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MORE to folly.
Thanks Nick Sutton (UK covers); Enda Cunningham (Galway City Tribune); Enda Bolger (The Irish Sun); Dermot Ahern (The Irish Examiner)
Covers tobroadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Booterstown, Co Dublin this evening.
Thanks Conor Cavanagh
Paudie Coffey this afternoon
The Government hopes to end long-term homelessness by the end of 2016, according to Minister of State Paudie Coffey.
He was speaking before meeting more than 50 delegates involved in the sector with Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly to explore measures to alleviate the Dublin homelessness crisis. Fine Gael and Labour previously made a commitment to end homelessness in their Programme for Government. The term of the current Coalition will end in March 2016 at the latest.
Coalition repeats pledge to end homelessness, as forum starts (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)
Meanwhile, four years ago:
The government will tomorrow publish a four-year strategy to eliminate long-term homelessness against a backdrop of claims from voluntary groups that homeless people are being turned away from services due to funding shortages.
About 40 key services for homeless people which were due to come on stream this year have been shelved due to a funding freeze imposed by the Health Service Executive (HSE).
Homeless agencies in Dublin and Cork say they are turning away dozens of homeless people as a result of their emergency beds being used to capacity.
Despite the lack of funding available to develop new services, the Government is due to publish a new strategy aimed at eliminating long-term homelessness by ensuring homeless people are not in emergency accommodation, such as shelters or BBs, for longer than six months.
Plan to end homelessness to be unveiled as funding freeze bites (Irish Times , August 20, 2008) -behind paywall
Good times.
Update:
The homeless summit this afternoon from left at Paudie Coffey (right), Community and Local Government, Alen Kelly TD, John McCarthy, Department General Secretary, Shirley Groarke, Principle Officer for Homelessness at Department, Annette O’Donnell, Dublin’s Catholic Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson, Lynn Glanville, and Paul Reed, Fingal Chief Executive, at the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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This is a Christmas song.
Christmas All Year Round.
A chestnut roasting ballad for all the family written by Dubliner Rob Burke and Eagles songwriter Jack Tempchin, sung live by Rob and featuring jazz guitarist Louis Stewart.
Rob has attracted collaborators including Oscar and Grammy winner Paul Williams and the Motown legend Lamont Dozier for his debut album More Than Me.
Christmas All Year Round (released on Friday) is available now to pre order on iTunes here
Dazzle your friends.
Take off your Xmas jumper to reveal your Xmas tee.
The wearing of items from the Savage Christmas Tee shirt range [see link below] at this time of year is a tradition as old as Jack Frost himself.
The range is available at Savage’s pop up store in conjunction with the Christmas Shirt Company in St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre.
We have two (yes TWO) Xmas jumper-style tees (as above) in 100 per cent cotton and in ANY size to recklessly give away.
Savage would like to you to tell them:
The worst present I have ever given was____________________to my____________________
Lines MUST close at 5.45pm 8.45pm
Thanks Katie
From left, Ruth Coppinger TD, Pearse Doherty TD, artist Robert Ballagh, Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Seamus Healy TD.
Mark writes:
Political affiliates of the Right 2 Water Campaign holding a press conference in Buswell’s Hotel {Molesworth Street, Dublin] today to coincide with the beginning of the debate on the Water Services Bill 2014 and to further outline plans for the demonstration at the Dail on 10th December.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)
Minidrones Blew Up My Toys: a slick, live action Corridor Digital short wherein remote controlled cars and miniature drones battle over batteries stolen to save the life of a teddy bear.
A story old as time.
Lebensraum
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Brown Thomas car park, Dublin city centre This afternoon.
Beamers be beaming.
Thanks Ciaran Cahill
Meanwhile…
Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin
Simon Judge writes:
JCDecaux chap putting ads up [this afternoon] too busy to see he ‘inADvertently’ parked in a bike lane
Petrified Irish Times ‘Pol Corr’ Harry McGee
And say it anyway.
“It looks like the next Dáil will be settled by Independents. I don’t think the number will be quite the 52 that has been projected but I think they will almost have a seat in every constituency. And then people would have to think through the consequences of that. Like just what Shane Ross and others have been saying in the past week, they’ve been saying that they would dispense with the whip system which is a political popular thing to say.
But it means that, I mean, the reason for the whip system isn’t, they’re not just doing it for the health or the discipline of the party. They’re doing it because they have to ensure that when they’re making very tough decisions, when they’re doling out the tough medicine for everybody, that there has to be some discipline and they have to make sure that everybody is on board and if they were to throw the whip system open, as some Independents are doing, it would mean that you’d have a system where taxes would inevitably be cut and spending would be increased and you get the kind of most populist policies being projected and then, in relation to legislation, you’d have TDs subject to intense lobbying both from vested interests and also from their constituencies and you have situations that would conceivably lead to stagnation and paralysis.
There’s not really been any instance in Europe of a country in which and independent administration has been successful. The only place indeed it has worked is in very small instances. You’d have to go to Tahiti islands and other places to see that. So people would have to think through the consequences of what their vote will mean and if the figures that were projected this morning come to pass, I think it will lead to inherent instability and a general election being called in short order. We’ll have a 1981/1982 situation… when there were three elections held in the course of just a year and a half.”
Ah here.
Following the Ispos poll results in the Irish Times this morning, on Today with Seán O’Rourke, the newspaper’s political correspondent Harry McGee warns voters to “think through the consequences”.
Listen back in full here.
Earlier: Ispos Factos
Pic via YouTube
A what now?
Alison Martin writes:
How about a ten-man (and women) show with 1,400 characters? New Line Theatre is in the grip of a Twitter play challenge. Over the course of ten days, writers are posting their scenes to the @Newlinetheatre Twitter page for its Play With 1,400 Characters. The play finishes tomorrow and will be published in full on Monday. Featuring writers @columkav, @MartinAlison, @turnthegoat, @ahayzer42, @zoedunlopdoyle, @michaelconway10, @cadubh, Heather Hadrill, Adrian Wisdom and @WestleyBarnes.