tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64252104593792161072024-03-05T18:56:36.405-08:00Cllr Mannix FlynnIndependent Councillor for Pembroke South Docknowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-70516353560162175802013-04-10T08:38:00.001-07:002013-04-10T08:38:52.338-07:00DCC Statement on decision around Temple Bar Cultural Trust wind-down<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Media Relations & Corporate Communications,</p> <p>Dublin City Council, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8, Ireland</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Media Statement 10th April, 2013.</p> <p>Statement by the Board of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust At the request of the Shareholder, the Board of TBCT discussed the Latitude Report into the future of TBCT. The Board acknowledges the achievements of TBCT but the time has come for reinvigoration of what was the cultural remit of TBCT.</p> <p>In that context the board recommends to the Shareholder that a process of winding down the Company should be initiated. The Board is of the view that there is a unique cultural identity to the Temple Bar area, and that the Shareholder should consider how best this can continue to be developed.</p> <p>For further information contact: Dublin City Council Media Relations Office</p> <p>T. (01) 222 2170, M. 087 740 0277 </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-82457724362270463472013-04-09T13:32:00.001-07:002013-04-09T13:32:30.664-07:00NORTH LOTTS/GRAND CANAL DOCKS STZ - Public Information Sessions<div class='posterous_autopost'> <div class="akc lKgBkb" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 16px; height: 275px;"> <div class="T0 pp aj3"> <div class="ApVoH s"> <div class="pt"> <div> <div class="dF"> <div class="dH" style="padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px;">If you live in the North Lotts/Grand Canal area it may be worth your while dropping in to see the plans for this area. The Drop in session times are below.</div> <div class="dH" style="padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"><strong><span> NORTH LOTTS AND GRAND CANAL DOCKS STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE</span></strong></span></div> <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> </span> <blockquote> <div> <div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman;"> <div> <div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman;"> <div> <div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman;"> <div> <div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The Draft Planning Scheme is currently on public display until 10<sup>th</sup> May 2013.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span> </span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span>As part of this process, members of the public are invited to a number of Drop-In Sessions to talk with staff from the City Council about the Draft Scheme.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span>The dates and times for these Drop-In Sessions – all of which are in the <strong>Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) Offices, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1</strong> are:</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><strong><span>Tuesday 16<sup>th</sup> April 3.00 pm – 7.00 pm</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><strong><span>Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> April 10.00 am – 1.00 pm</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><strong><span>Thursday 18<sup>th</sup> April 3.00 pm – 7.00 pm</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><strong> </strong><strong><span>Friday 19<sup>th</sup> April 10.00 am- 1.00 pm</span></strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-54180958436995973462013-04-06T10:21:00.001-07:002013-04-06T10:21:27.281-07:00Unfinished Business: The Magdalen Laundering<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>The continuation of justice 'in action' for Magdalen women and their families. </p> <p>Policies of appeasement are a continuation of injustice. These are the actions that now need to be addressed. Actions speak louder than words. Here are the actions. </p> <p /> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/zCoBmBfaAjyIrchnzkimtiFtFgiJhgAmtkCbvzHBuhzJFikvHbFtqEbmiygf/unfinished_business8.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinished_business8" height="389" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/zCoBmBfaAjyIrchnzkimtiFtFgiJhgAmtkCbvzHBuhzJFikvHbFtqEbmiygf/unfinished_business8.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/hAIiIikAjrtJpbGevxgpGylkvqDEfrqtbJkrmuFvemrAhrxjwhEFbenvgDgA/unfinishedbusiness2.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusiness2" height="333" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/hAIiIikAjrtJpbGevxgpGylkvqDEfrqtbJkrmuFvemrAhrxjwhEFbenvgDgA/unfinishedbusiness2.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/EouprzoljbcCfaGBxmuwwoCrExHuIrpiGBIGGamejjDvoDwybpxeekkJHBtc/unfinishedbusiness3.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusiness3" height="333" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/EouprzoljbcCfaGBxmuwwoCrExHuIrpiGBIGGamejjDvoDwybpxeekkJHBtc/unfinishedbusiness3.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/FoAujyHsoecybIdACykHpnxwJeIAmyDECrvvyHsoHDfcgCkyuiACdIjhGicl/unfinishedbusiness4.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusiness4" height="333" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/FoAujyHsoecybIdACykHpnxwJeIAmyDECrvvyHsoHDfcgCkyuiACdIjhGicl/unfinishedbusiness4.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/jnwflhohbmvauGIilqxlnmjbAncoccrEoynoCjlucgxExjDqdmqCqEcdgugd/unfinishedbusiness5.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusiness5" height="333" src="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/jnwflhohbmvauGIilqxlnmjbAncoccrEoynoCjlucgxExjDqdmqCqEcdgugd/unfinishedbusiness5.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/yuIGwupnAgearncjsDkDnvltJonsihaxoBdplscvEkFpolwDclsGckhoakca/unfinishedbusiness6.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusiness6" height="333" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/yuIGwupnAgearncjsDkDnvltJonsihaxoBdplscvEkFpolwDclsGckhoakca/unfinishedbusiness6.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/lghmedmDouoefhtnJuquEbHBIomcbhgsqBBhxrgbbulEkazlFdvFhFuwzqGo/unfinishedbusinessQ.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusinessq" height="333" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/lghmedmDouoefhtnJuquEbHBIomcbhgsqBBhxrgbbulEkazlFdvFhFuwzqGo/unfinishedbusinessQ.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/DmvpueqtuHbvHJmlIfkkHeItkHolobctsiDIACboAlBntGuAGorCqhyHajGm/unfinishedbusiness7.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinishedbusiness7" height="333" src="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/DmvpueqtuHbvHJmlIfkkHeItkHolobctsiDIACboAlBntGuAGorCqhyHajGm/unfinishedbusiness7.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/cghnAraExAeiysfAlgmojkulbAzrAmoxhhrdasAJxbjGlClwDlsvBsDzHwpF/unfinshedbusiness1.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Unfinshedbusiness1" height="333" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-04-06/cghnAraExAeiysfAlgmojkulbAzrAmoxhhrdasAJxbjGlClwDlsvBsDzHwpF/unfinshedbusiness1.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://justice-responsibility-accountability.posterous.com/unfinished-business-the-magdalen-laundering">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> 1. <span style=""> </span>Does the government intend to advertise the existence of the Magdalen Fund/Commission, <span style=""> </span>as well as the requirement that women register with the Commission, in media outlets at <span style=""> </span>home and abroad? Given the lessons learned from the Residential Institutions Redress <span style=""> </span>Board (RIRB), where applicants living abroad came forward after the deadline claiming that <span style=""> </span>they were ne ver informed about the Scheme, will the Government commit to placing <span style=""> </span>advertisements in national and local newspapers in Ireland as well as Irish Diaspora <span style=""> </span>newspapers in the UK, US, Canada and Australia so that those not affiliated to groups <span style=""> </span>have an equal chance to gain entitlements as survivors of abuse in the Magdalen <span style=""> </span>Laundries? In this year of "The Gathering," will the government do everything in its <span style=""> </span>power to reach out to survivors living abroad and empower them to avail of the <span style=""> </span>Magdalen Fund?</p> <p> </p> <p>2.<span style=""> </span> What are the consequences of a survivor not registering with the Magdalen <span style=""> </span>Fund/Commission during the three months of Mr Justice Quirke’s review? Will she be <span style=""> </span>excluded from further engaging with the process?</p> <p> </p> <p>3. <span style=""> </span>Will the Magdalen Fund/Commission be placed on a statutory footing with independent <span style=""> </span>statutory powers?</p> <p> </p> <p>4. <span style=""> </span>What measures are being taken to ensure that the Magdalen Fund/Commission is a <span style=""> </span>transparent process?</p> <p> </p> <p>5.<span style=""> </span> Will the Magdalen Fund/Commission have an appeals process?</p> <p> </p> <p>6. <span style=""> </span>Will there be independent monitoring of the Magdalen Fund/Commission?</p> <p> </p> <p>7. <span style=""> </span>Will the government make available to survivors and their families free independent advice <span style=""> </span>and advocacy assistance in relation to this scheme?</p> <p> </p> <p>8<span style=""> </span> Will Mr Justice Quirke be commissioned to implement the process that he recommends <span style=""> </span>after the three month review period?</p> <p> </p> <p>9. <span style=""> </span>Will the government establish a dedicated helpline for Magdalene survivors?</p> <p> </p> <p>10. <span style=""> </span>What measures are being put in place to enable women in institutionalised settings to <span style=""> </span>engage with the Magdalen Fund/Commission? Will a guardian ad litem or independent <span style=""> </span>advocate be provided in all such cases as a way to further guarantee their rights?</p> <p> </p> <p>11.<span style=""> </span> Given that a 2010 HIQA inspection of one such setting found that “some institutional <span style=""> </span>practices were observed which require to be reviewed, these include empowering residents <span style=""> </span>to make decisions and choices in their daily lives, reviewing forms of address used and <span style=""> </span>ensuring the confidentiality of residents’ information", what plans are in place to ensure <span style=""> </span>permanent advocacy for women in institutionalised settings in their places of residence?</p> <p> </p> <p><span style=""> </span>Source: HIQA Reports:</p> <p><span style=""> </span><a href="http://www.hiqa.ie/social-care/find-a-centre/nursing-homes/beechlawn-house-nursing-home">http://www.hiqa.ie/social-care/find-a-centre/nursing-homes/beechlawn-house-nu...</a></p> <p> </p> <p>12.<span style=""> </span> Will the Department of Justice put in place measures to assist family members of <span style=""> </span>deceased Magdalene women in engaging with the process?</p> <p> </p> <p>13. <span style=""> </span>What steps are being taken to ensure that Magdalene grave records are accurate and up to <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>date?</p> <p> </p> <p>14. <span style=""> </span>What steps are being taken to ensure that there is access to Magdalene graves?</p> <p> </p> <p>15. <span style=""> </span>What steps are being taken to ensure the upkeep of Magdalene graves?</p> <p> </p> <p>16.<span style=""> </span> Will the Department of Justice ensure that copies of the Report of the Inter-Departmental<span style=""> </span>Committee are provided to survivors with no internet access, including survivors who <span style=""> </span>provided testimony to the Committee but are yet to receive the Report?</p> <p> </p> <p>Questions compiled by Claire Mc Gettrick/James SMith/Maeve O Rourke/Mari T.Steed/Katherine O Donnell and others....</p> <p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-3887079569423805392013-04-01T04:20:00.001-07:002013-04-01T04:20:29.658-07:00Dublin Water Restriction Update - Monday 1st April<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Water conservation Notice Monday 1st April 2013</p> <p>Reductions in pressure and/or loss of supply throughout the entire city from the earlier start time of 7pm (Monday 1st April) to between 7am and 9am (Tuesday 2nd April) Due to the cooperation of our customers we managed to save a significant amount of water into storage over night.We are imposing water restrictions again tonight, starting at the earlier time of 7pm. We will continue to review and monitor the storage levels on an ongoing basis. Treated water storage is currently at an unsustainably low level. This is as a result of production problems at one of our water treatment plants. There is obviously no problem with storage levels of untreated/raw water and there is no problem with water quality of treated water. Storage levels of treated drinking water are below a normal operational level. In addition water demand is currently running higher than average due to the cold weather which has caused an increase in leakage. Our crews are repairing any breaks as they arise. To help us in this regard we would ask people to report any location where they see water rising or running.