The News You Want
Nerd Alert. The following post is about RSS feeds. There are some sites I want to have an RSS feed for.
Seanad Debate on Lourdes Report
Copernicus, of the thoughtful Midnight Court quotes Senator Geraldine Feeney's statement regarding Michael Neary. I'll repeat some of those quotes here. All of them are worth reading.
Buying the Irish Times
Jon Ihle of Backseat Drivers has a piece on the Irish Blog Awards in today's Irish Times. He mentions on his blog "You'll be happy to know I'm getting another good crack at the blog awards for the main news pages Monday. Should be a nice spread.
Infobursts
There follows a few things I wanted to let readers know, but couldn't think of enough to say about to warrant a full post. 1) Bernard, of Running with Bulls, has set up a T-Shirt shop. All the proceeds of his clothy wares are being donated to Digital Rights Ireland.
Reconstruction of Neary’s Fitness to Practice Hearings
Maman Poulet tells me that Vincent Browne is running reconstructions of Micheal Neary's Fitness to Practice hearings. These are the hearings of the Irish Medical Council, not evidence from the Lourdes Inquiry report. She quotes a line from Neary, telling women what he had done;"I took away the cradle and left the playpen".
Mutual Assitance with Phone Taps
I posted quickly about the phone tapping bill which appeared in the Seanad through the medium of Irish. Mr McDowell may as well have introduced it through the medium of modern dance, given the general populous' (and who knows maybe even Senators) ability to decrypt legislation at the best of times. However the stunt may have backfired a little.
Commentary on Lourdes Report
From Sarah Carey's valuable reflection on the meaning of the Neary scandalThe Neary saga could only happen where an authority — be it religious, civil, medical or military — is permitted to operate without question and where professionals instinctively cover up for each other. The young midwives who eventually complained successfully about Neary were not the first. There had been others.
Phone Tap Bill
Phone Tap Bill Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. Some background links. The Criminal Justice (Mutual Assitance) Bill's tracking pageThe Minister's speech in Irish.
“Order Must Be Imposed”
It took a few days for things to crystallise, but a consensus has developed regarding the O’Connell St riots. Republicanism has by and large gotten off lightly. Sinn Fein were nowhere near the march, and Republican Sinn Fein members are now largely accepted to have been in a minority of those involved.
Sweety things
Om nomb. That's the noise my brain makes when it sees superlative food being discussed. I like reading the likes of Jeffrey Steingarten to prompt that kind of noise.
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