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Members of the Labour of Love campaign outside the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in Dublin earlier today

Leah writes:

“The Labour of Love campaign is an initiative from the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and MRCI’s Domestic Workers’ Action Group. The campaign is calling for the protection of au pairs’ employment rights in Ireland and the immediate introduction of a work permit for domestic work, to help end the hidden exploitation of vulnerable workers in private homes across Ireland. It is being launched to coincide with International Women’s Day which is on Sunday.”

Related: ‘Au pair fed only potatoes, forced to eat in bedroom’ – Migrants Right Centre (Niamh Horan, Sunday Independent)

Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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Respondents were asked ‘How often to you feel ‘homesick’?’. The majority of respondents (58.1%) experience homesickness between the range of several times a week and several times a month….

The mmf-inducing results of a survey of 500 recent ex-pats on the ‘migrant experience’ by Catholic-run social care agency Crosscare.

G’wan the 5.33 per cent.

More here: Mind How You Go survey (Crossacre)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G564hU4UKMo

What you may need to know:

1. The door closes on Don Draper after eight years and seven-and-a-bit seasons.

2. At the end of last season, Roger Sterling sold 51% of the company to McCann Erickson. Which is just as well as “Sterling Cooper Draper Price Cutler Gleason and Chaough” wouldn’t fit on the front of the building.

3. Not even Dick Whitman can make the seventies look cool.

4. Vincent Kartheiser is looking forward to letting his hair grow back.

5. The poster (above) was created by design legend Milton Glaser, responsible for ‘ I ♥ NY’ and the DC Comics bullet logo.

6. One of the final episodes is directed by Jared Harris (poor old Lane Pryce).

7. The finale will be written and directed by series creator Matthew Weiner.

8. The stink of cigs in that office must be something fierce.

9. Broadsheet Prognosis: The end of an era.

Release Date:  April 9  (Sky Atlantic).

(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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The first deadline to register for Irish Water was October 31, last year.

This was extended until November 30.

Which was extended until February 2.

But don’t panic

Paul Melia, in the Irish Independent, reports:

“Householders have been given until the end of the year to register their details with Irish Water and avoid paying an annual standard charge of €260 and losing their “free” child allowances.”

“The water regulator says anyone who registers by the end of December 2015 will receive their full entitlement of allowances, but that those who delay until next year will be penalised.”

New deadline for homeowners to register for water (Irish Independent)

Previously: ‘There’s No Clarity On That Right At This Moment’

Denis O’Brien, Fine Gael And The Water Meter Deal

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The Spiral of Tranquility by Less Stress.

A ‘geopathic stress‘ beater (they claimed in ads).

Not so fast,

The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland has ruled:

The advertisers  describe how researchers had come up with the Spiral of Tranquillity range of products using natural gemstones, which had been scientifically selected for their frequencies, chemical composition and magnetic properties to rebalance all disruptions found in the modern home and workplace caused by geopathic stress. These products were shown on their website.
The Complaints Committee considered the detail of the complaint and the advertisers’ response. They noted that the advertiser had not provided relevant substantiation for the claims made in his advertising. They also noted that there was no proof of a cause and effect relationship between the advertising claims and the evidence submitted….

Fight!

Less Stress – Complaint (ASAI)

Thanks Jonathan Benn

Broadsheet.ie