Images from The Charles H. McCaghy Collection.
They were the burlesque queens of their day.
We will not see their like again.
Mmf.
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Marin O’Moore (left with her daughter) outside Leinster House within the last hour.
Marin is among a number of symphysiotomy survivors attending a dail debate today on the matter. A symphysiotomy is a surgical procedure to widen the pelvis during childbirth.
It is claimed that Irish obstetricians favoured this method instead of Caesarean sections because women subjected to repeated Caesareans ‘might be tempted to use contraception’.
The procedure was carried out on 1,500 women. The last surgery was 1992.
Today is the first time the issue has been debated in the dail.
Survivors Of Symphysiotomy (Facebook)
Symphysiotomy Issue Gets first Dáil Hearing (Irish Examiner)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3xIxOUFyk
You’ll like this. It’s a mini road movie set on the vast Nullarbor Plain of Southern Australia.
Written and directed by Patrick Sarell and Alister Lockhart.
Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, seen here in calmer times.
Goldman Roiled By Op-Ed Loses $2.2 Billion For Shareholders (Washington Post)
Previously: Lousy Sachs
Confirmed: That Goldman Sachs Deal With Greece
Can anyone tell me the purpose of this door in DCU @broadsheet_ie @DublinCityUni twitter.com/peterfbrennan/…
— Frankie Brennan (@peterfbrennan) March 15, 2012
Our Past
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Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.
The Lyrics Board, St Patrick’s Day special, 1997.
From left: Kevin Hough, Aonghus McNally, and John Keogh.
Golden times.
Via @RTETV50
