Ah heyor.
Specific Gravity writes:
St James’ Hospital Dublin, today. Offices for the project team. At least three different signs with the same howler.
Tag Archives: children
Squarehead and Owensie will play a fundraising gig in aid of the Middle East Children’s Alliance in Whelan’s, Dublin, at 8pm.
Thanks Barry Lennon
Kids Kursing
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A sweary compilation of proto-pottymouthedness (adorable aside from the inexplicable inclusion of Exorcist clips which have lost none of their power to shock) by freelance editor Avaryl Halley.
NSFW, obviously.
Wiseness
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Minister for children Frances Fitzgerald launches the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020 with Tanaiste Eamonn Gilmore and Taoiseach Enda Kenny in attendance.
It’s an action plan for the kids.
The Minister said that “our children are our present joy and future wealth”
…‘Action Plan for Children’.‘Better Outcomes: Brighter Futures’ is built on the Government’s Medium-Term ‘Strategy for Growth’ which recognised that our increasing child and youth population is a significant resource for our country; and further recognised that ensuring the best possible outcomes for this group is therefore an important element in our future economic planning….
Show them all the cash beauty they can make possess inside
Give them a big mortgage sense of pride
Let the children’s anxiety, obesity, fear laughter remind us how we are used to be.
Mmmf.
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
A letter sent by former Garda-turned whistleblower John Wilson to his bosses in October 2011.
In it, he raises his concerns about young children being recorded on the PULSE system as suspect offenders.
PULSE (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively) is the computer system used by gardaí since November 1999 and contains information about: recording crime; traffic management; progression of criminal cases through the courts, including the outcome; firearms licensing; driver licences; insurance; character vetting.
According to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, information can only be put on the system for a clearly-stated purpose.
Mr Wilson alleges that hundreds of Traveller babies – one as young as 16 days old – have had their names put on the PULSE system, with each child getting a criminal intelligence PULSE number.
How this would happen, he claims, is that if a Garda stopped a car driven by a Traveller, and if there were children present in the car, those children’s names would be placed on PULSE.
Mr Wilson says that gardaí were encouraged to do this by senior gardaí.
Mr Wilson says that gardaí are in the practice of stopping and searching young people in certain, “working-class areas”, under the Misuse of Drugs Act and that gardaí would put these youths’ names on PULSE and record them as having been searched for drugs.
Mr Wilson alleges that this uploading of names to PULSE would take place even if, during the course of a search, nothing untoward was found.
Mr Wilson said he has never received a response from Garda management in relation to the letter he sent two years ago.
Previously: Fingers On The PULSE
“Research for a major new campaign being launched next week to tackle childhood obesity had highlighted the poor choices being made, said Orlaith Blaney, chief executive of McCann Blue advertising agency.”
“Together with healthy eating body Safefood she had interviewed parents around the country to discuss what children were eating and why, in order to come up with an ad campaign that would help people make healthier choices.”
“We questioned mothers in inner city Dublin going to get McDonalds, and blending it and giving it to her young child,” she told the FSAI conference.”
Mum blended McDonald’s meal for her baby – conference told (Irish Independent)