</p> <p>In an effort to maintain storage we are asking consumers to assist us in maintaining adequate water supplies by restricting their use of water as much as possible. We will be reducing pressures throughout the system in order to conserve supplies. While we will try, as far as possible, to maintain pressures during peak demand periods, pressures will be reduced at other times. This will result in lower pressures and in some cases possible loss of supply.</p> <p>People may notice reductions in pressure or loss of supply from 7pm to between 7am and 9am throughout the entire city.</p> <p>Dublin City Council regrets any inconvenience caused by these restrictions and will do everything possible to minimise their scale and duration. Water is precious. Let’s conserve it.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tá uisce luachmhar. Caomhnaímís é. Dublin City Council Water Services Division 01-2220600 Emergency Number 01-6796186 (outside office hours only) Laura Walsh Executive Engineer Water Quality, Pressure & Distribution - Water Services | Dublin City Council | 68-70 Marrowbone lane | Dublin 8 ' +353 1 2224314 (Direct) | 7 +353 1 45348498: <a href="mailto:laura.walsh@dublincity.ie">laura.walsh@dublincity.ie</a></p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-79687049196629636962013-03-28T05:34:00.001-07:002013-03-28T05:34:12.029-07:00Info. for Magdalene women about commission and how to apply<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>This form was put together by Justice for Magdalene group and explains how the commission works and how to apply. If you have any further queries contact JFM. <a href="http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/">http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/</a><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://justice-responsibility-accountability.posterous.com/info-for-magdalene-women-about-commission-and"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>Survivor_Guide_to_Magdalen_Commission.pdf</strong> <a href="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-03-28/EkEoCxIuujmpJrlmElvylfnAqtAxyBfBvGzjwpvClFcBqrGageDFelcIbwAp/Survivor_Guide_to_Magdalen_Commission.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-75612320204898570232013-03-28T05:30:00.001-07:002013-03-28T05:30:15.387-07:00Info. for relatives of Magdalene Laundry women<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://justice-responsibility-accountability.posterous.com/info-for-relatives-of-magdalene-laundry-women"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>Relatives_Guide_to_Magdalen_Commission.pdf</strong> <a href="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-03-28/DevudsjCmotAmIzAhGypvBGoyqgqAsCensGoncvGjygFArtnFFhqwzEgpigs/Relatives_Guide_to_Magdalen_Commission.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-66761416068057720392013-02-16T01:34:00.001-08:002013-02-16T01:34:28.185-08:00Another Bolder from Dublin City Council #actsofculturalvandalism<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> <blockquote> <div> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Flagpoles_2" height="640" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/AABqAucsueBCFufncBlahJBuzdspxyzlpnFBeGvclhpICBxpjezwxmxejnBA/flagpoles_2.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="480" /> <a href="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/HgeJEdaBiijhHkflhbudjrxestxurjmAFmfxslgajpdpkkklzBgfpHjGErrm/flagpoles_3.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Flagpoles_3" height="375" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/HgeJEdaBiijhHkflhbudjrxestxurjmAFmfxslgajpdpkkklzBgfpHjGErrm/flagpoles_3.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <img alt="Flagpoles_4" height="640" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/fGfFnhbmueyaFjDqErlCpdwjqgGHIcyImEjgowsJarmddmrzyAJAIduwtmie/flagpoles_4.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="480" /> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://planning-and-zoning.posterous.com/another-bolder-from-dublin-city-council-actso">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> Here's another slab of concrete from DCC trying to pave over the issue of the conrete bolder in the middle of the road at Castle Street. A bare faced attempt to evade accountability and then they try and exploit the 'universal access' issue to butter themselves up. It took weeks of inquiry and media attention to get this press statement out of them and all it is is another master-class in self serving. Now we truly know the kind of folk that want to wreck this city. DCC should do the decent thing and remove this eyesore and visual pollutant immediately if they are to gain any respect and credibility. Please write to DCC or phone them and register your complaints. <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Dublin City Council</span></p> </div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div> <p><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px;">Civic Offices<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />Wood Quay<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />Dublin 8.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px;">Tel.: (01) 222 2222 <br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /></p> </div></blockquote></span><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Email: <a href="mailto:customerservices@dublincity.ie" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #7d974f; color: #106ea0; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0px;">customerservices@dublincity.ie</a></span> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Cement_flagpoles" height="640" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-16/whjqfgDcEqrrltyBDsqxCttBAgupBqgagesCfqqDaGdoIrJexmHnupgxEtFC/cement_flagpoles.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="480" /> </div> </p> <blockquote> <div> <p><p /></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Press Statement DCC</strong></span></p> <p> 16<sup>th</sup> February, 2013.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Statement re temporary traffic management works adjacent to City Hall</strong></p> <p>A temporary traffic management structure has been erected adjacent to City Hall at the junction of Lord Edward Street/ Cork Hill. It has three flagpoles erected on top and two plaques referencing City Hall and Dublin Castle. As the structure is temporary it was designed to minimise excavation and ground disturbance.</p> <p>The structure is intended to change traffic behaviour at this location as a precursor to the development of permanent design proposals for this area. The proposed permanent works will be the subject of a Part 8 process to be considered by the City Council. The present structure will be removed and replaced by the proposals when approved.</p> <p>The impetus for the temporary proposal came from discussions with the OPW when they requested assistance in their management of Castle Street as a forecourt to the Upper Yard of Dublin Castle during Ireland’s presidency of the EU. These traffic management issues had been identified as more urgent due to the increased volumes of traffic arising from the use of Dublin Castle during EU Presidency. </p> <p>The temporary structure was discussed with a number of departments internally including the Conservation Office and while acknowledging its temporary nature were most concerned to ensure that the permanent proposals would be fully discussed and developed in the context of the Part 8 process. Whereas the present temporary structure deals primarily with the issue of traffic management and pedestrian safety, there are a number of other issues relating to this general area which will have to be addressed by the permanent proposals.</p> <p>Dublin City Council Roads Design Department had carried out a feasibility study on traffic and pedestrian management on Castle Street which proposed significant footpath widening at the junction of Castle Street and Dame Street. This work will form part of the Part 8 proposal.</p> <p>It is desirable to provide a fully accessible main entrance to City Hall (present disabled access is via the lower ground floor café entrance at Bernardo Square) The provision of universal access to City Hall is achievable on the Cork Hill elevation, subject to conservation considerations of the works involved. Equally the provision of disability access to the Rates Office is achievable via the existing door on Castle Street, again subject to conservation considerations of the works involved. The remodelling of levels to achieve universal access to both buildings will form part of the Part 8 proposal.</p> <p>The provision of a vehicular set down area for City Hall needs to be considered as part of the Part 8 proposal. </p> <p>The provision of disabled car parking spaces and the appropriate route from them to City Hall needs to be considered as part of the Part 8 proposal. </p> <p>It is envisaged that the permanent paving material for Cork Hill/Castle Street will be Leinster Granite similar to that used recently on Palace Street. Fair-faced concrete was used for the traffic management structure as it is temporary. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>ENDS</strong></p> </div> </blockquote> </div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-7246005832615115872013-02-12T03:31:00.002-08:002013-02-12T03:34:32.711-08:00An Act of Cultural Vandalism<br />
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Here is the reply to all your queries about the concrete slab that was placed at Castle Street. Read and weep!<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Question to Dublin City Manager Feb 2013</em></span><br />
<em>Can the Manager issue a report with regard the closure of Dublin Castle to tourists </em><em>and historical tours. Also can the report include the works that are taking place </em><em>in Castle Street, Cork Hill entrance to City Hall which is I believe is in relation to </em><em>erecting flagpoles.</em><br />
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The closure of Dublin Castle to tourists and historical tours as required by events in relation to Ireland’s presidency of the EU Is a matter for the Office of Public Works.<br />
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Traffic bollards have been placed at the junction of Dame St and Cork Hill to provide more protection to pedestrians. City Hall is on the Dubline walk from Trinity to Kilmainham and the left turn from Parliament St can be very busy, the bollards provide a traffic calming measure.<br />
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Dublin City Council has placed a concrete structured behind the bollards as the council felt a <em><span _mce_style="color: #800000;" style="color: maroon;">strong visual block</span></em> was also necessary. This structure is temporary and will include three flagpoles. Dublin City Council will address access to City Hall and the council’s Rates Offices through a Part VIII planning application shortly which will incorporate the permanent proposals for this area. The council anticipates that this application will go before the Elected Members in summer 2013 at the earliest.<br />
