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Gaelscoil Bharra, Cabra, Dublin yesterday (top) and today

Anon writes:

“This [above] is the replacement prefab at Gaelscoil Bharra, Cabra, Dublin at a rent of €30,000 per year. The school has been waiting on a new school building for 20 years. It was finally promised one in 2012. Work was due to start this summer but a relatively minor boundary dispute has held it up. In the meantime, 3rd class had their roof fall in [top]. So 30k has been spent on renting something for a year (exorbitant in itself) which should only be needed for a few months, and which shouldn’t have been needed at all.”

And the lesson is?

Homeschooling! 

Don’t pay retail for prefabs?

Anyone?

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From top: Muffins from Fresh, buns from Insomnia and the pair together.

Two Spongey, sugar glazed balls of the Cake God.

Same great taste.

Same premises.

Radically different PRICES.

Sam writes:

“Bought a ‘white chocolate and lemon’ muffin in the Insomnia attached to Fresh in Grand Canal Square [Dublin] today. Cost €2.50. (top) While leaving, we saw the exact same type of muffin on display a couple of feet away in Fresh for €1.65 (second pic). We bought it, for research purposes, at the till in Insomnia. (You can do this for all Fresh products – shows how closely the two are linked). Diifferent colour wrapping/case, no noticeable difference in taste but a big price difference (85c!) between €2.50 and €1.65 for a muffin. There ya go. Be careful out there folks. ;)”

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Full price with beard.

Richie writes:

“Roy Keane bukes practically being given away at Easons, The Pavilion in north county Dublin…”

Just don’t mention that handshake.

Thanks Richie

Earlier: Meanwhile, In Cork

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Saskia Weber and Terry Prone of the Communications Clinic

You may recall the unresolved Tuam Babies saga.

During the Summer, French documentary maker Saskia Weber sought access to members of the order running the Mother and Baby home at the centre of this international story..

The reply was swift.

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And fairly blunt, in fairness.

In reality, between 1925-1961 when the home was run by the Bon Secours Order of nuns, 79 per cent of children born there died there.

The whereabouts of their bodies are unknown.

Even the head of the order conceded to one relative:

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And if she doesn’t know…

Meanwhile, Ms Weber’s documentary will be shown on France 3 by independent producers Sunset Presse, whose Les Blanchisseuses de Magdalen (1998) inspired the making of The Magdalene Sisters (2002).

See?

PR works.

Saskia email Via Kevin Higgins

French TV Documentary (JPRodgers)

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BBC NI political correspondent Martina Purdy chooses religion.

That’s Stormont for you.

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