co Waterford.
…Holy Cross principal John Kindlon said he could not comment on the situation as he is directly employed by the board of management which is chaired by Monsignor Shine.
Contacted by this newspaper the priest refused to discuss the issue.
He added: “No I won’t talk to you. I’m having my lunch.”
Pic: Holy Cross
HORSE – Cork hardcore quartet playing Lodgefest in October
What you may need to know…
01. Leeside hardcore four-piece Horse comprises members of former Cork axe-wielders Ghost of Medina, Terriers and Slugbait among others.
02. Surfacing with initial live excursions around the city in 2014, the band released its debut EP, fünderland, in March of 2015, shortly before recruiting their current vocallist.
03. Streaming above is the video for the band’s recent single Dragging. Shot and edited by Rob O’Halloran.
04. Next live appearance is at Cork’s Lodgefest II excursion at the Pine Lodge, in Myrtleville. Hope is Noise are launching their album, Ten Past Seven play their first show in three years, and new band Onkalo also debut.
VERDICT: Uncompromising and weighty, and as singularly focused as you’ll see in Irish heavy music. See them live to get the full extent of it.