Blackpitts, Dublin this morning.
People Before Profit’s Tina McVeigh.
Sort it.
Thanks Cat Robertson
Tag Archives: Elections 2014
[Minister for jobs Richard Bruton, abpve and Bausch & Lomb, Waterford]
If entirely predictable.
Independent TD for Waterford John Halligan said it is “deeply disturbing” that Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton knew jobs were on the line for a number of months and did not bring it to the attention of the Dáil.
Mr Halligan said that given Waterford has been one of the worst-hit areas in the country for job losses since 2008, Mr Bruton needed to bring information he had about potential redundancies and pay cuts to the attention of local politicians.
Bausch + Lomb to cut 200 jobs in Waterford with 900 more at risk (RTE)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Cable News
at
Sheila Larkin asks:
“So who left their cable ties behind at Kelly’s Corner [at the junction of Harrington Street, Harcourt Road, Upper Camden Street and South Richmond Street Dublin]?”
Anyone?
Yesterday: The Ties That Bind
This morning.
Nick Moran writes:
“A small selection of cable-ties left behind on Station Rd, Lusk [Co Dublin]. Why? too fupping lazy,that’s why.”
The count centre at the Citywest Hotel, Dublin his morning.
RTÉ exit polls show that Independent and other candidates appear to have won the highest percentage of the vote in yesterday’s local elections, while Sinn Féin appears to be on course to win an MEP seat in Dublin.
From pic 5: Richard Bruton (left) and Labour candidate Andrew Montague (right); People Before Profit candidate Bríd Smith; David Hall; Mary Mitchell O’Connor (red) and Green Party leader and MEP candidate Eamon Ryan; Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald and Labour’s Pat Rabbitte.
Voting today.
From top: Eamon Gilmore in Shankill, Co Dublin; Eamonn Coughlan in Castleknock, Co Dublin; ; Brian Hayes in the Kingswood Community Centre, Dublin 24; 104 year old Dorothea Findlater in Blackrock, Co Dublin; Mary Lou McDonald in Cabra, Dublin; Nessa Childers in Goatstown, Co Dublin
Earlier: How Did YOU Vote?
(Laura Hutton, Mark Stedman, Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins cast their vote in the European and Local Elections in St. Mary’s Hospital in the Phoenix Park in Dublin this morning.
Democracy.
Mmf.
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
This morning ‘s ‘wraparound’
Oisin writes:
“Bad form on polling day…”
North Wall, Dublin today.
Thanks Wayne F
Oxmanston Road, Dublin
Andy Sheridan writes:
“A veritable plague…”
Ranelagh, Dublin today.
Kate writes:
“Is this long narrow sign purposely clever or by chance clever?”
Anyone?
You may recall a post from yesterday which included excerpts from a blog by Joan O’Connell in relation to local election candidates being prohibited from canvassing at Ireland’s direct provisions centres, which are home to approximately 4,360 asylum seekers. This is despite adult asylum seekers being allowed to vote in the local elections.
The post included a picture of a July 2008 letter from Noel Dowling, of the Reception and Integration Agency, which is responsible for the care of asylum seekers. It claimed the RIA had been made aware that certain party literature was being sent to managers of certain direct provision centres with requests that the material be given to residents. Mr Dowling’s circular basically stated that political party leaflets and posters were prohibited from being on display or being circulated in direct provision centres.
Well.
UCD law lecturer Dr Liam Thornton has written an update on the matter this morning on the Human Rights In Ireland blog.
He writes:
On April 23, Noel Dowling of the Reception and Integration Agency issued Circular 1/14 to all direct provision centre managers [see here: RIA Circular 1-14 of 23 April 2014] noting that there can be no display or distribution of party political leaflets, posters or circulars to residents. This did not prevent addressed literature from being delivered to residents.
On May 14 2014, Noel Dowling of the Reception and Integration Agency issued Circular 2/14 to all direct provision centre managers. This circular varies Circular 1/14 of April 2014 in one important respect:
Candidates who call into centres may be allowed to drop off election leaflets to be picked up and read by residents if they wish. This material may be left in a suitable designated area of the centre such as the reception desk. Candidates may, if they wish, place on their leaflets their contact details or details of political meetings outside the centre to which residents can be invited.
That’s good of them.
Previously: Alternatively