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90069420Jim Wells MLA

Behold the new NI Minister for Health Jim Wells.

He replaces Edwin Poots.

What can we expect?

Jim pictured with Bernie Smyth of Precious Life [above] in their efforts to stop the Marie Stopes clinic performing abortions in NI.

What could possibly go wrong?

Previously: Some Men’s True Hate

Love Them Both

Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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Office Posture Matters: An Animated Guide by animators Flikli was made:

…to raise awareness about the importance of maintaining a good posture and staying mobile in the office after realizing just how much time we spend sitting down illustrating, animating, and the rest.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo6QNU8kHxI

A sobering and effective split-screen PSA from the Heart And Stroke Foundation of Canada.

If you’d prefer the happy version, just cover the right hand side of the video with your liver-spotted claw. Or the edge of a fag box, or a slab of ‘deli-style’ ham.

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(Above: part of a consignment of illegal but still relatively attractive tabs seized at Dublin Port last year)

Minister of State for primary care Alex White yesterday described the tobacco industry as a very powerful lobby that had to be challenged.

Mr White dismissed the industry’s argument that raising excise duty on cigarettes encouraged smuggling as “sometimes self-serving”.

Cigarette packets must carry graphic photographs highlighting the dangers of smoking from next month, he said.

“These packs will appear in our shops from February 1st . . . and will assist in making the packaging of cigarettes, as it were, less glamorous and attractive.”

Well that’s just ridic…hack! cough! harrumph!

Never mind.

Tobacco lobby ‘has to be taken on’ (Mary Minihan, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Part of the Dublin City Of Science 2012: installed on the side of the HRB head office on Baggot Street about an hour ago. One of:

…a ‘curious’ collection of scientific images to capture people’s imagination and showcase the magic of science that is rarely seen outside of research groups. Images range from the microscopic (burst blood vessels, MRSA, dental plaque) to the enormous (CERN Large Hadron Collider) and can be seen on Dublin city buildings at Baggot Street Bridge (above) Pearse Street and Liberty Hall.

(Pic: Oisin)

The photograph of the four calm, young women on this [Irish Times cover] page tells us little of what had gone before…Only hours before, each was still deciding whether to appear in this picture.
In the end, they did it because they want people to see how ordinary they are…Their sole bond was the fact that each had had a pregnancy in which the baby was diagnosed with “an abnormality incompatible with life”, and that each had “travelled” to have that pregnancy terminated.


‘I Believe In A Loving God And That I Won’t Be Damned For What I Did’ (Kathy Sheridan, Carl O’Brien, Irish Times)