Dublin Fire Brigade tweetz:
“We still have two pumps fighting a gorse fire on Killiney Hill. An earlier gorse fire in Howth is out.”
This afternoon.
The annual Dublin Gay Pride Parade on O’Connell Street heading for Merrion Square for a bit of a do.
More as we get it.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
More to folly.
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Proud Path
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This is our route for tomorrow, we’re departing Parnell Square at 1.30pm sharp. #DublinPride pic.twitter.com/DM3GtuKKVq
— Dublin LGBTQ Pride (@DublinPride) June 26, 2015
Yay!
Last night.
Tom Flynn (above) writes:
Remember East 17? No exaggeration this was me a minute before and during their Academy [Dublin] gig last night…Between 20-30 people all scattered around the venue…
That’s showbiz.
Communications Minister Alex White
Theseuswhatnow?
From the Irish Times letters page…
“I don’t understand why Minister for Communications Alex White is so averse to legislation to clean up past media ownership deals that are strangling freedom of speech (“McDowell ‘chancing his arm’, says Minister”). In the past Mr White has vigorously defended openness. But he is guardian of an industry where Denis O’Brien has been allowed a controlling interest in media from Antrim to Kerry, in print and on the airwaves.”
“Diversity is obviously necessary in media ownership. But both the Competition Authority and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland have been remiss in protecting the public interest on this issue. Why? It seems to me that corporate power speaks loudest in the ears of each of these bodies.”
“Mr White believes “constitutional property rights” prevent retrospective legislation. But the nursing home charges in 2004 were installed under a retrospective law. Neither the Supreme Court nor his own Government have done anything to reverse that situation. The constitution forbids retrospective criminal legislation, but is silent on such retrospective civil legislation as this.”
“Sadly I fear Mr White gets to the heart of the issue when he also cites “labyrinthine commercial issues”. It’s my guess that, at the heart of that labyrinth is a Denis O’Brien, still awaiting his Theseus.
RONAN BRADY,
Dublin 7.”
But it is a pop-up comedy event consisting of Barry Murphy, Risteárd Cooper and Gary Cooke.
In fairness.
AND special guest, Colm O’Regan.
The Après Match lads write:
“Determined not to let down fans after the cancellation of the Killarney Festival of Music and Food, Après Match and Colm O’Regan have teamed up with the INEC to stage a pop-up comedy show in the Acoustic Room at the INEC tomorrow night.”
Tickets €15 from here
Related: Killarney festival tickets to be refunded after event cancelled (Jim Carroll, Irish Times)
Thanks Naoise
Brendan Boland, who was abused by Fr Brendan Smyth and who was made sign an oath of secrecy in the company of Cardinal Seán Brady in 1975 following a canonical inquiry into the allegations of abuse
“[Gardaí] are equally as responsible as the Catholic church because they chose not to prosecute him,” [Mr Boland] told BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster programme.
“And if they had prosecuted him back then I would never have met him, so I’d never have been abused in the first place. I can’t imagine what my life would’ve been like now. I don’t think it’ll ever leave me.”Cardinal Brady’s apology to Smyth’s victims was “a last-ditch attempt to save his face and the face of the Catholic church”, Mr Boland said. He added that the senior cleric had made an attempt to contact him previously to apologise, but that it was to be “under his conditions”. “If I had have went I would’ve felt like a little boy again being scrutinised in his environment,” he said. “I refused to go.”
Fr Brendan Smyth victim: Police must be held responsible for abuse (BBC)
Previously: ‘I Hope This Arrangement Will Be Satisfactory’