https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8m-NxpUIP0
A viral sponsored by Audi and directed by Kevin Smith in which the übergeezer of comic books shows his celebrity students (Smith, Tara Reid, Michael Rooker, Jason Mewes and Lou Ferrigno) how to do the thing he’s done in every Marvel movie to date.
Olivia O’Leary.
The nation’s sweetheart.
LIVE.
Melanie O’Connor writes:
Broadcaster and journalist Olivia O’Leary will be on The Saturday Night Show [RTÉ One] to talk career, family and to give her thoughts on the current state of the nation.
Plus…all too often older people are seen as a problem and old age is treated like a disease with the elderly being shoved into nursing homes. Chairperson of McAuley Place in Naas Margharita Solan believes there is another way and what’s more she’s proving it.
[Host] Brendan [O’Connor] chats to a number of award-winning Irish food producers Catherine Buggy of Boutique Bake, David Llewellyn of Llewellyn’s Orchard, James Nolan of Nolan Butchers and Jack Kirwan of Sprout & Co about the growing demand for natural, home-grown produce in Ireland. Plus live in studio, Villagers…
The Saturday Night Show, RTÉ One, 21.45, Saturday.
Dublin from the roof of the Google Building an hour ago.
(Thanks Gary Byrne)
The marriage referendum.
It’s more than manicures and cakes.
Photographer Ronan Pallister fumes:
A video trying to “rebalance the reliance on stock imagery in media coverage” of the marriage referendum….
Symphysiotomy survivors and chair of the Survivors of Symphyisiotomy Marie O’Connor outside the Department of An Taoiseach last year
RTE reports:
“A 74-year-old woman who suffered life-long pain after a symphysiotomy was performed on her 12 days before the birth of her baby in 1963 has lost her High Court action. In what was viewed as a test case for others, the woman had sued for negligence, claiming there was no justification for the controversial procedure.”
“In her action the woman claimed she suffered life-long pain and could not bond with her baby and had a nervous breakdown.
The case was heard in the High Court over 15 days. In his judgment Mr Justice Kevin Cross found that ‘the practice of prophylactic symphysiotomy in 1963 was not a practice without justification’.”
There you go now.
Woman loses symphysiotomy High Court action (RTE)
Lawyer With Links To Gilmore Gets Top Job (Independent.ie, January 13, 2011)
Previously: Symphysiotomy on Broadsheet
Photocall Ireland
NO!
*snaps Marigolds*
Thanks Julie Davis
Lord Wilmore writes:
Can someone send the clampers up to Mountjoy Sq bus depot? There’s an awful lot of illegal parking going on.
The Yes Campaign.
It means nothing Twomey.
To me.
Suit yourselves.
Irish people resent being bullied by either Church or State. Yet, ordinary citizens are being intimidated into voting “Yes”. For over a year, the campaign waged by the Government urged on by the media has been relentless. In the final weeks, reason may triumph over emotion. As they prepare to vote, people will ask, reasonably: what are we being asked to change? The simple answer is: human nature.
This referendum touches the very source of our humanity. Human rights are at the heart of the Constitution. Article 41 recognises the family, based on marriage, as the fundamental unit group in Society.
As such it has rights which are intrinsic to it, which the State is obliged to recognise and protect. In other words, the family, which existed before either Church or State existed, not only has a real autonomy within society: it is the ultimate source of society.
Past and future converge in the family. Through marriage, future generations come into being. A nation’s culture is passed on primarily through the family. Since the dawn of time, the union of man and woman was simply assumed to be the origin of the family. This is what we are being asked to change.
Dr Vincent Twomey
Anon writes:
1000+ Waterford Institute Of Technology students and staff signed a petition to ask college authorities put up a pride flag in advance of the Marriage ref but the students were declined their request, despite Maynooth college (a bloody seminary!) allowing the pride flag to be flown on campus there. Nice little bit of fortitude from WIT SU though.
Then the dull, dour, black and white, sign below (which by itself sucks the happiness out of the universe), appeared on WIT campus. Lookit, sure we all know everyone is entitled to their opinion however, their contradictory definition of ‘equality’ needed to be rectified. So someone fixed it. Can’t be having signs which are not ‘academically’ correct hung in a 3rd level institution now can we?”
