Kildare yesterday.
Double-fronted shed – all the way.
(Thanks Atticus)
Labour Senator John Whelan hospitalised after bar room incident.wp.me/p1XLDT-nS #vinb
— Paul Duggan (@PaulDuggan_) May 27, 2013
Previously: This Is How Rumours Start
(Photocall Ireland)
He came from north County Dublin.
Bringing tears to the eyes.
Rory Nugent writes:
My friends and I have, for too many years, referred to the heart-pounding fear of a rancid hangover as a visit from ‘the Onion-Man’. I thought it was just an odd reference between friends until we heard other people in Malahide [Co Dublin] use it – then other people around Dublin. Now I’m wondering, has the Onion-Man been menacing people around Ireland? Around the world?
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Cróna Esler, Mike Hogan 4FM, Darragh Clifford, Simon Webb, Jane Last, Joe Donnelly and Sean Fitzmaurice.
FF Cllr Sean Martin (Michael’s brother) says JFK not Pres during Vietnam, so that should not be mentioned in discussion of JFK comm #CorkCC
— David O’Sullivan (@David_OSullivan) May 27, 2013
Workers party Cllr Ted Tynan changes the humorous mood of chamber, he mentions Vietnam War and #napalm #agent-orange and US Wars #CorkCC
— David O’Sullivan (@David_OSullivan) May 27, 2013
The toilet that JFK used in the Cork Lord Mayors office could be a tourist attraction says FF Cllr and Former LM Terry Shannon #CorkCC
— David O’Sullivan (@David_OSullivan) May 27, 2013
JFK was in Cork in an open top car and didn’t get shot, and yet he was shot at the USA #quoteofthenight #CorkCC
— David O’Sullivan (@David_OSullivan) May 27, 2013
“We’ve shot ourselves in the foot on this one.” Poor choice of words by Cllr O’Connell in reference to the lack of JFK celebrations. #corkcc
— Alan Healy (@alanhealy) May 27, 2013
Cllr Kieran McCarthy informs us that JFK’s Cork visit came just weeks after his famous Berlin speech. #corkcc
— Alan Healy (@alanhealy) May 27, 2013
Cork City councillors keeping it topical at tonight’s council meeting.
Bender from Futurama and Anglesea Street Garda station, Cork.
(Thanks Eoghan Walsh)
A young and old James Joyce on (we’re guessing) Wicklow Street, Dublin.
from James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner (O’Brien Press) by Spanish artist Alfonso Zapico.
Liam, of the Comic Cast writes:
The May episode of Ireland’s #1 Comic Book Podcast – The Comic Cast – is now online featuring guest reviewer Mark O’Halloran. Comics reviewed include James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner, Big Jim And The 1913 Lockout by Rory McConville/Paddy Lynch and Half Past Danger by Dubliner Stephen Mooney. We also interview O’Brien Press editor Helen Carr about publishing graphic novels and talk to Clare artist Declan Shalvey about drawing Marvel’s Deadpool.
If the shame and guilt of an abortion doesn’t get you then cancer will or so Dr Seán Ó Domhnaill would want you to believe:
The importance of the fact that US National Cancer Institute researcher Dr Louise Brinton, the chief organiser of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) workshop in 2003 that persuaded women that “abortion is not associated with increased breast cancer risk” (April 2009) has reversed her position and now admits that abortion and oral contraceptives raise breast cancer risks, cannot be over-emphasised.
Dr Brinton’s admission that abortion raises breast cancer risk by 40% is no surprise to those on the anti-abortion side who have repeatedly stated that abortion is bad medicine; that surgical or medical intervention is inappropriate for psycho-social stress that could be better relieved by more compassionate, albeit time-consuming, intervention.
We should be willing to give that time, rather than jump to the supposed “quick fix” that leaves one dead and one wounded, the latter physically, psychologically and quite often spiritually. The importance of the spiritual element cannot be ignored in a society such as ours, where women often suffer tremendous spiritual angst as a result of their abortions.
The “anniversary reaction”, where women have attempted to take their lives on the anniversary of their abortions, or the anniversaries of the baby’s expected date of delivery, is well-recognised. I have been working in the area of post-abortion counselling since 1998, when I returned from the Channel Islands where I first encountered post-abortion psychological sequelae.
The National Cancer Institute concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer. A summary of their findings can be found in the Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop. The evidence overall still does not support early termination of pregnancy as a cause of breast cancer.
Is breast cancer linked to abortion? (Dr Sean O’Domhnaill, Life Institute)
Abortion, Miscarriage, and Breast Cancer Risk (National Cancer Institute)
Do Abortions Cause Breast Cancer? (Slate)
(Wanderley Massafelli / Photocall Ireland)