The Cork Examiner, 1861
FIGHT!
Via Liam Hogan (Limerick 1914)
UPDATE:
The advert appeared in the Cork Constitution paper (Protestant unionist) and was reprinted in the Cork Examiner. Apologies for any confusion.
Last night.
Athgarvan grain mill, Athgarvan, Co Kildare.
Eamonn writes:
A tractor adds to the mound of Winter barley being deposited in the Athgarvan Grain Mill. It has been such a poor Summer that those farmers engaged in the cereal area of agriculture, are probably going to have great difficulty bringing in later crops…
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
1rt=1help for me (and 1respect for cecil the lion) pic.twitter.com/sse7mcoZme
— Patrick (@PrayForPatrick) August 5, 2015
Right so.
Oh.
DarraghNoob writes:
Outside a cafe in the centre of Munich [Germany]…
Kieran Cuddihy and Chris Donoghue of Newstalk
Kieran writes:
We bought a number of drugs online [even though it’s illegal] and had them delivered to the Newstalk office. We bought DNP, amabolic steroids, valium and viagra.
Nobody at the station was contacted by Revenue or the Health Products Regulatory Authority in relation to the purchases.
What drugs can you buy online? (Kieran Cuddihy, Newstalk)
The Ben Johnson Steroid Inquiry: Francis Details Johnson’s Drug Use in 1987-88 (Los Angeles Times)
Athletics Ireland Statement on Published Doping Allegations (Athletics Ireland)
Denis O’Brien
Further to the the Denis O’Brien Vs Committee on Procedures and Privileges (CPP) brouhaha..
This morning’s Irish Times editorial states:
“Is the CPP amenable to judicial review without fatally undermining the constitutional independence of the Dáil? From a political perspective, the crucial principle of the separation of powers between legislators and the judiciary means that the committee should be answerable only to the Houses. The answer must be an emphatic No.”
“That is also the clear purpose of the writers of the Constitution. Any other interpretation, however tempting to judges instinctively distrustful of the imperfection of political decision-making, will set the judiciary on a course of confrontation with parliament that it will rue, irrespective of the merits of Mr O’Brien’s cause. His case is ill-judged and dangerous, a regrettable move by a wealthy serial litigator. He should withdraw it.”
Readers may wish to recall the June 5 edition of The Phoenix, in which there was a report on how Ireland’s print media reacted to Independent TD Catherine Murphy’s speech in the Dáil on May 28, 2015…
Good times.
Previously: [REDACTED]’s 1.25% Interest Rate
It seems that the world’s favourite frog,
Must return to his swamp and his log,
He’ll no longer get jiggy,
With the beautiful Piggy,
Now he’s dating a second rate hog.
John Moynes
(Guardian)
You’ll recall the launch of the first Women’s Museum of Ireland in March 2013.
Now, the folks behind the museum are making a map of Dublin.
And they want YOUR help.
They write:
“We at the Women’s Museum of Ireland are creating a unique map of Dublin city, to draw attention to sites around the city that are related to women’s history, in the hopes of inspiring preservation and recognition of those sites.”
“We have commissioned two Dublin-based designers to create the map, but we need your help in mapping the city! Over the next three weeks we will be putting a call out for online submissions, to plot out sites across the city. We will then create a shortlist of sites to include on the physical map, and include a larger database of sites on an interactive map on womensmuseumofireland.ie”
“This physical map will be made available for you to pick up or print out, to lead you around Dublin’s fair city. Rediscover the residences of Society hostess Lady Jane Wilde and the social activist Rosie Hackett, and the hidden histories of Moore Street and Henrietta Street in the city centre. Out in the suburbs of Dundrum, did you know that the sisters of the artist Jack B. Yeats ran the Cuala printing press, the only Arts and Crafts press to be run and staffed solely by women?”
“There are still a great many stories to be uncovered, and we are appealing to you to share those stories with us. We want to present these stories to the wider public, and make them accessible to both locals and visitors to our great city. Once the project takes off, we hope to extend it beyond Dublin and around the country.”
“We are using the hashtag #WomenofDublin to gather data, or you can contact us via Twitter and Facebook to help us plot out these sites around the city! Alternatively, email us at info@womensmuseumofireland.ie”
Fair play in fairness.
Help us put women back on the map of Dublin! (Women Museum of Ireland)
Previously: Ireland’s First Women’s Museum
Spotted on RT.com this morning.
Kevin O’Dea writes:
“Last time I checked the Tories did not govern Dublin.”
Tory cuts could leave thousands of vulnerable young people homeless – YMCA (RT.com)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York
Patsy McGarry reports in the Irish Times:
“About 200 people are expected to accompany Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, on the first chartered pilgrimage from that archdiocese to Knock shrine this month. Cardinal Dolan will open this year’s national novena at Knock on August 14th. It continues until August 22nd.”
You’ll recall Cardinal Timothy Dolan was the man sent to Ireland in March 2010 by Pope Benedict to lead the Apostolic Visitation to Ireland and examine the country’s four archdioceses in the wake of the sex abuse scandals.
In May of 2012 the New York Times reported Dolan authorised payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests – when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee – as an incentive for them to agree to be dismissed from the priesthood.
The documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House of Good documented the crimes of one of those men, Fr Lawrence Murphy, who abused hundreds of deaf children.
You may also recall how the Survivors Network Of Those Abused By Priests reported on October 23, 2013 how:
“[US District Court] Judge Rudolph Randa [yesterday] ruled that a deaf survivor of Fr. Lawrence Murphy is bound by an agreement he reached with church officials even though he was deceived in order to secure that agreement. The agreement was reached in an archdiocesan program designed by [Cardinal Timothy] Dolan in 2003. We believe the purpose of that program was to quickly and quietly settle with victims while deliberately misleading them about the archdiocese’s prior knowledge of the criminal history of abusers. At the same time, it induced victims to accept nominal restitution in exchange for waving all future legal rights. If the victim would later discover they had been deceived by Dolan and the archdiocese, as we now know they were, they would have no legal recourse.”
First chartered pilgrimage flight set for Knock Airport (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)
Previously: And Well He Might Yawn
This Is The Guy Who Investigated Abuse In The Irish Church
Pic: Sacerdotus