This afternoon.
‘Controversial’ ‘Donegal Day’ (part of Galway Rag Week) in The Hole In The Wall, Galway.
A tipple, the odd cig, bit of sun…on a Tuesday?
WHY can’t they be STOPPED?
Attorney General Marie Whelan
YOU decide.
The Eight Amendment, which protects the life of the unborn, has been invoked by Enda Kenny to explain why his party could not support Clare Daly’s legislation to permit abortion in the case of fatal foetal abnormalities.
The advice given has not been formally published extracts were leaked in last Sunday’s Sunday Business Post.
The paper reported:
“The advice states that where babies are capable of being born alive, “it is quite clear that Article 40.3.3 is engaged”….The Attorney General’s view is unequivocal, and leaves no room for doubt that the legislation proposed by independent TD Clare Daly last week to allow abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality is in conflict with the Constitution. The advice notes that there is no consensus as to what is meant by the term “fatal foetal abnormality”. However, it says, in many cases there is a possibility that such foetuses would be born alive. This is the case with conditions such as Edwards Syndrome and anencephaly. Even though babies with these conditions will eventually die after a period which in some cases may be very short, the Attorney General advised that the constitutional protections of Article 40.3.3 apply.”
However.
On foot of this, Unemployed Lawyer writes:
When you look at the terms of the Bill (Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013) put forward by Ms Daly, this Bill (Section 1) actually defines ‘fatal foetal abnormality’ in such a way as to remove the concerns voiced by the Attorney General, so as to confine it to an abnormality ‘incompatible with life outside the womb’.
A foetus suffering from an abnormality ‘incompatible with life outside the womb’ cannot by definition be born alive. As such, irrespective of how ‘fatal foetal abnormality’ is defined in ordinary life, the way in which it is defined in the Bill appears to deal with the concerns expressed by the A-G.
Was the Attorney General made aware, when providing this advice, of the definition of ‘fatal foetal abnormality’ in Section 1 of Ms Daly’s Bill, as this does not appear clear from the extracts from the advice apparently provided by her – even though this advice was described as having been provided ‘last week’?
And also – was her sole objection to fatal foetal abnormality legislation – as appears from the SBP article (extract above), which of course may not reflect accurately the Opinion as a whole – based on the possibility that it might apply to some foetuses capable of surviving outside the womb. Perhaps your esteemed caffeinated legal friend might advise…
Previously: Was It Really Unconstitutional?
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Friday February 20th: BLOG PARTY: Dear Desert, September Girls, Bitch Falcon, Carriages, @ The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin (€12)
Nialler9 writes:
Irish music sites The Last Mixed Tape, Goldenplec, Le Cool and Nialler9 each picked one of our favourite Irish bands of the last year and asked them to play. Abner Brown’s Barber Shop hosts while Choice Cuts are bringing DJ crews Dip, Well Known & Diskotekken together for the after party.
It’s a NASA tradition for every ISS expedition to have its own commemorative group-shot poster.
As you’ll know from The Big Bang Theory, scientists love nothing more than a bit of sci-fi cosplay.
Except maybe science.
More at the NASA space flight awareness homepage.
That’s uncle Chris Hadfield (Exp 35) at the bottom there.
Spelling Bee
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Playwright Danny Thompson, co-founder of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck, takes footage of Samuel Beckett wandering around Berlin in 1969, adds the theme from The Streets Of San Francisco and creates opening titles for the best, moodiest and most existential 70’s Quinn Martin cop show you never saw.
The episode title is Beckett’s own.
(Thanks Cúán MacConghail)
Barista Tom Stafford, of Dublin’s Vice Coffee Incorporated
‘sup?
The Best Irish Coffee EVER.
As voted at the Dublin Whiskey Festival last night..
Combine a double Espresso a 40ml of the 3FE Momentum Blend
35.5ml Teelings Single Malt
18ml brown sugar syrup & 100ml hot water in a warmed glass.
Top with Glenisk Organic Cream infused with orange zest & a sprinkling of freshly grated nutmeg.By Tom Stafford at Vice Coffee at the Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.
Hic.
Fight!
The Dublin Whiskey Festival continues at participating bars until February 21
Remaindeered
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Further to Anne Marie F.’s suggestion, Shane Delahunty writes:
Had started tracking these around the city…
Red-Nosed Remaindeers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked Red-Nosed Remaindeers
The Arrested
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This afternoon
A press conference involving those arrested and released after the Jobstown Water protest {including teenager Jason Lester] in Buswells Hotel, Dublin to announce a demonstration this Saturday [Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin at 2pm] to call for a stop to what they regard as political policing and to defend the right to protest.
From top: Jason Lester , Sandra Fay, Carol Purcell, Frank Donaghy and Paul Kiernan; (l-r) Clr Ciaran Mahon, Damien Cain, Jason Lester , Sandra Fay, Carol Purcell, Frank Donaghy and Paul Kiernan.
Yesterday: Kids Say The Funniest Things
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
How Many?
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Um.
We may need more trolleys.
The level of hospital overcrowding has deteriorated further with 551 patients waiting today for admission to a bed. It represents the fourth highest level of overcrowding recorded since emergency department and ward waiting figures were collected by the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation.
Gwan Leo.