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Every time I go to bed at night I think of her. Why am I left this way? Is she dead or alive? I do not know. The information I got is so scant. It’s unbelievable they would do it to a human being.
Peter Mulryan, a survivor of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, told an Oireachtas committee about his attempts to find out if his sister, Marian, is dead or alive.
Given the incidence that we have at the moment it would only require a small number of super-spreader events, and particularly a super-spreader event or events with a variant [of concern] to get us into trouble. So we’re in a very good position, we’re the third best in Europe by incidence at the moment and I’m hoping we can stay there. But there are uncertainties and we just need to continue to review and respond.
Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn’s words of caution for the months ahead in Ireland’s battle against Covid-19.
Legislating for a ban on conversion therapy will send a clear and unambiguous message to everyone, both younger and older, that a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression is not up for debate.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman on moves by government to ban conversion therapy in Ireland.
It would make me really vulnerable, everybody would know the situation. I shouldn’t have to do it – crowdfund for my life. It is a last resort. I would much rather first that the HSE supports me in what I’m asking.
A woman whose description of life with an eating disorder went viral appealed to the HSE for immediate access to in-patient treatment.
I can’t remember when I last spoke to Dave.
UK prime minister Boris Johnson caught rather off guard when asked about his relationship with the under-fire David Cameron.
I would say to anyone between 60 and 69 who is offered the AstraZeneca vaccine: take it and register. You’ve much more to fear from the virus than you have from the vaccine.
Dr Colm Henry on the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
I’d like to say I’m trying to look into a crystal ball but at the moment I feel like I’m looking into a tank of slurry.
Caoimhe Moloney, group operations director with Pierce Kavanagh Coaches, spoke to RTÉ’s News at One about the uncertainties facing the sector.
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They’re sick waiting.
And we’re sick paying.
Workers in social housing pay 15% of their wages. But don’t get to own it after 25 years.
Our retail workers can’t afford private landlord prices, workers who buy someone else’s second home/mortgage.
I feel for the people who are gonna be lumbered with some of the ‘ lovely ‘ folk from that complex when they are re housed elsewhere, same thing happened with O’Devaney flats, corpo moved them as far from there as they could, turned parts of bray in to a kip.
@Uncle Montys oaf: No one from O’Devaney moved to Bray.
@Uncle Montys oaf: Can you Tell us about the bad experiences you’ve with some people from Oliver Bond House?
Maybe get a job and stop living off the hardworking people who are paying for your keep
If the residents contributed to a sinking fund after a few months they would have enough in it to begin work.
Rory J Leonard: if SF had a plan it would probably be to build new housing so that these people could be moved while making the Flats more liveable in the interim. Sadly it would not be in scenic Phoenix Park. They would likely choose some empty council land that is not being developed due to politics or NIMBYism. Perhaps in your neighborhood . . . .
Crazy alternative plan, but why not get a job in another county where rents are cheaper!
put MM on trial
i have seen the dire conditions there, outside dog poop etc. i say knock them down and rebuild and rehouse the people in meantime.
@michael macken:
That is exactly what needs to be done, Michael!
If our Taoiseach operated under a similar political system to China, he could Decree that a Section of the many under utilised Phoenix Park’s 1,700 acres, be set aside for the construction of a large number of modern apartment blocks.
Oliver Bond tenants could then be temporarily relocated, whilst their existing homes were given that long overdue make over. This could all be achieved possibly within five years, not fifteen.
And it wouldn’t take long to fill all of those almost-new homes in The Park when all done and dusted!
But this not China! So under our system, how can this particular type of conundrum be solved expeditiously?
Perhaps SF has a masterplan in the works for a solution. We await with bated breath!
@Rory J Leonard: if our Taoiseach operated under a similar system to China the flats would be bulldozed to make way for fancy condos and the residents sent to a labour camp for complaining….!
@michael macken: and whose dogs are popping, whose rubbish is just flung into the grounds, who burnt the pitch and playground? The millions of tourists and visitors to the flats every year?
@Paul Clancy: The part time Taoisach Martin and the policy of FFG are the problem. As for China…A lot of criminal bankers. Developers, who were facilated by members of the above named parties would have deservedly have been put against a wall .
@Rory J Leonard: China can get stuffed for all the ruination it’s done over the past few years.
They moved resident’s from Dolphin House Flat’s while they were being renovated and families that wanted move back got a place. Why not offer same scheme to Oliver Bond resident’s.
@Mick McGuinness: as long as they only give flats to people who work locally.
If you never worked, why should you be housed beside where all the jobs are, while workers in those jobs commute for hours?
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