Footballer Aaron Cunningham of Crossmaglen GAA Club.

“There is no place for it whatsoever. You have the likes of my father [Inter-County player Joey Cunningham], he played football as well. I think he was the first black player to play in Croke Park. Jason Sherlock came through it. I’m sure you could talk to a handful of boys and they’ve all had some sort of racist abuse. And as I say, it happened out there today and it’s absolutely disgusting.”

Earlier this year, two footballers from the Duffry Rovers club in Wexford were suspended for two months each after being found guilty of racially abusing Wexford underage dual player Lee Chin.

 

GAA To investigate Alleged Racist abuse (Irish Times)

 

John Logue

“Once [USI President John Logue, above] finished, just one question was taken from the floor before it was declared that we were all going to the Dáil viewing gallery to “scare the shit out of the TDs”. As the small crowd proceeded to jump up with excitement, a councillor asked if he could speak briefly, since he had also been asked to come to the meeting. He spoke while half the room ignored him.

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“The low point was when I saw people, including our own Students’ Union’s education officer, using the hashtag #freelogue on Twitter, creating a comparison between being an idiot in the Dáil gallery and people who have actually engaged in serious protests and been persecuted politically in other countries. Another low was when I saw our Students’ Union’s president making ridiculous comments to TDs on Twitter, including the comment: “I think Intel, Google … etc are not concerned about reading and writing”.

 

Trinity’s Mark O’Meara delivers a scathing appraisal of the USI, following the arrest of its president John Logue at the Dáil a fortnight ago.

Stand up? Fed up. (Mark O’Meara, Trinity News)

Most of the detail of Wednesday’s budget comprising €3.5 billion in cuts and tax rises was signed off at the weekend amid last-minute tension between Labour and Fine Gael.

Government sources said the spending side was “pretty much agreed”. However, some other elements of the budget, such as an extension of PRSI to cover more income, were still to be concluded.

Key elements in the package are said to include a property tax of 0.2 per cent of house value, with a higher rate or “mansion tax” for residences valued above €1 million; a child benefit rate cut of €10; a motor tax increase of 15 per cent; and a reduction from 12 months to nine for payment of non-means-tested jobseeker’s allowance.

Joy.

Coalition parties sign off on bulk of budget despite rows (Dealglán de Bréadún, Martin Wall, Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Photographer and professor of film, Cy Kuckenbaker’s composite video of five hours worth of landings at San Diego airport on Black Friday compressed into 30 seconds.

All planes were shot against a clear blue sky and chroma-keyed together against a cloudy sky background. All inspired, of course, by Ho-Yeol Ryu’s composite of take-offs at Hannover Airport (top pic)

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