This morning.
They’re playing good cup bad cup.
Sue McK writes:
How many Garda does it take to buy the tea?
Anyone?
Lines MUST close at 1.15pm
Stop That
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Former health minister Dr James Reilly, top, at the publication of the terms of reference for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, above, this morning
The legislation requires that the Government determine clearly the matter of significant public concern to be investigated.
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Terms of reference to be specific in terms of the events, activities, circumstances, systems, practices or procedures to be investigated. — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Relevant period for the Commission of Investigation into Mother&Baby Homes & certain related matters is 1922-1998 – Reilly
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Primary focus is on the experiences of the women and children who lived in Mother&Baby homes in that time period – Reilly — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Entry&exit pathways for mothers and babies, living conditions and mortality rates are among the issues the Commission will examine – Reilly
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Terms of Reference are based on a combination of four distinct factors. — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
1. Clarifying that the focus is on single women and children bring accommodated for the purpose of receiving extended and supervised… 1/2
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
…maternity and infant care services in Mother and Baby Homes. 2/2. — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
2. Defining the specific issues of public concern as discrete matters to be investigated.
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
3. Specifying a list of Homes and providing for examination of equivalent experiences within the network of County Homes. — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
4. Defining the relevant period as being from 1922 to 1998 while allowing the Commission to reduce the ‘relevant period’ in respect… (1/2)
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
…of any component part or institution if it considers if appropriate to do so. (2/2). — MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Social historian Professor Mary Daly and Dr William Duncan, an expert in international family law, appointed to the commission.
— MerrionStreet.ie (@merrionstreet) January 9, 2015
Meanwhile…
Of first glance, TOR for #MotherandBaby homes inquiry appear reasonable re specific homes, but sadly no mention of #Magdalene Laundries — Colm O’Gorman (@Colmogorman) January 9, 2015
Gov must not continue to assert that McAleese interdepartmental review was in any way an effective investigation into #Magdalene Laundries
— Colm O’Gorman (@Colmogorman) January 9, 2015
There has been no independent proper investigation into abuses in #Magdalene Laundries. #MotherandBaby investigation appears to ignore this
— Colm O’Gorman (@Colmogorman) January 9, 2015
More to follow.
Previously: Reputable History
Solidarité
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This morning.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny with the French Ambassador to Ireland, Jean-Pierre Thebault, at the French Embassy, Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 to express condolences for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
Cakes at Chez Max, Baggott Street, Dublin 2.
Via Chez Max
Fionnan Sheahan (left) and Cormac Bourke,
Independent.ie reports
Fionnan Sheahan, INM’s Group Political Editor, has been appointed as Editor of the Irish Independent. Cormac Bourke, Executive Editor at the Irish Independent, has been appointed as Editor of the Sunday Independent. Both editors will report to INM Editor-in-chief Stephen Rae and their appointments will begin with immediate effect.
This changes everything.
EVERYTHING.
INM appoints two new editors to Irish Independent and Sunday Independent (Independent.ie)
Jubilation in the INM newsroom this morning.
Via INM
Austin Harney, of Campaign for the Rights and Actions of Irish Communities (CRAIC)
While satire is under attack,
Thank God for the good folk at CRAIC,
Who’ll stand up and fight,
Against jokes about blight,
And give John Bull’s telly a smack.
John Moynes
Pic via Austin Harney
Dublin council workers clean up the scene where another homeless man died overnight in Dublin. pic.twitter.com/N3McX2Z5OK
— Michael Doyle (@MDoyler) January 9, 2015
Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin this morning.
More to follow.
Update:
The Homeless Executive has not released the man’s identity but he is believed to have been a Lithuanian in his mid 50s.
The man was found dead at Cow’s Lane in Temple Bar very close to the headquarters of the Homeless Executive in the Civic Offices building.
A passerby noticed the dead man around 7am and the emergency services later pronounced him dead.
He had been working here and living in private accommodation before becoming involved with homeless services in February 2011.
In a statement, the Homeless Executive said that homeless services had made a number of interventions with the man and the Housing First organisation met with him yesterday to assess his health needs and to help with his application for housing.
But it said the man did not present himself for emergency accommodation last night and there were nine empty beds available.
Killarney District Court, Killarney, Co Kerry
Viliam Simonic with an address at Pinewood Estate, Killarney was before Killarney District Court in connection with a number of breaches of bail conditions.
The 28 year-old father of four children and one fostered child had breached the conditions several times, the court heard.
Judge James O’Connor said that Mr Simonic was no saint and had been arrogant and aggressive.
He said too many people and non-nationals in particular were regularly flouting bail conditions and treating the bail system here like confetti.
There you go now.
Judge says many non-nationals treating bail system here like confetti (Radio Kerry)
Thanks Jerry O’Sullivan
Midnight’s Lost Children.
A rediscovered Irish-made film on the street children of Kolkata [formerly Calcutta].
Journalist and filmmaker Alison O’Reilly (above left) writes:
Midnight’s Lost Child is the story of Kolkata’s 250,000 street children and was shot in 2003 with the help of The Hope Foundation in Cork. It was completed in 2005 thanks to two years of fundraising and bag packing with friends and family. It sat on the shelf until 2008 because none of the national broadcasters would contribute to it or air it after it was made.
However in the meantime it was screened at several international film festivals and won Best Human Rights Director at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival in 2008. It was then aired on TV3 (after midnight with no promo) however the Irish Times picked it up and described it as a ‘hidden jewel in the schedule’.
The Culture Unplugged Film Festival in the US got in touch with the director and asked if they could screen it at their festival entitled ‘Humanity Explored’ this year and so far it’s one of the ‘most viewed’ films in the festival. They have also requested the Rachael Keogh documentary ‘My Heroin Hell’ which aired on Sky News in 2008 for next year’s festival.
Watch Midnight’s Lost Children in full here
Taken
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After a dramatic car chase, casualties, and gun fire, police in Paris have cornered the suspects in Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo magazine attack near Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. Amidst efforts to “neutralize the perpetrators,” a hostage crisis rages on.
[French Interior Minister Bernard] Cazeneuve confirmed that an operation to “neutralize the perpetrators” of the attack against the Charlie Hebdo magazine is underway and that the kidnappers are the Kouachi brothers
.Reports are coming in from French media about shots fired in the Seine-et-Marne area in northeastern France, and also a hostage situation and a car chase. RTL reports that at least two people have been seriously injured during or before the hostage-taking in Dammartin-en-Goele.
Gunshots, car chase, hostage situation northeast of Paris (RTL)
Pic Oliver Ceru