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<br />nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-81410763323598769232013-02-05T15:09:00.001-08:002013-02-05T15:09:56.513-08:00An Act of No Contrition<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-05/EAtIyrebDwudJvbEwcskdIyvxcrCCgnpjtnyDvElqczecbccBpCbedBHdppf/All_this_in_the_name_of_Jesus_1.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="All_this_in_the_name_of_jesus_1" height="333" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-02-05/EAtIyrebDwudJvbEwcskdIyvxcrCCgnpjtnyDvElqczecbccBpCbedBHdppf/All_this_in_the_name_of_Jesus_1.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> Time to kill the myth that Religious congregations and the State cared for people back then or even now. The women of the Magdalene were the raw material, the work force, that gave many of these congregations their economic existence. The poor, kept poor, were always enslaved. This has nothing go to do with religion or God but got to do with enterprise. Enterprises of indoctrination, subservience and slavery. This same construct is evident in the way the struggle of the Magdalene women is being rolled out to the public. The absolute insult and cowardice of the religious congregations involved to merely issue a press apology rather than actually face the public and society is evidence of the indifference of the superiors of the organisation. They are out of touch with humanity. They are out of touch with the pain and suffering of others. They certainly must be dislocated from their own feelings. They truly have removed themselves from their very vocations and are obviously only concerned with Vaticanism and their own preservation and status. They have no cause to exist now, other than their bogus claim of caring and healing and mercy. They certainly showed none today. The media and its personalities and celebrities need to get away from their own sense of patronizing and sentimentalizing the issues and the people who were incarcerated in all of Ireland's institutions and stop projecting their uncomfortability of the issue back onto those who are struggling for truth and accountability. We're not helpless morons with low IQ's to be locked away from society. Step aside and let the truth of the people who were in these institutions emerge uncontaminated and 'unstolen' into society. The exact same modus operandi of the powerful and those who pretend or purport to speak on behalf of the voiceless was again raging all around us today in media circus. That facts of the matter are, that Ireland, along with other despot regimes, carried out cruel and inhumane treatment on vast numbers of it's citizens. The Magdalene Laundry issues are not stand alone. They emerge alongside a culture of abuses that were perpetrated in hundreds of institutions in this State, from nursing homes to mental homes to industrial and reform schools, mother and baby homes, so called orphanages, magdalene laundries, jails, prisons and borstals. Irish society has a fake view of itself as a Christian caring society and prides itself on its grandiose charitable gestures and its great work on behalf of the poor. Yet today, the simplest gesture of all, an apology, was refused and a Nation, its people and those gravely wronged were forsaken. And those that should have been seen in the practice of atonement, which is their vocation, were hiding behind their convent walls, paid for out of Magdalene labour. Who now should we command the truth, the whole truth and the honest truth from? Who now will come to our refuge with the saving words of apology? Or are we to continue the journey or torment and indifference brought about by the extraordinary arrogance of our present leader, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his Government. </p> <p><span style="color: #808000; font-size: medium;"><em>And all of this was done in the name of Jesus.</em></span></p> <p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-28565974187579129802013-02-05T02:35:00.001-08:002013-02-05T02:58:17.967-08:00The Continuity of Secrecy and Clandestine Operations<div class="posterous_autopost">
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True to form the secret Irish State still has not indicated where it will release and at time it will release the long awaited Senator Martin McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundry system. The continuation of regimes of secrecy is alive and well in the manner this report is being engineered in a controlled fashion into the public domain. Divide and conquer and separate and drip feed is the order of the day. The same modus operandi happened around the other reports into the regimes of terror that took place in Ireland's institutions. The Ryan report, the Ferns report, the Cloyne report, the Raphoe report, and all such reports where the State and the Church were found to be in collusion were all released to a frenzy of media confusion and within a couple of days had died off without any real accountability or consequences for those that had gravely wronged generations of children, women and girls. No surprise so folks, that Senator McAleese, the State and all those involved in this report are partaking in an architecture of secrecy and bogus confidentiality around such vital public information. They need to wake up and treat the public and public information with greater respect. The lack of information of what time and where this report will be released is causing unnecessary anxiety, stress and trauma to tens of thousands of those stigmatized and labeled by Magdalene laundryism through out the world. This whole episode will now cascade into an unnecessary media frenzy and over energized fast-track analysis of its contents rather than any real moment of truth and confirmation of the terrible wrongs that this State and this society perpetrated on the many. What we know for certain though, is that this is merely going to prolong the misery journey for many as to date, all of the former reports have amounted to nothing other than a whitewash and an indifference to human rights abuses. #justiceformagdalenesNOW</div>
nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-58825520569761262022013-01-21T11:15:00.001-08:002013-01-21T11:15:59.415-08:00Debt, Solvency and Vision - Talk by Ray Yeates (DCC Arts Officer)<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Tuesday 22nd Jan, at 1pm - at The Irish Stock Exchange, 28 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2</span></p> <p><em>Ray Yeates is the CEO of Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Dublin City Council Arts Officer</em></p> <p>In present day Ireland the threat of debt and solvency is a constant in our lives manifest in fears like liquidation, foreclosure and personal liability.</p> <p>This talk will address issues of what we owe to ourselves in order to be able to meet what we owe to others. A clear vision of the path we must walk with ourselves in order to rid ourselves of this overwhelming burden will be addressed by Ray Yeates from the very floor of the Irish Stock Exchange which on the one hand can generate enormous wealth but also that same wealth can generate overwhelming hardship on a society through the levying of the great debt that Ireland finds itself in at the moment. </p> <p>It is not often, with all the media coverage on the doom and gloom and the state of Ireland, that you get a light gleaming for an instant. Debt, Solvency and Vision is that glimmer of gleaming light. </p> <p><em><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">"What do you do when you fall far from help? We wait till we can get up. Then we go on. On! " Samuel Beckett</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p>This talk will address how to care for the self while working to resolve the overwhelming issues of personal liabilities in the bankrupt Ireland of today. You are not what you owe and you are not the property of others. The most important asset in all of this is YOU.</p> <p> </p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-21/dnzorqleIIHzGtfBgJvknGurIkHebBECaysrChEBftJvruajlxhJviFtbrde/OtheredVoices-Ray-web.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Otheredvoices-ray-web" height="707" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-21/dnzorqleIIHzGtfBgJvknGurIkHebBECaysrChEBftJvruajlxhJviFtbrde/OtheredVoices-Ray-web.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p> </p> <p>Ray Yeates comes with a vast experience of personal and professional entrepreneurship which involved, as Artistic Director, putting the Ballymun Axis Arts Centre on the cultural map and advancing the relationship between culture and communities the personal trials and tribulations of the artistic creative journey are brought to bear in this exciting creative approach to unstanding better our relationship with debt, with particular emphasis on personal debt and solvency. He has been involved with the cultural industries for the best part of 30 years producing, writing, directing and leading many different cultural enterprises both at home and abroad. He is at present spearheading Dublin City Councils Arts plan and cultural vision for the future.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #ff6600;"><em>"Use your head, can't you, use your head. You're on earth, there's no cure for that!" S. Beckett</em></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-42397737221213472462013-01-20T13:20:00.001-08:002013-01-20T13:20:26.666-08:00'Before' - by Bill Hastings - Photographic Projection<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> <p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><em><span style="">Photographic Projection by Bill Hastings begins Monday 21st from 5pm at Bernardo Square, City Hall Dublin </span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">‘Before’ is a rich story of what it was like before the gush and rush for borrowed money known as the boom. L</span>ooking at this artwork, one does not get a sense of loss, sentimentality or nostalgia for something that has gone simply because this volume of work manages to capture its essence, its DNA and our instincts repond to that memory, that fabric, those laughing, smiling, playing, citizens of Dublin.</span></p> <p><span style=""><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">In viewing this work, you are taking a journey through a living city and its people.<span style=""> </span>These photographs are not historical, they are very<span style=""> </span>much a part of the present and a vital component of the continuing journey of this great Dublin City and its people.<span style=""> </span>See for yourself.<span style=""> </span></span></span></p> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong> <br /></strong></span> <p><span style="color: #993300;"><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;">Bill Hastings is an architect, photographer and designer.<span style=""> </span>He grew up in Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s. He studied architecture at UCD in Earlsfort Terrace from 1965 to 1970. His practice, now called ARC Consultants, covers architecture, photography, graphic design, historic building survey, digital modelling and animation; as well as consultancy in a number of areas relating to conservation and planning.</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em>All the photographs that form part of this exhibition ‘Before’ were taken in Dublin between the mid 1960s and the mid 1970s. Most of the photographs arise simply from the habit of carrying a camera at all times. #tradfest #otheredvoices </em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-20/iyzvmCaEIzsAIIDmCmnxDBkHAmEmuoDxJJaGpliiqprgtgoGmoyvBwbHCAsC/OtheredVoices-BillPoster.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Otheredvoices-billposter" height="707" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-20/iyzvmCaEIzsAIIDmCmnxDBkHAmEmuoDxJJaGpliiqprgtgoGmoyvBwbHCAsC/OtheredVoices-BillPoster.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-4666297836320873172013-01-19T12:19:00.001-08:002013-01-19T12:19:39.432-08:00 Irish women who played an equal part in Irish Freedom and the struggle for equality<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Charlotte Despard, Helena Moloney, Elizabeth O Farrell, Kathleen Clarke, Madeleine French Mullen, Mary Ellen Spring Rice, Grace Gifford, Countess Markievicz, Dr. Kathleen Lynn, Máire Ni Shiúibhlaigh, Linda Kearns, Jennie Wyse Power, Hanna Sheehy Skeffinton, Kate O Callaghan, Margaret Skinneder, Mary Mac Swiney, May Gibney, Maud Gonne...How many of these women do you know of?<br />They have been written into the footnotes o<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">f history but were a vital component in the struggle for freedom, equality and independence in Ireland. Largely kept on the margins their courageous outstanding contribution in Irish History will be firmly established by <strong>Sinead McCoole</strong> in her presentation at the <em>Irish Stock Exchang</em>e on <span style="color: #800000;">Tuesday 22nd Jan at 1pm</span> (Admission Free)<em> 'Other Voices - Unmanageable and Disreputable Women</em> - #otheredvoices #tradfest</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-19/eBGwnxDxaJclCuzorjvfhmgCJlGfrsuqjfmlenFbexuAnArCbkrgIhlIoHyb/OtheredVoices-Sinead-web.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Otheredvoices-sinead-web" height="707" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-19/eBGwnxDxaJclCuzorjvfhmgCJlGfrsuqjfmlenFbexuAnArCbkrgIhlIoHyb/OtheredVoices-Sinead-web.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></span></p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-27079074593241990622013-01-12T04:40:00.001-08:002013-01-12T04:40:06.062-08:00OTHERED VOICES (Farcry Productions and Temple Bar Company-Tradfest)<div class='posterous_autopost'><h2 style="padding-top: 0.3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 25px; color: #0a294f; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px;"><em><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://things-of-interest-dublin.posterous.com/othered-voices"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>OtheredVoices-BillA3Poster.pdf</strong> <a href="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2013-01-12/auypHEkDtInhhGxxsDyfIDIrujoynerzjkczgxIikgGDDnacAvGvmAcJzggy/OtheredVoices-BillA3Poster.