An Fear Bui tweetz:
Wall, Dublin 8 [translates to] ‘You can’t hear me either’.
UPDATE: A superior follow-up to an earlier Andy Somers tweet we spotted on the Twitterz (thanks Andy):
“Dog being wheeled around in a buggy, Dublin.”
Previously: Sup?
A German businessmen’s Irish-registered car burned out in Belfast overnight.
A long summer so.
The Belfast Telegraph’s headline is a wee bit odd?
German business delegation’s car burned out in Belfast (BBC News NI)
Via Kevin Sharkey
Via Squinter
Hat tip: Mikey Sheehy
Should you find yourself in Dublin.
And wish to object to the tactics employed by Youth Defence during its American evangelical Christian right wing-funded advertising blitz across the country?
Or just politely request that more care is used by YD when parking their ad truck close to schools, women’s refuge centres, etc.?
Rebekah McKinney-Perry, Karl Gill and Emer Sugrue write:
Youth Defence posters littered all over the city are not representative of the majority of the country’s views; we cannot be the silent majority any more.
Come along if you can and let Youth Defence know that their actions will not be tolerated any more and we will not let them hold the country to ransom any longer.
Protest At Youth Defence HQ (Facebook)
Previously: Opposite The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre
Billboard company discontinues Youth Defence campaign after Rape Crisis Centre incident (Journal.ie)
Pic Bob Coggins
Meanwhile…
Ah here.
Thanks James M Chimney
They The Men
atIn three months coverage after bank guarantee on Morning Ireland & Breakfast 93% of interviewees were men. From my paper at #IAMCR13 today.
— Kevin Rafter (@kevinrafter) June 28, 2013
Lecturer in politics and media at Dublin City University Dr Kevin Rafter is at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in DCU today.
Oh.
The Sinn Féin Summer School in Ballyvourney, Co Cork tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.
Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade and Irish Independent columnist Alison O’Connor will be discussing the topic: ‘Media ownership – does it matter?’ on Saturday afternoon.
Should be interesting.
A woman who broke her hand in a fall while “dirty dancing” in Copper Faced Jacks has lost her case for damages against the club
— Dyane ConnorTV3 (@DyaneconnorTV3) June 28, 2013
Woman loses claim after ‘dirty dancing’ at Copper Face Jacks (Mary Carolan, Irish Times)
Previously: Nobody Puts Baby In Plaster
Limerick’s Rebecca Barry and that goal.
Up for an ESPY for ‘best play’
Edward writes:
Rebecca Barrys’s hockey goal you featured a while back, has just been nominated in the ‘best play’ category at ESPN’s ESPYS awards. Probably the first Irish nominee?
Rebecca is up against Khalil Edney’s ‘Buzzer Beater’ in the NBA.
Vote here (click through for ‘Best Play’)
The 32-county tee.
As gaeilge.
Only $12.
Kevin Carter writes:
designed a T-shirt of all the counties made up of their names in Irish with a few towns thrown in for good measure.
I think your readers might like it and I need to get at least 50 pre-orders before It gets the go ahead to be printed.If you felt like sharing that would be awesome but no pressure. The campaign is here
Confused.com
at
Mr [Billy] Timmins (above), in a parliamentary question, asked how many girls in State care were “taken” to Britain or elsewhere for an abortion “following a court decision, following testimony from a psychiatrist for the State that she was suicidal”.
Yesterday Mr Timmins described the response [Six under-18s since 1992] as “worrying” and asked: “If this legislation is about saving women’s lives, why was the treatment not provided in Ireland?”
The Department of Health has said the issue of consent for minors for access to medical treatment is not covered in the Bill, “but is one which needs to be addressed separately”.
Why indeed, Billy?
Timmins to vote against abortion Bill (Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times)
(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)