Edinburgh, Scotland tonight.
Vera Markevich writes:
“Just had a [Midnight] stroll down the Royal Mile to Hollyrood. Nice peaceful mood down there, vigil-like….”
Scotland Referendum Live Blog (BBC)
Pics Vera Markevich
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O Connell St the night Ireland became a Republic. ….. Great picture. pic.twitter.com/q4NG1Lr2o0
— David Doherty (@davydoc1971) June 17, 2014
*wipes tear from glass eye*
An animated parable produced by Brazilian animation studio Vetor Zero for the Global Commission on Drug Policy that uses a fairytale setting to highlight the disastrous failure of the war on drugs.
The dragon is the war. No wait, the king is drugs and the dragon is the people and the…man, is anyone else hungry?
WORLD PICTURE EXCLUSIVE! Bono Cloud spotted over Edinburgh Castle as Scotland votes. #indyref pic.twitter.com/x7DBVTwvzN
— The Poke (@ThePoke) September 18, 2014
Ah here.
Tanaiste Joan Burton
“Ms Burton also said that schools are governed by their boards and it is a matter for each individual school how they would decide how they want to use JobBridge…
“…The latest figures from the Department of Social Protection, which runs JobBridge, show that 182 people have taken up positions in the education sector over the past month. That is 18% of all JobBridge placements for the period. A further 110 positions are currently being advertised, with 43 schools advertising for 56 Special Needs Assistants (SNA)….”
Burton: Cleaning work not suitable for JobBridge (RTÉ)
(Photocall Ireland)
Storyfold – The Lost and The Lonely
Pete Murphy writes:
“Here’s the charming new video from Storyfold, all filmed in one afternoon on Dublin’s South Circular Road. We started at Kilmainham Jail, past IMMA, Rialto, Dolphin’s Barn, the old John Player factory, the boxing stadium, the Dublin Mosque, three Catholic churches, Polish shops, Lithuanian shops, African shops, Griffith College, many restaurants, pharmacies, hairdressers, cafés, butchers and grocery stores. To all those people who live there, walk the road and make it what it is, thank you. We hope you like it…”
Video “put together” by Billy Keane from WRK Productions.
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From last night’s BBC2 documentary ‘Ireland’s Lost Babies’, Sacred Heart nun, Sister Sarto Harney, [Mother Superior of Bessborough Mother and Child Home] made a reappearance.
Cathy Deasy, who was adopted, had been trying to trace her mother for years and wrote many times to Sister Sarto. Sister Sarto suggested that her mother was dead.
But Cathy discovered her mother was alive and had spent 35 years in an institution after giving birth to her in a mother and baby home.
She confronted Sister Sarto in 2002 and captured the moment on video.
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From 1996, in an RTÉ Prime Time documentary Sister Sarto said:
“I think it is the right of every individual to know their background and we help in any way we can to put people in contact with their parent of origin.”
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Earlier this year on TV3, Sister Sarto said in relation to Bessborough Mother and Baby Home that no babies were adopted or vaccinated without the mothers’ permission:
“I think it’s sad that it’s come to this. We gave our lives to looking after the girls and we’re certainly not appreciated for doing it.”
Ireland’s Lost Babies is on RTÉ One tonight at 10:15pm.
Previously: Staying In Tonight?
This afternoon.
The proudly affirmative Twitter Trend Map for the Scottish Referendum.
Real time here (scroll down for Catalonia)
Thanks Spaghetti Hoop
Meanwhile…
If Scotland votes 'NO', perhaps England should then have its own referendum on whether to let them stay in the UK.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 18, 2014