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He/she’s out there.

An ordinary decent guard with a dodgy calculator and bad intentions.

The Garda Commissioner has issued a strongly-worded statement in relation to comments by Garda Representative Association President John Parker about crime statistics being massaged.
Commissioner Martin Callinan [above] said there was no information or evidence for these allegations.
He called on Mr Parker to clarify his position and provide any information and evidence he may have concerning the matter.

 

*holding-cell-sized tub of popcorn*

Garda Commissioner questions claim crime statistics being massaged (RTE)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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The Snapzoom Phone Scope Adaptor – a brilliantly simple concept you could easily have come up with yourself but instead was invented by Hawaiian brothers-in-law Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen.

Currently overfunded on Kickstarter, the design attaches any smartphone to any binocular, telescope or microscope eyepiece.

It will almost certainly be a thing you can buy soon.

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00026345 00014152 00000316 00026253 00014150 00026342 00026343 00026308 000002860002634900014157Scenes from the divorce referendum of 1995 (withj black and white images from the divorce referendum of 1986).

The last great fear-mongering culture war before instant fact-checking.

Including, from top: No campaigner Peter Scully (pic 3) Mick Lally and Roddy Doyle (pic 4), Bono with Nell McCafferty, (pic 5) both images taken in the Right to Remarry campaign office in Dublin; Final pic: Emily O’Reilly with John O’Reilly (no relation) of the anti-divorce campaign at the 1986 referendum count centre in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

kahlodalipicassoklimtweiweicocteaumatissewarholFrida Kahlo (and friend, snubbed cat in background), Salvador Dali (with his pet ocelot, Babou); Pablo Picasso (with Minou); Gustav Klimt (with Katze); Ai Wei Wei (with Lai Lai – one of his 40 cats); Jean Cocteau (with Karoun); Henri Matisse (with either Minouche or Coussi) and Andy Warhol (who once owned 25 cats, all called Sam.)

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90299276902992719029926390299315That bus goes everywhere with Lucinda.

From top: Eamon Gilmore, Simon Coveney and Enda Kenny, all outside government buildings this morning and Lucinda Creighton arriving at the Chartered Accountants Leinster Society Luncheon in the Westin Hotel, Dublin.

Meanwhile, from RTE:

It is understood that the heads of the Protection of Maternal Life Bill 2013 being discussed at Cabinet propose three procedures.

One doctor will be required to certify a termination of pregnancy in a medical emergency.

Two doctors will be required in the case of a non-emergency.

In the case of suicidal ideation, three doctors will be required to certify that a woman is entitled to a termination of pregnancy.

The heads of the bill also provide for an appeals process.

 

Three procedures proposed in abortion legislation (RTE)

(Laura Hutton and Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

posterSkinny Wolves: Angel Olsen, Lisa O’Neill, Bill Blood @ Whelan’s, Camden Street, Dublin (€10)

Nialler9 writes:

Ignoring the multi-venue festivals like Camden Crawl Dublin and The Beatyard, Thursday night’s Whelan’s gig with Chicago folk singer and Bonnie “Prince” Billy band member Angel Olsen is a single good bet. Olsen has a voice that combines a breathy country-blues vibrato with an off-kilter folk style. Support from Lisa O’Neill and Bill Blood.

Nialler9’s Gig Guide April 30-May 6 (Nialler9)

Listen to Angel Olsen here

Tickets here

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