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> Othered' a term which refers to the act of emphasizing perceived weaknesses of maginalized groups and individuals as a way of stressing the alleged strength of those in positions of powe</em><em>r</em></span></h2> <h2 style="padding-top: 0.3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 25px; color: #0a294f; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; line-height: 23px; font-size: medium;">Irish Stock Exchange, Temple Bar, Dublin 22/23rd January</span></h2> <h2 style="padding-top: 0.3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 25px; color: #0a294f; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 27px; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Farcry Productions and </span></span></em></span><span style="line-height: 27px; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Temple Bar Company present</span></span></em></span></span></h2> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 27px; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">On Tuesday Jan 22nd and Wednesday Jan 23rd Farcry Productions and Temple Bar Company are presenting a series of events at the Irish Stock Exchange in Temple Bar Dublin. </span></span></em></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 27px; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The events consist of performance, talks and an exhibition projection (at Bernardo Square City Hall, Dublin)</span></span></em></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.templebartrad.com/" style="color: #af2639; text-decoration: none;">OTHERED VOICES</a> - Performance nights-8pm</strong></span></span></p> <div class="paragraph" style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: georgia !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000 !important; text-align: left; display: block; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&q=27+anglesea+st+dublin&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x48670e9caebc096d:0xc3a61f0826720c8a,27+Anglesea+St,+Dublin+2,+Co.+Dublin,+Ireland" style="color: #af2639; text-decoration: none;">Jan 22/23 - @ Irish Stock Exchange, 28 Anglesea St., Temple Bar,Dub</a>lin 2</span><p /><strong><a href="http://www.jinxlennon.com/" style="color: #af2639; text-decoration: none;">JINX LENNON </a></strong>in performance<br />plus<br /><em>Ophelia McCabe</em> and <em>MissElayneous</em></div> <div class="paragraph" style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: georgia !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000 !important; text-align: left; display: block; margin: 0px;"><em> </em><br />€6 entrance fee 8pm sharp- limited seating</div> <div class="paragraph" style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: georgia !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000 !important; text-align: left; display: block; margin: 0px;"><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="color: #993300;">VOICING IT</span> - Talk Series-22/23rd Jan at 1pm</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Time: 1pm </span></strong><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Venue: Irish Stock Exchange, Temple Bar</span></div> <div class="paragraph" style="padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: georgia !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000 !important; text-align: left; display: block; margin: 0px;"><br /><strong>22nd </strong> Talk by <strong>RAY YEATES </strong>-<em> CEO Temple Bar Cultural Trust/Dublin City Arts Officer</em><p /><strong>23rd </strong> Talk by <strong>SINEAD MC COOLE</strong> - Author/Historian/Curator<p /><em><strong>BEFORE - by Bill Hastings 22nd-27th Jan </strong></em><br /><em>photographic exhibition projection</em><br /><em>at Bernardo Square, City Hall Dublin - 5pm-11pm daily</em><p /><em><br />'</em></div> <p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-90887683247259472242012-12-04T01:44:00.001-08:002012-12-04T01:44:35.746-08:00National monument to be protected<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Last night Dublin City Councillors voted in favour of this emergency motion (see below). Here is a situation where a State body, the OPW, whose role it is to protect national structure and heritage items, showing blatant disregard for the Garden of Remembrance. The OPW's primary purpose is to ensure the protection of such monuments, yet having known that the Garden of Remembrance was not listed as a protected structure, instead of remedying this it had engaged in the process to completely undermining the integrity of this site by attempting to shoehorn a preposterous tunnel and water feature as a memorial to those that have experienced institutional abuse in this State. This whole action was aided and abetted by Dublin City Council and their lack of care of duty in ensuring that this particular site, the Garden of Remembrance, was protected under the record of protected structures. It is ironic that the very monument they wanted to impose on on this site was to atone for their neglect and their lack of care for the children of this State. Strange, or not strange, that same lack of care, and failure to protect was very evident with their disregard for the National monument site which they failed to protect in the first instance. However, Dublin City Councillors, came, albeit a bit late, to the rescue. Hopefully this ill conceived fake piece of 'architorture' will not find its place at the Garden of Remembrance. The whole issue of a memorial to those who have experience institutional abuse and abuses in their childhood need greater public debate and engagement if we are really going to examine an appropriate way to deal with this issue.</p> <p>In the meantime, it is premature and needs to be deferred or stopped entirely until the issue, that is, the global issue of child sexual abuse and other abuses of children in which Irish priests, clerics and religious orders were involved throughout the world have emerged, been given due examination and truth established. Finally, a national memorial, is a serious issue for any society. Lets give this issue due regard.</p> <p>Please sign the petition. </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #808000;">Emergency Motion passed in Dublin City Council December 3rd 2012</span></p> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><em>With an impending decision by Dublin City Council planning department of a planning application for the building of a memorial to victims of institutional abuse on the site of the Garden of Remembrance and having regard to the national significance of this site as a memorial to the men and women who gave their lives to the cause for Irish freedom, we call on Dublin City Council to initiate a proceedure to declare this site a protected heritage structure of National importance. We also call on Dublin City Council to include the site as an architectural conservation area. At present this important national site is without protection in that it is not included on the Dublin City Council’s record of protected structures, nor is it included in a statutory architectural conservation area.</em></span></p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-78881239516404072322012-12-03T04:09:00.001-08:002012-12-03T04:09:42.446-08:00Row over Child abuse memorial - Article- Sunday Times Dec 2nd 2012<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">A plan to honour victims of institutional child abuse in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin is being opposed by campaigners,writes <em>Siobhán Maguire</em>.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">The Department of Education and the Office of Public Works want to erect a memorial</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">at the garden on Parnell Square, as recommended in the Ryan report, published by a</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">commission into child abuse.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">The chosen design, entitled Journey of Light, is by Studio Negri and Hennessy & Associates, </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">an architectural firm in Dublin. It has divided groups representing survivors of child </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">abuse who say the proposed location would link it to an existing memorial to Irish</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">freedom fighters. The base of the Spire on O’Connell Street or the grounds</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">of Leinster House on Kildare Street are among some of the alternative locations being</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">suggested by those objecting.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">Mannix Flynn, an independent Dublin councillor, said such a memorial did not belong</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">at a location with strong links to church and state. “The crucifix that is at the centre of the</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">Garden of Remembrance, the sculpture of the Children of Lir and the Irish flag all form part </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">of a cultural heritage that was deeply involved with the inhumane treatment of the children </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">it now wishes to atone to through a memorial at this site,” he said. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">In his planning objection </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">Nial Ring, another independent councillor, said: “Irish men and women who carried </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">the vision of freedom and equality before them, and gave their lives as such, should not </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">be tarnished with a memorial relating to a shameful part of Irish history. Both the fight for </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">freedom and child abuse should be separately acknowledged.”</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">A planned revamp of the Garden of Remembrance, which was visited by Queen</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">Elizabeth last year, includes a €500,000 subterranean memorial, a covered walkway and a </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">new civic area. The Irish Georgian Society, a conservation group, objected to</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">the memorial on the grounds that it “will provide a dank unsafe space which will attract</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">anti-social behaviour”.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">The group wrote: “While the society is cognisant of the importance of creating such a</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">memorial, we strongly disagree with the location and configuration of the current proposal.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">“Parnell Square is one of the finest of Dublin’s 18th-century urban set-pieces. Regrettably</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">over the years the area has experienced neglect which has led to the deterioration of many </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">historic houses, while poor development decisions have resulted in a cluttered expansion </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">of building and services in the Rotunda Hospital.” Alice Hanratty, an artist and member of Aosdana, the self selected </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">academy of artists, said it was “astonishing” to put a memorial “in the sacred space set aside to honour those who</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">sacrificed their lives for our country’s freedom”.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;"> In September, Dublin city councillors backed a motion by </span><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #333300;">Flynn to delay building of the memorial. The winning design, announced in July, is for a passageway</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.5px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #333300; font-size: x-small;">that will include the wording of the state’s apology to those who were abused while in its care.