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Earlier today.

At St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.

Florian Scheibein, Helena Mullin and Dan Kirby stage a protest to call on the Government and the public to support drug policy reform and the decriminalisation of drugs for personal use.

Members of Help Not Harm, Citywide, BeLonGTo Students for Sensible Drug Policy Ireland, NORML and International Nurses Society on Addictions took part in the protest.

Help Not Harm

Rollingnews

Samantha Libreri tweetz:

Anti waste charge protestors wait for the arrival of Minister Simon Coveney at South Dublin County Council offices.

Meanwhile, in Glasnevin…

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Yikes.

This won’t end well.

Thanks John Nisbet 

Previously: Another Phil Mess

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This lunchtime.

Outside Government Buildings on Merrion Street Upper.

Members of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors hold a protest over pay.

Dearbhail McDonald tweetz:

‘We need the bibs back, keep the T-shirts for another day,’ says one of the organisers of Garda protest outside the Dáil.

Meanwhile, around the front of the Dáil…

Irish Water protesters demonstrate outside the Dáil on Kildare Street.

Previously: Nothing To Say Here

UPDATE:

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Inside the Brú Aimsir Hostel in November and outside the hostel this morning

You may recall the opening of the Dublin City Council-run Brú Aimsir Hostel at the Digital Hub on Thomas Street, Dublin 8 last November – as part of the council’s Cold Weather Initiative.

The 100-bed facility is now to close with 50 beds already closed, while the 42-bed John’s Lane West hostel is to also close.

In response to the closure, a group of homeless people is now occupying the building, while the Irish Housing Network is holding a demonstration outside the Dublin City Council offices on Wood Quay.

In a statement, residents of Brú said:

“Thank you for your support, please continue to do so – it could be you next week. We feel as though the dogs on the street are treated better than us. They are taken in and put in shelters so they are not roaming the streets, but the Government are willing to let people roam the streets every day.”

“One woman here came from a women’s refuse due to domestic violence. She has severe mental and medical health issues and relies heavily on Brú’s services since the beginning of March.”

“She has been approved for H.A.P. (Housing Assistance Payment) with South Dublin County Council, but is finding it extremely difficult to find anywhere suitable for her and her 12-year-old son.”

Suitable accommodation before closing John’s Lane West (Facebook)

Previously: Nice Crib, Brú

Pic: Rollingnews and Richard Chambers

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From the campaign trail this morning.

Protestors surround Taoiseach Enda Kenny as he arrives on South Main Street, Cork ahead of the launch of the Cork Events Centre.

Via Sean Defoe

Meanwhile…

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This morning.

Thanks Rose

Support for Kathleen Lynch in north Cork city

UPDATE:

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A protest is taking place outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin at 6pm, following the arrest and prosecution of a 21-year-old woman in Northern Ireland, under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.

She’s facing life imprisonment for taking abortion pills.

The Abortion Rights Campaign writes:

“We condemn the arrest and prosecution of a 21-year-old woman in County Down who has been accused of using poison to procure abortion. Both Mifepristone and Misoprostol are on the World Health Organisation’s list of essential drugs; these drugs are not poison. These are the same drugs used for medical abortions in the rest of the UK. If this woman lived in England instead of Northern Ireland she would have been prescribed this medication on the NHS. Mifepristone and Misoprostol are also routinely used for miscarriage management.”

Not A Criminal Solidarity Protest GPO (Facebook)

Related: Pro-choice activists plan Belfast protest over woman’s abortion trial (The Guardian)

Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Thanks Vicky Conway

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Protesters gathered earlier today at the site of where 22 modular homes are being built in Ballymun

You may recall how yesterday Labour TD Ann Phelan explained that a new policy directive will give the chief executives of Dublin’s four local authorities the power to “dispense with the normal Part 8 planning process” – or public consultation process – for any situation they deem to be an emergency in regards to homelessness.

Further to this…

RTÉ reports:

“Work has stopped on the site where the first set of modular homes are to be located in Dublin due to a protest.”

“Around 20 people have gathered at the entrance of the site Balbutcher Lane in Ballymun.”

“They say the modular housing project puts plans by a local co-op to build 40 social housing units on the same land in serious doubt.”

“…Dublin City Council said the modular homes provide no issues for the co-op’s plans.”

 

Update:

Dublin City Council say:

If the current protest being held at the Baile na Laochra Modular Homes site in Poppintree, Ballymun continues, 22 families will remain in unsuitable accommodation in commercial hotels for the Christmas and into early 2016.

The four Dublin Local Authorities, An tArdmhéara Críona Ní Dhálaigh and the Peter McVerry Trust are asking the protesters to stop obstructing building works on the site and enter into constructive discussion with Dublin City Council.

The contract was awarded to Western Building Systems following an Accelerated Restricted Procedure (ARP) to provide homes in recognition of the extreme urgency to respond to family homelessness in the Dublin region.

Protest disrupts work at modular housing site in Ballymun (RTE)

Previously: Modularity Of Mind

All Modular Cons

Pics: Ballymun Says No via Marcus Aindrea