The former “public convenience” on the junction between Anglesea Road and Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin across the road from the RDS, one of 70 public toilets that used to operate in Dublin.
As heard on RTE R1’s Mooney Goes Wild today, the toilet is now up for auction by Dublin City Council.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
See what they did there?
A specially commissioned poster by Olly Moss for an anniversary screening of An American Werewolf in London at Fantastic Fest 2011.
Thanks Liam Phelan
Sparky Sweets PhD on the girl whose forgiveness don’t quit even when freaky shit be goin’ down up in Thornfield Hall.
Chris Donoghue tweetz:
Pat Kenny hasn’t arrived yet but the post is in @Newstalkfm
Possible greyhound related correspondence?
This week’s Phoenix.
(Stephen Fry with Vitaly Milonov, the Russian lawmaker who started the ongoing crackdown on Russia’s LGBT community, above)
Stephen Fry writes:
An absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 in Sochi is simply essential. Stage them elsewhere in Utah, Lillyhammer, anywhere you like. At all costs Putin cannot be seen to have the approval of the civilised world.
He is making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews. He cannot be allowed to get away with it. I know whereof I speak. I have visited Russia, stood up to the political deputy [Vitaly Milonov] who introduced the first of these laws, in his city of St Petersburg.I looked into the face of the man and, on camera, tried to reason with him, counter him, make him understand what he was doing.
All I saw reflected back at me was what Hannah Arendt called, so memorably, “the banality of evil.” A stupid man, but like so many tyrants, one with an instinct of how to exploit a disaffected people by finding scapegoats.
Putin may not be quite as oafish and stupid as Deputy Milonov but his instincts are the same.
He may claim that the “values” of Russia are not the “values” of the West, but this is absolutely in opposition to Peter the Great’s philosophy, and against the hopes of millions of Russians, those not in the grip of that toxic mix of shaven headed thuggery and bigoted religion, those who are agonised by the rolling back of democracy and the formation of a new autocracy in the motherland that has suffered so much (and whose music, literature and drama, incidentally I love so passionately).
…I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler’s anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian “correctively” raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.
An Open Letter David Cameron And The IOC (Stephen Fry)
Meanwhile:
Irish youth groups have handed in a letter of concern to the Russian Ambassador today to protest at the violent treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LBGT) young people in Russia after a gay teenager who was allegedly kidnapped and beaten by neo-Nazis died of his injuries.
BeLonG To Youth Services, The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) and the International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) have joined together to express their concern at the rise in public violence towards LGBT young people in Russia following the recent passing of homophobic legislation in the Russian parliament.
Irish youth groups hold Russian Embassy homophobia letter protest (BelongTo)
Glasnevin Boxing and Football Club are up to their b****x doing renovations and they are using this product pic.twitter.com/3MzrGMEV0G
— Matthew Nugent (@Winechat) August 7, 2013
Glenrock Princess gets a shampoo/conditioner wash at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show [which begins today until Sunday] in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin this afternoon.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbaAf4aSIQQ
Rejjie Snow – Snow (My Rap Song)
NSFW.
Ciaran le Cool writes:
The new video/song from Rejjie Snow (the Drumcondra rap-spitter who briefly topped both Kayne West and J. Cole in the itunes hip-hop charts with his last EP, Rejovich). He’s backed by Noisey, Vice’s music channel and about to move to London full time. As you can see by the video, he’s a long way from Dublin 9 now. Swag.
Debenhams UK
Debenhams Ireland
€47 = £30
Hmm.
Thanks Raygun
Dr Peter Boylan, (above) consultant obstetrician and former master of the National Maternity Hospital gave his reaction this morning to Father Kevin Doran’s comments that abortions could not be performed at the Mater, Dublin, top, because of the hospital’s “ethos”.
Here is some of what Dr Boylan had to say to Newstalk’s Breakfast presenter Shane Coleman:
“Well I suspect that Father Doran is speaking in a rather personal capacity and not representing the views of the hospital and I certainly hope that is the case. The whole purpose of a hospital is to save people’s lives and Father Doran is proposing that a woman in an intensive care unit in the Mater Hospital is denied a life saving operation because it goes against his personal ethos or what he would say is the ethos of the hospital, then that is an extremely disturbing thing to say”.
“You can imagine a scenario, say the Mater, for example is associated with the Rotunda Hospital. So supposing a woman who gets seriously ill is transferred to the intensive care unit in the Mater Hospital and needs a termination in order to save her life, and is Father Doran going to stand by her bedside in the intensive care unit and prevent the doctors from giving the care she needs to save her life? I mean it’s really..it’s just not on.”
“Well I can understand Father Doran’s personal view and one has to respect his personal view but he’s not a doctor and there’s too long of a history of the Catholic Church interfering in the care of women, particularly in the area of reproductive health in this state and they really need to back off and leave it to the doctors. It’s absolutely intolerable that a hospital would deny somebody life-saving treatment in the 21st century in a Western country. It just beggars belief to be honest with you.
Would he prefer for both of them to die? For the baby and the mother to die? A lot of people against this Act miss the point that if the mother dies, the baby dies also. So are they happy to stand by and watch a woman die and be denied life-saving treatment because it goes against their personal beliefs which are not shared by the doctors looking after the woman or by the woman herself or by her family? It really, you know we really need to move on from this sort of interference.”
Listen here
Earlier: Nothing Really Maters
Previously: Right To Reply
Dr Peter Boylan and Breda O’Brien: The Transcript
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