</span></p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-48287287579653580742012-11-26T10:05:00.001-08:002012-11-26T10:05:06.437-08:00Landscape Conference Dublin Tuesday 27th November<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> <blockquote style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Landscape conference to highlight importance of Green Infrastructure</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The world-renowned landscape architect and urban designer Dr. Kongjian Yu will be the keynote speaker at the Irish Landscape Institute’s (ILI) National Conference and Design Awards on Tuesday 27<sup>th</sup> November. The conference takes place at Bewley’s Hotel’s Thomas Prior Hall, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 and this year’s theme is Green Infrastructure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Naoise ÓMuirí, will open the conference. “It is very exciting to have the well-respected expert Dr. Kongjian Yu in attendance at the ILI’s 2012 Conference. Dr. Yu has a record in applying cutting-edge design to enhancing our environment. This is very relevant to Green infrastructure which is the conference’s theme this year. Greening the City is one of the main aims of the current Development Plan for Dublin. Dublin City Council is actively developing strategic green networks in terms of better transportation access, flood reduction, recreational and biodiversity improvements.” says the Lord Mayor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Green Infrastructure is a network of natural areas and open spaces—such as woodlands, wetlands, trails and parks—that conserves ecosystems, helps sustain clean air and water and provides many other benefits to people and wildlife.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">President of the Irish Landscape Institute, Maryann Harris, adds that “The Irish Landscape Institute celebrates the twentieth anniversary this year. The multidisciplinary nature of Green Infrastructure is reflected in this conference’s programme. The global importance of Green Infrastructure is reflected in our speakers from Asia, North America and Europe. We are also launching the first national award in Ireland for Green Infrastructure as part of the National Landscape Awards 2012. This conference will provide a major event for pioneering new approaches in Ireland to environmental planning and design.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key sponsorship for this event is provided by Dublin City Council and by the Green Infrastructure Network (GreenInfranet), co-funded by the EU programme INTERREG IVC and its project partner, Fingal County Council.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>For further information contact:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Kevin Fitzpatrick</strong>, Hon. Secretary, Irish Landscape Institute</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">KFLA tel.: (01) 444-0724</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Email: <a href="mailto:secretary@irishlandscapeinstitute.com" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="mailto:secretary@irishlandscapeinstitute.com" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">secretary@irishlandscapeinstitute.com</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Maryann Harris</strong>, President, Irish Landscape Institute</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tel.: 087-656-1676</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Email: <a href="mailto:president@irishlandscapeinstitute.com" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="mailto:president@irishlandscapeinstitute.com" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">president@irishlandscapeinstitute.com</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Website: <a href="http://email.mediacontact.ie/wf/click?upn=plDLgAMDe-2FFx3WRNLy61Kp7blVOXzBXlgxE1wWmGS-2FmMe42kJfxoBj746qvlbxWX_qP4MsEEML1ypCmha32yuAAdFv5LqknW8ZfPgTFa9X0S6Cze7EGkcwmo9EIojdeKBgF7mI4atfRfEolOptW-2FIVEnttuyO1imwi7RQ0T9p5Z1qLwxSbyVBGlrGfDLTgJLMppB0SYwlDDoGyX40lo0hopWBi-2F9WRMFQDSJIu0NejTV8-2FuRLgWHuUJoRT-2FzB2CwtexyE56ykVCHtybKgLa8HedlJggX6pYOaQQgmwRXdefU-3D" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="http://www.irishlandscapeinstitute.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">www.irishlandscapeinstitute.com</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Irish Landscape Institute (ILI)</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ILI is the professional body representing Landscape Architects in Ireland, governed by a Constitution and a Code of Professional Conduct. The Institute has a membership of about 200, made up of fellows and full members, graduate members, student members, honorary members and affiliates. ILI is a registered member of both <a href="http://email.mediacontact.ie/wf/click?upn=ApjyW9GHSMbsg4gDWYIQmyxWrsh5vfTtmErBjBh7Ym6fi5by5cLWpuVw2rki0Wc0_qP4MsEEML1ypCmha32yuAAdFv5LqknW8ZfPgTFa9X0S6Cze7EGkcwmo9EIojdeKBgF7mI4atfRfEolOptW-2FIVEnttuyO1imwi7RQ0T9p5Z1qLwxSbyVBGlrGfDLTgJLMn-2Bj3R4pOKWB67DVhmwdnrDMpjfn0yJGllnQFPjw1pfyJbcWraJtKK9Id4o7UT-2FN95PoUgKkrwnXl8h4I4EzmqI-2FIIrsCInRmV-2FOmAREHi6A-3D" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">EFLA </a>(European Foundation for Landscape Architecture) and <a href="http://email.mediacontact.ie/wf/click?upn=plDLgAMDe-2FFx3WRNLy61KmPeD-2FlX9BIXLXsQdzkU5Tx25GmZB6Ogp9nNW-2BPZVVQI_qP4MsEEML1ypCmha32yuAAdFv5LqknW8ZfPgTFa9X0S6Cze7EGkcwmo9EIojdeKBgF7mI4atfRfEolOptW-2FIVEnttuyO1imwi7RQ0T9p5Z1qLwxSbyVBGlrGfDLTgJLMfl9WGUX1EorRz8Juj30GYaiUIsyeZXARmtabaKEMSYp5AEZJ-2Frn9blIemXcJJKPteOEIuKChPOyYJT9SwW18IYhZCVQgQpg-2Bbh2Ixp6tnL4-3D" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">IFLA </a>(International Federation of Landscape Architects) and is a member of the Urban Forum</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dr. Kongjian Yu</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The keynote speaker is Dr. Kongjian Yu, Doctor of Design and Visiting Professor at Harvard University, author of 17 books, and Professor and Dean at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University, China. Dr. Yu is President and Principal Designer of Turenscape, a multi award-winning firm employing 600 design professionals. Turenscape is a multi disciplinary design practice providing design services in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, across many scales and environments.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The vast scale of China and its apparently boundless growth have enabled Yu to test many ideas that are still largely theories in the Western world. His work, increasingly valued and appreciated in Europe and North America, has attained an extremely high and elegant level in both conception and execution. Kongjian Yu is known for his ecological stance, often against the status quo. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Other speakers will include:</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <ul> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">James Mituzas, Senior Landscape Architect and Urban Designer, New York City Parks and Recreation</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Phillips FIEI, President, Engineers Ireland and City Engineer of Dublin</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nicole Collomb CMLI, Built Environment Expert at Design Council, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, (CABE), in London and Chartered Landscape Architect</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Shane Colgan, ERC Co-ordinator, Environmental Protection Agency</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Franca Davenport MA MSc, science writer for Science for Environment Policy, a European Commission service, and lecturer at University of the West of England in Bristol</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Gerry Clabby, ecologist and Heritage Officer, Fingal County Council and project partner of EU Green Infranet Project</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Alison Harvey, Planning and Development Officer, Heritage Council and author of 'Community-led Village Design Statement (VDS) Toolkit' (2012)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Green Infrastructure Network (GreenInfraNet) is a partnership of 12 regions from across Europe working together to promote the development and implementation of green infrastructure in EU regions. The three-year project was launched in April 2012 and is co-funded by the EU programme <a href="http://email.mediacontact.ie/wf/click?upn=plDLgAMDe-2FFx3WRNLy61KsDSoPoH1hLb9pbs8U8G1Es-3D_qP4MsEEML1ypCmha32yuAAdFv5LqknW8ZfPgTFa9X0S6Cze7EGkcwmo9EIojdeKBgF7mI4atfRfEolOptW-2FIVEnttuyO1imwi7RQ0T9p5Z1qLwxSbyVBGlrGfDLTgJLMKhIe3eneTYDTBXqp8C2EFB8-2FWKi83JmBYjrBTP8tlsPPn7zTC4sybEy6zExtBgDqbT0w8kmDgc7M-2FpIVPfpdJ-2FqQmsWbVyqVl9VX6gs-2FsWM-3D" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">INTERREG IVC</a>. Website: <a href="http://email.mediacontact.ie/wf/click?upn=plDLgAMDe-2FFx3WRNLy61KsiT26-2BF42D45XUnxM8FI-2BbxBUd41Y1TbJNV3dIACZtS_qP4MsEEML1ypCmha32yuAAdFv5LqknW8ZfPgTFa9X0S6Cze7EGkcwmo9EIojdeKBgF7mI4atfRfEolOptW-2FIVEnttuyO1imwi7RQ0T9p5Z1qLwxSbyVBGlrGfDLTgJLMjnfjmgrRcC-2FrC22lm7DA5XHrQqKBrs9eVt898RRzI8Wao6xGo-2F1EMvC6j69U5mICez6xPIPfdhjuimuCkVP8kn7pCtUqQ2kmZOxJmAcV9Gw-3D" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="http://www.greeninfranet.org/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">www.greeninfranet.org</a> for further details.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p /><img src="http://email.mediacontact.ie/wf/open?upn=qP4MsEEML1ypCmha32yuAAdFv5LqknW8ZfPgTFa9X0S6Cze7EGkcwmo9EIojdeKBgF7mI4atfRfEolOptW-2FIVEnttuyO1imwi7RQ0T9p5Z1qLwxSbyVBGlrGfDLTgJLMeJQ9G1ZVuPIadXru1yjimEFfi4KXADsau49bQJHbOy9zB0VduX5OkjW-2Bct-2Fd2yEgz71jfqZ8lQduamk0G3LhTcFOXbErhSt03qcAkR6pWps-3D" border="0" height="1" alt="" style="border-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div> </blockquote> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-70417063695471203922012-11-21T13:06:00.001-08:002012-11-21T13:06:44.429-08:00Changes at Temple Bar Cultural Trust<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #003366;">Mr Ray Yeates, Dublin City Arts Officer appointed CEO, managing director of Temple Bar Cultural Trust</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"> </p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dublin City Council Public Statement</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Re: Temple Bar Cultural Trust</strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>The Board of Temple Bar Cultural Trust have confirmed the City Manager’s appointment of the City Arts Officer to the role of Interim CEO of TBCT.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>Mr Yeates will retain his position as City Arts Officer.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>The serving CEO of TBCT Mr Dermot Mc Laughlin was recently seconded by the Trust to the Derry City of Culture.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>The Trust has been the subject of a report in 2011 (The Latitude Report) that suggested that the Company be absorbed into City Council and that Dublin City Council should make itself ready for such an eventuality.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>After debate the City Manager as the sole Shareholder of the Trust directed the Board to study the Latitude Report findings and make recommendations to him as to its future.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>Simultaneously the City Manager requested the Mr Yeates as City Arts Officer begin to draw up a new Cultural Strategy for the City Council that would include a strategic role for Temple Bar.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>The Board of TBCT has been evaluating the Latitude Report for the past year and will continue to do so into 2013 and will bring its recommendation to the City Manager in due course while mindful of the need to draw this period of evaluation to a close in a timely manner for all concerned.</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>Brendan Kenny</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>Assistant City Manager</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>21st November 2012</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong> </strong></p> <p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-40163213256161088282012-11-09T15:10:00.001-08:002012-11-09T15:10:25.631-08:00Share the power, vote Yes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 8px;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span> <div class="im" style="color: #500050;"> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> Constitutionally incapable of protecting the welfare of our children</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span></p> </div> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">It is children who have struggled and suffered in order that this amendment be made to our constitution. It is long overdue. No adult can claim this victory as it rightly belongs to generations of children of this State that were horrendously abused, disregarded as surplus property for adults to do what they will with including moulding them into images of failed parents and a failing State. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">The interference of the Church and the family as enshrined in the present constitution have ensured for generations that children would remain in a perpetual bondage irrespective of what abuses they suffered. The supremacy of the family’s rights over those of the child, backed up by the church and upheld by our courts because of its position in the constitution, was a tool of enslavement to misery and abuse - children as property. It is true to say that while the citizen is the benefactor of the constitution and its rights, the individual rights of children are nowhere to be seen in the document. