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A FOUR-YEAR-OLD Syrian girl’s body washed up on a beach in western Turkey today, state media said, just weeks after images of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi shook the world.
The yet-to-be identified girl was found lifeless on a beach in the Aegean town of Cesme in Izmir province after a boat carrying 15 Syrians to the Greek island of Chios sank, the official Anatolia news agency said.
It said the Turkish coast guard rescued the remaining 14 Syrians, including eight children, from the inflatable boat.
The girl appeared to be the only casualty.
Harrowing pictures of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, whose body was found washed up on a Turkish beach after the boat carrying his family to the Greek island of Kos sank, caused an outpouring of emotion around the world, pressuring European leaders to step up their response to the refugee crisis.
But two weeks later EU members are still at odds over how to accommodate the tens of thousands of new arrivals.
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In a word, brilliant.
I really enjoyed that. Love seeing pictures of 1940′s Ireland as that’s the decade my parents were born into and it’s a few second glimpse into that world.
I could watch many hours straight of footage like that from that period, but where would you get it? RTE is one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world but it’s TV station didn’t launch 1962 and so they can;t have anything substantial from that 40′s period I assume?
An awful lot can be found on Pathè and Movietone.
People looked so happy back then.
Before the Celtic Tiger.
Celtic Tiger turned people into ass holes
And Dublin looked great.
I remember my mother wearing a head scarf when we were kids and she was only in her 30′s.
Wonderful memory as Irish people tried to forget WW2 & tried to have some fun with snows!
Any footage from outside Dublin?
Nice article Dan.
Thanks Michael – Happy Christmas!
No problem Dan, Happy Christmas.
I’d much rather live in those times than now.
I’m sure some people reading this remember (like the footage of St Stephen’s Green) the making of slides on Dublin streets great fun for the us kids but not great for cyclists or older people.
Have a great XMas
The speed of that bus in the 2nd clip!!
Lovely movies of simpler times
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