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“He had been drinking, excessively, prior to arriving at the apartment. [Hanahoe] suffers from blackouts after excessive drinking and does not remember anything that occurred when he got home,” his lawyer wrote in court papers last year.

The lawyer added that Hanahoe suffered six concussions when he played rugby in Ireland, which would be a part of his “intoxication blackout defence.”

Hanahoe faced 25 years behind bars, but he pleaded guilty last month to the lesser charge of criminal sex act.

‘Drunk’ bartender gets year behind bars for sex assault (New York Post)

Thanks Joshua Saul

Pic: Byron Smith

CMK23032015 Open House _0009From left: Danny Holland , Mary O’Brien and Alan Macilwraith of Open House Cork .

You’ve heard of Open House Dublin?

Well…

Danny Holland writes:

Just in case some of your readers are less-than-happy about being back to work after an Easter break, I thought I’d let you know about something we’ve planned for this weekend that they can be looking forward to.
As part of (the first ever) Open House Cork, some of the finest examples of architecture in the Real Capital will be open to the public, with guided architecture-based tours, free of charge. We also have a range of extra activities for all ages, including walking tours, a film screening and a 3D printing workshop at the Architecture Factory.
As you can imagine because this is a Cork event, it’s going to be pure daycent.
There may also be tay.

FIGHT!

Open House Cork

Pic: Clare Keogh

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You never forget your first time.

Or do YOU?

Darragh Byrne writes:

“We went out onto the streets of Kilkenny to ask people about their first kiss, how they knew they were straight or not and do they think that gay people should be allowed get married? It includes some of the bravest young people and open minded older people I have ever met and gave me huge hope for the vote on marriage equality on the May 22nd. Please make sure you are registered to vote.”

How was it for you?

Thanks Padraig

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Musictown: Sound of Silents @ IFI (Friday 8pm and Saturday 1:30pm / €10/€12)

Nialler9 writes:

Musictown , the 10-day city wide celebration of local music and its many guises kicks off this Friday. There’s lots of free events worth a look from the Breaking Tunes music trail, Public Enemy’s Hank Shocklee and opera on the streets.

The big event this week Barrytown meets Musictown, a celebration of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy featuring Richard Hawley, Imelda May, Glen Hansard, Colm Meaney and more is sold out now so I recommend Sound of Silents, silent films given live scores from Seán MacErlaine, Shane Latimer, Sean Carpio and more…

Nialler9’s Gig Guide April 7-13 (Nialler9)

For the  week that’s in it.

He was the Rory of the day.

Joe Carr, Ireland’s first representive at the Masters in Augusta National, U.S.A in 1967.

Philip Read, of the Irish Times, wrote on the passing of Carr in 2004:

As Peter Alliss, the celebrated Ryder Cup golfer and broadcaster, asserted Carr was the finest amateur golfer in these islands over more than 20 years, during which he won 40 championships and was involved with 11 successive Walker Cup teams, 10 of them as a player.

Amateur!

J.B. Carr

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Jonathan Muhwezi speaking at a protest organised by Doras Luimní and the Foynes Asylum Seekers for Change in Limerick last August

Jonathan Muhwezi, a chemist from Uganda, spent nine months in the Mount Trenchard direct provision centre in Foynes, Co Limerick.

He claims he was moved to the Limerick centre to be punished – after he complained about the conditions of the direct provision centre he had been previously been living in, in Newbridge, Co. Kildare.

Colm Ward, from the Limerick Leader, writes:

“’The food was appalling. We had no heating – the place was cold. It is an old building and some of the windows were broken so it could freeze at night. People used to have problems with coughs and flu and all that. There were cameras in the toilets, it was terrible.’”
…
“He was finally transferred from Mount Trenchard last August following a series of protests in the centre by residents over the food and living conditions. He is now living in Westbourne, a centre for single men on the Dock Road.”

“Mr Muhwezi also spent time in the former Hanratty’s Hotel in Limerick city, now a direct provision centre. There, he claimed, he had to share a room with two men, one of whom was a heroin addict. ‘I was sharing a room with a fellow from West Africa, a Muslim, and another one who was a junkie – he had a heroin problem. He was shooting heroin and there were needles everywhere. The management knew about it but they couldn’t do anything about it.’”

Asylum seeker: ‘I was sent to Mount Trenchard as punishment’ (Limerick Leader)

Previously: Meanwhile, In Limerick

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