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Mash up by Oireachtas Retort who tweetz:
“Some news headlines from the past week…”
Ronan Mullen is running in this year’s European Elections in Midlands-North-West constituency. Don’t vote for him. pic.twitter.com/HR4VUDMc6r
— Linda Kavanagh (@Bubblenoma) April 16, 2014
Alternatively….
It begins.
Rónán-Ronanderry Mullen may be in trouble.
FIGHT!
Minister for children Frances Fitzgerald launches the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020 with Tanaiste Eamonn Gilmore and Taoiseach Enda Kenny in attendance.
It’s an action plan for the kids.
The Minister said that “our children are our present joy and future wealth”
…‘Action Plan for Children’.‘Better Outcomes: Brighter Futures’ is built on the Government’s Medium-Term ‘Strategy for Growth’ which recognised that our increasing child and youth population is a significant resource for our country; and further recognised that ensuring the best possible outcomes for this group is therefore an important element in our future economic planning….
Show them all the cash beauty they can make possess inside
Give them a big mortgage sense of pride
Let the children’s anxiety, obesity, fear laughter remind us how we are used to be.
Mmmf.
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
HamsandwicH – ‘New Song’
Veteran Meath indie lovelies – Niamh Farrell, Podge McNamee, ‘Darcy’, David McEnroe and Ollie Murphy with – literally – a new song.
Thanks Christopher Farrell
Stealth Barn
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Submitted as a contender for the Architectural League’s Folly 2014 competition, the Invisible Barn by New York architects STPMJ is a parallelogram-shaped wooden structure covered with mirrored film designed to ‘disappear’ into a dense grove of trees at the Socrates Sculpture Park
It was not raised by invisible Mennonites.
[The urn containing Kevin Dorothy’s ashes]
Laugh?
He killed.
Kevin Dorothy, 53, who died in December, had wanted to take part in the comedy night at the Belfast’s Pavilion Bar.
On Monday night, one of his friends, Stephen Mullan, took to the stage at the Ormeau Road venue complete with Kevin’s ashes in an urn. The routine consisted of jokes Kevin had texted to Stephen and other friends.
[friend Tom Sweeney said] “Nobody had seen anything like it. You hear about comedians dying on stage. Well, Kevin jumped the gun.”
Dead man fulfils comedy club wish (Johnny Caldwell, BBC News NI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-y9ZqiY90
A video compiled by Newswhip the people-powered news people on how Pantigate – a story intiailly ignored by mainstream media – evolved with YOUR help.
Paul from Newswhip sez:
“We wanted to show how social media and more unofficial online news outlets can drive news agendas…”
Meanwhile…
…holding a minority view does not automatically confer martyr status on an individual. It just means their opinions are unpopular.This phenomenon was evident during the Pantigate controversy when some commentators, railing against the online backlash, seemed to suggest that central to the concept of free speech was the right to express an opinion without that opinion being challenged or derided.No such right exists.
…If there is a threat to freedom of speech in this country, it is not coming from social media, but from people who prefer to make accusations of bullying instead of defending their opinions from legitimate criticism.