A CGI teaser for Project Stratos: a Red Bull sponsored skydive that will take place for real tomorrow at noon GMT.

In a jump planned for the last five years, Felix Baumgartner will drop from 23 miles above the earth in the hope of becoming the first skydiver to break the sound barrier on the way down.

And you can watch it live.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxGLx0Gk_M

A video for the Jack and Jill Foundation.

Brigid Flanagan, of Termonfeckin, Co Louth, recounts her experiences after her son Richard was born severely brain damaged.

Thanks Roisin Keown

Jack & Jill Foundation

President Higgins visits the graves of former Chilean president Salvador Allende (top with Allende’s daughter, Isabel) in Santiago and poet Pablo Neruda (middle with Sabina Higgins) in Isla Negra during his South American tour,.

(Chris Bellew/Fennels)

An MS patient writes:
I am a patient of the pain clinic at University College Hospital Galway (above). After 12 years living with chronic pain caused by my Multiple Sclerosis a treatment was found to treat my chronic pain and enable me to live a near normal life; after years of trying various medications and blocks.

You can only begin to imagine the joy I felt that first morning after having a lidocaine infusion to wake ‘pain free’ it was akin to rebirth. I was in a position to be the mother and wife I had longed to be but was unable to become due to pain and the side effects caused by medication.

The clinic and I had a system where I would call once the pain began to return, as I am sure your aware each infusion is effective only for a certain time span; this can vary wildly depending on the stability of my ms.

I would receive an appointment for the day ward within a few weeks, this was managed in such a way that I never fell into the state of unbearable nerve pain I had had to endure in the past, in fact my pain consultant stated he would bring me in monthly for treatment if his budget would allow.

Since September I have been living with the pain once more, I am a victim of cuts at UCHG, cuts you sanctioned. I am now in a state of living death: sleeping taking Oxynorm then sleeping some more.

In fact I have now become dependent on the drug not just to treat the pain but because my body needs it! you must be experienced from your time as a GP how quickly a persons body becomes dependent on highly addictive medication, especially when used for more than two weeks; I am on week six right now. I have been informed that the earliest appointment I can have at the day ward is on November 21, a further six weeks.

I have now reached the stage where I believe this situation is an infringement of my human rights and most certainly a breech of the Patients Charter. I will be seeking a legal representative to force the HSE to meet the requirements of the patients charter and seek compensation for the physical and mental pain and suffering I am enduring and will continue to endure even after my appointment as I will need weaning off Oxynorm, all of which could have been avoided by a 30-minute visit to the day ward.

I await your response and plan for a solution to my intolerable situation

Jennifer Banks

From RTE:

Awesome one-take music video to promote RTÉ Big Music Week 2012. This video was filmed on the grounds of RTÉ on Saturday 29 September 2012. Shot in one continuous take, featuring a cast of hundreds lip-synching to the classic Irish rock song by The Stunning, ‘Brewing Up a Storm’.

Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby has been aware since the mid-1990s that a priest he moved following allegations of child sex abuse continued to abuse children in his new parish, contrary to statements by the bishop last month.
Twice last month Bishop Kirby asserted that the priest in question did not abuse children in the parish to which he moved him.
The Irish Times has learned that the man referred to as Priest A in the NBSC [National Board for the Safeguarding  review of Clonfert abused a total of 17 victims in the diocese.
Nine of these were in Kiltormer parish, from where he was removed by Bishop Kirby when it emerged in 1990 he had abused a child there.
He was then moved to Creagh parish where, it is believed, he claimed to have abused five more children.
Priest A also said he abused a further two children in Portumna and one other in the diocese.
It is understood that Priest A disclosed all these details to Bishop Kirby, as well as to statutory authorities, while serving his prison sentence in Arbour Hill.

Clonfert Bishop Knew Of At Least 22 abuse Cases (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)

Previously: He Thought They Were Cured

Thanks Lars Biscuits

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