Dawn this morning.
Bray, county Wicklow.
(Thanks Marsupial)
Sandymount Strand, Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Thanks Lee Miller
Niall Gibbons tweetz:
Amazing view of Dublin sunrise from the Enterprise train to Belfast this morning.
Jonathan Healy tweetz:
Impressive sunrise over Dublin this morning…
A 2014 graduation movie from SUPINFOCOM (France) directed by Valentin Watrigant, François Guery, Elsa Lamy, Aurelien Fernandez, and Louis Ventre.
The inevitable Pepsi BTTF marketing cash in – a limited edition of 6,500 bottles of the fictional Pepsi Perfect product that appeared in Back To The Future 2 (1989).
Retailing at $21.50 each, the collectible containers will be released on Back To The Future Day (21st October, 2015) – the day that Marty and the Professor travelled from 1985.
MORE to folly.
“Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council issued a letter to residents at around 11am this morning informing them that work was to begin on a plot of land in the Rockville Drive estate immediately to accommodate the survivors of Saturday’s fire which claimed 10 lives.”
“The letter from the council states that the accommodation is only on a temporary basis, until the construction and refurbishment of a permanent site is completed, which is due to take eight months.”
“However residents of the estate this morning blocked the entrance to the plot of land, preventing a JCB from beginning the proposed construction work. A peaceful stand-off ensued with residents refusing to move their vehicles which were obstructing the entrance to [a] green field.”
Pic: RTÉ
Meanwhile…
The family of the carrickmines 10 who were burned alive try to drown the sorrows in the traditional traveller way but get refused from a pub
— John Connors (@johnconnors1990) October 13, 2015
The Southside Travellers Group released the following statement this evening:
Thanks Ronan Burtenshaw
The calculator has moved to its permanent home on TaxCalc.ie and is available here.
The only calculator that matters.
So simple and easy to use.
All your deductions at the stroke of a thumb.
Number crunching coder Mike (Karl is tragically unavailable on his favourite day of the year) will be live updating the calc throughout the afternoon/evening.
Dr Rory Hearne
Dr Rory Hearne, a lecturer in political and economic geography at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, has looked at Budget 2016.
And his verdict is in…
“Firstly, it is to be welcomed that, rather than further austerity, the government has decided to increase public spending and investment, particularly in the area of childcare, education and the extension of free GP care.”
“However, the increase in spending is insufficient to address the various social crises and austerity related under-investment and the indication is that this is just a once off ‘stimulus’ in an election year with government estimates showing no similar expenditure increases in coming years.”
“The increase in spending in this Budget of €750 million should also be put in the context of the €21bn reduction in expenditure over the period of 2008 to 2014. The increase in Budget 2015 is just 1/30th (just under 4%) of the austerity cuts to spending.
“…Social housing is a good example of the size of the catch-up required as a result of the lost years of austerity. Over the period of austerity, we effectively lost 25,000 social-housing units. Indeed those in housing distress (at least half a million households – most noteably those reliant on rent supplement, in emergency accommodation, in mortgage arrears, those in housing waiting lists, substandard accomodation and in light of the recent tragedy, Traveller accommodation and halting site services) are the biggest ‘losers’ in this Budget.”
In addition…
“The delivery by NAMA of 20,000 housing units is being put forward as a positive measure to address supply. However, these were planned anyway and as Minister Noonan stated will be developed on a commercial basis with aim of maximising return to the taxpayer. This means they will be neither social nor affordable. “
Further to yesterday’s report and video by Cork human rights activist Bairbre Flood from the refugee camp in Calais, France…
A handy, cut-out-and-keep summary in cartoon form (above) of what the Irish contingent of volunteers experienced.
Previously: ‘We’d Settle For Animal Rights’