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">It is fair to say that certainly in my brief history on planet earth, 53 years, children were seen as a kind of wild animal that needed to be tamed. Look back, not too long ago, and see the treatments that were meted out to children not just in so-called correctional institutions, but also in family homes, hospitals and society in general. The lives of some children were, in the main, miserable and in many places around the world they remain a misery. However, in the next 24 hours the Irish people can change the lives of the nation's children by the stroke of a pen. All of the issues of the abuse of children and child protection etc will still be on the table on Sunday morning. Let’s face facts that these are constants. We can only strive to protect the Nation's children and all children against evil doings and the many dangers that face them. No better way to do this then to enshrine their rights as children in the Irish constitution. Their rights in the constitution and the upholding of those rights in the Irish constitution will be the business of the Irish people and their eternal vigilance over those rights.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">This is a historic moment of momentous importance. Children always had rights we just didn't give them to them, we denied them. And now as a result of the unending relentless revelations and truths of child abuse this referendum has opened up a new chapter, a new beginning for children as individuals whose rights will be enshrined, as individuals, in the Irish constitution. So from the moment a child is born, they will have their own constitutional rights and it will be up to every individual adult and person to ensure that those sacred rights are not violated or impinged in any way. It is time to include children as equals in the constitution. It is time to be good parents and citizens, time to do the right thing for children. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">In a failing State, in a failing society that has failed its children, because it was constitutionally incapable of being honest about what was happening in plain sight to its most vulnerable and precious, the least we can do is make sure that their rights are now enshrined and active forever more. Forget your monument and your memorial for victims of child abuse in your garden of remembrance. A vote Yes to children's rights amendments to the constitution is the proper way and proper monumental change that is now warranted. Memorials and monuments are stuck in a past, the constitution of a country and its citizens is ever present, is the beating heart of democracy and freedom and gives us our reasons to strive for better things.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">There are still issues of accountability around what happened to children in this State, indeed this very Irish State has yet to be investigated for its role in this appalling neglect and care of duty. The church and religious congregations and the many institutions of this State have cases to answer and must be held accountable and consequences must be delivered. We must stand ready to ensure that this business is completed. We also must stand ready to defend our rights and the rights of our children against enemies outside of our State, within our State, and indeed the State itself. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <div class="im" style="color: #500050;"> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">The constitution is the document of the people for all the people. I do believe that children will be better off as a result of their inclusion in the constitution of the Republic of Ireland than they will be outside of it.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span></p> </div> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; font-size: small;">This is my personal opinion and I'm committed to a Yes vote and I'd ask that you consider with favour the children and their rights tomorrow. Children are not property, they are human beings, they have their rights and we have a duty to ensure that. Let’s do it.</span></p> <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;">You have the power, share it with the children of the Nation by including them in the Constitution.</span></div></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-71054075836323646702012-09-15T12:42:00.001-07:002012-09-15T12:42:03.777-07:00Ireland's Disappeared: The Magdalenes by Ruth Riddick<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://justice-responsibility-accountability.posterous.com/irelands-disappeared-the-magdalenes-by-ruth-r"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>RR.Conscience-Magdalenes.2012.pdf</strong> <a href="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-09-15/xzpnEIfkAFGyjDwisalBxGmmfuqkhzndyIntyAveqjaFlrvwbpylChxyEbnt/RR.Conscience-Magdalenes.2012.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-11291872993332336492012-09-11T02:27:00.001-07:002012-09-11T02:27:55.678-07:00Motion to postpone monument agreed at DCC meeting<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Last night at the Dublin City Council meeting the below motion was passed.</p> <p><span style="color: #993300;">That this Council calls on the current government to delay proceeding with a monument to victims of abuse as recommended by the Ryan Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, until such time as the many unresolved, uninvestigated and outstanding issues concerning the abuses for which Irish society is responsible, in particular those affecting the Magdalene women, those who endured abuse in Bethany children's homes and the many children who suffered horrendous abuse in day schools throught the Republic of Ireland are resolved.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #993300;">To proceed at this time with a Government sactioned and financially supported artistic memorial before the said issues are addressed and redressed would inevitably be seized upon as closure by the abusers, their congregations and managements, and as a pretext for the evasion of accountability and truth by them and by the Irish State.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #808000;">For more information see <a href="http://www.stopthemonument.com">www.stopthemonument.com</a></span></p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-59122656478640161482012-09-02T12:24:00.001-07:002012-09-02T12:24:53.633-07:00Do You Live In Grangegorman, Dublin?<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica;"><em>Anyone who wants to participate in this should have a read of the nomination process and have a say in the development that will be taking place in this area over the coming months/years. It is very important that you have residents on this board and consultative group that will represent all your interests. Be informed of what is going to be taking place in your area. Have a say! </em></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #ff6600;"><strong>Nomination Process for Board and Consultative Group Elections 2012 - Grangegorman</strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica;"><strong><br /></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once the registration period for groups has closed the process of nominations will begin.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. The GDA will publish two lists of registered groups;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>A. Registered Residents and Tenants Associations</strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>B. Registered Community Groups and Associations including Resident and Tenant</strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Associations, Parish and District Groups, Youth and Sports Clubs and similar</strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>non‐commercial groups in the Grangegorman neighbourhood.</strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. The GDA will write out to all new registered groups informing them that the nomination</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">process has begun. The nomination period will last for one week from 25<span style="font: 8.0px Helvetica;">th </span>September</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">until 3<span style="font: 8.0px Helvetica;">rd </span>October 2012.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. All nominees <strong>must </strong>have nominations from at least two relevant registered groups. It is</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">important to note that only associations from <strong>list A </strong>may nominate for the Board</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">elections. Associations and Groups from <strong>list A </strong>and <strong>B </strong>can nominate for the Consultative</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Group elections.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">4. All nominees must satisfy the following criteria in order to be eligible for election</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">A. Be resident in the GDA area (see map below)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">B. Be on the register of electors in the area</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">C. Be nominated by at least 2 registered groups</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">If a nominee does not satisfy all three criteria he/she will be deemed ineligible for the</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">election.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">5. If a person wishes to put themselves forward for election they must write to the</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grangegorman Development Agency. The letter must include;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">A. The name and address of the nominee</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">B. The position for which they are going forward for</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">C. The groups which are nominating them (a signature of one of the authorized</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">officers of these groups is required here.)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">6. Once the nomination period closes on <strong><span style="color: #800000;">3<span style="font: 8.0px Helvetica;">rd </span>October 2012 </span></strong>the GDA will check all nominees</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">to ensure they are valid and the full list of valid nominees will then be sent to all</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">registered groups.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">7. The <span style="color: #800000;">election meeting will take place on Thursday 25<span style="font: 8.0px Helvetica;">th </span>October 2012.</span> Each registered</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">group will be entitled to send two representatives to the meeting. Each representative</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">will have one vote and voting will take place through secret ballot. Only representatives</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">of associations from <strong>list A </strong>can vote in the Board election. Representatives from</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Associations/Groups on <strong>list B </strong>can vote in the Consultative Group election.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">8. The result of the ballot will be announced as soon as possible after the counting is</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">complete.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">9. Should a person be elected for both the Board and the Consultative Group he/she must</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">choose which position to accept. The other position will then be filled by the person</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">with the next highest amount of votes in the relevant election.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">The pdf includes the boundary map</span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica;"><strong><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://mannixflynn.posterous.com/do-you-live-in-grangegorman-dublin"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>GG_Election_2012_Nomination_Process.pdf</strong> <a href="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-09-02/dxaleItneIkBvsrqfxFgDdqnuaDAyukAyzrhgcymsywIfaicecoEmjBxzliF/GG_Election_2012_Nomination_Process.