Colm Murphy and Union of Students of Ireland President Gary Redmond hold a Funeral Procession earlier to mark the “Death of Education”  as part of the the USI’s ‘Stop Fees, Save the Grant’ campaign ahead of Budget 2012.

Jeremy Prince (with beard), father of Phoebe Prince (a victim of cyber bullying who committed suicide in Boston in 2010) and members the National Anti Bullying Coalition (NABC) after the organisation was invited to outline their Safe Schools Programme to members of the oireachtas.

Members of Stop Climate Chaos conduct a ‘vuvuzela protest’ to urge Enviornment Minister Phil Hogan to make a climate bill a priority ahead of the UN Conference on Climate Change in South Africa next week.

(Sasko lazarov, Laura Hutton, Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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“The cheek of Brian Cowen. Fifty one years of age, a qualified solicitor and he’s getting what? €132,000 for sitting on his arse at home. He sat on his arse for long enough in Dublin doing nothing.”

Aidan Cooney this morning on TV3.

Starts getting heated at 2.25.

Via Politics.ie

The Irish family of deceased missionary Bro. Gerard Dillon has described RTEs Prime Time programme ‘A Mission to Prey’ as ‘utterly despicable’ and a breach of natural justice, and have asked that their brother’s name be cleared or proof be shown to back the single allegation.

‘Mission to Prey’ carried an accusation from a South African man, Mr Tyrone Selman, that he was abused by Bro. Dillon.

The Dillon family claims that RTE¨ was ‘casually indifferent’ to them by not contacting them or the Christian Brothers in South Africa and have ignored their correspondence on this matter.

…The Irish Catholic has discovered from other sources that the Prime Time programme did not contact the Christian Brothers in South Africa where Bro. Dillon was a missionary for 60 years and therefore did not seek to see the personnel file on Bro. Dillon or speak to those in charge.

The Irish province of Christian Brothers was only contacted the weekend before the programme and expressed concern to Prime Time that the Dillon family had not been contacted.

Prime Time did try and contact a former South African brother living in Ireland but were not successful.

The Irish Catholic has also discovered that RTE¨ has claimed to have two other allegations to back up the Dillon allegation but has not disclosed these sources…

Subsequent to the airing of the programme, the provincial of the Christian Brothers in South Africa did make email contact with the alleged victim of abuse who asked for no further contact but did stand over his allegation.

However, the files in South Africa and Ireland contain no evidence at all of any hint or allegation of wrong-doing by Bro. Dillon.

His family accuses RTE¨ of abusing power, just like the Church did in some cases, and says that just because Bro. Dillon is dead, doesn’t mean he is not entitled to have his long life of loving service vindicated along with his reputation.

 

Taken on November 10 (using three exposures and tonemapped with Photomatix)

Yes, it’s Ireland.

But where?

Lines close at 4.30pm.

Update: Yes, it’s Eask Tower, Carhoo Hill near Dingle, Kerry by Neal O’Brien. Neal writes: “The glass was blown out of the WWII watch tower in the background a few days before by stormy winds according to a woman that lived at the foot of the hill and had a visitor centre there.”

‘Where Is This?’ images to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

This just gets better and better:

The influential coordinator of the centre right group in the European Parliament’s Budgetary Affairs Committee has told RTÉ News that she voted against Kevin Cardiff’s nomination to the Court of Auditors because both Irish and Socialist MEPs prevented a postponement of the hearing.

Ingeborg Grassle (above), a German MEP from the European People’s Party said she had requested a postponement of the hearing in order to submit further questions to Mr Cardiff about his role in the Irish banking crisis and Ireland’s request for an EU-IMF bailout.

She said the refusal by Socialist MEPs on the committee meant that she had no choice but to reject his nomination.

She said the Socialists on the group wanted to avoid a postponement because there was pressure to postpone the hearing of the Spanish nomination to the court.

Mrs Grassle also confirmed that she had received emails from the current auditor Eoin O’Shea (above) about Mr Cardiff’s application but said that he had in no way tried to jeopardise Mr Cardiff’s candidacy.

Mrs Grassle said she did not have the impression that Mr O’Shea was trying to “act against” Mr Cardiff. She added that any information he provided to her in no way affected her vote.

She also told RTÉ News that she had received at least 20 emails from Irish citizens urging her not to accept Mr Cardiff’s nomination.

Some of these emails, she said, were extremely detailed.

Mrs Grassle said she wanted the extra information about Mr Cardiff because of fears over a potential conflict of interest if Mr Cardiff were to be appointed to the Luxembourg based Court of Auditors.


MEPs Blocked Cardiff Hearing Postponement (RTE)

 

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