This morning.

Copy and paste, you say?

Via The Irish Times:

…The mother, who does not drink alcohol due to a medical condition, was a single parent in the home with her two children at the time. The reference to social workers’ fears of her “alcohol misuse” were repeated in several records in the family’s case file.

An internal review by Tusla, seen by The Irish Times, found the reference to parental alcohol abuse had been added into the case file due to a copy and pasting error.

The reference to alcohol misuse had been left on a form that was used as a template by social workers. “When a copy was made of this template, it was not properly redacted and, as such, a reference to parental alcohol use was on this copied template,” the review said.

Good times.

Tusla incorrectly added reference to ‘alcohol misuse’ into mother’s file (Irish Times)

Previously: Pasted In Error

From top: Cygnet swan at River Barrow, Bagenalstown by Marcin Kaczmarkiewicz; Grey seal pup on Great Saltee Island, county Wexford by Ruth Kelly; Fox cub in Ravenhill, Belfast by Tristan Bane; Fallow buck at Phoenix Park by Edele Cunningham; Starling murmuration at Lough Ennell, Mullingar by James Crombie; Hare on Rathlin Island, county Antrim by Johnny Mitchell; Barn owl at Ballyfin county Laois by Feargal Quinn; Kingfishers mating at River Boyne by Andrew Yeates

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Eight of the twelve finalists who have been chosen from over 7,000 entries in the RTÉ and the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland’s Eye on Nature wildlife photographic competition/

RTÉ’s Mooney Goes Wild and The Today Show launched the competition in January this year, to ‘celebrate the flora and fauna of our island’.

The  finalists’ photographs can now be seen at and at the National Botanic Gardens (for anyone living within 5k).

Eye On Nature (RTÉ)

 

Emma Langford – Free To Fall

An adorable pooch is a man’s best friend.

That’s the message from this beautifully made video for the latest single by Limerick nu-folk songsmith Emma Langford (top) from her excellent second album Sowing Acorns.

The promo was written, produced and directed by Laura O’Shea who also stars in it alongside Tony Doyle and Bryony Flatman. Not forgetting Doug the dog.

Hi-fives all round.

Nick says:Who’s a good boy?

Emma Langford

Free tomorrow night?

Spend St Patrick’s evening with All-Ireland medal-winner and renowned Gaelic football pundit Joe Brolly as he talks to Stockholm Gaels chairman Philip O’Connor in a special St Patrick’s Day fundraiser for Nordic GAA at 9pm.

Philip writes:

Over the years, Joe has collected almost as many stories as he has medals, and he will be sharing some of them on this unique evening, with a particular focus on the whistle-blowers who – for better or worse – often end up in the spotlight.

Gaelic games in the Nordic region are expanding rapidly, and one of the big challenges is getting qualified referees to travel to the various tournaments and paying their expenses.

A referee officiating at a Nordic tournament usually faces a two-day round-trip of at least 1000km, often reffing a dozen or more games in a day and featuring clubs all over the region.

The funds raised will go towards their travel costs for the upcoming season and the general development of the games among the Vikings here.

Whether you’re a player or a coach in Scandinavia or just a fan anywhere in the world, it’s a perfect way to spend your St. Patrick’s Day!

Tickets here

‘I Hope’ (2021) by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota: 10,000 letters suspended by red threads in the nave of Berlin’s König Galerie.

The letters are notes from people all over the world sharing their dreams for the future after a year in lockdown. Two wire boats appear to float upward at their centre, evoking a sense of travel into some unknown, hopefully better future..

You may recall the artist’s 2015 project that made similar metaphoric use of housekeys.

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