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From the 2015 photoseries ‘Live By The Sword, Dies By The Sword’ by London based photographer Ellen Rodgers.
‘Toon it may concern.
Part of a darkly comic response to the housing crisis by America-born, Ireland-based cartoonist Matthew Melis for The Nib. Full saga at link below.
Lovely penmanship, in fairness.
SPLUTTER!
Damn you, Sky.
Thanks Conor Houlihan
Finance Minister Michael Noonan before the Oireachtas Budget Oversight Committee this morning
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan is appearing before the Oireachtas Budget Oversight Committee this morning ahead of Budget Day on October 11.
From the meeting…
No plans to equalise the price of petrol and diesel, says Michael Noonan, who also says #budget17 childcare measures won’t be tax based
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
Michael Noonan says he doesn’t think scrapping VAT on condoms would lower the rate of transmission of STIs. There you go now
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
"Until the iPhone was invented there was no demand for iPhones"
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
@ciaraobrien Michael Noonan trying to explain how making housing more affordable will stimulate demand
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
How Far?
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Paul Flynn writes:
A handy chart showing just how far a Proclaimer is prepared to walk just to be the one that wakes up next to you.
In the 1960s, realising that the surrealist Salvador Dali and the fantasist mathematician Lewis Carroll were quite possibly of a mind, publishers Random House commissioned Dali to create illustrations for a special limited edition of Alice In Wonderland, of which the artist signed every copy.
Long sought after by bibliophiles and making rare appearances at auction, the edition is something of a publishing legend.
For the 150th anniversary of Carroll’s 1865 surrealist masterpiece, Princeton University Press reprinted the original edition.
Above: Dali’s illustrations forThe Mock Turtle’s Story; The Caucus Race and A Long Tail; The Lobster’s Quadrille; The Queen’s Croquet Ground; Down The Rabbit Hole and Advice From A Caterpillar.
A person sleeps behind the railings of the Custom House in Dublin
The Simon Community released its annual report for 2015 this morning.
The launch of this report followed an early-morning count of the number of people sleeping rough in Dublin.
168 people were counted.
The main findings of the Simon Community’s report are as follows:
10% of people moved out of emergency accommodation into a home
59% of people in emergency accommodation have been homeless for more than two years
32% increase in the numbers counted on Early Morning Rough Sleeping counts in the last year (not including the 60 without a bed in the Merchants Quay Ireland Night Café) 168 counted this morning
31% increase in those accessing Addiction Treatment Services
46% increase in housing capacity, through opening and acquiring 109 new properties in 2015.
59% increase in those accessing Emergency Accommodation
Dublin Simon Community Annual Report 2015 – Key Findings (Simon Community)
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People on the Right2Water rally against water charges in Dublin last Saturday
Diarmaid Ferriter misses the point about the movement against water charges. The key to understanding why hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets since 2014 lies not in a discussion about the abolition of rates during the 1970s but in the impact of austerity in this State since 2008.
The communities from which the water protests emerged were those who had suffered most from cutbacks under both Fianna Fáil and coalition governments. They were consistently told that there was no alternative to these policies. But the implementation of water charges was, for many, the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The fact that, despite derision from commentators, the movement not only sustained itself but grew, makes it more likely that people will feel that protest over housing, child poverty and numerous other issues may also be successful.
Anyone who wants to see a “civic-minded Irish Republic” should therefore be applauding those who took part in the largest social movement in this country for decades.
Dr Brian Hanley,
Cabra,
Dublin 7.
Water charges and social protest (Irish Times letters page)
Previously: Torrential
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