New figures from the Eurobarometer public opinion survey on perception of corruption in Ireland – 40% of Irish respondents think corruption is very widespread.
Full Eurobarometer study here
You may recall Deirdre Mullins, who made a radio documentary last November about a friend who conceived during lunch, via a Danish sperm donor, called Pregnant on my Lunchbreak.
She has now made a short film documentary, called Going The Distance, about her father.
Deirdre writes:
“I made about my father, a running addict who was diagnosed with cancer. It won the audience award at the Dingle Film Festival last year. I’ve just posted it on vimeo this morning and would be very grateful if you would share it.”
Previously: Made During Lunch
A weekend of bad news and shocks,
Was in store for the poor Madam Knox,
She’d got off scot free,
But now it seems she,
Might spend decades behind foreign locks.
John Moynes
(ABC)
Go Figure
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Oh.
Coverage in the Irish Times (top) and on the RTE News website of the LGBTNoise demonstration against RTE’s payment and apology to the Iona Institute and John Waters for comments made by Rory O’Neill on The Saturday Night Show.
How many?
YOU decide.
Previously: Gaiety Pride
Born 1997
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And going to the Olympics.
BBC’s Colm O’Molloy writes:
Seamus O’Connor is Ireland’s first Olympic snowboarder and will be competing at Sochi. He’s a US born teenager, with an Irish dad. His mother is Russian, from a town about 100K from Sochi.My friend and colleague Franz Strasser interviewed him the week before last at his home in Park City, Utah, and made this cool video. I’d be delighted if you’d consider sharing it on Broadsheet…
Previously: Ireland Expects
Garth Brooks mania, binge drinking, the homophobic Catholic right shutting down debate. Plus ca change.
— lenny abrahamson (@lennyabrahamson) February 3, 2014
To be Frank.
QuoteFish.
Bit of a trawler.
Simon writes:
I guess this kinda qualifies…Quotefish is a bootstrapped startup based in Wicklow, a kind-of tradesmen.ie but for every kind of small businesses. Since we launched in September last year, we’ve had a few hundred Irish businesses register with us and a few thousand Euros of work offered to them from people looking to give work to local businesses.We’ve also been nominated and runners up or finalists in four awards (that’s almost one a month).If you need something done, don’t pick up the phone, just post it on Quotefish, and businesses will contact you.
Irish-made stuff marked ‘Irish-made stuff’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No fee. Nothing fishy.
Sink Estate
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Residents of the Lee esate, Limerick cope with flooding during the weekend.
“I think the scale of what we’ve experienced here is beyond the resources of the city and county and we’ll certainly be looking for national assistance.”
Frank Crowe, Limerick County Council.
Hayes To Visit Limerick To Assess Flood Damage (Éanna Ó Caollaí, Irish Times)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.
Hardcore.
Via Jonathan Healy Newstalk
Meanwhile, also in Cork this morning:
Via Irish Examiner