Today’s coverage of the death of Mina Bean Uí Chroibín does your newspaper and the values it aspires to vindicate no service. It must also be deeply hurtful to her family. The deaths of Radovan Karadzic and Bashar Al-Assad will assuredly receive more balanced and contextualised treatment than you have afforded Bean Uí Chroibín.

 

Eunan O’Halpin
Professor of Contemporary Irish History,
Centre for Contemporary Irish History,
Department of History,
Trinity College Dublin,

Death Of A Campaigner (Eunan O’Hailpin, Irish Times Letters)

Previously: Mena Cribben: What Was Not To Like

“>httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTNalKwnIpQ

Hassle Merchants: Let’s Start a War

Mary Catherine Brouder writes;

I thought you might appreciate this music video by a Dublin band Hassle Merchants, which explores the Iraq war, and the relationship between oil companies and Iran.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxIiZQzMNRc&feature=youtu.be

So called because he/she is a dog sitting on a donkey in Dingle, Co Kerry.

Tadhg O’Riada writes:

You can keep your Existential Salthill Dog. Down here we have the dingle donkey dog. How much more Irish can you get?

Work resuming this morning on foundations for the The Marlborough Street bridge [Dublin].

It will Connect the Luas Green and Red lines for the first time [following the granting of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála last week]..

The Luas BXD line will run from the Luas Green line at St Stephens Green to the Iarnroid Eireann station at Broombridge in Cabra,

They “hope” to have the first passenger across by 2017.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

From Bray.ie

Bray Town Council and Bray Chamber are screening Katie’s fight  at Shoreline Leisure, Southern Cross Road, Bray (outdoors).
There is no public parking permitted at this venue. So there will be park and ride facilities from Old Dell Car Park and Bray Dart Station where shuttle buses will bring the public to the Shoreline Leisure Centre venue and back. Buses will start at 3pm from both locations. Fight starts at 4.45pm<

 

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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