Loughrea, Co Galway.
Thanks Ronan Skehill
A still unidentified man and woman at the garment factory collapse in Dhaka Bangladesh, on April 24.
Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too.
They are witnesses in this cruel history of workers being killed. The death toll is now more than 750. What a harsh situation we are in, where human beings are treated only as numbers.
Photographer Taslima Akhter
The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh (Time)
Previously: Saving Penneys
John Beatty writes:
“Some people – Brand new Audi RS5 outside the Merrion Hotel moments ago No Tax / No Insurance.”
Residents of Priory Hall at the Four Courts in Dublin this morning
The Council has paid close to €3m to cover the rental and other costs for the residents who are unable to return to their homes built by bankrupt developer Tom McFeely.
However, since the case is currently in mediation between the residents, the council and the residents’ mortgage providers, the five-judge panel ruled it is in the best interests of all concerned parties to adjorn the appeal hearing until October 15.
Priory Hall appeal adjourned to allow mediation continue (Independent.ie)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile,
A sympathetic typo of the same story earlier.
Thanks David M
From Al Jazeera’s documentary, ‘The Abortion War’.
Ohio State Representative Jim Buchy, who is attempting to impose Irish-style abortion restrictions in the Amercian mid-west, is asked “What do you think makes a woman want to have an abortion?”.
Hat tip: Niamh Pitts
Tough Times
at
Available for proper Tom Gauld fans as a 21 x 25cm print later this month.
Ballymena legend Liam Neeson apparently pictured shooting a cameo for ‘Anchorman: The Legend Continues’ on Tuesday.
He has a very particular set of skills you know.
Liam Neeson is filming a cameo for ‘Anchorman 2′ in Atlanta (Onlocationvacations.com)
Thanks Sarah Byrnes
Woosh
at
Vincent Browne was joined by Off The Ball/Irish Times’ Ken Early (centre) and Jonathan Healy (right), of Newstalk, to discuss Alex Ferguson stepping down from Manchester United.
And the Irish Sun‘s front page on the same subject.
Vincent Browne: “In the Sun, they’ve a great, great cover in the Sun, ‘The Hairdryer’. That with which Alex Ferguson was famously associated. He threw a hairdryer, I think, at David Beckham, in the..is that right?”
Ken Early: “No.”
Browne: “Who did he throw the hairdryer at?”
Early: “The hairdryer is a metaphor for the, for the current of, hot air generated by furious blasts of temper.
Jonathan Healy: “There was a boot?”
Browne: “Yes, it was a boot he threw..”
Early: “There’s all kinds of stories about what happened to David Beckham. I mean, there was a..Ferguson said he kicked a boot. Maybe he did. There was, there was other stories about it. But it wasn’t a hairdryer.”
Browne: “Oh, sorry, I thought it was, I always thought that he threw a hairdryer at David Beckham, which I thought was quite appropriate. Ehm.”
Watch here. Go to 26.04
Ah Eyre
at
Members of Occupy Galway in Gitmo-style attire promoting their return to Eyre Square, Galway.
For a day.
Reoccupy Galway writes:
“To mark the anniversary of the unconstitutional dismantling and destruction of our camp in Eyre Square, Occupy Galway will be holding an event.”
“Re-Occupy Eyre Square will be a day of music, workshops, food and informative talks, revisiting the reasons for the setting up of the camp and asking, “Has anything gotten any better?” “What can we do to affect constructive change?”
“The event will take place on Thursday the 16th of May from 12:00 midday.”
“All are welcome.”
Previously: Occupy Galway: Going