kelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW0-nfFNUUs

 

 

Gerry Kelly MLA goes for a leisurely stroll down Memory Lane.

voting reformFurther to Brian Hayes’ ‘controversial’ thoughts on the matter.

Mark Phillips, of Future Matters, writes:

This comic [above] shows the reality the thousands or Irish people face once they move abroad to find work. Not only has our economy discarded of them, so too has our democracy.
As part of the Seanad reform proposed by Katherine Zappone and Fergal Quinn, emigrants would finally have some say in their country.

I hope this makes people see the potential for a reformed Seanad as they consider how to vote next week. A No vote would help make votes for those abroad a reality; a Yes vote would wipe out any realistic possibility.

 

Future Matters

lily

Last seen on Monday night at 8pm causing “a ten minute traffic jam” on the Blackglen Road in Sandyford, Co Dublin.

And then running down “past the old fitness centre into Ticknock Park”.

No sign since.

Owner Lyndsey writes:

Lily [11-year-old Lab] bolted from our friend’s house where she was being looked after when her owners were away. We think she was trying to find her way home, and by the sounds of it from where she was last spotted, she was going in the right direction. she could be anywhere in Dublin.

People who’ve spotted her have said she looks very frightened, and by now she must be very hungry and tired. We’ve contacted every pound, garda station, vets etc, but to no avail .We’re all in bits since she’s gone missing.Thank you!

Anyone?

EmilyOReillyEmily O’Reilly at the Equality Rights Alliance conference in the Westbury Hotel, Dublin yesterday

“When O’Reilly was appointed in 2003 (despite opposition from two ministers, she has been told), the Fianna Fáil-led government of the day had just decided to curtail severely the Freedom of Information Act.

She believes the act came as “a huge shock to the system” for the Civil Service, and that while overall the culture has changed enormously over the past decade, “pockets of secrecy” remain.”

“Certainly the Department of Justice, for its own cultural and historical reasons, remains very secretive, very closed. If there is one thing I regret, it is that asylum, immigration and prisons are still outside any independent complaint-handling watchdog.”

 

Outgoing Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, above, speaking to the Irish Times ahead of taking up her new position as European Ombudsman in Strasbourg next week.

Emily O’Reilly interview: ‘I wasn’t going to park 20 years of my life’s experience at the door of the office’ (Irish Times)

Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

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