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Mark Sugure writes:

I know you don’t normally do this, but I’d love everyone to know about the fantastic night planned for this Friday in support of the Rwandan Children’s Project. All money raised goes to help finish a primary school in Rwamagana town in Eastern Rwanda.

We sold out the original venue [Whelan’s] so now it has been moved to the larger Village venue on Wexford St, Dublin 2. You can get tickets [€15] on the door or via our website [link below].

Promises to be a great night, and it’s a fantastic good cause.

Rwandan Children’s Project

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Surfers in Mullaghmore last Saturday and Sunday.

Billabong Europe writes:

[Saturday] was the biggest and meanest of the weekend, 40 to 50-feet faces, snow, rain, crazy strong winds – what you would expect from Ireland’s weather in the middle of the winter. Locals were charging and calling it the best day of the winter, Sancho [Benjamin Sanchis] was the stand-out surfer catching wave after wave and surfing them with style and precision.

What about this Saturday?

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Yikes.

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[Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations, left, and Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, the Vatican’s former chief sex crimes investigator during a UN human rights committee hearing on January 16]]

A U.N. human rights committee has denounced the Vatican for adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the churchmen who concealed their crimes.

In a devastating report Wednesday, the U.N. committee also severely criticized the Holy See for its attitudes toward homosexuality, contraception and abortion and urged it to review its policies to ensure children’s rights and their access to health care.

The committee issued its recommendations after subjecting the Holy See to a daylong interrogation last month on its implementation of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the main international treaty ensuring children’s rights.

UN denounces Vatican on sex abuse, abortion (AP)

(NYT)

Thanks Blueswannabe

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Former Managing Director of Anglo Irish Bank, Pat Whelan, top, former Finance Director of Anglo Irish Bank, Willie McAteer, above middle, and former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Seán Fitzpatrick arriving at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin this morning.

The three men are charged with providing unlawful financial assistance to 16 people to buy shares in the bank, and their trial begins today.

They have all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Anglo trial due to get under way (RTÉ)

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