Carlosfandango writes:
Spotted on Leeson Street Bridge [Dublin]. A Hundred Points for what car that is? A Million Points for what car the pic was taken from. Trolls/angry bastards/rule book/law abiding/do gooders can call me directly for a constructive beating.
Anyone?
Former Government Press Secretary PJ Mara, above at the launch of Fianna Fáil manifesto on Health during the 2002 General Election Campaign, has died.
PJ Mara obituary: flamboyant character who was central to FF for three decades (Irish Times)
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
An emoji ad (possibly the first of its kind) for a certain upcoming movie, spotted by a very excited Patton Oswalt this week.
Name that film.
MORE to folly
SWIPE RIGHT! SWIPE RIGHT!! #3wisemen pic.twitter.com/6nnZkqD9ZF
— Mallow News (@MallowNews) January 14, 2016
Audience member: “They’re not fully pro life unless they’re pro marriage and pro family.” Shouted down by Paddy Manning #3wisemen — Derek Walsh (@funkyderek) January 14, 2016
“Abortion mill!” BINGO! #3wisemen
— Fintan O’Toolbox (@FintanOToolbox) January 14, 2016
Tonight.
Pro-life meeting, Wynn’s Hotel, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
What do you mean you ‘weren’t invited’?
Previously: No Womb At The Wynn
TD Brian Walsh has resigned due to illness. Deputy Walsh is a TD for Galway West and a former Galway City mayor. More follows.
— Newstalk 106-108fm (@NewstalkFM) January 14, 2016
Related: Fine Gael TD Brian Walsh will not seek re-election (RTE, November 10, 2015)
Please!
STOP THAT!
Gareth Naughton writes:
This year Operation Transformation [Wednesdays and Thursday nights at 8.30pm on RTÉ One] is encouraging viewers to get moving during the ad breaks with some simple exercises designed by OT fitness expert Karl Henry that can be done in front of the couch and we’ve brought in some friends of the show to demonstrate. Celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean and his fiancée, socialite Lisa Murphy worked up a sweat doing some jogging bum-kicks.
*bum kicks telly*
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child member José Angel Rodríguez Reyes, of Venezuela, and Children’s Minister Dr James Reilly in Geneva this afternoon
Children’s Minister Dr James Reilly and officials from the Irish government are continuing to answer questions from members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva, Switzerland.
The issue of abortion was raised again.
José Angel Rodríguez Reyes: “I would like briefly to ask whether you intend to consult the Irish people to hear their opinion with regard to article 43.3.3 on abortion? And at the same time, how do you reconcile the legal prohibition on abortion with the need for adolescents to be provided with appropriate medical services of any type, if they’re faced with any type of situation that requires medical attention? Thank you.”
Irish government official: “… First, in relation to the need for appropriate services, the services reflect the existing legal position in relation to abortion in Ireland and that is the extent to which the State services will address the issue…yes, minister [nods in direction of Dr James Reilly]. And secondly in relation to consulting the people, the minister will be pleased to answer that.”
Dr James Reilly: “Thank you very much. Just in relation to the first part of the question. As the minister who brought in the Protection of Life In Pregnancy Bill at the time, it was very clearly, the advises that we had that if we were to go any further than we did, we would require a referendum. In relation to that issue the Taoiseach, the prime minister of the country, has made it very clear that this issue needs to be addressed through a citizens’ convention because by simply repealing the 8th amendment, you leave a vacuum and therefore, if there was to be a repeal of the 8th amendment, there would be a need for something to replace it.
And clearly we would need to have a citizens’ convention to discuss if a) that would happen and b) what wording would replace the existing wording. I just want, for the benefit of the committee, to make it clear that the X case, from the 1990s, made it very clear that abortion was legal in certain circumstances in Ireland and that the purpose of the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill was to clarify for women what was available to them under the law and clarify for the medical profession what was permissible under the law. I hope that clarifies the situation. None the less, it’s a matter for the next government and I make no presumption what the next government a) be constituted of or b) what it might do.”
Watch live here
Von Liz – Imbalance
Von Liz aka Thurles-born singer Barry Lanigan with a ghostly plea to be left the fupp alone.
Barry writes:
DIY viddy made in a very long basement on Karl-Marx-Allee (formerly Stalin-Allee) in Berlin.