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> <br /></strong></p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-24383830837252069952012-07-19T08:32:00.001-07:002012-07-19T08:32:44.737-07:00Mechanical Services Coordination manager wanted - Dundalk<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222;"> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Mechanical Services Coordination manager</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Immediate Start for the right candidate who is Mechanically Biased with Elec exp to work on the installation and fit out of a large commercial building based in Dundalk Ireland. <br />You will be required to have: excellent experience on the coordination of Mechanical Services into existing shell buildings (Structural Steel and Concrete is existing old building with services ripped out) and you will also have strong Technical ability and be able to problem solve. This is a contract role from now to End of March 2013 (8 Months) possibly longer. The Hourly rate is negotiable depending on experience etc, looking for someone who can start ASAP. Contact TOM DOYLE at kppm in Dublin on: 01-2932220 or Email: <a href="mailto:tom@kppm.ie" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">tom@kppm.ie</a> </span></p> <p /> </span></p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-71829280512411630252012-07-15T11:38:00.001-07:002012-07-15T11:38:39.115-07:00Safe Home - 'extallation' at Fade Street, Dublin 2<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> <p>[[posterous-content:pid___0]]</p> <p>Today I posted the text 'Safe Home' in Fade Street Dublin. Some people who live abroad and will not be able to read the text in its entirety have asked me to post it online. </p> <p>Below are the texts: </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">As human beings we are constantly trying to deal and come to terms with internalised trauma. Being unable or unwilling to resolve certain issues, we cling even tighter to them and, though we yearn for peace and rest and progress, we can’t seem to let go of that which threatens to destroy us.</span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">What is it like to walk away from conflict, to put your weapons beyond use? To dwell upon all the years committed to the never-ending cycle of fright, fight, flight.<span style=""> </span>Resentment, hatred, fury and denial all form part of the energy field that has dominated us human beings for thousands of years.</span></em></span></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">Along with the hardware, these emotions need to be deactivated if the grip that has bound us for generations to armed conflict is to be loosened finally and permanently.<span style=""> </span></span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">Letting go is always a process of loss, a process of grieving. The dawning realisation that you cannot retake what you’ve reconciled to let go of.<span style=""> </span>And the final, slow acceptance that it is no longer of service to you anyway.</span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">The grip that binds us </span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">is a reflective process, which offers participants a chance to engage with the emotional dynamics that underlie letting go and the emergence of something new.</span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">'Safe Home'</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am a fighter, fighter’s blood runs through my veins.<span> </span>The air I breathe is warrior air created by mankind ever warring with itself.<span> </span>The fight gives me life<span style="color: #ff6600;">, </span>fills me full of purpose and cause.<span> </span>Fear can find no home upon me as I travel like a feather upon Apollo’s arrow, higher and faster than Icarus on his wings.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am sworn to earth, to territories and boundaries.<span> </span>I am in all your hearts, surging through all your blood. I am your fighter, brave and strong always at the ready for combat, for rescue.<span> </span>I am ancient and I am new.<span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am your fighter defending faith, family, land, oil, power, lest other fighters invade our boundaries and steal these things away. I am the spear carrier, to Alexander the Great, one of Churchill’s heroic few, I stood with Irish rebels and independence fighters here and elsewhere.<span> </span>Without me they are nothing.<span> </span>Without me, no war can be fought. - every battle, every defeat, every heroic deed and death is now and for all time written in my DNA.<span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am that fighter, the one you saw with the flower stuck in his rifle, the one<span> </span>embraced on D-day all across Europe. I am the Russian infantry sergeant, who glimpsed freedom for an instant in a Berlin Street before the wall went up.<span> </span>Sick from the fight and the smell of death, I struggled from outer Siberia to the smashed cabaret rooms of Berlin and the empty beer halls of Munich and I was denied my smiles and ordered to build a wall around my hopes of freedom..<span> </span>And at checkpoint Charlie<span> </span>two soldiers, once brother and sister in the common cause, now sworn enemies at the ready to kill and maim, to occupy and deny -<span> </span>on and on.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>Our eyes meet only in our gun sights, hearts pumping with fear.<span> </span>It was an oh so cold ‘cold war’.<span> </span>Covered in frost bites not love bites.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am the child, toy soldier in Africa and elsewhere.<span> </span>I move to the sound of gunfire in my sleep, my dreams.<span> </span>The only numbers I know are on my AK47, my M16.<span> </span>My playthings are Kalashnikovs and machetes and I can’t get home.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>“The little toy soldier is covered in dust but sturdy and staunch he stands.” Longing for home.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am young and in my prime, a warrior fighting for Palestine, for Afghanistan.<span> </span>Lands I I have taken an oath to die for, to kill for.<span> </span>Lands I will never live in.<span> </span>I wear a waistcoat woven of explosives to keep me warm.<span> </span>Honour is my destiny, my rendezvous is death. My homeland is not of this world.<span> </span>I am a soldier of the God’s.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>Bobby Sands weapon is starvation, falling toward a hungry<span> </span>grave, so they say, and I, the fighter, hand on heart pledge allegiance to the flag, Pledge that I will carry out my duty to protect my country from enemies without and within. I am a warrior and how I long for home, for my family but it is not to be.<span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am the hero, rock defiant to the last.<span> </span>I raised the flag and kept it flying.<span> </span>I stopped tanks in Tianamon Square and in Prague I took bullets.<span> </span>I slaughtered villagers in Mai Lai and burned my draft card outside the Whitehouse.<span> </span>I have fallen may times in battle, and felled many too. I have hidden terrified in shellholes and basements and, terrified, I have raged through villages and towns. I have cried tears as hard as hailstones and screamed more ferociously than volcanos. “I want to go home.”<span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I have loved and cherished, and I have raped and destroyed, cutting my ties with humanity<span> </span>as I cut through the throats of my enemies.<span> </span>Letters from home, a sharp reminder, like sniper’s bullets, can kill the will to kill.<span> </span>Love letters in the ashes of Dresden, a bloodied sweetheart’s photograph in a Sarajevo street.<span> </span>Ghostly mementos of nurture and love.<span> </span>Things I have forgotten.<span> </span>They say one has to when one becomes a fighter.<span> </span>The closest thing to me must be my weapon, after that my enemy and the discipline to block all feeling off.<span> </span>I give the grave its reason and its victory.<span> </span>I saw it fill up and swallow the bodies of strangers and of friends.<span> </span>There are generations in there.<span> </span>We fighters work tirelessly for the grave.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I saw the shores of strange lands, Native Tribes. I saw the gulf skies over the Desert. Where did the fight really take me?<span> </span>Green Island Prison, death camps in Siberia, Burma, the Maze. Starving to death in fascist Spain. Tortured in the basement of a palace in Iraq.<span> </span>Blindfolded, humiliated, straddled by American soldiers for a laugh.<span> </span>For the folks back home.<span> </span>A Kodak moment. Remember the slaughtered of Taiwan.<span> </span>The disappeared….the not forgotten…</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>So whose army is the good army?<span> </span>Which fight is the good fight?<span> </span>Who fought the just war in Vietnam, at the Battle of the Boyne, in East Timor or West Belfast, mainland China. Under attack or attacking, I make my commitment to I witness it all.<span> </span>In the end there are only the fallen.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span><span> </span>For those, I soldier on, hopeing for home, dreaming..</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I was dazzled for a moment by the bright swords of the Samari, the whiteness of the sailors uniforms, the cry that “my land unfree shall never be at peace.” The excitement of the adventure transported me, swept me off my feet. <span> </span>The promises of honour and glory and victory.<span> </span>“It’s not what you can do for your country but what your country can do to you.”<span> </span>I was intoxicated, brainwashed, seduced, bewitched, conscripted, press ganged.<span> </span>And I for my part<span> </span>abandoned myself myself.<span> </span>I packed up my troubles in my old kit bag and smiled, smiled, smiled until I could smile no more.<span> </span>I told myself I was only carrying out orders.<span> </span>That the ideals,<span> </span>justified all the killing, all the deeds, good and bad that I have done, but now , where is homeland? . . . . . .<span> </span>They<span> </span>say it is better to have conquered yourself than the whole world.<span> </span>Better to possess your own soul than the finest treasures.<span> </span>I did the state some service, I say, did the nation some good.<span> </span>I am no hero, nor martyr, fear led me through all my battles.<span> </span>But now all I want is to go home where I can heal my wounds - those inflicted on me and self inflicted.<span> </span>I made my choice as a boy when I volunteered but after that all the choices were made for me as I was press-ganged into unspeakable deeds.<span> </span>Keep a stiff upper lip.<span> </span>Do not scream into the night.<span> </span>Keep the vision of the fight as a means to an end, for a better world.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>Show no emotion, no mercy, expect none.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I only joined up to play soldiers, action man, wonder woman for Ireland, Israel, Taiwan, Palestine, for Manchester United.<span> </span>Now I am cut off from my unit, I’ve<span> </span>lost contact with HQ.<span> </span>I am lost behind my own lines, lost in myself.<span> </span>I have no means to console myself.<span> </span>I am my final enemy.<span> </span>The last battle I must fight is with myself as I grow up in no man’s land.<span> </span>No identity.<span> </span>This, they say, is the bravest journey of all.<span> </span>Where I must take off my blindfold and make a stand.<span> </span>My mind searches around the deeds of my life for the spoils but there is nothing left.<span> </span>There is no home to go to.<span> </span>All the wars to end all wars have brought me nothing. There are no knights of the round table, there is no Samerai. Now must my sword now face me.<span> </span>Where is freedom?</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>My service is done, let me rest.<span> </span>Let me now cloak my memory, wipe it all away for all time, as though it never happened.<span> </span>I am so sick of death by killing but cannot quell my rage, fight, fright, flight.<span> </span>I am weary and my soul is on fire, haunted by the spirits of the slaughtered, tormented by my own surrenders, defeats and betrayals. How can I embrace my foe, put my arms around peace and put my arms beyond use?<span> </span>Unite myself.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>People<span> </span>died so I might live, in peace, at home.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span><span> </span>Here in the rubble is everything I fought for, cared for, the cause.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span><span> </span>I fulfilled my duty, my part is played and I would not have played it any other way.