More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Mike Hogan 4FM
Outside No.1984.
Anti gay law protestors outside the Russian Embassy, Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin, this evening.
Previously: The Silver Linings Playbook
Thanks Evelyn Leen
Aja Teehan and her husband Charles Brand top, outside the High Court following the judgment found against her application to have a home birth with a midwife contracted to the HSE.
Ms Teehan, who previously had a caesarean section, was told
the HSE does allow home births under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between themselves and independent midwives who to carry out home births. Under those terms, the HSE has agreed to indemnify independent midwives under terms which exclude potentially risky births include vaginal birth after Caesarean section (Vbac) which Ms Teehan wants to have.
…Changing the criteria for women who want to have such births would be a “clinical decision, based on assessment of the risks involved which the court is not entitled to make”
Woman Loses Legal Challenge To Home Birth Ruling (Irish Times)
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Crackers
at
Christmas ones.
Declan and J write
Never too early to stock up on Christmas crackers.. Debenhams, Square Tallaght, this afternoon…
What a professional looking welcome home whatsit.
Rob Heffernan and Marian Heffernan at their joint press conference in the prestigious Oak Cafe, top, and at arrivals at Terminal 2, Dublin airport, above, moments ago.
Luckily Rob packs his own lunch.
Via Dublin Airport, Colin Griffin and Tianna
Update:
Rob and Marian arriving from Moscow at Dublin airprot and with their children, Megan and Cathal.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
He’s back.
Kenneth Thomas analyzes the latest attempt to claim that Ireland is a success story — is this the third or the fourth time around? — and concludes that the modest fall in unemployment is all about emigration. Actually, we can reach the same conclusion by going straight to employment data (above).
This is not exactly a policy triumph.
The one sense in which Ireland has made some progress is that it has somewhat reassured bond investors that its population will continue to sullenly acquiesce in austerity; as a result, Irish 10-year rates, while still at a large premium, are now 60-80 basis points below those of Italy and Spain.
But the repeated invocation of Ireland as a role model has gotten to be a sick joke.
Dude.
It’s Friday.
Ireland Is The Success Story Of The Future, And Always Will Be (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
On The March
at
Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi marching in Cairo, Egypt, today.
Egypt crisis: Deaths as Cairo violence resumes (BBC)
AFP
Meanwhile…
Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, this afternoon.
Thanks Brian
From the Tumblr Head Like An Orange – a spectacular and constantly updating collection of clips isolated from nature documentaries by Netherland based artist Marinus.
Many more here.
Redjono writes via the Broadsheet App:
Ruff commute [Clonskeagh, Co. Dublin]
Internment, you say?
Over a period of 60 years from 1922 to 1996 a European Sovereign State interned without trial thousands of young females. They handed them over to jailers who beat, humiliated and in many cases worked them to death and buried them in unmarked graves.
They forced them to work without pay under slave labour conditions whilst profiting from their output. No, this wasn’t Nazi Germany or Perfidious Albion, it was the Catholic Irish State whose sustained ill-treatment of those young women in the Magdalene laundries was infinitely worse than any methods allegedly used by the British Army in any of its counter-terrorist campaigns.
Next time Sinn Fein hold an anti-internment rally, maybe they will do it in O’Connell Street, Dublin, rather than than Royal Avenue, Belfast. Let him who is without sin, etc.
Ex-Serviceman
Lisburn