Claire Walsh tweetz:
Armed detectives and one arrested at Charlemont Place [Dublin 2] right now.
Anyone?
From the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme website
Further to the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme saying it is “happy to shred” the records of women who had symphysiotomies…
Paul Cullen, in the Irish Times, reports:
The scheme, which has accepted 578 applications and made 400 offers of compensation, is due to finish soon, but Judge Harding Clark has denied saying documents would be shredded after March 20th, as has been claimed.
She said applicants had been asked to state by this date whether they wished their documents to be returned or confidentially shredded.
“When the scheme has completed its work, it will return or confidentially shred documentation furnished to the scheme by applicants strictly in accordance with the wishes of the applicants,” she said in a statement posted on its website.
…It [Department of Health] said applicants had been written to and asked whether they wanted their documents back or would like to have them shredded. About 360 women had replied, with 70 per cent opting for return and 30 per cent for shredding. It is unclear at this stage what will happen in the cases of women from whom no reply has been received.
Meanwhile…
The Dept’s disinformation has been second to none! Take one example! Almost 750 applied to the scheme, not 578 as claimed by #roinnslainte!
— Symphysiotomy (SoS) (@SoS_Ireland) March 25, 2016
Claim by Department they don’t hold originals is a red herring. Copies may be only records left #returntherecords #symphysiotomy #shredding
— Symphysiotomy (SoS) (@SoS_Ireland) March 24, 2016
Symphysiotomy records to be shredded ‘with consent’ (Irish Times)
Previously: ‘Any Applicant’s Mind Can Be Put At Rest’
Are Ya Having That? writes:
Leather Jacket Guy has invented the first video about Irish inventors!
True Pies
at
The 1947 Berkeley Library at TCD, by Ahrends Burton and Koralek.
Frank McDonald tweets:
The Brutalist style takes many forms. Here’s my pic to prove it …
WSB-TVs Mark Arum and Fred Blankenship pay tribute to the legendary A Tribe Called Quest co-founder Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor, who died this week from complications arising from diabetes.
RIP
A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg Dead at 45 (Rolling Stone)
MORE to folly
Fergus O’Neill writes:
In September 2015 the last 15 storey Ballymun tower (Plunkett tower) was demolished. The tower blocks were built in 1966, fifty years after the 1916 Rising. An attempt (a badly failed one some might say) to provide social housing for the exploding Dublin population.
The seven high-rise towers were optimistically named after the seven signatories of the proclamation. Tens of Millions have been spent commemorating the centenary year but still we have no new childrens hospital, a broken hospital service, a homelessness crisis and a housing crisis.
… to celebrate the occasion I’ve produced an illustration entitled ‘The Towers’. The print is available from the Irish Design Shop on Drury Street [Dublin 2] and for Easter week. All proceeds go to the Simon Community
Tonight.
On RTÉ 2 at 9.30pm.
I Am Traveller – fronted by actor John Connors, pictured above.
The documentary will involve Mr Connors speaking with surviving members of the Connors family who lost ten members of their family in a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, south Dublin last October.
Melanie O’Connor writes:
John Connors, aka ‘Patrick’ From Love/Hate, tackles head on the truth, myths and prejudices around Travellers in this authored documentary.
The documentary is John’s personal account of what being a Traveller means to him. He reveals what he loves about Traveller culture, as well as what frustrates him about it. He opens up about the prejudice he has experienced as a Traveller all his life – and how that hasn’t gone away, despite his success as an actor.
Previously: Worth The Licence Fee