Maman Poulet is currently going through an arts phase. I confess I know little about the arts, I can’t waffle about it really, no big words or lovey stuff from me. However I’m giving this get out to culture stuff a go at the moment. Two weeks ago it was No Fit State’s Immortal at [...]
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Someone signed Damien up to gay dating websites pretending to be him – the evidence at the moment points to someone at Sky Handling Partners. Damien asked for an investigation and a response, he didn’t get one, he blogged about it. They called in their lawyers and issued a take down notice. Can Sky Handling [...]
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We have a new Minister for State with Responsibility for Equality. Sean Power’s name rang a bell. I remember his speech during decriminalistion. Then a FF backbencher he was one of the very few backbench TD’s to make a speech during the debate – and I remember those of us watching it being very struck [...]
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Not only an asshole but breaking laws, causing damage, and getting dragged though the blog mud (and by god is it muddy out there if you put a unprotected foot in it!) Damien Mulley blogged about poor customer service earlier this month and someone took it a bit badly today. And whomever in SHP has [...]
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Few printable words can be given to my feelings on last nights events – those other events. Captains of industry given an opportunity to patronise people with disabilities and receive awards for not breaking the law and giving people their human rights? I’m going to the Circus tonight so I won’t have to watch it [...]
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You might see a new link in my blog roll! Rosaleen McDonagh is running in the University of Dublin (TCD) Panel in the forthcoming Seanad Eireann Elections. She’s blogging the campaign and promises regular updates! (ah she’ll have to do it now won’t she!) Rosaleen has been my best friend for I don’t know how [...]
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A PhD student filmmaker in Australia made a film about disability – entitled Laughing at the Disabled where he sent two men with intellectual disabilities into various situations where they ended up being abused and physically attacked. At a review meeting where the rushes for the film were shown members of the faculty are horrified [...]
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Ah it’s the weekend of wheelchair and scooter stories. Firstly we have the senior citizens scooter racing in Israel, then we have the drunk Canadian who nicked a motorised chair and got done for it. But the prize must go to Ben Carpenter who went for a ride on a truck. Not just any old [...]
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Been far too busy with the day job this week to notice much else happening in the world. Not that there seems to have been much – the silence around the government negotiations is deafening – where are all the voices telling the Greens to cop on? Anyway before a return to blogging something far [...]
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It’s not just crap, getting the piss taken out of it, the prelude for the new design for 2012 caused people with epilepsy to have seizures. Being very photosensitive and not a fan of strobe lighting or a lot of flash photography I’ve have been aware of the fact that people with epilepsy can’t do [...]
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