<span> </span>Could not.<span> </span>No choice then, only now. I did the best I could, the good work of the patriot, the dirty work of the guerrilla fighter.<span> </span>I was trained by the Americans to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, the Imans in Iran, and the communists in mainland China and I fight on now in the Baghdad streets in Madrid and in New York, London.<span> </span>I am terrorised.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>‘To win without fighting is best’ Sun Tru said,<span> </span>but I was recruited with promises<span> </span>of wondrous things.<span> </span>I was going to free the world, unite Ireland, liberate Kuwait, free Taiwan,<span> </span>bring freedom like clouds bring rain.<span> </span>You gave me a shield, an armoured car, smart bombs and a spear for to lance the side of the Christ and others,<span> </span>I have done the deeds for the cause.<span> </span>There will always be something to struggle for, to fight for, to be angry about.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>I am truly sorry for all those killed. But the conflict was not of my making and I will not wear sackcloth and ashes for somebody else’s shame.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;">Now, I march the death march a requiem to the folly of war.<span> </span>I am a fighter from the first to the last.<span> </span>Remember that is what you needed me to be. But now that I am too worn for war I am left to fight for peace in my own heart,fight myself,<span> </span>while the last post sounds and falls on deaf ears and closed hearts because tomorrow begins a new recruitment drive against the new enemy, for new fighters for the new war in the same old places, same old story.</p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>My fighting days are over and now I bear witness to it all, stand guard like a sentry over the reality of what happened.<span> </span>They say the first casualty of war is the truth.<span> </span>I say the first casualty of war is a fighter and this truth will set me free. There is no truth like home truth, this is my homeplace, I long to get home.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" style="line-height: 22px;"><span>G.M.Flynn</span></p> <p /> </span></p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6425210459379216107.post-43778516173290895562012-06-28T01:10:00.001-07:002012-06-28T01:10:37.669-07:00A response to Brian Cowen's Georgia speech, March 2012<div class='posterous_autopost'><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">I was asked for my thoughts on the Irish times article and Brian Cowen's address in March 2012. The links to both article and lecture are below, I forgot to post it a few months ago and just found it on my desktop yesterday.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">My feelings are as follows. Cowen's lecture (<strong>The Euro: From Crisis to Resolution? Some Reflections from Ireland on the Road Thus Far)</strong> failed to address the collective greed that ensued from the release of lorry loads of cheap money. It failed to address the morality of the orgy of destruction that this created. It failed to address the recklessness that inevitably resulted in the annihilation of many of the people's economies of Europe. It protected bond holders and investors and a failed banking system, but never addressed the disintegration of people's trust and belief in a way of life. It was certainly a good pitch for confidence building for potential investors or anyone who wishes to re-friend us. It gives us no way forward in relation to the issues we face in our local economy. What's interesting about it is that it’s coming from Brian Cowen as a person and I would have liked to have seen more of that. It needs more of the human being than the human doing. It is that ingredient that is going to unite us in pursuit of a common goal that will eventually lead to a much more considered, meaningful and productive society that cares about its future. We need to apply the same logic that we are applying to sustainability and global warming. We need to be alarmed at the state that banking and the State systems got us into and the fact that we allowed it. It fails to engage with consequences for those who may have done wrong or broken the law and it never asks where did all the money go? If all the money that was borrowed is now to be paid back, where does it go? Who holds it? And what are we to do, are we to simply shiver and starve? Politicians have a duty to stand up to private banking and to ensure that the great humanitarian experiment isn't enslaved to private bankers and their ilk who are hell-bent on a privatised world. We will be paying our way out of this for generations to come and I believe that there is greater hardship yet to befall us, but the burden should be carried equally. This is not about money; it’s about not living in misery because of indifference of cold capitalism. Wake up to the fact that capitalism is now eating the capitalists and devouring banking systems and economies. The voice of humanity was lacking in Mr Cowen's speech and it smacked very much of the kind of after-dinner warm endorsement and comfortable view of the crisis that we're in. No one is blaming. Blame gets us nowhere. Responsibility and accountability are what's needed here and, let’s call a spade a spade, somebody made billions, if not trillions out of the sinking of economies. We have to ensure that this never happens again. Cowen is right when he talks about 'not since the 1930’s great depression', but this is even bigger and has even greater consequences for people. The best thing Brian Cowen could do would be to stop making speeches, roll his sleeves up and get back into action and work alongside us in this new struggle. Somewhere along the line, the middle classes are going to implode and all that politeness that hides deep resentment and pent up anger will come gushing out and will threaten the very system that this whole circus was based on. The working classes have never been given the opportunity to progress and seem to be landlocked in a deliberate co-dependency that was set up by the State. Not everyone will find a job in Google, or Facebook or the IT sector. There won't be a great windfall of jobs. This whole process will take years of rehabilitation and recovery which will hopefully lead to Ireland and its people waking up. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">We were asleep, in a trusting childlike fashion and we woke up to a real nightmare that threatens everything we thought we stood for, everything we thought was good. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">So Mr Cowen didn't give a 'State of the Nation' address, because he didn't address the people. He gave us an analysis from his point of view, from his personal look-back and I commend him for this courage and his taking of personal responsibility. I hope it gives him the confidence to go further because it’s the experience of failure, owned and acknowledged that give us the courage to make great progress on the road to recovery and to honest constitution.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">So, let’s look forward, rather than staring backwards. It’s us, Irish people, that need to collectively make this journey with or without our leaders.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Link to Brian Cowens address in Georgia, Washington State March 21st 2012</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><strong>The Euro: From Crisis to Resolution? Some Reflections from Ireland on the Road Thus Far</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><a href="I was asked for my thoughts on the Irish times article and Brian Cowen's address in March 2012. The links to both article and lecture are below. My feelings are as follows. Cowen's lecture (The Euro: From Crisis to Resolution? Some Reflections from Ireland on the Road Thus Far) failed to address the collective greed that ensued from the release of lorry loads of cheap money. It failed to address the morality of the orgy of destruction that this created. It failed to address the recklessness that inevitably resulted in the annihilation of many of the people's economies of Europe. It protected bond holders and investors and a failed banking system, but never addressed the disintegration of people's trust and belief in a way of life. It was certainly a good pitch for confidence building for potential investors or anyone who wishes to re-friend us. It gives us no way forward in relation to the issues we face in our local economy. What's interesting about it is that it’s coming from Brian Cowen as a person and I would have liked to have seen more of that. It needs more of the human being than the human doing. It is that ingredient that is going to unite us in pursuit of a common goal that will eventually lead to a much more considered, meaningful and productive society that cares about its future. We need to apply the same logic that we are applying to sustainability and global warming. We need to be alarmed at the state that banking and the State systems got us into and the fact that we allowed it. It fails to engage with consequences for those who may have done wrong or broken the law and it never asks where did all the money go? If all the money that was borrowed is now to be paid back, where does it go? Who holds it? And what are we to do, are we to simply shiver and starve? Politicians have a duty to stand up to private banking and to ensure that the great humanitarian experiment isn't enslaved to private bankers and their ilk who are hell-bent on a privatised world. We will be paying our way out of this for generations to come and I believe that there is greater hardship yet to befall us, but the burden should be carried equally. This is not about money; it’s about not living in misery because of indifference of cold capitalism. Wake up to the fact that capitalism is now eating the capitalists and devouring banking systems and economies. The voice of humanity was lacking in Mr Cowen's speech and it smacked very much of the kind of after-dinner warm endorsement and comfortable view of the crisis that we're in. No one is blaming. Blame gets us nowhere. Responsibility and accountability are what's needed here and, let’s call a spade a spade, somebody made billions, if not trillions out of the sinking of economies. We have to ensure that this never happens again. Cowen is right when he talks about 'not since the 1930’s great depression', but this is even bigger and has even greater consequences for people. The best thing Brian Cowen could do would be to stop making speeches, roll his sleeves up and get back into action and work alongside us in this new struggle. Somewhere along the line, the middle classes are going to implode and all that politeness that hides deep resentment and pent up anger will come gushing out and will threaten the very system that this whole circus was based on. The working classes have never been given the opportunity to progress and seem to be landlocked in a deliberate co-dependency that was set up by the State. Not everyone will find a job in Google, or Facebook or the IT sector. There won't be a great windfall of jobs. This whole process will take years of rehabilitation and recovery which will hopefully lead to Ireland and its people waking up. We were asleep, in a trusting childlike fashion and we woke up to a real nightmare that threatens everything we thought we stood for, everything we thought was good. So Mr Cowen didn't give a 'State of the Nation' address, because he didn't address the people. He gave us an analysis from his point of view, from his personal look-back and I commend him for this courage and his taking of personal responsibility. I hope it gives him the confidence to go further because it’s the experience of failure, owned and acknowledged that give us the courage to make great progress on the road to recovery and to honest constitution. So, let’s look forward, rather than staring backwards. It’s us, Irish people, that need to collectively make this journey with or without our leaders. Link to Brian Cowens address in Georgia, Washington State March 21st 2012 The Euro: From Crisis to Resolution? Some Reflections from Ireland on the Road Thus Far http://cges.georgetown.edu/files/3.21.12%20Cowen%20Speech.pdf Irish Times article response to Cowens address by DEAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0407/1224314498631.html#. " title="Brian Cowen Lecture Georgia"><strong> </strong>http://cges.georgetown.edu/files/3.21.12%20Cowen%20Speech.pdf</a></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;">Irish Times article response to Cowens address by DEAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0407/1224314498631.html#." title="Irish Times Article on Cowen's lecture">http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0407/1224314498631.html#.</a></p> <p /> <p> </p></div>nowspeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10224291500733695844noreply@blogger.com0