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An Irish online bartering swap shop whatsit?

Oh go on then.

Andy writes:

“I’m a UI/UX designer based in Dublin. I spent the last year working on a project I’m very excited about and I would like to let as many people as possible know about it.
Yep.ie is a bartering website where people can swap goods and services online for free.
It was launched in February and it has over 30.000 unique visitors per month at the moment. I know there were other people trying to do the same thing but failed this is why Yep won’t be just a simple bartering website where people post ads.
It will combine social media with bartering + other great features which we will implement over the next few months to make it stand out from the crowd….”

A Cliff Richard CD for YOUR thoughts?

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The oath of secrecy signed in 1975 by Brendan Boland (top) and [then] Fr John Brady after Brendan had revealed he had been repeatedly raped and tortured by Fr Brendan Smyth over a three year period

Brendan, then 14, said he hoped that by reporting the crimes to Fr Brady (and two other priests)  it would end the abuse for himself and others.

Before signing, and while Fr Brady was taking notes, Brendan was asked “relentlessly” about his own sexual impulses, behaviour and whether he had “enjoyed” the abuse.

It was not until 1994 that Fr Smyth was convicted of four decades of sex crimes against children.

Cardinal Séan Brady offers pope his resignation (BBC)

Pics via Sworn To Secrecy By Brendan Boland and Darrah MacIntyre (O’BrienPress)

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A survey has found that half the bacon and pork tested in butchers’ shops was imported. That is despite the fact most of the shops surveyed were signed up to a voluntary code committing them to sourcing their products locally. The Irish Farmers Association put 120 samples of back rashers, bacon joints, and pork chops from 11 butchers around the country through DNA testing to check origin.

Pat O’Flaherty, chairman of the IFA’s national pigs and pigmeat committee, said he was disappointed with the finding that 51% of the products were from abroad. “The level of imported product identified by the DNA testing is compounded by the fact that the country of origin was not displayed in any of the butchers’ stores audited,” said Mr O’Flaherty.

Meanwhile, to meet like-minded individuals for a rasher sanger day or night, there’s always Rindr..

Half of butchers’ pork and bacon was imported (Caroline O’Doherty, Irish Examiner)

File Pic: James Horan/Photocall Ireland

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Co Offaly last Sunday.

Edward writes:

“A short I filmed of the Indoor Competitions at Sunday’s Tullamore Show. Vegetables, flowers, cakes, paintings, turf, photography, knitwear, dolls eggs, and even…handwriting! If it’s made or grown in rural Ireland, it’s judged at the annual Tullamore Show.“

Meanwhile.

Outside…

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Maura Fay at the Irish Farmers Journal writes:

Every year at the Tullamore Show, the Irish Farmers Journal, with the support of breed societies, organises the Heifer & Hogget competition. Children aged between 10-18 have the opportunity to win either a heifer (young female cow) or hogget (young female sheep) to take home to their own farm and breed from. I think you’ll find their passion for farming very heart-warming…”

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