Cover via MikeHogan4FM
Thanks Lars Biscuits

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Police say the footage shows the 29-year-old woman walking outside a bridal dress shop on Brunswick’s Sydney Road at around 1.40am (AEST) on Saturday.

It shows a man in a blue top walking back and forth on Sydney Road. He then starts talking with Ms Meagher outside the bridal store at 1.42am to 1.43am.

She is in high heels and is carrying two bags.

He then walks off ahead of her and she waits behind for a moment, then continues walking.

 

CCTV Footage Shows Jill Meagher Talking To A Man (Sydney Morning Herald)

Police Release CCTV Images Of Missing Woman (ABC)

THE RTÉ steering group of senior executives is to meet tomorrow to discuss coverage of the forthcoming referendum on children’s rights, which takes place on November 10th.

The normal approach in referendums is to give equal representation to both sides. However, the low profile of the No side has raised issues as to whether this approach is appropriate on this occasion.

Informed sources said the forthcoming referendum was “fairly unique” and that it was difficult to remember any other poll where there was “virtual unanimity” on one side of the question among elected representatives and lobby groups. The difficulty in allocating coverage arose because “the No side is just so small and so much on the margins of society”.

Meanwhile, on the margins of society…

Nora Bennis of the Alliance of Parents against the State, set up last month to oppose the amendment, said: “RTÉ should give equal time to both the Yes side and the No side.”

“How do they know the No side is so small? I believe the No side will win. I deal with people on the ground and I know what people are saying,” she added.

 

RTÉ executives to outline referendum coverage plan (Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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The Man O’ War pub, north county Dublin. Minutes ago.

(Thanks Liamo)

Meanwhile, to Arthur’s [in the Liberties, Dublin]

 

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A message to Irish Americans in Boston by then Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney on March 17, 2005.

Thanks Nevan Riley.

A Romney Thing A Day To Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

Apparitions by French artist Soasig Chamillard. Madonna reinvented: found or damaged Virgin Mary miniatures reimagined as pop culture icons. As you’d expect, Chamillard’s work is not to everyone’s taste:

In 2011, Chamaillard’s reimagined icons created quite the controversy in Nantes, France, where Catholic critics declared her exhibit at Galerie Albane “scandalous,” “shameful,” and “blasphemous.” One disapproving commenter wrote on the Catholic web site Observatoire de la Christianophobie: “Faced with so much sacrilege tears came spontaneously to my eyes.” Another user simply stated: “May this ‘artist’ burn in hell and may flames devour this gallery.”

The spirit of Christian forgiveness, there.

The Virgin Mary Becomes Superman: Artist Soasig Chamaillard Creates Saintly Pop Culture Icons (Huffington Post)

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(For Charles Kenny)

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