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[Today’s Irish Daily Mirror front page]

Kathleen was just 20 when she went into Airmount Maternity Hospital in Waterford to have her second child in 1966…little Patrick was transferred to Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin for a “small procedure” – and never seen again.
It was only after decades of heartache and secrecy that she discovered he was buried in a pauper’s grave in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery.
[Kathleen] also found out her little son’s heart and lungs had been removed for research purposes.

Mother and baby home horror: ‘My baby was taken from me and I was told he was dead… I want to know WHY?’ (Alana Fearon, Irish Mirror)

Previously: Human Lab Rats

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A man from Nigeria has said he is afraid to move into his new Belfast home after he arrived to find five people protesting on the doorstep.

Michael Abiona, 34, was greeted with posters reading “Local Houses 4 Local People” at Glenluce Drive, east Belfast, on Tuesday.

Mr Abiona who has been living in Northern Ireland since 2010 said four women and a man were outside the house.

They asked how he had managed to get the house and whether he was disabled.

Now, he said, he will not move into the Housing Executive property at Knocknagoney because the mother of his son is frightened and will not allow their child to visit the house.

Mr Abiona said he had reported what happened to the police.

Protesters tell man he is not welcome in east Belfast (BBC News NI)

Update:

listen to ‘"I've got to think of safety of my son" – Nigerian man on the east Belfast protest that's left him afraid to move into his new home.’ on Audioboo

Mr Abiona spoke to Lisa McAlister on BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘The Stephen Nolan Show’ this morning.

Meanwhile…

Video – Robinson: East Belfast housing protest ‘not racist’ (Mark Devenport, BBC News NI)

Previously: Ulster Says No

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Dublin at dawn. Kilmainham overlooking the Feeno.

Thanks Sharon Crowley

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Portmarnock Beach (6 a.m.)
Aoife Bermingham

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Cliff walk between Greystones and Bray

Thanks Kimbo

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Killiney/Dalkey on the Dart

Thanks Emma

Meanwhile, In County Cork.

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