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Giraffe received just over €1 million in state funding for the 2011/2012 pre-school year and just under €1 million for 2012/2013.

Like taking sweets, etc.

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Previously: When Childcare became A “Growth Sector”

Giraffe, Links And ‘Little Harvard’

rhinoThe hornless rhinoceros head from the Natural History Museum, Dublin.

On some manner of cardboard box ‘flap’.

By Nicky Hooper, who writes:

So I went to one of my favourite places in Dublin – the Natural History Museum – and had forgotten that the rhino had his horns removed as a precaution against theft. They are making replicas, however in the meantime, they have pretty much ripped them off his head, so he looks a bit brutalised and pretty sad, poor rhino – I think I need to knit him a hat…Hopefully they [the museum] will get funding one of these days so that the upper two floors will be accessible again.

 

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

Nicky Hooper

The Natural History Museum?

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We may recall last week’s preparations at Eastpoint Business Park?

Well, Westmeath literally beat off {sides from] eight other counties to win the first Red Bull Cúl 5…

…a pop-up five-a-side tournament using “an adapted version of the game” and played inside a specially built 50 x 30m pitch.

Niall Bouzon writes:

Finally got our video up on YouTube. Hope you would be willing to share it. Its a cool project. We are trying to get a five-a-side gaelic football game going in Ireland. It is something that could be played anywhere, in any part of the country. The hope is to keep people playing GAA. We also turned an urban waste land into a pretty cool pitch.

 

 

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JFK’s words spoken through “the voices of Ireland”  including Jim Sheridan, Jamie Heaslip, Sharon Corr, Robert Sheehan and Tubs.

Diarmaid Keane at the US Embassy writes:

On the occasion of President John F. Kennedy’s birthday on May 29th, today the National Library of Ireland in partnership with the U.S. Embassy and RTÉ Archives launched a social media campaign and website which celebrates the 50th Anniversary of his visit to Ireland in June 1963.The goal of the campaign is to encourage people to share their family stories, photos, memories and thoughts on the visit.

Where’s a ‘lone nut assassin’/CIA conspiracy when you need one?

JFK Homecoming

ExaminerCrecheCutOut1_largeExaminerCrecheCutOut2_largeExaminerCrecheCutOut3_largeThe Irish Examiner‘s exposure of creche childcare services in Ireland since 2006.

Claire O’Sullivan writes:

There was an avalanche of promises and commitments from ministers and the HSE in 2007, but as this week’s Prime Time showed, nothing has changed.
Childcare in this country is still of dismally low quality, yet services are obscenely overpriced while staff are woefully underpaid and undertrained and the regulatory framework has fewer teeth than a four-month-old.
Breaches revealed by inspections are repeatedly ignored, creches aren’t named and shamed, and little more than a handful of owners ever end up in the courts — and then fines are derisory. Under the Child Care Act, a breach leads to a €1,270 fine.
Despite the clamour five, six, and seven years ago, inspections still aren’t unannounced but are pre-planned, giving managers ample time to deep clean the premises, stock up on toys, ensure a full complement of beaming staff and all documents are up to date.
Contrast this with food hygiene inspections, where teams arrive unannounced and can shut down the premises in 24 hours.

 

Another creche scandal … but we’ve been here many times before (Claire O’Sullivan, Irish Examiner)

Previously: Giraffe, Links And ‘Little Harvard’

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