The HSE’s draft report into the death of Savita Halappanavar says that difficulty in interpreting the law on abortion by the medical personnel at Galway University Hospital was a factor in the case, RTÉ News has learned.
Earlier: Unfinished Business
A totally NSFW Slacktory compilation of all the swearing in the first two seasons of Game Of Thrones.
The DUP can’t be happy about this.
Labour party leader Eamon Gilmore (centre) with, from left, Emmet Stagg, Kevin Humphreys and Ruairi Quinn.
In return for one last spin on the merry-go-round for its ageing leadership, Labour would destroy itself….
..They’ve been ruthless in doing whatever it takes to keep the party on the road to its own doom: knifing Joan Burton, who was too embarrassingly right about the bank bailout to be given an economic ministry; losing the stalwart vote-getter, Willie Penrose; backing James Reilly’s clientilism over Róisín Shortall’s principles; painting the party’s chairman Colm Keaveney as a flaky traitor because he was loyal to the party’s stated policies. If voters needed examples of how to politically assassinate Labour politicians the party’s leadership has shown them the way.
Labour Leaders Keep Party On Road To Its Own Doom (Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Off the coast of County Wicklow this morning.
Sinead O’Connor’s 1992 Satruday Night Live pontiff-ripping.
Respectfully rendered By Mick Minogue for Is This Thing On #2 – a tribute to SNL art show in ‘Gallery 1988‘ in LA, which opened over the weekend.
Fair play though, in fairness
Video by Al Hooi
Thanks Ciaran Le Cool
Grafton Street, Dublin, right NOW.
Donall Hoey writes:
Any idea why the British Royal Standard is flying on Grafton Street?
Members of the Inner City Folklore Project, from left: Lee Duff, Noel Bollard, Theresa Brady, Cody Duff and Paul Callery at the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin, at a ceremony yesterday honouring “the men and women of 1916-1923 who fought for Irish freedom”.
Meanwhile…
Members of Republican Sinn Fein during its march from the Garden of Remembrance to the GPO.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
