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Entries from November 2007

What has the global credit crisis got to do with a Down Syndrome Support group

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Disability

Nowt says you. Well I would have said nowt also until I read Vaughan’s entry on the wonderful BBC Ouch blog today. The trust established to own Northern Rock’s assets lists a small (and I mean very small) charity in Newcastle in the UK as a beneficiary. Now nobody told Down Syndrome North East that [...]

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What does Cancer look like?

November 23rd, 2007 · 10 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Policy

Green Ink thinks this is what cancer looks like. Sorry GI I have to disagree. I saw what cancer looks like on RTE news this evening. Joan Kennedy, one of the nine women who was misdiagnosed in Port Laoise Hospital was interviewed by Ciaran Mullooly. (Interview link can be found on this page.) Joan is [...]

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Major new survey on LGBT Mental Health and Wellbeing Underway

November 20th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Social Policy

Received in the inbox today – if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and living in Ireland please read on and click on the link below and complete the survey. www.LGBTlives.ie GLEN in collaboration with BeLonG To Youth Project have commissioned researchers from Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin to conduct the first significant [...]

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Irishelection.com

November 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

All new and Shiny…. Irishelection.com gets more than a facelift. I bags an IE hoodie – when that bit is ready. But go enjoy the rest of it!!

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Dr. Niall McElwee – Report due for completion by end of year

November 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Niall McElwee

The report of Conall Devine, commissioned by the HSE, into the circumstances surrounding the handling of information on the conviction of Dr. Niall McElwee will be completed before the end of the year. (Terms of Reference here.) Enquiries by this blog last week indicated that the publication of the report was not imminent. Today’s Athlone [...]

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Science Week – Invention I want to buy

November 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Science Week, Social Media

Oh about one hour and 25 minutes too late for the Thursday competition but as I said I’m not in the competition. Anyway I know a few people I could give this to for Christmas. But I might be getting myself one of these.

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Science Week – Childhood Inventions…

November 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Science Week

So bloggers all over Ireland are going doolally over a science week competition to win a Wii (that yoke you see on the telly with Ian Wright and his son and other celebrities standing up with a white stick device in their hand). I’ve decided I don’t want to win a Wii – the titles [...]

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Marriage needs to be protected…

November 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Ciaran Cuffe, Cop Out, Same Sex Partnerships

..You can’t get married in a tent but now other places that are accessible, open the public and have a fire safety certificate are ok. Ah yeah special thing this marriage lark.  Have to keep the gays away from it.

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The Business Editor, the auctioneer and the firing

November 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Media, Uncategorized

Richard Delevan, business editor at the Sunday Tribune, sometime blogger and a bit of a general social media/tech evangelical type lost his job yesterday. He and I were never going to agree politically but he ‘got’ blogging and told other people about it and was a very entertaining speaker at last years Blogging the Election [...]

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Senator David Norris doesn’t want a dog licence

November 2nd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Cop Out, Gay, Homophobia, Irish Politics, Lesbian, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Seanad Eireann

The matter of same-sex partnerships came up for discussion in Seanad Eireann yesterday. David Norris was hurting like lots of other lesbians and gay men and he wasn’t afraid to let people know. Senator David Norris: The principal point I wish to raise is the question of what occurred in the Dáil yesterday and its [...]

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